Research

FEATURE OF THE MONTH:

Behind the Numbers: Post Election Survey of Asian American and Pacific Islander Voters in 2012, Authored by AAJC, APIAVote, and NAAS.  Released 4/5/13

Powerpoint Presentation Presented on 4/5/13 & 4/8/13

 Recording of the 4/8/13 Webinar

Preliminary Post-Election Poll Results of Asian American Voters, Report Commissioned by AAJC, APIAVote, and NAAS

• Powerpoint Presentation 
• 12/12/12 Recording of the Webinar (to be uploaded by 12/14/12)

2012 National Asian American Survey

• Webinar: Initial Findings of the 2012 National Asian American Survey, 10/4/12
• Webinar: Updated Polling Results of the 2012 National Asian American Survey, 10/15/12

Political Poll on Asian American Voters, Released on May 1 2012

• April 2012: Asian American Survey, in partnership with Lake Research Partners, AAJC, AAI
• April 2012: Topline Results for Chinese, Asian Indian, and Filipino Respondents to Asian American Survey
• April 2012: Topline Results for Vietnamese, Korean, and Japanese Respondents to Asian American Survey

Census

• AAPI FACT Sheet – Asian American Pacific Islander Month 2012
• The Asian Population: 2010, US Census Bureau, Issued March 2012
• 2010 Census Brief, The Asian Population: 2010 Webinar Presentation from the US Census Bureau, March 2012 (Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Brief will be provided by the US Census Bureau later this Spring)
• A Community of Contrasts: Asian Americans in the United States, 2011 From the Asian Asian American Justice Center
• 2010 Census Data Results for the Asian Population and the Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander Population, From the U.S. Census Bureau 
• Voting and Registration in the Election of November 2008, From the U.S. Census Bureau 
• Various Voting and Registration Data, from the Current Population Survey (CPS)
• 2010 Census Briefs – Multiple Topics
  

Interactive Map from The Washington Post

2010 Fact Sheets - Key States

• At a Glance: AAPIs in Hawaii
• At a Glance: AAPIs in Illinois
• At a Glance: AAPIs in Massachusetts
• At a Glance: AAPIs in Minnesota
• At a Glance: AAPIs in Nevada
• At a Glance: AAPIs in New York
• At a Glance: AAPIs in New Jersey

Taken from Asian American Political Participation: Emerging Constiuents and their Political Identities, Wong et. al

AAPI Voters Make a Difference

• The share of eligible voters who were Asian increased from 3.3% in 2004 to 3.4% in 2008. There were 6.9 million Asian eligible voters in 2008, up from 6.5 million in 2004.
  
  
• The number of Asian eligible voters increased 5.9% between 2004 and 2008.

• Asian represented 2.5% of all voters in 2008, up from 2.3% in 2004

• Among Asian elgible voters, the voter turnout rate was up 2.4 percentage points – 47% in 2008 versus 44.6% in 2004

• Black, Asian and Latino eligible voters reduced the voter turnout rate gap with whites in 2008 compared with 2004
  

• The voter turnout rate among Asian eligible voters ages 18 to 29 was up 10.5 percentage points, to 42.9% in 2008 32.4% in 2004. This was the largest increase among all racial and ethnic groups for that age group.
  

Taken from Dissecting the 2008 Electorate: the Most Diverse in U.S. History, Lopez and Taylor

 Studies and Research

• Jan. 2012: Unsilencing the Voices of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, Presentation by Karthick Ramakrishnan and Miriam Yeung
• Dec 2011: Engaging the Emerging Minority: The Case for Voter Registration in 2012 and Beyond by NOI Education Fund
• July 2011: Demographic and Socioeconomic Profiles of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders in the United States
• May 2011: Asian Pacific Americans in the United States Congress
• Dissecting the 2008 Electorate: the Most Diverse in U.S. History
• April 2011: US Census Bureau: Facts for Features
• 2009: UCLA Asian American Studies Center Statistical Portrait
• Oct. 2008: National Asian American Survey.  (34% of Asian Americans still undecided in this presidential race.)
• Sept. 2008: State of Asian America: Trajectory of Civic and Political Engagement (LEAP Report)
• 2006: Current Population Survey Statistics on Voting and Registration

• USC Study on GOTV among APIA Youth and Adults