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)	5,300,525	97.14%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	155,903	2.86%	100.00%
Mexican	102,955	1.89%	66.04%
Puerto Rican	16,996	0.31%	10.90%
Cuban	3,400	0.06%	2.18%
Dominican	744	0.01%	0.48%
Central American	3,026	0.06%	1.94%
Costa Rican	309	0.01%	0.20%
Guatemalan	666	0.01%	0.43%
Honduran	585	0.01%	0.38%
Nicaraguan	267	0.00%	0.17%
Panamanian	448	0.01%	0.29%
Salvadorian	626	0.01%	0.40%
Other Central American	125	0.00%	0.08%
South American	4,471	0.08%	2.87%
Argentinian	800	0.01%	0.51%
Bolivian	107	0.00%	0.07%
Chilean	393	0.01%	0.25%
Columbian	1,376	0.03%	0.88%
Ecuadorian	364	0.01%	0.23%
Paraguayan	76	0.00%	0.05%
Peruvian	578	0.01%	0.37%
Uruguayan	48	0.00%	0.03%
Venezuelan	519	0.01%	0.33%
Other South American	210	0.00%	0.13%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	24,311	0.45%	15.59%
Spaniard	543	0.01%	0.35%
Spanish	4,535	0.08%	2.91%
Spanish American	288	0.01%	0.18%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	18,945	0.35%	12.15%

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

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