[philman_36]

Here's something to consider from 1968...@ NATALITY TAPE FILE FOR CALENDAR YEAR 1968Race of Child (Determined from Parents race)
Each race item is coded as follows:
1 White
2 Negro
3 Indian (includes Aleuts and Eskimos)
4 Chinese
5 Japanese :“
6 Hawaiian (includes part-Hawaiian)
7 Other Nonwhite
9 Unknown or not stated (Race of parents only)

Yep, I'd like to some public record, not what the "Doc" has.

[philman_36]

BTW, that came from here...@ NCHS's Vital Statistics Natality Birth Data -- 1968-2009

Why is it necessary to file a FOIA for the years prior to 1968?

[Shelayne]

Interesting from your link, I looked at the coding up until 1989, and it was All the same. Then in 1989’ the the codes changed slightly, but still no designation for “African” under race. Unstated or Unknown became a 99, instead of 9. There was also this notation “Race codes for 1989 differ from previous years”, which tells me that the codes had been the same up until then. I thought about this, and it occurred to me that they wouldn’t change them from year to year—especially when they were being done by hand.

The only race designation that had its own category with subsets was Hispanic.

Forgive any weird characters or capitalizations; I am still trying to get used to this iPad. Oy.