Exploring Asian-American and Pacific Islander Data [Sec. B] by Barry Goldenberg

Filipino population in the US -kaiya adams

2024-01-25 23:09:18 UTC

I was honestly not that surprised by this data, but it does show how much filipino americans influence our school system in california. where i live, A lot of filipino students attend school that host a large filipino community, and a lot of these filipino communities in southern California.

Comparison between US total and Asian American education profiles - Dron Mongia

2024-01-25 23:11:09 UTC

Here we can observe some comparisons between Asian Americans and total US population in terms of education levels. It is interesting to see how the "less than high school degree" is about the same for both demographics however the "bachelor's degree and higher" is vastly different. Perhaps this says something about the variations between attitudes for Asian Americans regarding the value of education.

Health Insurance in Pacific Islanders

2024-01-25 23:12:28 UTC

When comparing between Southeast Asians and Pacific Islanders, specifically Vietnamese, Filipino, and Pacific Islanders, we found it most astonishing the difference between healthcare insurance coverage. The biggest difference was between Pacific Islanders who had the smallest percentage (0.1%) covered by private insurance (which is typically covered through work). We would not be surprised if this ethnic group have higher rates of health issues due to the lack of access to affordable healthcare. - Michelle Nguyen, Yijie Zhang, Luis Arciga, javier aguas, Adalberto German-Garcia

Gabriel Reyes and Lisette Soberano

2024-01-25 23:12:36 UTC

What i found interesting about this is where the Asian Indians are located and how many of them own a home. It says about 62% own a home in the country. This is actually a good portion considering most live in California which is the most expensive state to live in. And with this information, we can conclude that their incomes are also high on the spectrum. Looking from the list, 3/5 states have for the most part affordable home prices. Except New York and California. As well as how low the poverty rate is between them is fascinating.

Findings (Will Han)

2024-01-25 23:13:08 UTC

What I found interesting is that a lot of Asian Americans are situated in California; this is not surprising because California is geographically closer to Asia and is a state for all races. Moreover, it's interesting how despite Asian people's higher achievement of a Bachelor's Degree, their HS diploma ownership is lower than the total US population. Makes me wonder how those Asians skipped/failed high school and went straight to college. Schools could provide more equitable access to high school education for all people by offering equal access to resources and academic help, as well as equip schools with empathetic counselors who are willing to treat all students with respect.

Amy Do

2024-01-25 23:13:21 UTC

What I found most interesting was the data comparing the US vs Asian Americans vs Vietnamese was less than a high school degree statistic. Looking at this, this makes a lot of sense to me as I know that my parents as well as my Vietnamese peer's parents immigrated to America to escape the war and therefore couldn't complete their high school degree. I think this shows that many Vietnamese students are likely first gen and are unable to obtain the information necessary from their parents and policymakers can help these students by making information on higher education more accessible for these students.

Health Insurance Findings - Kamile, Arianne, Samantha Z, Lyndsey

2024-01-25 23:13:30 UTC

We found this interesting but also not surprising because it makes sense that a high % of Filipinos have private health insurance. Our guess is that because there are a large amount of Filipino nurses, they are able to obtain health insurance from their jobs. Schools can emphasize to students that they can explore different career options.

Jolin Chen, Kaylana Khamvongsa, Gordon Peng, Cloe Smith, Martin Ochoa

2024-01-25 23:13:53 UTC

We looked at education and income and poverty between the US total, Asian Americans, and Vietnamese. Asian Americans have the highest percentage of bachelor's degree or higher, however the Vietnamese population within it have half the amount. When looking at the poverty percentages, Asian Americans have a share of 11.5%, while Vietnamese have a share of 14%. With these findings, we can see that having a higher percentage of educational attainment in bachelor's degree can lead to a lower share in poverty. One potential way to address and shift policy in a more equitable manner is to use income as the main catalyst for policy. By aiding students with a lower income through support programs or financial aid, schools can provide a more equitable environment for students regardless of race, especially because there isn't much that can be changed in terms of addressing different ethnicities.

Aina Jung, Areli Ricart, Jennifer Raya, Ana Gaytan, Mikaela Selby

2024-01-25 23:13:57 UTC

We noticed that a lot of data about the Nepalese population was missing, which is concerning. This is concerning as it can be interpreted as this demographic being overlooked. Even though its a smaller population, it's still important to have data on this demographic especially when it comes to creating policies.

