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Appendix F: Granular Ethnicities with No Determinate OMB Race Classification
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From page 199... ... Many of the granular ethnicity categories that still could not be assigned to an OMB race category using the 90 percent threshold for responses "alone or in combination" represented populations with long histories of intermarriage and multiracial identity (e.g., Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, American Indian or Alaska 1 The 90 percent rule used in this analysis is not the only method for identifying granular ethnicity categories that cannot or should not be rolled up to one of the OMB categories. Census 2010, for example, is, when necessary, rolling up write-in responses based on the OMB definitions of each race and Hispanic ethnicity category. Read the entire page →
From page 200... ... take into account that some ethnicities do not correspond with one specific OMB race category and that when rollup is necessary, these granular ethnicities be included in a category labeled "no determinate OMB race classification." TABLE F-1 Granular Ethnicities That Cannot Be Rolled Up to an OMB Race Category with Greater Than 90 Percent Certainty OMB race categories (% of the population) Black or Write-in African Response to White American AIAN Asian NHOPI Some Other Census Ancestry Alone or in Alone or in Alone or in Alone or in Alone or in Race Alone or Question Population Combination Combination Combination Combination Combination 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 9,968 75.8 42.7 1.9 0.4 0.1 3.6 Russia Creole 18,821 19.3 73.2 5.1 0.8 0.0 27.5 American Madagascan* Read the entire page →

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... Many of the granular ethnicity categories that still could not be assigned to an OMB race category using the 90 percent threshold for responses "alone or in combination" represented populations with long histories of intermarriage and multiracial identity (e.g., Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, American Indian or Alaska 1 The 90 percent rule used in this analysis is not the only method for identifying granular ethnicity categories that cannot or should not be rolled up to one of the OMB categories. Census 2010, for example, is, when necessary, rolling up write-in responses based on the OMB definitions of each race and Hispanic ethnicity category.

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... take into account that some ethnicities do not correspond with one specific OMB race category and that when rollup is necessary, these granular ethnicities be included in a category labeled "no determinate OMB race classification." TABLE F-1 Granular Ethnicities That Cannot Be Rolled Up to an OMB Race Category with Greater Than 90 Percent Certainty OMB race categories (% of the population) Black or Write-in African Response to White American AIAN Asian NHOPI Some Other Census Ancestry Alone or in Alone or in Alone or in Alone or in Alone or in Race Alone or Question Population Combination Combination Combination Combination Combination 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 9,968 75.8 42.7 1.9 0.4 0.1 3.6 Russia Creole 18,821 19.3 73.2 5.1 0.8 0.0 27.5 American Madagascan*

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Appendix F: Granular Ethnicities with No Determinate OMB Race Classification Pages 199-200

Appendix F: Granular Ethnicities with No Determinate OMB Race Classification
Pages 199-200