“So tell me then, second string, what does the “a” mean?”
Well since Obama’s mother was born in Kansas and the Nordyke’s were born in California and since the Hawaiian BC lists island, state or foreign country in parentheses, I would assume “a” means one of the United States that is not Hawaii. But that is just a guess.
“If the coding was the same from 1961 to 1968 then what is the problem?”
A change was made in 1964,
Compare the opening paragraph in the section on race and color of the 1961 Vital Statistics with the same paragraph from 1964,
1961,
“Births in the United States in 1961 are classified for
vital statistics into white, Negro, American Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Aleut, Eskimo, Hawaiian and Part-Hawaiian (combined), and “other nonwhite.””
1964,
“Births in the United States in 1964 are classified for
statistical purposes according to the race of the parents.
The racial categories are “white,” Negro, American Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Hawaiian and Part-Hawaiian combined, and “other nonwhite.””
In the 1964 report they go on to explain,
“Beginning in 1964 Aleuts and Eskimos are included in American Indian, significantly increasing the births in this racial category when comparisons are made with previous years.” 1964 Vital Statistics in the United States, Natality, page 4-7 in the Technical Appendix
So in “previous years” Aleuts and Eskimos had their on “racial category” but in 1964 they were thrown in with the American Indian category which “significantly increased” the reported births in the Indian category for 1964.
So what is your conclusion? Was Zullo right in the press conference, that the ‘Race of Father’ box was supposed to be blank (with code #9 only) instead of having ‘African’ entered in it? Same goes for the Industry box 12b where University was entered in it. Should it have been blank also?