Frank Aguirre

2024-01-25 23:14:16 UTC

I decided to compare Vietnamese and US total to see how my data about my friends and their background compare to the US total. What i found interesting was comparing these 2 groups total population to their income and poverty. While the US undoubtedly shares the largest population of US residents (327,167,439), their percentage share in poverty overall is 14.1%. However, Vietnamese share (2,162,610) US residents yet share the throne with the US total of sharing 14% in poverty overall. The reason this is surprising is because Vietnamese in the US have largely lower population total compared to US residents yet the poverty to population ratio is largely worse.

Compare the educational status of Asian Americans and Chinese（Qian Wu, Peiyi Wu）

2024-01-25 23:14:26 UTC

Interestingly, from this data, we can see that there is not much difference in educational attainment, but because of the difference in population, the population of Asian Americans is about four times that of Chinese people. The educational comparison between Asian and Chinese people shows that most Asian people are eager to learn. They rarely drop out of school. Most Asian families have strong educational expectations, resulting in more than half of Asian students have a bachelor's degree or above in academic education.

Nikki Gigante, Edgar Avalos

2024-01-25 23:14:34 UTC

Between Asian-American, Bangladeshi, and Filipino, they all have somewhat similar rates of education, with all around 50% for having a Bachelor's or higher. However the overall poverty rates have a large disparity. With Bangladeshi and Filipinos both having 48% Bachelor's degrees, but the Bangladeshi poverty rate being almost 4x that of the Filipino, we wonder what the correlation between income and poverty is.

It is also is interesting that Filipinos have the lowest poverty rate of the three. This may be because when high-level of education immigrants were immigrating, many Filipino healthcare workers came to the U.S., allowing them to have higher paying jobs.

aprajita singh

2024-01-25 23:14:55 UTC

I compared the US with Asian-American and Vietnamese. I chose to compare education and language. The results show that on average, a higher percent of Asian Americans receive Bachelor's Degrees in comparison to the US total but this not mean all groups of Asian Americans have the same success as the Vietnamese had a lower percentage. Schools need to realize all Asian American students cannot be clumped into one group and be neglected because they are considered smart. The language stream showed that a high percentage of Asian Americans and a higher number of Vietnamese people have limited English proficiency, which could limit their understanding or abilities in schools. The education system needs to work on giving all students equal focus and taking these limitations into account, as they can affect a certain subset of the general Asian American group's ability to succeed without guidance and support.

Caroline A. Witherspoon

2024-01-25 23:15:23 UTC

I feel like this greatly surprised me that Asian Americans have a higher percentage of bachelor degrees than the US total. But the poverty rate made sense to me on the education front due to success in schools being based on environmental factors as well as income.

Irma Guevara, Katy Cloutier, Kimberly Nava, Samantha Gonzalez, Isabella Vega

2024-01-25 23:15:25 UTC

The three different groups we compared were US total, Thai, and Asian Americans. We found that there's a significant difference regarding poverty because we saw a distinct difference in Thai people's poverty rates compared to Asian Americans in general. It's interesting because Thai individuals have a high rate of poverty despite their education rate being higher than Asian Americans. Teachers can look at the data collected regarding Thai individuals and realize they should not contribute to the "model minority" and the stereotypes that come with it because superb academic performance is not universal amongst all Asian Americans.

East Asian Countries

2024-01-25 23:15:28 UTC

We wanted to explore the most commonly sought East Asia countries: Japanese, Chinese and Korean. We observed that more than half of each population achieved a bachelor's degree or higher. Perhaps this data plays a part into the model minority stereotype, but even so, we shouldn't ignore the minor percentage of those struggling. People tend to only look at those who succeed and overlook the struggles that not everyone can overcome.

By: Clarabelle Suhandinata & Deo Korompis

Chinese Vs US Total - James Zhang & Yang Ding & Tsen Pu Wang &Mi Zhou

2024-01-25 23:15:28 UTC

This is a quite interesting comparison. We can see that in Education, Chinese percentage is much higher than US total, which means that the average degree is higher. However, Chinese's percentage in poverty is signifiantly higher thatn US total in children and seniors. Perhaps this can indicate that Chinese are originally with less assets and wealth than US total and tend to get higher degrees to achieve better income status.

