Latest revision as of 23:43, 16 June 2006

TABLE 4

ETHNIC STOCK: 1900 TO 1960

                                                                                            
Ethnic Stock            1900 a/     1910      1920      1930      1940      1950    1960 b/
                                                                                            
  Total                 154,001   191,090   255,912   368,336   423,330   499,769   632,772
Percent Distribution
  Total                   100.0     100.0     100.0     100.0     100.0     100.0     100.0
Hawaiian                   19.3      13.6       9.3       6.1       3.4       2.5       1.8
Part-Hawaiian               5.1       6.5       7.0       7.7      11.8      14.8      14.4
Caucasian                  18.7      23.0      21.4      21.8      26.5      24.9      32.0
   Puerto Rican             --        2.5       2.2       1.8       2.0       1.9       --
   Spanish                  --        1.0       0.9       0.3
   Portuguese               --       11.6      10.6       7.5      24.5      23.0       --
   Other Caucasian          --        7.7       7.7      12.2
Chinese                    16.7      11.3       9.2       7.4       6.8       6.5       6.0
Filipino                    --        1.2       8.2      17.1      12.4      12.2      10.9
Korean                      --        2.4       1.9       1.8       1.6       1.4       --
Japanese                   39.7      41.5      42.7      37.9      37.3      36.9      32.2
Negro                       0.2       0.4       0.1       0.2       0.1       0.5       0.8
Other Races                 0.3       0.2       0.1       0.1       0.1       0.3       2.0
                                                                                            

a/ The 1900 Census apparently misclassified many Part-Hawaiians and used ethnic categories not entirely consistent with those of the 1910-1930 enumerations. Romanzo Adams made two separate efforts to adjust these data (see his The Peoples of Hawaii, p. 9, and Interracial Marriage in Hawaii, p. 8).

b/ A second tabulation of 1960 race statistics, using a different procedure for allocating nonresponse, resulted in significantly different totals for some groups, particularly the Hawaiians.

Source: Schmitt, p. 120; compiled from U.S. decennial census data.

TABLE 5

HAWAII POPULATION BY RACE: 1970 AND 1980

                           1970                   1980    
                       No.                    No.
Total                769,913                965,000       
 
White                298,160   38.8         318,608   33.0     
Black                  7,573    1.0          17,352    1.8
Am. Indian/Esk./
  Aleut                1,126    0.1           2,778    0.3
Chinese               32,039    6.8          56,260    5.8
Filipino              93,915   12.2         133,964   13.9
Japanese             217,307   28.3         239,618   24.8
Korean                 8,656    1.1          17,948    1.9
Vietnamese           -------   ----           3,459    0.4
Hawaiian */           71,375    9.3         115,962   12.0
Samoan               -------   ----          14,168    1.5
Guamanian            -------   ----           1,677    0.2
Asian Indian         -------   ----             604    0.1
Other                 18,410    2.4          42,602    4.4
                                                          

*/ Includes full and part-Hawaiians. See explanation of U.S. Census data.

Source: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, 1980 Census of Population; Race of the Population by States: 1980, Supplementary Report PC80-S1-3 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, July 1981), pp. 6-14.