Table 30.  NCHS vs Census ethnicity distribution of population age 0 and mean absolute percent error  
              (using NCHS ethnicity of father -- unknowns recoded to non-Hispanic)

Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census
Internet Release date: June 1997


                         proportion      proportion     proportion     proportion
                        non_hispanic    non-Hispanic     Hispanic       Hispanic
STATE                     from NCHS      from Census     from NCHS    from Census      MAPE

ALABAMA                    0.99554         0.99096        0.00446       0.00904      25.5662
ALASKA                     0.97197         0.95611        0.02803       0.04389      18.8989
ARIZONA                    0.80674         0.71018        0.19326       0.28982      23.4573
ARKANSAS                   0.99115         0.98577        0.00885       0.01423      19.1861
CALIFORNIA                 0.62598         0.61910        0.37402       0.38090       1.4573
COLORADO                   0.89854         0.80726        0.10146       0.19274      29.3319
CONNECTICUT                0.92276         0.88917        0.07724       0.11083      17.0393
DELAWARE                   0.98228         0.96119        0.01772       0.03881      28.2636
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA       0.96194         0.92298        0.03806       0.07702      27.4042
FLORIDA                    0.88616         0.86586        0.11384       0.13414       8.7375
GEORGIA                    0.98231         0.97674        0.01769       0.02326      12.2540
HAWAII                     0.91490         0.87629        0.08510       0.12371      17.8064
IDAHO                      0.92415         0.90161        0.07585       0.09839      12.7024
ILLINOIS                   0.88402         0.87253        0.11598       0.12747       5.1676
INDIANA                    0.98278         0.97410        0.01722       0.02590      17.2108
IOWA                       0.98909         0.97883        0.01091       0.02117      24.7509
KANSAS                     0.95531         0.93340        0.04469       0.06660      17.6223
KENTUCKY                   0.99513         0.99124        0.00487       0.00876      22.4175
LOUISIANA                  0.99721         0.97642        0.00279       0.02358      45.1421
MAINE                      0.99328         0.98963        0.00672       0.01037      17.7879
MARYLAND                   0.97356         0.96389        0.02644       0.03611      13.8932
MASSACHUSETTS              0.93367         0.90906        0.06633       0.09094      14.8827
MICHIGAN                   0.98026         0.96483        0.01974       0.03517      22.7398
MINNESOTA                  0.98680         0.97620        0.01320       0.02380      22.8022
MISSISSIPPI                0.99773         0.99240        0.00227       0.00760      35.3435
MISSOURI                   0.98951         0.98229        0.01049       0.01771      20.7580
MONTANA                    0.98263         0.97332        0.01737       0.02668      17.9386
NEBRASKA                   0.97185         0.95833        0.02815       0.04167      16.9203
NEVADA                     0.88819         0.83129        0.11181       0.16871      20.2849
NEW HAMPSHIRE              0.99864         0.98291        0.00136       0.01709      46.8254
NEW JERSEY                 0.88032         0.86950        0.11968       0.13050       4.7685
NEW MEXICO                 0.67956         0.53631        0.32044       0.46369      28.8016
NEW YORK                   0.86463         0.82719        0.13537       0.17281      13.0942
NORTH CAROLINA             0.98276         0.97976        0.01724       0.02024       7.5507
NORTH DAKOTA               0.99020         0.98621        0.00980       0.01379      14.6594
OHIO                       0.98755         0.97958        0.01245       0.02042      19.9173
OKLAHOMA                   0.99924         0.94900        0.00076       0.05100      51.8981
OREGON                     0.94375         0.92050        0.05625       0.07950      15.8906
PENNSYLVANIA               0.96653         0.96341        0.03347       0.03659       4.4295
RHODE ISLAND               0.92908         0.91053        0.07092       0.08947      11.3886
SOUTH CAROLINA             0.99136         0.98634        0.00864       0.01366      18.6480
SOUTH DAKOTA               0.98929         0.98489        0.01071       0.01511      14.7840
TENNESSEE                  0.99445         0.99026        0.00555       0.00974      21.7114
TEXAS                      0.71363         0.65151        0.28637       0.34849      13.6807
UTAH                       0.95384         0.93159        0.04616       0.06841      17.4563
VERMONT                    0.99581         0.99273        0.00419       0.00727      21.3829
VIRGINIA                   0.97646         0.96103        0.02354       0.03897      20.5965
WASHINGTON                 0.93589         0.91534        0.06411       0.08466      13.2562
WEST VIRGINIA              0.99633         0.99385        0.00367       0.00615      20.3047
WISCONSIN                  0.98183         0.96419        0.01817       0.03581      25.5494
WYOMING                    0.94821         0.91451        0.05179       0.08549      21.5513
US Total                   0.88031         0.86181        0.11969       0.13819       7.7664