1. + Ada LingJun PENG 304066118

2. + 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

3. + 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

4. + 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

5. + 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.

6. + 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

7. + Chinese Americans are located in neighborhoods with lower median household income.

8. + 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

9. + How churches are serving different household income groups? Churches are mainly located in neighborhoods with lower median household income.

10. + Neighborhood environment of High Chinese concentration areas: in terms of income level and church locations

11. + Thank you!

12. + How churches are serving the Chinese American communities?