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Exercise

Aggregate and Calculate Proportions

In this exercise we will explore Hispanic racial identity. Hispanics self-identify as a variety of races. We will use the sum() method to help calculate national percentages of Hispanics identifying as each race.

Census workers are often promulgating information to the public, who are used to seeing proportions as percentages. For this reason, we will use percentages in this exercise and throughout this course.

pandas has been imported as pd. State-level counts from table "P5 - Hispanic or Latino Origin by Race" have been loaded into the data frame states.

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  • Calculate the percentage of Hispanics who identify as White. Use 100 times the sum of values in the hispanic_white column divided by the sum of values in the hispanic column.