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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Demography. 2014 Feb;51(1):141–172. doi: 10.1007/s13524-013-0242-0

Table 2.

Percentage distribution (number of individuals) of self-reported race by genetic markers-based ancestral population membership (three ancestral populations are assumed)

Ancestral-Informative-Marker-Based Genetic Cluster
Self-report “White” “Black” “Non–South
Asian”
Total
ROOM
 White 99.5(1,399) 0.28(4) 0.21(3) 100(1,406)
 Black 0.71(2) 99.3(279) 0.0(0) 100(281)
 South Asian 100.00(41) 0.0(0) 0.0(0) 100(41)
 East Asian 2.33(2) 0.0(0) 97.7(84) 100(86)
 American Indian 75.0(3) 0.0(0) 25.0(1) 100(4)
 Others 80.7(50) 12.9(8) 6.45(4) 100(62)
 Multiracial 52.9(91) 36.1(62) 11.1(19) 100(172)
 Total 1,586 353 111 2,052
Add Health Wave I
 White 99.4(1,429) 0.42(6) 0.14(2) 100(1,437)
 Black 0.00(0) 100.0(381) 0.00(0) 100(381)
 East Asian 6.29(10) 0(0) 93.7(149) 100(159)
 American Indian 100.0(19) 0(0) 0 (0) 100(19)
 Others 91.1(163) 5.03(9) 3.31(7) 100(179)
 Multiracial 72.0(67) 26.9(25) 1.08(1) 100(93)
 Total 1,699 429 160 2,268

Notes: For ROOM, the bootstrapping 95 % confidence interval for “white,” “black,” and “non–South Asian” are, respectively, [99.0, 99.9], [94.7, 100], and [89.5, 100]. In Add Health, the three confidence intervals are, respectively, [97.7, 99.9], [96.9, 100], and [88.1, 97.5].