Now in its 30th year, the annual Kinder Houston Area Survey has measured this region's remarkable economic and demographic transformations and recorded the way area residents are responding to them. No other metropolitan area in America has been the focus of a research program of this scope. None more clearly exemplifies the trends that are rapidly refashioning the social and political landscape of urban America.
Partly in recognition of the increasing value and importance of this research, Rice University officially launched the Institute for Urban Research (IUR) in February 2010, now the Kinder Institute for Urban Research. The new institute will provide a permanent home for the annual surveys, stimulate other metropolitan research, sponsor educational programs, and engage in public outreach that advances understanding of pressing urban issues and fosters the development of more humane and sustainable cities.
The 2011 Kinder Houston Area Survey findings are now available. For a preview of the findings, you can view recent publications at the following links:
 2011 Survey Highlights
The New Pro-Growth Agenda: From 30 Years of Houston Surveys
Co-Director Stephen Klineberg shares the findings from the Kinder Houston Area Survey at the TEDx Houston event in a presentation entitled "The Changing Face of Houston: Tracking the Demographic Transformations Through 29 Years of Houston Surveys."
2011 Houston Area Asian Survey
In 1995 and in 2002, with generous support from the Houston community, we were able to expand the annual "Houston Area Survey" to reach representative samples of 500 Harris County Asians, the only systematic surveys of the entire Asian population in any city in the country. This research has proven to be an invaluable resource in providing scientifically sound facts and figures about the migration patterns, life experiences, attitudes, and beliefs among Houston's varied Asian communities.
On March 1, 2011, members of the Rice community joined with local Asian-American civic and business leaders in the "R" room at Rice Unversity for th official launch of the 2011 Houston Area Asian Survey. The goal of the event was to begin a campaign to raise $100,000 to support the completion of this important research project. Click here to read more about the fundraising event.
We are grateful to the community sponsors of 2011 Houston Area Asian Survey. If you want to join them and make a donation to support this research endeavor, please download the donation form and follow the instructions.
After completing the 2011 survey, we plan to publish a full report, analyzing the continuities and changes that have occurred among Asians in Houston since 1995, in the context of comparable research conducted among Anglos, blacks, and Latinos, and it will be in a position to assess systematically the quality and nature of interethnic relationships in this region of burgeoning diversity.
For more information about the 2011 Houston Area Asian Survey, please click the link here.
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