ETHNIC AND RACIAL HERITAGE

The Census provides two different ways for respondents to indicate their heritage. The method shown here pertains to Asians, American Indians and Alaskan Natives, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders, and persons of Hispanic ethnicity. As a part of the race and ethnicity questions on the short form of the 2000 Census, members of these groups were asked to indicate one or more categories of racial or ethnic origin. In the case of Americans Indians and Alaskan Natives, respondents were given the opportunity to identify their affiliation with one or more tribes.

* Southern Asian includes Asian Indian, Bangladeshi, Pakistani, and Sri Lankan.

** Southeastern Asian includes Cambodian, Filipino, Indonesian, Laotian, Malaysian, Thai and Vietnamese.

*** Eastern Asian includes Chinese, Hmong, Japanese, Korean, and Taiwanese.

Hispanic Ancestries, 2000
		Percent of	Percent of
	Number	Total Population	Hispanic Population
Total Non-Hispanic (All Races)	17,347,727	81.83%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	3,852,138	18.17%	100.00%
Mexican	343,137	1.62%	8.91%
Puerto Rican	1,325,778	6.25%	34.42%
Cuban	134,973	0.64%	3.50%
Dominican	551,538	2.60%	14.32%
Central American	262,904	1.24%	6.82%
Costa Rican	19,600	0.09%	0.51%
Guatemalan	49,360	0.23%	1.28%
Honduran	50,106	0.24%	1.30%
Nicaraguan	11,560	0.05%	0.30%
Panamanian	21,642	0.10%	0.56%
Salvadorian	97,243	0.46%	2.52%
Other Central American	13,393	0.06%	0.35%
South American	504,914	2.38%	13.11%
Argentinian	22,116	0.10%	0.57%
Bolivian	5,989	0.03%	0.16%
Chilean	15,119	0.07%	0.39%
Columbian	172,274	0.81%	4.47%
Ecuadorian	173,966	0.82%	4.52%
Paraguayan	3,530	0.02%	0.09%
Peruvian	76,093	0.36%	1.98%
Uruguayan	7,609	0.04%	0.20%
Venezuelan	12,767	0.06%	0.33%
Other South American	15,451	0.07%	0.40%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	728,894	3.44%	18.92%
Spaniard	21,787	0.10%	0.57%
Spanish	70,429	0.33%	1.83%
Spanish American	8,490	0.04%	0.22%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	628,188	2.96%	16.31%

Source: Census 2000 analyzed by the Social Science Data Analysis Network (SSDAN).

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