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Table 5 Racial Distribution of Veterans Before and After Allocation of Multiracial Individuals by Using 4 Bridging Techniques

From: Transition to the new race/ethnicity data collection standards in the Department of Veterans Affairs

 

Number (%) Before "Bridging"a

Number (%) After "Bridging" Using 4 Techniques

  

Smallest Groupb

Largest Group Other Than Whitec

Largest Groupd

Fractional Assignment – Equal Fractionse

White

1,431,498 (80.53)

1,431,498 (79.94)

1,431,498 (79.94)

1,442,992 (80.58)

1,437,203 (80.25)

AA

310,288 (17.45)

314,006 (17.53)

315,453 (17.62)

311,547 (17.40)

312,838 (17.47)

AIAN*

7,173 (0.40)

11,093 (0.62)

10,440 (0.58)

7,173 (0.40)

9,100 (0.51)

API*

28,707 (1.61)

34,204 (1.91)

33,410 (1.87)

29,089 (1.62)

31,661 (1.77)

Total

1,777,666 (100.00)

1,790,801 (100.00)

1,790,801 (100.00)

1,790,801 (100.00)

1,790,801 (100.00)

  1. * AA indicates African American; AIAN, American Indian or Alaska Native; API, Asian or Pacific Islander.
  2. a Veterans with multiracial values and Hispanic ethnicity excluded.
  3. b Assigns multiracial values to the smallest group.
  4. c Assigns multiracial values to the largest group other than White.
  5. d Assigns multiracial values to the largest group.
  6. e Assigns equal weights to each racial group identified. Does not add up to total due to rounding errors.
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