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Racial Identity, Group Consciousness, and Attitudes: A Framework for Assessing Multiracial Self‐Classification

American Journal of Political Science, 2022

The paper

Lauren D. Davenport, Shanto Iyengar, and Sean J. Westwood (2022). Racial Identity, Group Consciousness, and Attitudes: A Framework for Assessing Multiracial Self‐Classification. American Journal of Political Science 66(3), 570–586.

Supplementary information

  1. SI Table A-1 (demographic characteristics, continuous variables), Age

    Published

    Table A-1, Age, all respondents: Min 1940, median 1964.0, mean 1965.3, Max 2014

    Correction

    Corrected Table A-1, with age in years: 19 to 101, median 43, mean 44.3.

    Corrected SI Table A-1, Age: age in years (2015 minus birth year), unweighted, by racial group.
    VariableLevelsnMinq1MedianMeanq3MaxsIQR
    AgeWhite800193653.050.3639316.527
    White-Black720192637.041.05510116.929
    White-Asian509192535.038.3498214.824
    Black500193544.545.7568714.421
    Asian500193244.044.2558414.423
    all3,029193043.044.35810116.228

    Basis preprocess.r computes age as 2015 minus as.numeric(birthyr). In the deposited multiracial.sav, birthyr is a factor, so as.numeric() returns the position of each birth year in the list of years observed, and the result is a number between 1940 and 2014. The corrected table uses 2015 minus the birth year.

  2. SI Table A-2 (demographic characteristics, nominal variables), Education

    Published

    Table A-2, Education: “Less than HS” 703 (23.2%) of all respondents and 299 (37.4%) of Whites

    Correction

    The category is “HS or less.” It combines respondents without a high school diploma (66, 2.2% of the sample) and high school graduates (637). The counts are unchanged.

    Corrected SI Table A-2, Education rows, in the published layout (counts and percent of each group). The first category combines “No HS” and “High school graduate” (preprocess.r); the counts are unchanged and only the label is corrected.
    VariableLevelsnWhite%WhitenWhite-Black%White-BlacknWhite-Asian%White-AsiannBlack%BlacknAsian%Asiannall%all
    EducationHS or less29937.411315.75811.419539.0387.670323.2
    Some College24330.430141.818736.719138.212224.41,04434.5
    College Grad25832.230642.526451.911422.834068.01,28242.3

    Basis The education recode in preprocess.r leaves “No HS” (code 1) in place and moves “High school graduate” (code 2) into the same category, which it labels “Less than HS.” The regressions use this category as the omitted reference, so no coefficient changes.

  3. SI Tables B-1 to B-5, intercepts

    Published

    Intercepts of Tables B-1 to B-5, estimated with the age variable from preprocess.r (for example, 9.45 for linked fate to Asians in Table B-3)

    Correction

    Corrected intercepts, with age in years. For linked fate to Asians (Table B-3), the intercept is 0.74.

    Intercepts of the regressions in SI Tables B-1 to B-5 with age in years. Weighted OLS as in analysis.r; 95% confidence intervals in brackets. All other coefficients are unchanged at two decimals.
    TableOutcomeIntercept, age coded as in preprocess.rIntercept, age in years
    B-1Relative salience of race0.93 [−0.64; 2.51]−0.16 [−0.21; −0.10]
    B-2Closeness to Whites−1.35 [−2.74; 0.03]0.70 [0.65; 0.74]
    B-2Closeness to Blacks−0.09 [−1.52; 1.33]0.77 [0.72; 0.82]
    B-2Closeness to Asians−0.58 [−1.99; 0.84]0.71 [0.66; 0.76]
    B-3Linked fate to Whites1.38 [−0.47; 3.23]0.58 [0.52; 0.65]
    B-3Linked fate to Blacks1.31 [−1.08; 3.71]0.69 [0.62; 0.77]
    B-3Linked fate to Asians9.45 [7.08; 11.82]0.74 [0.66; 0.82]
    B-4White stereotypes−3.40 [−4.97; −1.83]0.11 [0.05; 0.16]
    B-4Black stereotypes2.09 [0.16; 4.02]0.07 [0.01; 0.14]
    B-4Asian stereotypes−1.22 [−2.83; 0.38]0.39 [0.33; 0.45]
    B-5Resentment−5.48 [−6.84; −4.12]0.52 [0.47; 0.57]
    B-5White-Black D-score1.88 [−1.42; 5.19]0.18 [0.07; 0.29]
    B-5White-Asian D-score2.56 [−0.74; 5.86]0.17 [0.06; 0.29]

    Basis The regressions control for the age variable described in the correction to Table A-1, which equals age in years plus 1,921 for all but 4 respondents. The intercepts are therefore predictions for an age of about −1,921. The age coefficients and the racial-group estimates in Tables B-1 to B-5, and so Figures 1–5, are unchanged at two decimals.