John,

Here is the workup I did of the census data from the signal areas, attached as an Excel file [ converted to html below ]. It addresses race/ethnicity in all five areas.

These figures are not corrected for census undercount. How does one do that? From Leslie's report on KPFK, it appears that this is about a 1% correction. Also, the KPFT signal area was difficult to interpret on the FCC site.

This effort was prompted by the 60% plus proposal from Leslie Radford and Rafael Renteria. Now it might be something of a moot point, since diversity criteria pose legal problems. But anyway...

If there are any problems with this file, let me know and I'll send it to you directly--I'm at jross@LDEO.columbia.edu.

James Ross [ WBAI area ]

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Ethnicity of Pacifica listening areas
station	African American/ black	Hispanic/ Latino	Asian	white (non-Hispanic/ Latino)	other/ residual
kpfa	8.3%	19.3%	18.2%	50.0%	4.2%
wbai	19.6%	20.8%	8.0%	49.9%	1.7%
kpfk	7.8%	40.8%	11.2%	37.6%	2.6%
wpfw	29.9%	8.4%	7.7%	51.6%	2.3%
kpft	18.5%	32.9%	5.1%	42.1%	1.4%