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Economic & Professional Success Demographics

Statistics pertaining to the economic and professional success of Southeast Asian Americans Data from the 1990 Census
	Total USA population	All Asian Pacific American groups	Cambodian Americans	Hmong Americans	Laotian* Americans	Vietnamese Americans
Poverty rates, all ages	10%	14%	47%	66%	67%	34%
Labor force participation rates, @ 16 years old	65%	67%	47%	29%	58%	65%
Mean wage and salary income, ages 18-64		$22,579	$14,364	$9,923	$13,634	$17,590
Percent with less than a bachelor's degree, @25 years old			94%	97%	93%	83%
Percent who "do not speak English very well," @5 years old		56%	73%	78%	70%	65%
Percent @ 5 years who are "linguistically isolated"		35%	56%	61%	52%	44%
*not including Hmong © 2003 Southeast Asian Resource Action Center (www.searac.org). Please acknowledge SEARAC when copying or making use of the information in this document.