Brandon Yau

bjyau — 2024-01-25 23:15:35 UTC

A possible difference in education level between Chinese and Vietnamese could be their economic background. Families with higher economic resources may have more opportunities to invest in education, including sending their children to university. Understanding educational disparities could show potential inequalities in access to educational opportunities.

2024-01-25 23:15:47 UTC

Our group was quite shocked to see the large percentage of Asian Indians who have obtained a bachelor's degree or higher especially when we compared it to the percentage of Cambodians as their percentage was relatively lower. This data highlighted how diverse educational attainment can be within the Asian community which further emphasized to us how inaccurate the model minority stereotype is.

Marlene Garcia, Camila Haro, Amanda C., Dominic Pagano, Juliette Bercaives, Wanding Li

Michelle Ma

2024-01-25 23:15:47 UTC

Taiwan has a strong education system, with a focus on academic achievement. The country has a high literacy rate, and education is highly valued in Taiwanese society. There are several reputable universities, and competition for admission can be intense. Japan has a population of around 126 million. Similar to China, Japan faces demographic challenges with an aging population and low birth rates. The proportion of elderly people is relatively high, and there are concerns about the sustainability of social security systems.China is the most populous country globally, with over 1.4 billion people. The population is diverse, but there is a significant aging trend due to the one-child policy that was in place for several decades. The working-age population is large, but there are concerns about an aging population and its implications. Based on the information, all three regions share concerns about aging populations, but the severity varies. Education is highly valued in each, with competitive systems and strong emphasis on academic achievement.

Comparison of Thai, Laotian, Native Hawaiian Education

2024-01-25 23:15:50 UTC

we compared education levels of Thai, Laotian, and Native Hawaiian. We noticed how despite a higher percentage of native hawaiian getting a High School degree and equivalent, there is a lower percentage getting a college degree and we wondered if tourism has a big impact on that and population/area limitations as well. Hence, there is a lot of people who may go out of state to attend college if money allows compared to the other groups.

Vietnamese Education

2024-01-25 23:15:52 UTC

Exploring data on Vietnamese education I found that only 29.6% earn a Bachelors degree or higher while only 21.4% receive a high school diploma or equivalent. These statistics reflect the disparities that Asian American students face in schooling as a result of discrimination, generalizations, and tensions. Asian American students have been labeled the “model minority” which only aggregates existing racial messaging in schools. Educational researchers have the power to adjust school policies to strive towards greater school equity.

Daphne Oñate

Jay Dick, William Davis

2024-01-25 23:15:55 UTC

We compared the poverty rates in Native Hawai'ians versus the US as a whole. We found that poverty in general is relative close to the US total, but poverty rates in seniors and children are disproportionately high in comparison to the US total. Knowing what I know with this information, school policies could change to make resources that cost money (notebooks, pencils, devices) free from the school in order to support the students that may not have the financial ability to fully support their education. Overall, I think researchers need to consider Native Hawai'ians more in research, as it is a demographic that is often left out of research up until recently. Also, for Native Hawai'ians that reside in Hawai'i, reserach could be done to evaluate how education differs from the island to the mainland and its relevance to the poverty rates.

2024-01-25 23:16:05 UTC

It was interesting to see that a greater percentage of Korean people have a high school degree/equivalent compared to both Asian Americans and the US total. However, this is different when comparing education less than a high school degree where there is a greater percentage of Asian Americans. I think this is reflected in that not all Asian Americans come from a family background that is able to support their education- maybe having to start working early to help financially.

Reena Lee

Comparison between Asian Americans Chinese and total US- Xuanrong Liang

2024-01-25 23:16:08 UTC

I am looking at the language and education part and the comparison between Asian Americans, Chinese, and total US. For the Bechelor's degree or highers, Asian Americans and Chinese are occupy a higher percent, but for the less than a high school degree, it surprise me that the occupation percent for Chinese is higher than other two groups. I think this would cause the educational gap between different people become large. Also for the language, I think the diversity of language is larger for total US. I think for school, they can hold more language classes.

