Table 3.

Ethnic Identity Survey Respondent Preferences for Interviewer Race by Ethnic Identity Component (n=617)

	Importance of Having a Same-Race Interviewer		Hypothetical Comfort if the Interviewer Had Been White
	Estimate	Standard Error	Estimate	Standard Error
Intercept	3.96 a	0.97	7.13	0.83
Respondent Level Effects
Assimilated	0.17	0.82	−0.17	0.71
Afrocentric	1.02 a	0.44	0.04	0.38
Black American	1.76 a	0.47	−0.41	0.41
Bicultural	−0.11	0.47	0.42	0.41
Multicultural	0.19	0.44	0.05	0.38
Cultural Mistrust	0.82b	0.45	−0.52	0.39
Gender: Female	0.37	0.33	−0.21	0.28
Age	0.004	0.01	0.00	0.01
Education: Less Than High School c	−1.62 b	0.93	−0.22	0.81
Education: High School Diploma/GED c	−0.22	0.41	0.84 a	0.35
Education: Training Other Than College/Some College c	−0.20	0.35	0.41	0.30
Income: $20,000 or Less d	−0.21	0.61	0.09	0.53
Income: $20,001 to $40,000 d	−0.40	0.39	−0.08	0.33
Income: $40,001 to $60,000 d	−0.16	0.37	−0.36	0.32
Variance Associated with Respondents	11.04		8.29
Variance Associated with Interviewers	0.26		0.08
Intraclass Correlation Coefficient	0.02		0.01

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^cReference: College or graduate degree

^dReference: More than $60,000