,,California's Multiracial Population

California's Multiracial Population


 

Publication Date: August 2004

Publisher: Public Policy Institute of California

Author(s): Sonya M. Tafoya; Hans P. Johnson; Laura E. Hill

Research Area: Population and demographics

Type: Report

Coverage: California

Abstract:

Looks at a newly identified population, enabled by the Census 2000, which for the first time offered Americans the option to self-identify as of more than one race. Finds that California’s multiracial population is hard to characterize with any basic summary statistics, because there are many racial combinations with very different characteristics, depending on the particular combination.