Dane 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)	412,139	96.63%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	14,387	3.37%	100.00%
Mexican	9,040	2.12%	62.83%
Puerto Rican	1,088	0.26%	7.56%
Cuban	294	0.07%	2.04%
Dominican	68	0.02%	0.47%
Central American	676	0.16%	4.70%
Costa Rican	65	0.02%	0.45%
Guatemalan	109	0.03%	0.76%
Honduran	182	0.04%	1.27%
Nicaraguan	141	0.03%	0.98%
Panamanian	72	0.02%	0.50%
Salvadorian	80	0.02%	0.56%
Other Central American	27	0.01%	0.19%
South American	1,132	0.27%	7.87%
Argentinian	109	0.03%	0.76%
Bolivian	82	0.02%	0.57%
Chilean	125	0.03%	0.87%
Columbian	359	0.08%	2.50%
Ecuadorian	70	0.02%	0.49%
Paraguayan	40	0.01%	0.28%
Peruvian	161	0.04%	1.12%
Uruguayan	18	0.00%	0.13%
Venezuelan	110	0.03%	0.76%
Other South American	58	0.01%	0.40%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	2,089	0.49%	14.52%
Spaniard	99	0.02%	0.69%
Spanish	334	0.08%	2.32%
Spanish American	23	0.01%	0.16%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	1,633	0.38%	11.35%

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

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