China News Service, October 25. According to the US "Overseas News" report, as the U.S. Census Bureau successively releases statistical analysis of the 2020 census, various new demographic changes are also emerging.
As far as the Asian community is concerned, one of the important findings is that the Asian American community is expanding rapidly, and the way that Asian Americans identify themselves is also undergoing significant changes.
According to the results of the reclassification of the 2020 Census, the Asian-specific population has increased significantly, with more than 24 million people (7.2% of the total population) identifying themselves as "Asian or Asian mixed."
"Asian alone (or Asian alone)" refers to a person who only identifies himself as Asian without reporting any other race.
The “Asian single or mixed” category includes those respondents who reported that they were Asian, regardless of whether they reported any other ethnicity.
The census shows that between 2010 and 2020, the Asian population in the United States alone has increased by 35.5%.
Approximately 19.9 million people (6% of all respondents) identified themselves as Asian in 2020, up from 14.7 million (4.8%) in 2010.
In contrast, the Asian mixed population has grown by 55.5%.
Approximately 4.1 million people were identified as mixed Asians in 2020, up from 2.6 million in 2010.
Approximately 2.7 million people are identified as Asian and white, making it the largest multi-ethnic Asian group.
Hawaii, California, Washington, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Virginia, Alaska, Massachusetts, and Maryland are the states with the largest proportion of single or mixed populations in Asia.
The 10 states with the largest percentage increase in the population of Asians alone or mixed are North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, the District of Columbia, North Carolina, Indiana, Texas, South Carolina, Montana States and Utah.
The new data reflects demographic changes and improvements in the way the census asks questions, collects and organizes answers. Throughout the history of the census, this process has changed almost every decade to reflect social, political, and economic factors.
The Director of the Race Statistics Division of the Population Division of the Census Bureau said, “Based on the research of the past ten years, we have made a number of design improvements to the race problem of the 2020 Census. One of the main changes is A special response area has been added to the'American Indian or Alaska Native' race category. For Asians and Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islander categories, we press Population size rearranged the detailed Asian and Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander checkboxes. In the Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander category, we changed the checkbox category'Guamanian or Chamorro' based on feedback and research For'Chamorro'. These changes provide a more comprehensive and accurate description of how people identify with themselves."
In addition, the census also reordered the checkboxes for Asian and Hawaiian Natives or Pacific Islanders by population size: Chinese, Filipinos, Asian Indians, other Asians (e.g., Pakistanis, Cambodians) Etc.), Vietnamese, Korean, Japanese, Native Hawaiian, Samoan, Chamorro, other Pacific Islanders (such as Tongans, Fijians, Marshallese, etc.).