Spotlight on Asian American and Pacific Islander Children
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This map shows the Asian/Pacific Islander child population of California. The counties with the highest percentage of Asian/Pacific Islander children are in the Bay Area. |
In honor of Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month, we’re highlighting related data about this population of children in California. These data come from kidsdata.org, and if you know of other sources of data or information about Asian American or Pacific Islander kids, we encourage you to add those here.
- About 10% of California’s child population is Asian or Pacific Islander, just over 1 million children.
- In California, about 12% of Asian American children and 17% of Pacific Islander children are living below the federal poverty level, according to ’09 data.
- In ’06-’08, roughly 24% of Asian American and Pacific Islander 7th, 9th and 11th graders said they had been bullied at school at least once in the past year due to their race.
- The teen birth rate among Asian American/Pacific Islanders in California consistently has been lower than that of other racial/ethnic groups for which data are available, according to 1995-2007 data.
Visit kidsdata.org for a summary of data available for Asian American and Pacific Islander children in California, and to compare data across demographic groups.
Also see kidsdata.org’s Research & Links section, which offers key reports about these and other demographic groups.
Tags: Health Observances
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Thank you for highlighting data on the health and well-being of Asian youth!
What an important topic. Beyond tracking the health status of Asian and Pacific Islander children as a single population, it is necessary to recognize the significant health disparities that exist between the unique ethnic and nationality groups that collectively make up this Asian Pacific Islander (API) population. Reports such as The State of Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Health in California, produced by the California Asian Pacific Islander Joint Legislative Caucus, are helpful to understand the marked health differences that exist between sub-populations of Asian youth in California. Here is a link to that report http://www.healthpolicy.ucla.edu/pubs/Publication.aspx?pubID=329