Pew Research Center is a subsidiary of The Pew Charitable Trusts, its primary funder. The Center’s Asian American portfolio was funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts, with generous support from The Asian American Foundation; Chan Zuckerberg Initiative DAF, an advised fund of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation; the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; the Henry Luce Foundation; the Doris Duke Foundation; The Wallace H. Coulter Foundation; The Dirk and Charlene Kabcenell Foundation; The Long Family Foundation; Lu-Hebert Fund; Gee Family Foundation; Joseph Cotchett; the Julian Abdey and Sabrina Moyle Charitable Fund; and Nanci Nishimura.
We would also like to thank the Leaders Forum for its thought leadership and valuable assistance in helping make this survey possible.
The strategic communications campaign used to promote the research was made possible with generous support from the Doris Duke Foundation.
This report was written by Ziyao Tian, research associate, Carolyne Im, research analyst, Sahana Mukherjee, associate director of race and ethnicity research, and Abby Budiman, former temporary research associate.
Many individuals contributed to this study’s design, data collection and methodology. This survey and the subsequent reports from it would not be possible without Associate Director of Survey Methods Ashley Amaya, who designed the survey’s methodology, managed the long fielding period with Westat and helped with the questionnaire development. The entire survey project was expertly managed by Research Associate Luis Noe-Bustamante. Noe-Bustamante also managed a team that carried out the survey’s data processing and included Budiman, Im, Research Methodologist Arnold Lau and former Research Assistant Lauren Mora.
Neil Ruiz, head of new research initiatives, and former Research Associate Sunny Shao led the development of the survey questionnaire with help from Amaya, Research Associate Khadijah Edwards, former Research Analyst Mohamad Moslimani, Mora and Noe-Bustamante. Senior Demographer Jeffrey Passel provided advice on the demographic analysis. Pew Research Center is also grateful to Westat’s Mike Brick, Ismael Flores Cervantes, Eric Jodts and Hanna Popick for their many contributions to this project.
Mark Hugo Lopez, director of race and ethnicity research, provided editorial guidance for the project, including the survey questionnaire, and related products. Ruiz, Copy Editor Rebecca Leppert and Executive Vice President Claudia Deane also provided editorial guidance for the report. Passel offered additional editorial guidance and analysis support to the demographic research in this report. Research Assistant Alexandra Cahn also provided research assistance to the report. The report was number-checked by Research Assistant Gracie Martinez, with help from Cahn. Senior Copy Editor David Kent copy edited the report, with support from Leppert and Editorial Assistant Anna Jackson. The report was produced by Digital Producer Sara Atske.
The communications and outreach strategy for the report was led by Senior Communications Manager Tanya Arditi, with support from Communications Associate Andrew Grant. The charts were designed by Tian, Im, and Information Graphics Designer John Carlo Mandapat.
Pew Research Center is grateful to a panel of expert advisers who provided advice at all stages of this survey and report’s development: Devesh Kapur, Starr Foundation Professor of South Asian Studies at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies; Yến Lê Espiritu, Distinguished Professor of Ethnic Studies at University of California, San Diego; Anthony Christian Ocampo, Professor of Sociology at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Karthick Ramakrishnan, Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Riverside; Janelle Wong, Professor of American Studies and Asian American Studies at the University of Maryland; and Yang Sao Xiong, Assistant Professor at College of Social Sciences at California State University, Fresno.
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