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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 4.

Percentage (95 % bootstrapping confidence interval) of the sample with a proportion of African ancestry reports itself as black: ROOM and Add Health Wave I genetic sample

The Roommate Study Add Health Wave I Add Health Wave I

Sample -> Non-Hispanic Black, White,
and Black-White by Self-report
Non-Hispanic Black, White, and Black-White
by Self-report
Hispanic by Self-report

Proportion
of African
Ancestry
Single Race
(self-report)
Multiracial
(self-report)
N Single Race
(self-report)
Single Race
(interviewer)
Multiracial
(self-report)
N Single Race
(self-report)
Multiracial
(self-report)
N

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
0–.02 0.00
(0,0)
0.08
(0.08,0.32)
1,240 0.00
(0, 0)
0.27
(0.2, 0.9)
0.00
(0, 0)
1,193 0.00
(0,0)
0.00
(0,0)
129
.02–.1 1.27
(1.26,5.0)
0.00
(0,0)
79 0.00
(0,0)
0.00
(0,0)
0.00
(0,0)
136 0.00
(0,0)
0.00
(0,0)
106
.1–.2 16.67
(16.6,50)
16,67
(16.6,50)
6 0.00
(0,0)
0.00
(0,0)
0.00
(0,0)
8 0.00
(0,0)
0.00
(0,0)
55
.2–.3 0.00
(0,0)
0.00
(0,0)
0 0.00
(0,0)
0.00
(0,0)
0.00
(0,0)
2 4.76
(4.76,14.3)
0.00
(0,0)
21
.3–.4 100.0
(100,100)
0.00
(0,0)
2 71.43
(42.9,100)
57.14
(14.3, 85.7)
28.57
(14.3, 57.1)
7 0.00
(0,0)
0.00
(0,0)
7
.4–.5 100.0
(100,100)
16.67
(16.6,50)
6 66.67
(33.3,100)
88.89
(66.7,100)
22.22
(11.1, 55.6)
9 0.00
(0,0)
0.00
(0,0)
2
.5–.6 100.0
(100,100)
36.84
(15.7,57.8)
19 90.00
(70,100)
90.00
(70,100)
30.00
(10,60)
10 33.33
(33.3,100)
33.33
(33.3,100)
3
.6–.7 100.0
(100,100)
50.00
(21.4,71.4)
14 100.0
(100,100)
100.0
(100,100)
100.0
(100,100)
7 50
(25,100)
50
(25,100)
4
.7–.8 100.0
(100,100)
82.86
(68.5,94.2)
35 100.0
(100,100)
100.0
(100,100)
87.10
(74.2,96.8)
31 0.00
(0,0)
0.00
(0,0)
0
.8–.9 100.0
(100,100)
85.71
(76.1,93.6)
63 100.0
(100,100)
100.0
(100,100)
95.65
(89.1, 100)
46 0.00
(0,0)
0.00
(0,0)
0
.9–1 100.0
(100,100)
89.29
(84.6,93.3)
196 100.0
(100,100)
100.0
(100,100)
98.67
(96.0,99.3)
298 0.00
(0,0)
0.00
(0,0)
1
Total 1,660 1,747 328

Note: The point estimates are boldfaced to highlight general patterns across the proportion of African ancestry.