National Asian American Survey (NAAS) Pre-Election Survey, [United States], 2016 (ICPSR 37024)

Version Date: May 2, 2018

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Principal Investigator(s):
S. Karthick (Subramanian Karthick) Ramakrishnan, University of California, Riverside; Jennifer Lee, University of California, Irvine; Taeku Lee, University of California, Berkeley; Janelle Wong, University of Maryland

Series:

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR37024.v1

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Alternate Title

2016 NAAS

Summary

The National Asian American Survey (NAAS) Pre-Election Survey, 2016 contains nationally representative data from telephone interviews of adult U.S. residents who self-identified as Asian/Asian American, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, White, African American/Black, Hispanic/Latino, and Multiracial. The survey included sizable samples of Asian Americans in 9 Asian national origin groups (Chinese, Filipino, Indian, Vietnamese, Korean, Japanese, Hmong, Cambodian), as well as Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islanders.

The survey instrument included questions about immigrant background, social identities, social attitudes, political behavior, and policy attitudes. Demographic information included age, race, language, gender, country of birth, religion, marital status, educational level, employment status, citizenship status, household income, and size of household.

The study contains 1 data file (316 variables, 4787 cases).

Citation

Ramakrishnan, S. Karthick (Subramanian Karthick), Lee, Jennifer, Lee, Taeku, and Wong, Janelle. National Asian American Survey (NAAS) Pre-Election Survey, [United States], 2016. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2018-05-02. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR37024.v1

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Funding

Carnegie Corporation, James Irvine Foundation

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Smallest Geographic Unit

State

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

2016

Date of Collection

2016-08-10 -- 2016-10-27 (NAAS Pre-Election Survey)

Data Collection Notes

  1. These data are independent from the NAAS 2008 Pre-Election Survey.

  2. A related study, National Asian American Survey, 2008, is available as ICPSR 31481.

  3. The variable REGION provides additional geographic information for California respondents. Several questions (e.g., Q4_3F, Q4_8A, etc.) were asked only of California respondents.

  4. For additional information on the National Asian American Survey (NAAS) Pre-Election Survey, 2016, please visit the NAAS website.
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Study Purpose

The National Asian American Survey (NAAS) Pre-Election Survey, 2016, was an effort to poll the opinions and gauge the extent of political participation of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders prior to the 2016 national election. The survey instrument included questions about immigrant background, social identities, social attitudes, political and voting behavior, and policy attitudes.

The survey included sizable samples of Asian Americans in 9 Asian national origin groups (Chinese, Filipino, Indian, Vietnamese, Korean, Japanese, Hmong, Cambodian), as well as Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islanders, Whites, African Americans/Blacks, and Hispanics/Latinos.

Study Design

4,787 Asian American adults in the United States were questioned during telephone interviews that lasted approximately 25 minutes in length. Survey interviews were conducted in 11 languages (English, Spanish, Cantonese, Mandarin, Korean, Vietnamese, Tagalog, Japanese, Hindi, Hmong, Cambodian) - chosen according to the interviewee's preference.

Sample

The primary sampling strategy was to interview individuals drawn from a random selection of respondents in a listed sample stratified by race and national origin.

Time Method

Cross-sectional

Universe

Adult residents of the United States who self-identify as Asian/Asian American, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, White, African American/Black, Hispanic/Latino, and Multiracial.

Unit(s) of Observation

Individual

Data Type(s)

Mode of Data Collection

Response Rates

21.8% (4,787 completes, 727 partial interviews, 11,180 refusals, 5,307 non-contact)

Presence of Common Scales

Multiple Likert-type scales were used.

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Original Release Date

2018-05-02

Version History

2018-05-02 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

  • Created online analysis version with question text.
  • Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
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Weight

The sample is weighted, using a raking procedure, to reflect the distribution by race and Asian detailed origin on the following variables, separately: state of residence, gender, nativity, citizenship status, and educational attainment.

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Notes

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