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Excerpt from 1980 Census of Population This report presents 1980 census data on the geographic distribution of Asians and Pacific Islanders in the United States. Information on the total Asian and Pacific Islander population is shown for the United States, regions, divisions, and States. Data for the same areas are also presented for the Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Asian Indian, Vietnamese, Korean, Hawaiian, Guamanian, Samoan, and "Other Asian and Pacific Islander" populations. In addition, the report identifies and presents figures for the groups comprising "Other Asian and Pacific Islander." This is the first census to identify the total Asian and Pacific Islander population and its subgroups. The statistics in this report differ from those published in 1980 Census of Population, Characteristics of the Population, General Population Characteristics, PC80-1-B and Supplementary Reports, "Race of the Population by States: 1980," PC80-S1-3. These earlier publications provided information based on 100-percent tabulations for the nine Asian and Pacific Islander groups listed in the race item on the 1980 census questionnaire. The 1980 data presented in the tables of this report are for the total Asian and Pacific Islander population and all its subgroups based on sample tabulations. (See appendix A for a discussion of the sampling.) Information for the Asian and Pacific Islander population was derived from answers to the 1980 census race item. (See facsimile of race item in the section "Definitions and Explanations.") The concept of race as used by the Census Bureau reflects self-identification by respondents; it does not denote any clear-cut scientific definition of biological stock. Furthermore, it is recognized that the categories of the race item included both racial and national origin or sociocultural groups. In the census, data on race were collected separately from ethnicity (ancestry) and country of birth. Since Asians and Pacific Islanders may be