+ Ada LingJun PENG
+ Overview Policy Questions ethnic concentration and assimilation –Chinese Americans Research Background Spatial location in relationship with income level, religious services, (language skills, building quality…) Data acquisition Maps and Skills utilized
+ Data acquisition Census tract level data for Los Angeles County Data Sources: 2010 SF1 100% Data Tables P1 and QTP8, American Fact Finder Shapefile: 2010 Tigerline Census
+ Skill 1: Boundary sub-sets selections (Lacounty was derived by selecting tracts in the View from California and converting to shapefile.) Skill 2: Inset Map of California, showing the location of LA county
+ Skill 3: Aggregating attribute fields: Chall= Chinese (except Taiwanese)+Taiwanese (Chinese alone or in combination with any race group) Skill 4: Creating Index: Chinese concentration rate was calculated by Chall/total.
+ Skill 5: Attribute sub-sets selection (High Concentration was derived by selecting areas with more than 50% of Chinese and exporting data to a new layer. Skill 6: Geoprocessing: create layers using the dissolve function based on Chinese concentration rate
+ Chinese Americans are located in neighborhoods with lower median household income.
+ Two highly Chinese concentrated areas: dramatic differences in church services Pasadena and China town areas: have churches Rowland Heights: no church at all How churches are serving the Chinese American communities? Skill 7: Buffering: 1 mile around churches
+ How churches are serving different household income groups? Churches are mainly located in neighborhoods with lower median household income.
+ Neighborhood environment of High Chinese concentration areas: in terms of income level and church locations
+ Thank you!
+ How churches are serving the Chinese American communities?