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)	4,776,097	97.09%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	143,382	2.91%	100.00%
Mexican	95,613	1.94%	66.68%
Puerto Rican	6,616	0.13%	4.61%
Cuban	2,527	0.05%	1.76%
Dominican	477	0.01%	0.33%
Central American	6,180	0.13%	4.31%
Costa Rican	347	0.01%	0.24%
Guatemalan	1,684	0.03%	1.17%
Honduran	925	0.02%	0.65%
Nicaraguan	376	0.01%	0.26%
Panamanian	491	0.01%	0.34%
Salvadorian	2,005	0.04%	1.40%
Other Central American	352	0.01%	0.25%
South American	7,239	0.15%	5.05%
Argentinian	406	0.01%	0.28%
Bolivian	157	0.00%	0.11%
Chilean	499	0.01%	0.35%
Columbian	2,088	0.04%	1.46%
Ecuadorian	2,221	0.05%	1.55%
Paraguayan	197	0.00%	0.14%
Peruvian	812	0.02%	0.57%
Uruguayan	78	0.00%	0.05%
Venezuelan	470	0.01%	0.33%
Other South American	311	0.01%	0.22%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	24,730	0.50%	17.25%
Spaniard	471	0.01%	0.33%
Spanish	3,126	0.06%	2.18%
Spanish American	178	0.00%	0.12%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	20,955	0.43%	14.61%

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

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