The Asian American and Pacific Islander community is fastest-growing among other racial group in the U.S., growing over four times as rapidly as the total U.S. population. They make up close to 15 percent of the California’s resident population, the AAPI Data report states.

Ethnic groups lumped together under the “Asian” umbrella perpetuates the stereotype that they are share similar traits, such as being more likely to be economically stable compared to other racial groups. Other ethnic groups, especially southeast Asians immigrants, have sometimes fallen through the cracks in data representation, resulting in less resources and social services.

Karthick Ramakrishnan, founder of AAPI Data and political science and public policy professor at UC Riverside, said the research aims to shed more light on populations that are unnoticed but struggling to get by.

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