Table F-1: Granular Ethnicities That Cannot Be Rolled Up to an OMB Rac

Race, Ethnicity, and Language Data: Standardization for Health Care Qu

Table F-1. Granular Ethnicities That Cannot Be Rolled Up to an OMB Race Category with Greater Than 90 Percent Certainty

Write-in Response to Census Ancestry Question	Population	OMB race categories (% of the population)
Write-in Response to Census Ancestry Question	Population	White Alone or in Combination	Black or African American Alone or in Combination	AIAN Alone or in Combination	Asian Alone or in Combination	NHOPI Alone or in Combination	Some Other Race Alone or in Combination
Brazilian	177,483	77.3	3.3	0.4	0.2	0.0	30.3
Cape Verdean	76,476	15.7	45.4	2.0	0.8	0.9	58.4
Belizean	38,443	14.4	66.1	3.2	1.2	0.8	27.1
Guyanese	162,170	3.1	58.2	3.1	23.1	1.0	26.6
German from Russia	9,968	75.8	42.7	1.9	0.4	0.1	3.6
Creole American	18,821	19.3	73.2	5.1	0.8	0.0	27.5
Madagascan*
Tunisian*
Surinam*
Trinidadian	160,715	4.4	88.8	1.4	8.0	1.2	9.3
West Indian	152,218	6.9	87.1	3.4	3.1	2.0	17.4
Moroccan	37,219	76.5	17.4	1.3	4.8	0.3	25.7
Dominican	915,208	30.0	14.8	1.5	0.9	0.3	62.3
South African	43,472	86.5	9.0	0.1	2.1	0.0	7.9
Sudanese	13,420	5.6	79.7	0.3	1.1	0.0	28.8
East Indian	61,510	8.5	10.9	2.9	83.1	2.1	15.2
Eurasian	12,473	68.8	0.6	1.5	40.0	2.0	27.3

* The granular ethnicities marked with an asterisk do not include percents of the population because the population size was too small for analysis in the 2000 Public Use Microdata Samples (PUMS).

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Internet Citation: Table F-1: Granular Ethnicities That Cannot Be Rolled Up to an OMB Rac: Race, Ethnicity, and Language Data: Standardization for Health Care Qu. March 2010. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/iomracereport/reldataaptabf1.html