Mixed-Race Couples 8

Question 1

For Asian Americans and Hispanics, intermarriage with whites ________ with levels of educational attainment

Answer 1

Increases

Question 2

For what two groups has educational attainment been a weak predictor of interracial marriage?

Answer 2

Blacks and American Indians (Qian & Lichter 2007)

Question 3

Are mixed-race individuals more or less likely to marry whites than are single-race minority individuals?

Answer 3

More likely (Qian & Lichter 2007)

Question 4

About __% of all new marriages in the United States in 2010 were between spouses of a different race or ethnicity from one another, more than _____ the share in 1980 (___%).

Answer 4

15%, double, 6% (Wang 2012)

Question 5

Among all newlyweds in 2010, _% of whites, __% of blacks, __% of Hispanics and __% of Asians married out.

Answer 5

9% of whites, 17% of blacks, 26% of Hispanics and 28% of Asians. (Wang 2012)