Comparison between US Total, Asian Americans, & Chinese - Justin Wang

2024-01-25 23:16:22 UTC

Viewing the statistics between the US total, Asian Americans, and the Chinese population, I compared data from the education level, income, and homeownership. The data for the Asian American and Chinese populations were pretty similar in terms of education and homeownership. However, there were a lot more Chinese seniors in poverty when compared to the US total and Asian Americans. In an academic setting, educational researchers could treat all individuals as equal and adjust their perspectives towards individuals of any race.

Comparison made between Chinese and Japanese with US Total in Education and Poverty Income level----(Jieyu Fan, Ruidong Wang, Yuntian Deng)

jieyuf2 — 2024-01-25 23:16:23 UTC

What we find is that the average Bachelor's degree percentiles for both Chinese and Japanese is much greater than US Total. But the High school percentile has a opposite overweight, where US Total weight more than the other two's. But when it comes to income and poverty, we are interesting to found that with basically same average degree of education, Japanese has a really low level of poverty. And for US Total, we have low senior and kid level. I think this might have something to do with the welfare system.

2024-01-25 23:16:28 UTC

My group compared the US total, Asian Americans, and Thai Americans regarding education and income and poverty. Schools should incorporate Asian American history into American history curriculum. According to the demographics, Thai Americans are in between the general Asian American column and the US total for the bachelor's degree or higher. -Jessie Lee, Michelle Tran, Faith Lee

Cori Janota

2024-01-25 23:16:31 UTC

I compared Pacific Islander with U.S. total and Asian-American. I looked at the education rates and income and poverty rates. For their education, the results were all very similar, less than one percent from one another, for people who have less than a high school degree. I found it interesting that Pacific Islanders have a higher percentage of high school graduates compared to the other two but odd that they also had the lowest percentage for bachelor degrees or higher. As for the income and poverty results, all of the percentages were relatively similar to one another. Pacific Islanders had the highest share in poverty overall but it was only by 4-7% compared to the U.S. Total and Asian-Americans.

Giuseppe Bravo, Senai Solomon, Jonathan Carberry

2024-01-25 23:16:32 UTC

One thing we found interesting from this data was that Bangladeshi has the highest percentage in poverty overall among the 3 ethnicities but, in terms of education, 48.4% of Bangladeshi would have a Bachelor's degree or higher which is 3 times higher than the Samoan group. This would show that people from Bangladeshi would have a tougher time becoming financially stable from their parents money and instead would have to work twice as hard compared to their peers for somewhat the same amount of education and success. It is interesting how senior Koreans have a high percentage of poverty overall within the three groups.

Comparing the Chinese, Filipino, and Fijian Population, Education, and Political Participation in America

2024-01-25 23:16:34 UTC

We noticed that Chinese and Filipinos had a similar population count, as well as education rates in terms of bachelor’s and high school degrees. In these two areas, Fijians typically showed lower numbers. However, in terms of having less than a high school degree, we thought that it was surprising how close the percentage between Chinese and Fijian were.

Another thing that surprised us was the lack of data for Fijian political participation.

Samantha Phung, Isis Mejia

Comparison between US Total, Asian American, and Thai

2024-01-25 23:16:37 UTC

I wasn't very surprised by this data because I have noticed that people who are Thai are often not mentioned when Asian people are talked about. Maybe because the population of Thais in the US are significantly lower than other groups, like Koreans or Japanese. Schools can learn a lot about this information by creating policies that allow staff to learn about a greater amount of cultures rather than being thrown into teaching without this training. I think they can also benefit from seeing this data because it is valuable to see just how certain groups of people are not succeeding as much as others in education in the US (i.e. US Total vs Thai).

Education vs. Income & Poverty

2024-01-25 23:16:38 UTC

I analyzed the data regarding education and how it links with income and poverty between three Asian ethnic groups: Indian, Chinese, and Filipino. About 74.5% of Indians have attained their bachelor's degrees, and because higher education is linked to higher incomes, it makes sense that only 7.2% out of 4,506,308 Indians are in poverty. The second-highest percentage group that attained their bachelor's degrees is the Chinese, which has 54.6%. One would expect their income and poverty to be similar to the Indian group in that their share in poverty would be less. However, compared to the Filipino group, in which only 48.7% of this population (the lowest percentage of those who attained a bachelor's degree of the three compared groups), the Chinese have the highest share of poverty at 15.4%. The Filipinos, on the other hand, only have a share of about 6.5 % in poverty despite being the group in which fewer of its members attained a bachelor's degree. I wonder if this also has something to do with the population because the Chinese population is higher than all three groups.

