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TABLE 11

GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION

                                                                             
                                                                 % of total
           Total            Native      % Native Hawaiian     Native Hawaiian
                           Hawaiian      of Island's pop.        population  

Hawaii     82,900           27,510           33.2                   15.7
Maui       55,300           12,555           22.7                    7.2
Oahu      696,600          123,000           17.7                   70.4
Kauai      35,500            7,206           20.3                    4.1
Molokai     6,660            3,932           57.3                    2.2
Lanai       2,957              587           19.8                    0.3
   Total  860,177          174,790                                   100
                                                                             

Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Assistant Secretary for Policy, Evaluation and Research, Memorandum to Lloyd Aubry (March 30, 1982). (Data originally compiled by Hawaii Health Surveillance Program, according to comments from Robert C. Schmitt.)

TABLE 12

PERCENTAGE OF POPULATION OF SCHOOL AGE OR OLDER WHO WERE LITERATE, 1890-1930

                                              
       AGE SIX AND OVER     AGE TEN AND OVER   
                 1896     1910    1920    1930 
Hawaiian         84.0     95.3    97.0    96.6
Part-Hawaiian    91.2     98.6    99.2    99.3
Portuguese       27.8     74.6    81.1    90.3
Other Caucasian  85.7     96.5    99.2    99.7
Chinese          48.5     67.7    79.0    84.3
Japanese         53.6     65.0    79.2    87.3
Korean                    74.1    82.7    82.4
Filipino                  66.4    53.3    61.5
Puerto Rican              26.8    53.3    68.0 
                                              
  TOTAL
  POPULATION     63.9     73.2    81.1    84.9

Source: Lind, p. 88. (Data for year l890 omitted since, according to Robert C. Schmitt, they are not comparable to later years because the 1890 data did "not take account of literacy in Asian languages, thus understating the rates shown for Chinese and Japanese.")

TABLE 13

PERCENTAGE OF 16

                    1910     1920      1930     1940     1950  
Hawaiian                36.      41.3      37.0     36.6     
Part-Hawaiian           58.      57.5      55.      56.6
  Caucasian-Hawaiian    59.7     60.2      56.3
  Asiatic-Hawaiian      54.3     51.9      52.5
Caucasian               25.9     34.0      49.1     56.6     77
  Portuguese            15.5     25.8      35.6
  Other Caucasian       63.6     64.0      70.
Chinese                 57.3     69.1      76.7     86.9     94.1
Japanese                29.9     35.1      54.3     72.8     9*.1
Filipino                21.      17.6      24.2     50.2     61.8
Korean                  53.1     65.4      68.0
Puerto Paean             8.4      9.3      15.2 

 TOTAL POPULATION             40.1      51.4 

SOURCE: Lind, p. 1

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