VAR CF0109 R ETHNICITY
COLUMNS 96 - 97
NUMERIC
MD EQ 0 OR GE 98
In addition to being an American what do you consider your main
ethnic group or nationality group?
(IF MORE THAN 1 GROUP MENTIONED:) With which of these groups do you
most closely identify?
ETHNICITY (SUMMARY)
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USE WEIGHT VARIABLE VCF0009/VCF0009A/VCF0009B.
SEE ETHNICITY CODES - APPENDIX "ETHNICITY"
There is no code to single out Rs who volunteered to assert their
'American' identity. This is because in most years these Rs were
combined with NA and/or 'none' (no ethnic identity).
Note that in 1978 NES used a version of this question which included
a (filter) lead-in: 'In addition to being an American, is there
another nationality group or ethnic group that you feel you belong
to? [IF YES] What...' Because of this format, the 1978
distributions varied dramatically from other years, and 1978 data have
not been included here.
In 1992, this question was not part of the short-form questionnaire;
for short-form 'panel' cases, however, 1990 study data were
incorporated into the 1992 ethnicity summary var (V924119).
In 1994, 1992 data was incorporated for panel cases.
In 1996 there were cases in which R identified 2 or more
nationality/ethnicity groups but the interviewer did not ask the
'choice' followup (due to incorrect completion of the IWR checkpoint);
since R's chosen nationality/ethnicity remained undetermined, these
cases (30) were considered missing data (code 99 here).
01-97. Ethnicity as coded
98. DK
99. NA; NONE; "AMERICAN"
00. INAP, question not used; short-form 'new' cross-section (1992)
1972: 720406 1974: 742528 1976: 763489
1980: 800695-800697 1982: 820739 1984: 840692
1986: 860742 1988: 880537 1990: 900673
1992: 924116,924119 1994: 941415 1996: 960706
1998: 980657
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