Building Social Science Data Infrastructure: The 2016 National Asian American Survey

亚裔美国人是美国增长最快的种族群体，我们对他们的社会和公民融合的理解存在重要差距。此外，亚裔美国人表现出显著的社会经济多样性，使他们成为回答美国移民融入的更大理论问题的理想选择，因为它是由国籍、居住集中度、教育和劳动力市场结果的差异决定的。该项目将于2017年6月建立一个公开发布的数据资源，该资源将广泛适用于社会科学学科的学者，尤其是社会学、政治学和公共政策领域的学者，以及精通社会科学数据和趋势的记者和博主。对亚裔美国人的调查将为移民融入、对经济不平等和种族关系的态度以及公民和政治参与等问题提供重要数据。除了提供亚裔美国人种族类别内的比较外，我们还将使用相同的工具和访谈模式进行跨种族比较（非裔美国人，西班牙裔/拉丁裔和非西班牙裔白人）。这个项目推进了国家科学基金会的使命，即促进科学的进步，特别是社会科学的进步，以及促进国家的健康、繁荣和福利。尤其值得一提的是，这个项目在2010年国会明确指出的更广泛的影响方面具有相关性：亚裔美国人在STEM领域拥有不成比例的大量高技能工人。了解他们的经历、态度、机会和障碍，对于确保美国的经济竞争力和发展具有全球竞争力的STEM劳动力至关重要。这项针对亚裔美国人的调查将：1)与2016年综合社会调查（GSS）和美国全国选举研究（ANES）同步进行，2)复制这些调查中的关键问题，3)以过去针对亚裔美国人的调查为基础。该项目生成的数据集将于2017年6月通过ICPSR（大学间政治和社会研究联盟）公开发布，该数据集将在社会科学学科的学者以及精通社会科学数据和趋势的记者和博主中广泛使用。该调查将提供数据，以解决与移民融合、对经济不平等和种族关系的态度以及公民和政治参与有关的问题。除了提供亚裔美国人种族类别内的比较（在主要的民族起源群体中每个样本大约400名成年人），它还将包括使用相同工具和访谈模式的跨种族比较（在白人，拉丁美洲人和非洲裔美国人中每个样本大约400名成年人）。越来越多的研究关注亚裔美国人。但是，现有的调查往往限于少数原籍民族群体或一个相对具体的地理区域。更一般的研究，如GSS和ANES，没有必要的样本量或语言支持来准确地捕捉亚裔美国人的经历和态度。2016年全国亚裔美国人调查的主要创新之处在于，在一项设计良好的研究中，以大量亚裔美国人为样本，复制了重要的一般性调查中的问题，特别是GSS和ANES。有了这个问题复制的承诺，2016年全国亚裔美国人调查将允许研究人员首次将亚裔美国人与美国公众在关键的社会和政治措施上进行比较，并在种族群体内部进行重要的比较。

SES-1558986Karthick Ramakrishnan University of California-Riverside Asian Americans are the fastest-growing racial group in the United States, and there are important gaps in our understanding of their social and civic integration. In addition, Asian Americans exhibit significant socioeconomic diversity, making them ideal for answering larger theoretical questions on immigrant incorporation in the United States, as it is shaped by differences in national origin, residential concentration, and educational and labor market outcomes. This project will build a data resource for public release in June 2017 that will have widespread utility among scholars in social science disciplines, most notably in sociology, political science, and public policy, as well for journalists and bloggers versed in social science data and trends. The survey of Asian Americans will provide important data for questions related to immigrant incorporation, attitudes on economic inequality and race-relations, and civic and political engagement. In addition to providing comparisons within the Asian American racial category, we will include cross-racial comparisons (to African Americans, Hispanics/Latinos, and non-Hispanic whites) using the same instrument and mode of interview. This project advances the mission of the National Science Foundation to promote the progress of science, particularly the social sciences, as well as to advance national health, prosperity, and welfare. In particular, this project has relevance in terms of broader impacts as specified by Congress in 2010: Asian Americans have a disproportionately large number of high-skilled workers in STEM fields. Understanding their experiences, attitudes, opportunities, and barriers, will be critical to ensuring the economic competitiveness of the United States and the development of a globally competitive STEM workforceThis survey of Asian Americans will: 1) be contemporaneous with the 2016 General Social Survey (GSS) and American National Election Study (ANES), 2) replicate key questions from those surveys, and 3) build on the pioneering efforts of past surveys of Asian Americans. The project produces a dataset for public release in June 2017 through ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium forPolitical and Social Research) that will have widespread utility among scholars in social science disciplines as well for journalists and bloggers versed in social science data and trends. The survey will provide data to address questions related to immigrant incorporation, attitudes on economic inequality and race-relations, and civic and political engagement. In addition to providing comparisons within the Asian American racial category (samples of approximately 400 adults each among major national origin groups), it will include cross-racial comparisons using the same instrument and mode of interview (approximately 400 adults each among whites, Latinos, and African Americans).A growing number of studies focus on Asian Americans. However, existing surveys tend to be limited to a small number of national origin groups or to a relatively specific geographic area. More general studies such as the GSS and ANES do not have the requisite sample size or language support to accurately capture the experiences and attitudes of Asian Americans. The primary innovation of the 2016 National Asian American Survey is to replicate questions on important general surveys, specifically the GSS and the ANES, with a large sample of Asian Americans in a well-designed study. With this commitment to question replication, the 2016 National Asian American Survey will allow researchers, for the first time, to compare Asian Americans to the U.S. public on key social and political measures, and to make important comparisons within the racial group.