Obtaining Hispanic Population % from Google Maps Demographics Layer

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We are using the Google Maps API for Business and are leveraging the Demographics Layer for shading the map areas.

Looking at the data fields there are a number of metrics that breakdown the population by race as a %. A category for Latin American/Hispanic is glaringly missing. There is a category for "other_race", but it seems odd that the Latin American/Hispanic value would get lumped into that.

Anyone have an idea if this is an oversight by Google or something that can be confidently derived given the data provided?

As you have Business licence help from Google is part of the agreement. — david strachan, May 10 '13 at 16:09
Yep. Have a case logged. Thought the community might know something too. — hemmeter, May 10 '13 at 19:30

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 21 '13 at 14:27

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I've been into this for around a year now. What I had to do was import the polygons from the census page and do it all myself manually. Not sure why they left out hispanic data.

answered Jun 21 '13 at 14:27

Joseph Hamilton

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 16 '14 at 12:33

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The census does not include Hispanic as a race but as an ethnicity. The actual census data includes a breakdown of race by ethnicity. This appears not to have been incorporated into google's map data.

answered Apr 16 '14 at 12:33

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Obtaining Hispanic Population % from Google Maps Demographics Layer

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