{"id":14972,"date":"2013-11-13T13:00:30","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T18:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/%year%\/%monthnum%\/%day%\/more-than-3-4m-americans-trace-ancestry-to-philippines\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T03:26:45","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T08:26:45","slug":"more-than-3-4m-americans-trace-ancestry-to-philippines","status":"publish","type":"short-read","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2013\/11\/13\/more-than-3-4m-americans-trace-ancestry-to-philippines\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 3.4M Americans trace their ancestry to the Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><a href='https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2013\/10\/FT_13.10.29_knightnonprofitnews2.png'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2013\/10\/FT_13.10.29_knightnonprofitnews2.png?w=197\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium not-transparent\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2013\/10\/FT_13.10.29_knightnonprofitnews2.png 310w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2013\/10\/FT_13.10.29_knightnonprofitnews2.png?resize=197,300 197w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2013\/10\/FT_13.10.29_knightnonprofitnews2.png?resize=160,244 160w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2013\/10\/FT_13.10.29_knightnonprofitnews2.png?resize=266,405 266w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2013\/10\/FT_13.10.29_knightnonprofitnews2.png?resize=200,305 200w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2013\/10\/FT_13.10.29_knightnonprofitnews2.png?resize=260,396 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" data-dominant-color=\"e8e0e1\" style=\"--dominant-color: #e8e0e1;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_251150\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-251150\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/social-trends\/asianamericans-maps\/#filipino\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-251150\" alt=\"FilipinoAmericans_NewMap\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.pewresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2013\/11\/FilipinoAmericans_NewMap.png\" width=\"640\" height=\"359\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-251150\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Where Filipino Americans live, according to 2010 Census data.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/figure>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">As military and humanitarian aid struggles to make its way to the areas hit hardest by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/11\/13\/world\/asia\/concerns-grow-over-pace-of-aid-to-philippines.html?ref=asia\">Typhoon Haiyan<\/a>,\u00a0the Filipino American community is organizing\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2013\/11\/12\/typhoon-haiyan-diaspora-fundraisers\/3505153\/\">relief supplies and efforts to contact loved ones<\/a> back home.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Philippines was an American possession until 1946, and the two nations retain close economic, cultural and personal ties. Filipinos are the nation&#8217;s second-largest Asian-American group &#8212; more than 3.4 million (including 2.3 million adults) trace their ancestry there, according to the 2010 Census. Last year, Filipinos in the U.S. sent $10.6 billion back home; those payments accounted for 43% of all remittances received by the Philippines, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/go.worldbank.org\/092X1CHHD0\">World Bank data<\/a>. (The Pew Research Center will be releasing a new report on Latin American remittances later this week and a new report on global remittances later this year.)<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s a data portrait of the Filipino-American community, drawn from the Pew Research Center&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/social-trends\/2012\/06\/19\/the-rise-of-asian-americans\/\">2012 report on Asian Americans<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Filipino Americans are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/social-trends\/asianamericans-maps\/#filipino\">heavily concentrated in the West<\/a>. Nearly a quarter of the entire Filipino-American population (24.1%, or more than 825,000 people) live in 10 Southern California counties. Almost 458,000, (13.4% of the total) live in the San Francisco Bay area, and 10% (about 342,000) live in Hawaii, where they make up a quarter of the state&#8217;s population. Other metro areas with significant numbers of Filipinos: Las Vegas, Chicago, Sacramento and Seattle.<!--more--><\/li>\n<li>More than two-thirds (69.1%) of Filipino-American adults were born overseas. However, three-quarters (77.4%) are now U.S. citizens.<\/li>\n<li>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/assets.pewresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2013\/11\/filipino_education2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-251125\" alt=\"filipino_education2\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.pewresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2013\/11\/filipino_education2.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Nearly half (47%) of Filipino Americans ages 25 or older have earned at least a bachelor&#8217;s degree, compared with 28.2% of all Americans in that age group.<\/p><\/li>\n<li>Median\u00a0annual personal earnings for full-time, year-round workers was $43,000 among Filipinos, versus $40,000 for the overall population. Only 6.2% of Filipino-American adults were in poverty, compared with 12.8% of all U.S. adults.<\/li>\n<li>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/assets.pewresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2013\/11\/filipino_income3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-251127\" alt=\"filipino_income3\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.pewresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2013\/11\/filipino_income3.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>The median annual income for households headed by a Filipino-American adult was $75,000, well above the average for all Asian Americans and the U.S. population at large. But Filipino Americans also have larger households on average: 3.4 persons, compared with 3.1 for all U.S. Asians and 2.6 for the overall U.S. population.<\/p><\/li>\n<li>Filipinos are the second-most likely Asian-American group (behind Japanese Americans) to describe themselves as &#8220;typical Americans&#8221; &#8212; 49% do so.<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a data portrait of the Filipino-American community, drawn from the Pew Research Center&#8217;s 2012 report on Asian 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