Variable a_race_eth: Race/Ethnicity of adult [C]

Literal Question

The variable was created from multiple survey questions, specifically DEM_3 and DEM_5 for adults.

Descriptive Text

Whenever respondents reported Hispanic ethnicity, they were categorized as such, irrespective of race. All race categories in this variable are non-Hispanic. Due to small numbers, category 5 includes "more than one race" or "other races" than the ones presented in the variable categories.The universe for this variable includes all adults age 18 or older.

Values	Categories	N	NW
1	Hispanic	1667	1,269,661.4	38.2%
2	White non-Hispanic	2323	1,154,234.8	34.7%
3	Black non-Hispanic	1172	613,536.6	18.4%
4	Asian non-Hispanic	390	240,463.0	7.2%
5	Other,multi,PI_AN non-Hispanic	142	49,575.9	1.5%
-8	Not in universe	1516	1,268,569.6

Summary Statistics

Valid cases	5694	3327471.745
Missing cases	1516	1268569.574
Standard deviation	0.991	0.995
This variable is numeric

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