FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2000 Public Information Office CB00-166 301-457-3030/301-457-3670 (fax) 301-457-1037 (TDD) email: pio@census.gov Dianne Schmidley/Joseph Costanzo 301-457-2403 Census Bureau Releases Profile of the Nation's Foreign-Born Population from Asia The Commerce Department's Census Bureau today released a two-page Census Brief profiling the nation's Asian-born residents. The brief, titled From the Mideast to the Pacific: A Profile of the Nation's Asian Foreign-Born Population, provides analysis and graphics on the demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of the Asian born. Specifically, it examines their numerical growth, settlement patterns and likelihood of citizenship, and compares them to the native population and other foreign born. Comparisons cover a variety of topics, including educational attainment, occupation, poverty, income and household size. Also released today were two related briefs, which profile the nation's foreign-born population as a whole and the Latin American-born population in particular. The briefs are based on a report issued previously by the Census Bureau titled Profile of the Foreign-Born Population in the United States: 1997. The statistics are from the 1997 Current Population Survey. Statistics from this survey are subject to sampling and nonsampling error.-X-
