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Originally posted by evenodds
Why is this so important to you?
Here is a link someone sent me from a recent salon.com article:
"In 1998, black-white couples in which the wife is black made up 37 percent of all black-white marriages nationwide, up from only 22 percent in 1980."
http://archive.salon.com/mwt/feature...xed/index.html
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It's very hard to compare census data from census year to census year, because they keep on changing the definitions. Also, the form and the definitions within the form changes every single census year, so the data is only really applicable within the census period, and not for comparison with other years. Up until recently, if the respondent didn't put in an answer for "race" then the census taker put down what he or she thought was the proper answer, based on looking at the person. From census year to census year, you could have someone changing back and forth between races four or five times in the course of a lifetime.
