Q&A: Why and how Pew Research Center conducted 66 focus groups with Asian Americans
This project represents our first comprehensive examination of Asian American identity using focus groups. Here’s how and why we did it.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
This project represents our first comprehensive examination of Asian American identity using focus groups. Here’s how and why we did it.
The number of Black immigrants living in the country reached 4.6 million in 2019, up from roughly 800,000 in 1980.
Majorities across demographic and political groups have neutral views about the changing racial makeup of the U.S. population.
A record 22 million Asian Americans trace their roots to more than 20 countries in East and Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent.
The Asian population in the U.S. grew 81% from 2000 to 2019, from roughly 10.5 million to a record 18.9 million people.
Here’s a look at how individual origin groups compare with the nation’s overall Asian American population.
124 lawmakers today identify as Black, Hispanic, Asian/Pacific Islander or Native American, a 97% increase over the 107th Congress of 2001-02.
The number of Hispanic registered voters in Florida grew by 364,000 between 2012 and 2016 and by 305,000 between 2008 and 2012.
Those who have not responded to the census so far are likely to be from groups the census previously has struggled to count accurately.
Some 6.2 million U.S. adults – or 2.4% of the country’s adult population – report being two or more races.
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