TABLE 8.  Alternative Sequencing -- Rate of Disagreement by Race
          and Hispanic Origin, With a Multiracial Category:
          1996 National Content Survey

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                    |    Panel 2|          Panel 4| Difference 1/
                    | Race-First| Hispanic Origin-|(Panel 4 minus
Subject             |   Sequence|   First Sequence|      Panel 2)
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                    |           |                 |
RACE 2/             |           |                 |
                    |           |                 |
White               |        2.9|              1.8|          -1.1
Black               |        0.3|              0.3|           ...
American Indian,    |           |                 |
 Eskimo, and Aleut  |        0.4|              0.1|          -0.3
Asian and Pacific   |           |                 |
 Islander           |        0.2|              0.2|           ...
Other race          |        2.6|              1.7|          -0.9
Multiracial or      |           |                 |
 biracial           |        0.8|              0.8|           0.1
                    |           |                 |
HISPANIC ORIGIN 3/  |           |                 |
                    |           |                 |
Not Hispanic        |        1.7|              1.5|          -0.1
Total Hispanic      |        3.1|              3.8|           0.6
 Mexican            |        1.3|              1.6|           0.4
 Puerto Rican       |        0.3|              0.1|          -0.2
 Cuban              |        0.1|              0.1|           ...
 Other Hispanic     |        1.5|              1.9|           0.5
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NOTES:  Data may not sum due to rounding.

        ... Represents zero or rounds to zero.

        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 Ricans or Cubans).

        Rates of disagreement are calculated by comparing the
        responses from the mailback survey forms to the
        responses provided in the telephone reinterview.  The
        rate of disagreement for a specific racial or Hispanic
        category is the proportion of persons who reported
        inconsistency in the category.

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.
3/  Data based on persons who responded to the Hispanic origin question.