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Table 1.
<br />Population by Race and Hispanic Origin for the United
<br />States; 2000
<br />Race and Hispanic or Latino
<br />Number Percent of total
<br />population
<br />RACE
<br />Total population .............................. 261,421,906 100.0
<br />One race ......................................... 274,595,678 97.6
<br />White ...................:...................... 211,460,626 75.1
<br />Black or African American ........................ 34,658,190 12.3
<br />American Indian and Alaska Native ................ 2,475,956 0.9
<br />Asian ........................................... 10,242,998 3.6
<br />Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander ......... 398,835 0.1
<br />Some other race ................................. 15,359,073 5.5
<br />Two or more races ..... ............................ 6,826,228 2.4
<br />HISPANIC OR LATINO
<br />Total population .............................. 281,421,906 100.0
<br />Hispanic or Latino ................................. 35,305,818 12.5
<br />Not Hispanic or Latino .............................. 246,116,088 87.5
<br />Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Census 2000 Redistricting (Public Law 94-171) Summary
<br />File, Tables PL1 and PL2.
<br />^ White;
<br />^ Black or African American;
<br />^ American Indian or Alaska Native;
<br />^ Asian; and
<br />^ Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific
<br />Islander.
<br />For respondents unable to identify
<br />with any of these five race catego-
<br />ries, the OMB approved including a
<br />sixth category - "Some other race"
<br />- on the Census 2000 question-
<br />naire. The category Some other race
<br />is used in Census 2000 and a few
<br />other federal data collection activi-
<br />ties. As discussed later, most respon-
<br />dents who reported Some other race
<br />are Hispanic. For definitions of the
<br />race categories used in Census
<br />2000, see the box on page 2.
<br />The Census 2000 question on race
<br />included 1 5 separate response cat-
<br />egories and three areas where re-
<br />spondents could write in a more spe-
<br />cific race group (see Figure 1). The
<br />response categories and write-in an-
<br />swers can be combined to create the
<br />five minimum OMB race categories
<br />plus Some other race. In addition to
<br />White, Black or African American,
<br />American Indian and Alaska Native,
<br />and Some other race, seven of the
<br />15 response categories are Asian
<br />and four are Native Hawaiian and
<br />Other Pacific Islander.
<br />HISPANIC ORIGIN IN
<br />CENSUS ZO~DO
<br />According to Census 2000,
<br />281.4 million people resided in the
<br />United States, and 35.3 million, or
<br />about 13 percent, were Latino (see
<br />Table 1). The remaining 246.1 mil-
<br />lion people, or 87 percent, were not
<br />Hispanic.
<br />RACE IN CENSUS 2000
<br />The race data collected by
<br />Census 2000 can be collapsed
<br />into seven categories.
<br />People who responded to the ques-
<br />tion on race by indicating only one
<br />race are referred to as the race alone
<br />population, or the group that re-
<br />porteds only one race category. Six
<br />categories make up this population:
<br />^ White alone;
<br />^ Black or African American atone;
<br />s In this report, the term "reported" is used
<br />to refer to the response provided by respon-
<br />dents as well as responses assigned during the
<br />editing and imputation processes.
<br />^ American Indian and Alaska
<br />Native alone;
<br />^ Asian alone;
<br />^ Native Hawaiian and Other
<br />Pacific Islander alone; and
<br />^ Some other race alone.
<br />Individuals who chose more than
<br />one of the six race categories are
<br />referred to as the Two or more
<br />races population, or as the group
<br />that reported more than one race.
<br />All respondents who indicated
<br />more than one race can be col-
<br />lapsed into the Two or more races
<br />category, which combined with the
<br />six alone categories, yields seven
<br />mutually exclusive and exhaustive
<br />categories. Thus, the six race alone
<br />categories and the Two or more
<br />races category sum to the total
<br />population.
<br />The overwhelntiing maJorl~ty aF
<br />the U.S, gopulatlo>a reported
<br />only ane race.
<br />In Census 2000, nearly 98 percent
<br />of all respondents reported only
<br />one race (see. Table 1). The largest
<br />group reported White alone, ac-
<br />counting for 75 percent of all
<br />people living in the United States.
<br />The Black or African American
<br />alone population represented
<br />12 percent of the total. )ust under
<br />1 percent of all respondents indi-
<br />cated only American Indian and
<br />Alaska Native. Approximately
<br />4 percent of all respondents indi-
<br />cated only Asian. The smallest race
<br />group was the Native Hawaiian and
<br />Other Pacific Islander alone popula-
<br />tion, representing 0.1 percent of
<br />the total population. The remainder
<br />of the "one race" respondents -
<br />5.5 percent of all respondents -
<br />indicated only Some other race.6
<br />e The Some other race alone category con-
<br />sists predominantly (97.0 percent} of people of
<br />Hispanic origin, and is not a standard OMB race
<br />category.
<br />U.S. Census Bureau
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