TABLE 20. Alternative Sequencing -- Percent Distribution of Mail
          Returns for Native Born Persons, by Race and
          Hispanic Origin, Without a Multiracial Category:
          1996 National Content Survey

(Nativity based on responses to a question in the NCS reinterview.)
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                   |    Panel 1|          Panel 3|  Difference 1/
                   | Race-First| Hispanic Origin-| (Panel 3 minus
Subject            |   Sequence|   First Sequence|       Panel 1)
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                   |           |                 |
RACE 2/            |           |                 |
                   |           |                 |
White              |       84.7|             84.4|           -0.3
Black              |       11.2|             13.0|            1.8
American Indian,   |           |                 |
 Eskimo, and Aleut |        0.5|              0.4|           -0.1
Asian and Pacific  |           |                 |
 Islander          |        1.0|              0.8|           -0.3
Other race         |        2.6|              1.5|           -1.1
                   |           |                 |
HISPANIC ORIGIN 3/ |           |                 |
                   |           |                 |
Not Hispanic       |       93.8|             93.1|           -0.7
Total Hispanic     |        6.2|              6.9|            0.7
  Mexican          |        4.1|              5.0|            0.9
  Puerto Rican     |        0.5|              0.7|            0.2
  Cuban            |        0.4|              0.2|           -0.2
  Other Hispanic   |        1.2|              0.9|           -0.3
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NOTES:  Data may not sum due to rounding.

        The NCS sample was not designed to detect possible differences in
        responses from relatively small population groups, such as American
        Indians and Alaska Natives, detailed Asian and Pacific Islander groups   
        (such as Chinese or Hawaiians) or detailed Hispanic origin groups
        (such as Puerto Rican or Cubans).

1/  There are no statistically significant differences in percentages at the
     90-percent confidence level in this table.
2/  Data based on persons who responded to the race question in the NCS.
3/  Data based on persons who responded to the Hispanic origin question in the  
     NCS.