Ethnic Group SEI Scores, 1950:
As Deviations from Native-Born Grand Mean of 32.4
under Various Sets of Assumptions

ETHNICITYModels
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Nat. White/Nat. Parentage1.41.50.50.9
NWNP-Born in South-2.1-1.90.60.8
NWNP-Born in Non-South3.43.30.50.9
Black-16.4-15.2-8.0-9.2
Black-Born in South-17.0-16.8-7.9-9.2
Black-Born in Non-South-11.7-11.8-9.5-10.8
Other Nonwhite-13.7-11.4-9.4-8.5
American Indian-18.8-18.6-10.7-8.2
Japanese/Chinese-6.0-5.5-7.4-9.3
Great Britain/lreland7.66.63.83.1
England/Wales7.67.53.63.4
Scotland9.79.65.24.6
Ireland7.16.93.62.7
Northwest Europe2.21.71.51.5
Norway-0.6-0.6-2.2-0.7
Sweden4.14.01.31.7
Denmark/Iceland1.41.4-1.0-0.6
Finland-3.8-3.8-3.5-3.1
Netherlands2.62.63.63.3
Belgium/Luxembourg5.05.03.93.7
France6.06.02.42.1
Germany1.41.32.02.0
Switzerland3.43.40.50.8
Austria5.95.73.52.7
Eastern Europe-0.2-1.40.8-0.4
Poland-0.6-0.80.60.6
Czechosloval;ia-1.1-1.20.3-0.4
Hungary3.83.63.02.0
Yugoslavia/Bulgaria/Albania-2.4-2.5-1.7-3.2
USSR and Romania12.411.05.24.6
Russia/Ukraine13.413.25.75.2
Baltic Coun(ries5.65.42.00.9
Romania13.213.05.44.2
Southern Europe-0.2-1.51.20.2
Greece4.44.41.0-0.4
Italy-0.2-0.41.30.3
Spain/Portugal/Azores-2.9-2.80.6-0.2
Other-1.7-1.7-0.3-0.8
Middle East/Asia10.710.65.94.8
Canada, English4.24.00.90.6
Canada, French-3.6-3.9-0.1-0.5
Mexico-14.0-13.8-4.2-4.9
Other Latin America-2.3-2.2-0.6-1.8
Spanish Surname NWNP-12.0-11.6-3.8-3.9
Statistics
Correlation Ratio (Eta/Beta) of the Country of Origin
Major Ethnic Groups0.250.230.120.14
Detailed Ethnic Groups0.280.270.130.14
Multiple R-Squared
Major Ethnic Group Equation6.6%35.9%37.4%
Detailed Ethnic Group Equation7.6%36.0%37.5%

Models:
  1. SEI scores of various groups with nothing except ethnicity taken into consideration.
  2. What ethnic group scores would be if age and region of birth were controlled.
  3. What ethnic group scores would be if years of schooling, years of schooling squared, years of work experience, and years of work experience squared were included with age and region of birth as controls. The squared terms are included to reflect the fact that, after some point, the year-by-year impacts of increasing age and increasing experience begin to decrease.
  4. What ethnic group scores would be if economic subregion of residence were joined as a control to the set of variables incorporated in Model 3.

SOURCE: Charles Hirschman and Ellen Percy Kraly, "Racial and Ethnic Inequality in the United States, 1940 and 1950: The Impact of Geographic Location and Human Capital," International Migration Review, 24 (1990), 4-33 (Table 4).

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