An Opportunity to Partner with Community Organizations to Collect Data on Asian Americans

Authors

Victoria Wang, The University of ChicagoFollow
Karen Kim, The University of ChicagoFollow

Keywords

Data collection; Community Based Participatory Research; Asian Americans

Disciplines

Community Health and Preventive Medicine | Medicine and Health Sciences | Other Public Health

Abstract

Background: There is a shortage of health data for Asian American (AA) populations. This shortfall may be improved through the involvement of AA-serving community-based organizations (CBOs).

Objectives: This study assesses the feasibility of and interest among CBOs in creating a AA community-based data registry.

Methods: Leaders of CBOs were interviewed to assess their current data collection framework and their attitudes towards a shared data registry.

Results: Qualitative analysis shows CBOs are active in data collection, find data to be instrumental to their mission, and are interested in contributing to a broader data registry.

Discussion: The inclusion of CBOs in large-scale survey efforts may indeed yield more valuable data regarding specific AA subpopulations relative to that which is currently collected by national survey efforts. Such a partnership would be beneficial to CBOs as well, as data collection challenges could be alleviated by the creation of a uniform data registry.

Recommended Citation

Wang, Victoria and Kim, Karen (2021) "An Opportunity to Partner with Community Organizations to Collect Data on Asian Americans," Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice: Vol. 14: Iss. 1, Article 6.
Available at: https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/jhdrp/vol14/iss1/6