VAR CF0109 R ETHNICITY

VAR CF0109    R ETHNICITY
              COLUMNS 108-109
              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          2000:  001008


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