Race and Ethnicity in Census 2000

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Race and Ethnicity in Census 2000

• Planning 053 The Changing American Job
• Michele Hayslett
• Data Services Librarian
• michele_hayslett_at_unc.edu

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Five categories

• White
• Black, African American or Negro
• American Indian or Alaskan Native
• Asian or Pacific Islander
• Some Other Race

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In 2000

• Could choose more than one category
• Very large percentage of those who chose Some
  Other Race indicated that they were of Hispanic
  origin

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Ethnicity

• Census Bureau doesnt consider Hispanic origin a
  race category but rather an ethnic category
• Race physiological, or characteristic of the
  body
• Ethnicity sociological, or characteristic of
  the culture