Hmong & Control Household & Business Data

The Hmong Survey took place in 2000 in areas of Minneapolis and St. Paul with high concentrations of Hmong households and businesses. A total of 202 Hmong households and 121 Hmong-owned small businesses were interviewed. In addition, control samples consisting of 202 non-Hmong households and 131 non-Hmong small businesses in the same neighborhoods were also interviewed. A team from the Federal Reserve Banks of Minneapolis and Chicago led the data collection efforts.

Data

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Documentation

• Sample Design and Methodology (PDF,41KB)

Background Information

• Background and Description of Neighborhood (PDF,40KB)
• Description of Community from 2000 Census (XLS,22KB)
• Map of Hmong Business Locations (PDF,46KB)

Research Studies

• Anna Paulson, Marina Plavnik, and Sherrie L.W. Rhine
  The Financial Assimilation of an Immigrant Group: Evidence on the Use of Checking and Savings Accounts and Currency Exchanges (PDF,105KB)
  Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, June 2007
• Maude Toussaint-Comeau, Art Rolnick, Robin Newberger, Jason Schmidt, and Ron Feldman
  Credit Availability in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Hmong Community (PDF,224KB)
  Federal Reserve System Research Conference: Sustainable Community Development: What Works, What Doesn't and Why, July 2003