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)	5,476,619	97.88%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	118,592	2.12%	100.00%
Mexican	77,887	1.39%	65.68%
Puerto Rican	6,677	0.12%	5.63%
Cuban	3,022	0.05%	2.55%
Dominican	542	0.01%	0.46%
Central American	5,086	0.09%	4.29%
Costa Rican	242	0.00%	0.20%
Guatemalan	1,574	0.03%	1.33%
Honduran	966	0.02%	0.81%
Nicaraguan	280	0.01%	0.24%
Panamanian	736	0.01%	0.62%
Salvadorian	1,091	0.02%	0.92%
Other Central American	197	0.00%	0.17%
South American	3,569	0.06%	3.01%
Argentinian	384	0.01%	0.32%
Bolivian	210	0.00%	0.18%
Chilean	303	0.01%	0.26%
Columbian	1,011	0.02%	0.85%
Ecuadorian	336	0.01%	0.28%
Paraguayan	36	0.00%	0.03%
Peruvian	678	0.01%	0.57%
Uruguayan	35	0.00%	0.03%
Venezuelan	391	0.01%	0.33%
Other South American	185	0.00%	0.16%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	21,809	0.39%	18.39%
Spaniard	486	0.01%	0.41%
Spanish	3,713	0.07%	3.13%
Spanish American	319	0.01%	0.27%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	17,291	0.31%	14.58%

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

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