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)	3,916,936	97.63%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	95,076	2.37%	100.00%
Mexican	52,871	1.32%	55.61%
Puerto Rican	12,211	0.30%	12.84%
Cuban	2,875	0.07%	3.02%
Dominican	721	0.02%	0.76%
Central American	5,771	0.14%	6.07%
Costa Rican	861	0.02%	0.91%
Guatemalan	1,522	0.04%	1.60%
Honduran	1,345	0.03%	1.41%
Nicaraguan	333	0.01%	0.35%
Panamanian	877	0.02%	0.92%
Salvadorian	638	0.02%	0.67%
Other Central American	195	0.00%	0.21%
South American	4,897	0.12%	5.15%
Argentinian	326	0.01%	0.34%
Bolivian	113	0.00%	0.12%
Chilean	190	0.00%	0.20%
Columbian	2,752	0.07%	2.89%
Ecuadorian	323	0.01%	0.34%
Paraguayan	38	0.00%	0.04%
Peruvian	449	0.01%	0.47%
Uruguayan	59	0.00%	0.06%
Venezuelan	403	0.01%	0.42%
Other South American	244	0.01%	0.26%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	15,730	0.39%	16.54%
Spaniard	309	0.01%	0.33%
Spanish	2,200	0.05%	2.31%
Spanish American	229	0.01%	0.24%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	12,992	0.32%	13.66%

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

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