Table 33.  NCHS vs Census ethnicity distribution of population age 0 and mean absolute percent error 
          (using NCHS ethnicity of father -- unknowns recoded to ethnicity of mother)

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                    0.99478         0.99096        0.00522       0.00904      21.3055
ALASKA                     0.97040         0.95611        0.02960       0.04389      17.0276
ARIZONA                    0.71960         0.71018        0.28040       0.28982       2.2882
ARKANSAS                   0.98968         0.98577        0.01032       0.01423      13.9325
CALIFORNIA                 0.61378         0.61910        0.38622       0.38090       1.1298
COLORADO                   0.83150         0.80726        0.16850       0.19274       7.7904
CONNECTICUT                0.88994         0.88917        0.11006       0.11083       0.3867
DELAWARE                   0.96991         0.96119        0.03009       0.03881      11.6840
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA       0.93014         0.92298        0.06986       0.07702       5.0410
FLORIDA                    0.86233         0.86586        0.13767       0.13414       1.5196
GEORGIA                    0.98049         0.97674        0.01951       0.02326       8.2614
HAWAII                     0.89954         0.87629        0.10046       0.12371      10.7245
IDAHO                      0.91251         0.90161        0.08749       0.09839       6.1428
ILLINOIS                   0.87583         0.87253        0.12417       0.12747       1.4850
INDIANA                    0.97924         0.97410        0.02076       0.02590      10.1801
IOWA                       0.98488         0.97883        0.01512       0.02117      14.6087
KANSAS                     0.94872         0.93340        0.05128       0.06660      12.3235
KENTUCKY                   0.99420         0.99124        0.00580       0.00876      17.0615
LOUISIANA                  0.98684         0.97642        0.01316       0.02358      22.6187
MAINE                      0.99201         0.98963        0.00799       0.01037      11.6047
MARYLAND                   0.96989         0.96389        0.03011       0.03611       8.6176
MASSACHUSETTS              0.90952         0.90906        0.09048       0.09094       0.2792
MICHIGAN                   0.96989         0.96483        0.03011       0.03517       7.4601
MINNESOTA                  0.98104         0.97620        0.01896       0.02380      10.4220
MISSISSIPPI                0.99748         0.99240        0.00252       0.00760      33.6629
MISSOURI                   0.98792         0.98229        0.01208       0.01771      16.1710
MONTANA                    0.97723         0.97332        0.02277       0.02668       7.5384
NEBRASKA                   0.96474         0.95833        0.03526       0.04167       8.0174
NEVADA                     0.86316         0.83129        0.13684       0.16871      11.3602
NEW HAMPSHIRE              0.98807         0.98291        0.01193       0.01709      15.3638
NEW JERSEY                 0.86156         0.86950        0.13844       0.13050       3.5013
NEW MEXICO                 0.55942         0.53631        0.44058       0.46369       4.6459
NEW YORK                   0.82028         0.82719        0.17972       0.17281       2.4169
NORTH CAROLINA             0.98140         0.97976        0.01860       0.02024       4.1436
NORTH DAKOTA               0.98910         0.98621        0.01090       0.01379      10.6279
OHIO                       0.98556         0.97958        0.01444       0.02042      14.9565
OKLAHOMA                   0.97379         0.94900        0.02621       0.05100      25.6071
OREGON                     0.93431         0.92050        0.06569       0.07950       9.4352
PENNSYLVANIA               0.96569         0.96341        0.03431       0.03659       3.2383
RHODE ISLAND               0.90230         0.91053        0.09770       0.08947       5.0512
SOUTH CAROLINA             0.98989         0.98634        0.01011       0.01366      13.1696
SOUTH DAKOTA               0.98781         0.98489        0.01219       0.01511       9.8369
TENNESSEE                  0.99386         0.99026        0.00614       0.00974      18.6696
TEXAS                      0.64522         0.65151        0.35478       0.34849       1.3852
UTAH                       0.94237         0.93159        0.05763       0.06841       8.4613
VERMONT                    0.99443         0.99273        0.00557       0.00727      11.8084
VIRGINIA                   0.96705         0.96103        0.03295       0.03897       8.0407
WASHINGTON                 0.92451         0.91534        0.07549       0.08466       5.9186
WEST VIRGINIA              0.99587         0.99385        0.00413       0.00615      16.5516
WISCONSIN                  0.97471         0.96419        0.02529       0.03581      15.2440
WYOMING                    0.93748         0.91451        0.06252       0.08549      14.6916
US Total                   0.85723         0.86181        0.14277       0.13819       1.9223