Table 3.

Distribution of average ancestry for each self-reported race/ethnicity, assuming three ancestral populations

	ROOM				Add Health Wave I
Self-report	European	African	Asian	N	European	African	Asian	N
White	98.1	0.8	1.1	1,338	98.3	0.7	1.0	1,303
White, Black	42.4	54.7	2.9	25	51.1	46.0	2.9	14
White, Asian	57.3	0.8	41.9	34	52.8	0.9	46.3	12
White, Indian	95.2	2	2.8	27	94.3	2.0	3.7	36
White, Other	97.2	1.7	1.1	13	86.6	3.8	9.6	11
Black	8.7	89.7	1.7	279	5.92	93.15	0.93	378
Black, Indian	17.3	81.3	1.4	17	8.9	82.2	8.9	5
Black, Other	8.8	88.3	2.9	12	0.8	95.3	3.9	2
Hispanic White	86.3	6	7.7	101	75.4	7.0	17.6	133
Hispanic Black	30.7	61.4	7.9	8	28.0	63.3	8.7	3
Hispanic Other	70.8	10.2	18.9	41	63.2	9.4	27.4	157
East Asian	4.0	0.5	95.5	90	6.4	0.9	92.7	159
South Asian	68.4	5.1	26.5	41	39.6	1.8	58.6	2
American Indian	66.5	17.5	16.0	5	62.9	5.2	31.9	19
Other	66.7	25.7	7.6	21	61.2	10.2	28.6	34
Missing	81.5	17.4	1.1	13	53.2	38.6	8.2	13
Total				2,065				2,281
Non-Hispanic					70.21	20.14	9.65	1,946
Hispanic					67.73	8.53	23.74	329
Mexican					63.54	5.56	30.91	197
Chicano					59.92	5.96	34.12	16
Cuban					90.36	7.07	2.57	30
Puerto Rican					75.52	20.22	4.26	39
Central/South   American					66.61	11.69	21.70	33
Other					64.42	14.53	21.05	34
Total								2,272