-Anakatrina Cortado

Celeste Torres, Jiexiao (Jacob) Wu, Yuhang (Steven) Li, Monserrat Morales

2024-01-25 23:16:44 UTC

We observed Chinese and Japanese Americans have a lower percentage of obtaining bachelor's degree's compared to Taiwanese Americans. Despite this, Chinese American's have a higher percentage of receiving a high school degree compared to Taiwanese Americans. We observed that Chinese people have high percentage of bachelor degree, at the same time, also have a very high percentage of people without highschool degree. We presume that Chinese that immigrate to U.S have very polarized income, some very rich and many others are relatively poor and might be illegal immigrants.

Melissa N, Sharon Chang, Brenna Cowley, Mia Jimenez, Brooke Cassidy

2024-01-25 23:17:25 UTC

Our group connected the finding to asian students in terms of educational achievement. Educators may not follow up with students as constantly to compared to other students, which may lead to a feeling of loss in achievement, and continuation of inequality. Seeing Asian Americans as a monolith of highly educated backgrounds ignores the issues groups like Native Hawaiians face and doesn't help them.

Population by State (Ethan Shojaee)

2024-01-25 23:17:36 UTC

Something I found interesting was that for the Asian American groups that aren't as common in the United States tend to have a fairly high population in Texas and New York (e.g., Bangladeshi, Burmese, Pakistani). California, however, is mainly filled with the common ethnic groups (e.g., Chinese, Indian, Korean).

Sunmu Jung

2024-01-25 23:17:40 UTC

I decided to compare the data between Asian Americans, US total and Koreans in both percentages in poverty and education level. So it turns out that Koreans have higher rate in the education level which is higher than bachelor's degree than Asian Americans do, however, in the percentage of income and poverty rate, it is showing that koreans are having a higher chance of poverty than Asian Americans.

GuanJi Zhu

2024-01-25 23:18:11 UTC

GuanJi Zhu

I noticed that both Chinese and Japanese communities show a relatively high emphasis on higher education. More than half of individuals from both groups have a bachelor's degree or higher. In addition, Japanese individuals have a higher percentage of individuals with a high school degree or equivalent compared to Chinese individuals. Moreover, I'm suprising that Japanese individuals have a significantly lower percentage of individuals with less than a high school degree compared to Chinese individuals.

2024-01-25 23:18:19 UTC

For my example I decided to compare Asian American and Taiwanese and US total. Something interesting I found was that the percent of Taiwanese people who had a bachelors degree or higher was significantly higher than the rest of the population (Asian Americans as well). This is significant as it highlights why there is this stereotype that Asian Americans are really smart. However, Taiwanese is just one of many Asian races and it is not representative of the whole Asian population.

Julian Chang

Jiaxuan Tang, Zijian Luo,rong ze ao,Jingbo Xu

2024-01-25 23:18:25 UTC

The data shows that Asian Indians and Asian Americans have higher rates of bachelor’s degrees compared to the US average. If I were a college student analyzing this, I'd say schools might start looking at why this is and try to help other groups catch up. Maybe schools can make programs that help students from different backgrounds do better in school, like tutoring or advice on how to get to college. Researchers might also look at what helps Asian Indian and American students do well and see if that can be used to help everyone. This matters because it's about making sure all students get the same chance to do well in school, no matter where they come from.

Jessie Archer, Kaitlyn Trinh, Chieko Okawa, Nicole Yamaguchi, Lina Cho

2024-01-25 23:19:24 UTC

We compared Japanese, US Total, and Vietnamese. We talked about how the model minority stereotype is harmful because of the assumption that "every Asian is smart" and will most likely all go to college. But, Asian American's is such a big umbrella that we have to look at the different groups closer; we can see here that while 51.3% of the Japanese population has a Bachelor's degree or higher, only 29.6% of the Vietnamese population is in that category. One suggestion we provided is that there should be more student support such as more academic advising.

