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. 2012 Aug;130(2):306–314. doi: 10.1542/peds.2011-0838

APPENDIX 2.

NHIS Racial Category Questions: 1964, 1976, 1989, 1999, and 2010

NHIS Data Year
Race: Check one box: white, negro, other 1964
Race: Check one box: white, negro, other 1976
1. What is the number of the group/groups that represents X race? (Or what is X race?) (Responses: Aleut, Eskimo or American Indian; Asian or Pacific Islander; black; white; other) 1989
2. Are any of those groups X national origin or ancestry? (Or where did X’s ancestors come from?) (Responses: Puerto Rican, Cuban, Mexican, Mexican American, Chicano, other Latin American, other Spanish)
1. Does X consider himself to be Hispanic or Latino? (origin, etc…). Yes/no. 1999, 2010
2. Please pick the group that represents your Hispanic origin.
3. What race does X consider himself to be? (Responses: white, black/African American, Indian (American), Native Hawaiian, Guamanian, Samoan, other Pacific Islander, Asian Indian, Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, other Asian, some other race)

X, sample child.