National Asian American Survey is a nonpartisan organization that conducts representative surveys of the political and social preferences of the

Asian American Asian Americans are Americans of Asian ancestry (including naturalized Americans who are immigrants from specific regions in Asia and descendants of such immigrants). Although this term had historically been used for all the indigenous peopl ...

and

Pacific Islander Pacific Islanders, Pasifika, Pasefika, or rarely Pacificers are the peoples of the Pacific Islands. As an ethnic/ racial term, it is used to describe the original peoples—inhabitants and diasporas—of any of the three major subregions of O ...

population in the United States. Professor Karthick Ramakrishnan of

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serves as the director, and principal investigators include Professor Jennifer Lee of

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, Professor Taeku Lee of

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, and Professor Janelle Wong

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Surveys

2008 National Asian American Survey

The 2008 survey polled 5,159

Asian Americans Asian Americans are Americans of Asian ancestry (including naturalized Americans who are immigrants from specific regions in Asia and descendants of such immigrants). Although this term had historically been used for all the indigenous peopl ...

between August and October 2008, in English and 7 Asian languages, and reported data on

Chinese Americans Chinese Americans are Americans of Han Chinese ancestry. Chinese Americans constitute a subgroup of East Asian Americans which also constitute a subgroup of Asian Americans. Many Chinese Americans along with their ancestors trace lineage from ...

Filipino Americans Filipino Americans ( fil, Mga Pilipinong Amerikano) are Americans of Filipino ancestry. Filipinos and other Asian ethnicities in North America were first documented in the 16th century as slaves and prisoners on ships sailing to and from New ...

Indian Americans Indian Americans or Indo-Americans are citizens of the United States with ancestry from India. The United States Census Bureau uses the term Asian Indian to avoid confusion with Native Americans, who have also historically been referred to ...

Japanese Americans are Americans of Japanese people, Japanese ancestry. Japanese Americans were among the three largest Asian Americans, Asian American ethnic communities during the 20th century; but, according to the 2000 United States census, 2000 census, they ...

Korean Americans Korean Americans are Americans of Koreans, Korean ancestry (mostly from South Korea). In 2015, the Korean-American community constituted about 0.56% of the United States population, or about 1.82 million people, and was the fifth-largest Asian ...

, and

Vietnamese Americans Vietnamese Americans ( vi, Người Mỹ gốc Việt, lit=Viet-origin American people) are Americans of Vietnamese ancestry. They make up about half of all overseas Vietnamese and are the fourth-largest Asian American ethnic group after Chinese ...

. Most of the questions related to partisanship, political participation, and civic participation.

2012 National Asian American Survey

The 2012 survey polled 4,269

and 486

Pacific Islanders Pacific Islanders, Pasifika, Pasefika, or rarely Pacificers are the peoples of the Pacific Islands. As an ethnic/ racial term, it is used to describe the original peoples—inhabitants and diasporas—of any of the three major subregions of Oce ...

between July and October 2012, in English and 10 Asian languages, and reported data on

, Hmong Americans,

, and

. Questions included partisanship, political participation, and opinions on specific policy issues including immigration policy and the budget deficit. Among other things, the respondents were strong supporters of the Affordable Care act, and visa backlogs were a significant concern among Asian American voters.

Academic publications

Findings from the National Asian American Survey have been published in the following: * Wong, Janelle, et al. ''Asian American political participation: Emerging constituents and their political identities''. Russell Sage Foundation, 2011. * Junn, Jane, Taeku Lee,

S. Karthick Ramakrishnan Subramanian Karthick Ramakrishnan, typically published as S. Karthick Ramakrishnan or Karthick Ramakrishnan, is an American political scientist, currently a professor of public policy at the University of California, Riverside. He is also a found ...

, and Janelle Wong. "Asian‐American Public Opinion." (2011). Findings from the National Asian American Survey have been used and interpreted in the following: * Hajnal, Zoltan L., and Taeku Lee. ''Why Americans don't join the party: Race, immigration, and the failure (of political parties) to engage the electorate''. Princeton University Press, 2011. * Ramakrishnan, S. Karthick, Janelle Wong, Taeku Lee, and Jane Junn. "Race-Based Considerations and the Obama Vote." ''Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race'' 6, no. 01 (2009): 219-238.

References

External links

{{Official website, http://naasurvey.com/ Demographics of the United States Asian-American organizations Statistical data sets