Idania Alvarado

2024-01-25 23:19:57 UTC

What I found most interesting, was comparing how the poverty rate of Thai people was higher than that of Japanese and US, yet the percentages of people with bachelor's degrees were in between Japanese and the US total. However, the percentage of those that have less than a high school diploma, is also higher in Thai than in Japanese and US

Language (AA, Pakistani, US Total)

dkonate6 — 2024-01-25 23:20:07 UTC

I wanted to compare the at home spoken languages between Asian American, Pakistani and US. As an international student, I feel like these nationalities are the most I have encountered. And honestly, I am not very surprised. The United States are a very diverse country and even if the first language is English, it is not obvious that foreigners speak English especially at their home. This was very interesting to me. I am French, and I had thought for a long time that the language was very much used in the United States. But results show that in America, out of 7 languages, French is the 6th most spoken other than English at home after Arabic and before Korean. Very surprising!

2024-01-25 23:20:31 UTC

I think it was very interesting to be able to see and compare data, but here I randomly chose native Hawaiians and Korean and compared them both, it was very interesting to see that between both cultures not just these two but others that I saw while messing around on the website is that the higher the percentage of achieving a bachelors degree the lower the percentage is in the overall poverty.

-Avyel Leyva

Lauren Patag, Jason Lee, Melody Charres

2024-01-25 23:20:34 UTC

We compared the Asian American, Asian Indian, and Chinese groups, because these three groups represented different regions in the world (North America, South Asia, and East Asia). Educationally, all through groups have a similar percentage but we were drawn to how Asian Indians have significantly less high school diplomas despite having a lot of bachelor's degrees, even exceeding the Asian American and Chinese percentages. We wondered why that is.

For Income & Poverty, we were found that Asian Indians also had the least amount of poverty overall possibly because they're the most educated (of the three groups we compared)?

For Health Insurance, we reflected that because Indians are the most educated, they likely have higher incomes too to help afford health insurance. Moreover, China also follows a communist framework and Chinese citizens pay very little for healthcare. In contrast, Asian Americans do not have access to universal or inexpensive healthcare, much like the rest of America, resulting in the lowest percentage.

Athena Skiathitis

2024-01-25 23:21:16 UTC

I wanted to see what I found between the total US and the Koreans within Education. It was really interesting to find that at first we dee From the "less than a high school degree" the Total US population is higher but when we go into the "Bachelor's degree or higher" we see a change and the Koreans are than higher. I wonder what had happen between that time to pass the total US.

Trevor Torres

2024-01-26 02:29:01 UTC

What I wanted to see was the difference in education one might get if their background is Asian American or Pacific Islander, since usually the two VERY DIFFERENT groups are always categorized as the same in questioning. I found that Asian American are way more likely to get a bachelor's degree or higher than Pacific Islander. Which makes me question, why are these two groups always being categorized in the same way? School policies and educational researchers need to change up the way they view their demographics. It matters because one group of people might be getting praise for higher test scores/grades when in reality they might need more guidance with their schooling.

Comparative Between Educational Attainment among Asian American, Asian Indian, and U.S. Populations

2024-01-30 10:16:49 UTC

As I was looking at the data, the elevated rates of college education among Asian Americans and Asian Indians compared to the overall U.S. population is quite notable. This suggests a deep rooted cultural emphasis on higher education in these groups, perhaps driven by the belief that academic success is key to securing a prosperous future. It's interesting to consider how these cultural values shape educational paths, leading to a higher pursuit of college and advanced degrees. In contrast, the broader U.S. population shows a more diverse range of educational achievements, possibly reflecting varied cultural and socio economic factors influencing educational decisions. The stark differences in educational attainment across these groups highlight the impact of cultural and familial influences in shaping educational priorities and aspirations.

Citlali Rodriguez

2024-02-10 02:25:41 UTC

I chose to look at the differences between Asian Americans as a whole, Tongans, and the US total specifically in, education, political participation, and nativity. I initially was curious to see the number of these individuals who were citizens and then I wanted to see their political participation. Something I found interesting was the lack of information for the Tongan population in the political participation section because I began to think about how many decisions (educational, political, etc.) that this population was left out of. Which then made me think about their academic outcomes where we see that 16.4% of them have a bachelor's degree or higher as compared to their Asian American counterparts which stand at 53.5%. Like I formerly mentioned, this data leads me to the assumption that this population is potentially left out of policies that may impact their education.