Table 5. Comparison of the Distribution of Race/Ethnicity According to EDBRACE and NEWRACE for the Entire October 2005 Unloaded Medicare Enrollment Database (EDB).
| Race/Ethnicity | Original EDB Race Variable (EDBRACE) |
New EDB Race Variable (NEWRACE) |
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| Frequency | Percent | Frequency | Percent | |
| White | 35,994,152 | 83.5 | 34,088,099 | 79.1 |
| Black | 4,233,394 | 9.8 | 4,143,584 | 9.6 |
| Hispanic | 946,731 | 2.2 | 3,192,523 | 7.4 |
| Asian/Pacific Islander | 656,408 | 1.5 | 956,513 | 2.2 |
| American Indian/Alaska Native | 169,557 | 0.4 | 167,852 | 0.4 |
| Other | 980,040 | 2.3 | 455,328 | 1.1 |
| Unknown | 130,608 | 0.3 | 107,209 | 0.2 |
| Missing | 1,135 | 0 | 917 | 0 |
| Total | 43,112,025 | 100 | 43,112,025 | 100 |
NOTES: EDBRACE is the unadjusted variable from the EDB from October 2005. NEWRACE is the result of the author's tabulations of having run the algorithm on those same beneficiaries from the EDB from October 2005.
SOURCE: Eicheldinger, C. and Bonito, A., RTI International, 2007.