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Suggested Allocations of the Non-Hispanic Multirace Category for Use with Population Projections by Race/Ethnicity for California and Its Counties 2000-2050
June 2004
Acknowledgements
Nicola Standish prepared this report. Mary Heim wrote the narrative and Dolores Lykins provided administration support.
Suggested Citation
State of California, Department of Finance, Suggested Allocations of the Multirace Category for Use with Population Projections by Race/Ethnicity for California and It’s Counties 2000-2050, Sacramento, California, June 2004.
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Technical Notes
In order to produce 1990 consistent race/ethnic population estimates for the period 1990 through 1999 the Department of Finance had to allocate people who indicated more than one race in the 2000 Census to a single race category. The allocation method used by the Department was to reassign Multirace people based on the specific races that had been indicated in the census. Multirace people were reassigned to the single race category indicated which had the least population in the resident county. Because White Non-Hispanic was the largest Non-Hispanic category in all counties, no Multirace people were allocated to the White Non-Hispanic race. In addition because in 1990 Asians and Pacific Islanders were combined into a single race group, the Pacific Islander proportions in this report are based on the 2000 Census breakdown of Asians and Pacific Islanders.
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