The criteria for counting Asian Indians, as defined by the census bureau, is clearly different from the issue that we are studying. We are looking at people mistakenly being classified as "American Indian" in the Ancstry1 data item, when they should have been classified as "Asian Indian".

Below is an analysis which will help demonstrate the differences, where CBAsIn (Census Bureau Asian Indian) indicates whether or not a person is an Asian Indian, as defined by the Census Bureau. ModAncstry (if you haven't yet read the other links) is a "modified ancestry" data item that we created to correct many Asian Indians who were misclassified as American Indians.

Note the following:

• In line 2, there are 10,875 people whom we have modified their ancestry to be "Asian Indian", while according to the Census Bureau rules, they are not Asian Indians. These are people who had their ancestry originally set to "American Indian", and we found some critera that led us to reset it. Either they were "American Indians" who spoke the Asian Indian languages, or they were "American Indians" who were children living with Asian Indian parents.
• In line 4, there are 168,120 people whom the Census Bureau rules say are "Asian Indian", and we did not alter their ancestry. According to the criteria we had established, we did not alter anyone's ancestry unless it was originally "American Indian", and we had reason to believe that it should have been "Asian Indian". These 168,120 people did not have "American Indian" ancestries, so we did not change them.
• In line 6, there are 156,551 people who were originally encoded as having "American Indian" ancestry, which we changed to "Asian Indian". These people were also counted as "Asian Indians" according to the Census Bureau's rules.
• Click here to see the same analysis as above, but broken out by state.