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Highlights from study of Detroit-area Arab population

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Highlights from study of Detroit-area Arab population The Associated Press 7/29/2004, 12:01 a.m. ET (AP) — Some highlights from the Detroit Arab American Study, conducted by University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research. It was designed to examine the Arab-American population in southeast Michigan and was paired with a companion survey of the general population in the Detroit area. The survey was based on in-person interviews with 1,016 adults of Arabic or Chaldean descent in Wayne, Macomb and Oakland counties. Interviews were conducted between July 2003 and December and the margin of error was plus or minus 3.5 percentage points. The companion survey of 508 adults in southeast Michigan was conducted at the same time and had a margin of error of 5 percentage points: •Seventy-five percent of Arabs and Chaldeans in the Detroit area were born outside the U.S. •Thirty-seven percent trace their origins to Lebanon or Syria and 35 percent to Iraq. Palestinians or Jordanians made up 12 percent, Yemenis were 9 percent and the remaining 7 percent were from other backgrounds or a mix of ancestors from one or more of the four largest groups. •Most Christian Arabs and Chaldeans are dispersed throughout Detroit's suburbs, while two-thirds of Muslims live in the Dearborn area. •Eighty percent say they speak English well or very well. Most are also bilingual and receive their news and information from both English and Arabic sources. •Seventy-nine percent are U.S. citizens; 86 percent say they feel at home in the United States; and 91 percent say they are proud to be American. •Fifteen percent say that, since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, they personally had a bad experience due to their ethnicity. A third say they received gestures of support from non-Arabs after the attacks. •Over a quarter say they or someone in their family were verbally harassed during the last two years. •Compared to the general population, Arabs and Chaldeans have higher levels of confidence in their local school systems, the police and the U.S. legal system. •Seventy-three percent of Arabs and Chaldeans believe their community is doing all it can to fight terrorism, compared with about 38 percent of the general population. Source: Institute for Social Research. Copyright 2004 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. --------------------- - BACK TO INDEX - REPLY - QUOTE - EDIT - DELETE -

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