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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 5.

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

ROOM 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 European
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)
0.65
(0.64,2.5)
154 0.84
(0.4,3.3)
0.84
(0.4,3.3)
0.84
(0.4,3.3)
239 0 0 3
.02–.1 0.00
(0,0)
0.00
(0,0)
65 0.00
(0,0)
0.00
(0,0)
0.00
(0,0)
83 0 0 0
.1–.2 0.00
(0,0)
0.00
(0,0)
47 0.00
(0,0)
0.00
(0,0)
0.00
(0,0)
36 0 0 1
.2–.3 0.00
(0,0)
0.00
(0,0)
33 0.00
(0,0)
0.00
(0,0)
0.00
(0,0)
25 0 0 7
.3–.4 0.00
(0,0)
0.00
(0,0)
12 0.00
(0,0)
0.00
(0,0)
0.00
(0,0)
6 18.75
(6.3,37.5)
18.75
(6.3,37.5)
16
.4–.5 5.26
(5.26,21.0)
0.00
(0,0)
19 14.29
(14.3,42.9)
14.29
(14.3,42.9)
0.00
(0,0)
7 45.71
(28.6,62.9)
45.71
(6.25,37.5)
35
.5–.6 0.00
(0,0)
0.00
(0,0)
5 25
(12.5,62.5)
12.5
(12.5,37.5)
12.5
(12.5,37.5)
8 29.79
(17.0,42.6)
29.79
(17.0,42.6)
47
.6–.7 0.00
(0,0)
0.00
(0,0)
2 55.56
(22.2,88.9)
55.56
(22.2,88.9)
33.33
(11.1,66.7)
9 25
(15.0,35.8)
25
(15.0,35.8)
68
.7–.8 100.00
(100,100)
100.00
(100,100)
2 100
(100,100)
100
(100,100)
100
(100,100)
10 46.55
(29.3,53.4)
41.38
(34.5,58.6)
58
.8–.9 96.97
(90.9,100)
78.79
(63.6,90.9)
33 100
(100,100)
97.87
(93.6,100)
87.23
(76.6,95.7)
47 55
(35,65)
50
(40,70)
40
.9–1 100.0
(100,100)
97.52
(96.6,98.3)
1288 100
(99.5,100)
99.69
(99.1,99.8)
97.65
(96.6,98.3)
1,277 83.13
(60.4,84.9)
73.58
(69.8,90.6)
53
Total 1660 1,747 328

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