Center for Social Innovation
Karthick Ramakrishnan, a professor at UC Riverside and founder of AAPI Data, and Janelle Wong, a professor at the University of Maryland and a research fellow at AAPI Data, highlighted a 2019 report from the Census Bureau as a reason to be concerned about a potential Asian American undercount in the 2020 Census.
This report revealed the results of a survey conducted with over 17,000 participants, including 1,023 Asian Americans.
Ramakrishnan and Wong said the survey found that “Asian Americans were the least likely of any racial group to report that they intended to complete the [census]” and that “Asian Americans were also the least likely to express familiarity with the census.”