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Asian

Term · Economic statistics · MLC-T-ECS-000103

A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent, including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam. This includes people who reported detailed Asian responses such as:

• Asian Indian

• Bangladeshi

• Bhutanese

• Burmese

• Cambodian

• Chinese

• Filipino

• Hmong

• Indonesian

• Japanese

• Korean

• Laotian

• Malaysian

• Nepalese

• Pakistani

• Sri Lankan

• Taiwanese

• Thai

• Vietnamese

• Other Asian, specified

• Other Asian, not specified

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-ECS-000103
FieldEconomic statistics
ReferencesU.S. Census Bureau Glossary
See alsoCensus (decennial); Ethnic Origin or Race; Race
Record as JSON
{
  "id": "MLC-T-ECS-000103",
  "term": "Asian",
  "field": "Economic statistics",
  "definition": "A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent, including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam. This includes people who reported detailed Asian responses such as:\n\n• Asian Indian\n\n• Bangladeshi\n\n• Bhutanese\n\n• Burmese\n\n• Cambodian\n\n• Chinese\n\n• Filipino\n\n• Hmong\n\n• Indonesian\n\n• Japanese\n\n• Korean\n\n• Laotian\n\n• Malaysian\n\n• Nepalese\n\n• Pakistani\n\n• Sri Lankan\n\n• Taiwanese\n\n• Thai\n\n• Vietnamese\n\n• Other Asian, specified\n\n• Other Asian, not specified",
  "see_also": [
    "Census (decennial)",
    "Ethnic Origin or Race",
    "Race"
  ],
  "references": [
    "U.S. Census Bureau Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/economic-statistics/asian/"
}

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