ABSTRACT
This chapter examines several variables that give a general description of Honolulu's population, especially the immigrants. It discusses several measures of success and adaptation, both singly and in combination, controlling for the effects of the other variables when possible. The chapter describes the basic descriptive data of the population of Honolulu in 1975, it is important to discuss one distinctive feature of Hawaii demography—the large military population. Marriage patterns of interest include the age at marriage—because it is related to a person's educational and occupational attainment and fertility—and intermarriage, which can be viewed as an indicator of assimilation or adaptation. The chapter considers three measures of success, all economic: employment status, occupation, and median income. It reviews the variables separately for Asians as a whole and discusses them for each ethnic group. The chapter investigates the factors that seem related to differences in occupation and income among the immigrant and US-born male and female Asians.
