Building a Spanish Surname List for the 1990's: A New Approach to an Old Problem

摘要

The United States Census Bureau produced and released Spanish surname products for 1950, 1960, 1970 and 1980. This 1990 version is another way station in an ongoing research journey. This paper, Building a Spanish Surname List for the 1990sA New Approach to an Old Problem, differs from its predecessors in two significant respects. (1) Until 1990, name has never been part of a permanent Census electronic record. Following the 1990 Census, the Census Bureau appended name to 7 million Census records for the purposes of determining undercount. The List is constructed by tabulating the responses (surname by surname) to the Spanish origin question for persons in that sample. (2) In the past, a name was either on the list (e.g., Garcia) and was taken to be Spanish or it did not appear on the list.