Cochise County

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)	81,621	69.31%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	36,134	30.69%	100.00%
Mexican	29,039	24.66%	80.36%
Puerto Rican	957	0.81%	2.65%
Cuban	92	0.08%	0.25%
Dominican	33	0.03%	0.09%
Central American	261	0.22%	0.72%
Costa Rican	15	0.01%	0.04%
Guatemalan	18	0.02%	0.05%
Honduran	19	0.02%	0.05%
Nicaraguan	13	0.01%	0.04%
Panamanian	144	0.12%	0.40%
Salvadorian	36	0.03%	0.10%
Other Central American	16	0.01%	0.04%
South American	112	0.10%	0.31%
Argentinian	9	0.01%	0.02%
Bolivian	1	0.00%	0.00%
Chilean	20	0.02%	0.06%
Columbian	43	0.04%	0.12%
Ecuadorian	9	0.01%	0.02%
Paraguayan	0	0.00%	0.00%
Peruvian	16	0.01%	0.04%
Uruguayan	1	0.00%	0.00%
Venezuelan	7	0.01%	0.02%
Other South American	6	0.01%	0.02%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	5,640	4.79%	15.61%
Spaniard	66	0.06%	0.18%
Spanish	487	0.41%	1.35%
Spanish American	48	0.04%	0.13%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	5,039	4.28%	13.95%

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

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