How are the categories for race/ethnicity defined?
Race/ethnicity was determined in the CTS Household Survey by two separate survey questions. The first addressed Hispanic ethnicity and was the same for all years of the survey: “Do you consider yourself to be of Hispanic origin, such as Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, or other Spanish background?” The second addressed race and changed slightly between the 2000-01 and 2003 surveys; the respondent was asked to report a single race in the 1996-97, 1998-99, and 2000-01 surveys, whereas the respondent was allowed to report multiple races in the 2003 and 2007 surveys. The responses to the race and ethnicity questions were combined to create the four race/ethnicity categories used in CTSonline. Anyone answering “yes” to the first question was placed in the Hispanic category, regardless of his/her answer to the second question. For everyone else, only the responses to the second question were used to determine which of the remaining three categories was applicable (White non-Hispanic, Black non-
Race/ethnicity was determined in the CTS and Health Tracking Household Surveys by two separate survey questions. The first addressed Hispanic ethnicity and was the same for all years of the survey: “Do you consider yourself to be of Hispanic origin, such as Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, or other Spanish background?” The second addressed race and changed slightly between the 2000-01 and 2003 surveys; the respondent was asked to report a single race in the 1996-97, 1998-99, and 2000-01 surveys, whereas the respondent was allowed to report multiple races in the 2003 and 2007 surveys. The responses to the race and ethnicity questions were combined to create the four race/ethnicity categories used in HSCdataOnline. Anyone answering “yes” to the first question was placed in the Hispanic category, regardless of his/her answer to the second question. For everyone else, only the responses to the second question were used to determine which of the remaining three categories was applicable (White
