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SPRACE

Description

SPRACE reports the racial category of the respondent's spouse or unmarried partner. More than one race may be reported.

RACE was collected at the time of the final CPS interview, 2-5 months before the ATUS interview. Spouse or unmarried partner race was not updated at the time of the ATUS interview. Therefore, respondents whose spouse or unmarried partner was not in the household at the time of the CPS interview have a value of 9998 for SPRACE because information on race is not available.

In addition, SPRACE is missing for spouses of ATUS respondents whose last CPS interview occurred in 2002. RACE values for these ATUS respondents were hand-imputed using information collected using the pre-2003 CPS race categories, which did not allow for more than one race to be reported. No imputation was done for ATUS non-respondents or for other members of respondents' households. Only ATUS interviews conducted between January 2003 and May 2003 are affected by this problem.

Universe

2003-2010: ATUS respondents with a spouse or unmarried partner in the household.

Codes/Frequencies

Respondents

Code Description 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
100..400 Single race  
100

White only

10535 7231 6177 5831 5599 5561 5870 5722
200

Black only

765 507 472 526 485 561 536 585
300

American Indian, Alaskan Native

69 50 59 39 50 50 44 41
400

Asian or Pacific Islander

104 -- -- -- -- -- -- --
401

Asian only

230 237 212 262 218 248 285 306
402

Hawaiian Pacific Islander only

18 16 20 14 16 18 9 11
501..516 Two or more races  
501

White-Black

7 5 11 4 5 7 11 15
502

White-American Indian

55 56 56 47 50 58 41 43
503

White-Asian

8 2 6 8 13 10 7 9
504

White-Hawaiian

3 3 4 2 3 2 1 3
505

Black-American Indian

4 5 4 6 3 1 2 6
506

Black-Asian

1 -- 1 -- 1 -- -- 1
507

Black-Hawaiian

-- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
508

American Indian-Asian

-- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
509

Asian-Hawaiian

1 2 -- 1 1 1 -- 2
510

White-Black-American Indian

2 4 1 2 2 2 1 3
511

White-Black-Asian

-- 1 -- -- -- -- -- --
512

White-American Indian-Asian

-- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
513

White-Asian-Hawaiian

-- -- -- 3 -- 2 -- 2
514

White-Black-American Indian-Asian

-- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
515

2 or 3 races, unspecified

-- 1 1 -- 1 1 1 --
516

4 or 5 races, unspecified

-- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
9998 Not Available (see description) 117 77 107 85 58 83 89 90
9999 NIU (Not in universe) 8801 5776 5907 6113 5743 6118 6236 6421