Full Report on the American-Armenian Diaspora

Probably for the first time in history, a survey was conducted of American Armenians this year. The goal was to find out, primarily for the development of the tourism industry in Armenia, the thoughts, perceptions, etc of the Diaspora Armenians in the US, in order to understand their needs better and market Armenia appropriately, reach them more easily, and develop new products to meet their needs. I worked at CAPS while this was being developed and have uploaded the full report and data onto Armeniapedia, where you can read the answers to every single question. Believe me, if you're bored, this is fascinating stuff to look through.

Here I'll present some of the more interesting (to me) tidbits.

California has 57% of the Armenians in the USA.

86% are at least somewhat interested in visiting Armenia.

60% have graduated college, almost half of whom have completed a graduate degree.

43% were born in the US, 27.5% in Armenia, 10.4% in Lebanon, 8.6% in Iran and 1.5% in Turkey. Syria and France got only 1% each.

Almost 40% of those born abroad arrived in the US in the 80s, 30% in the 90s, 13.4% in the 70s.

73% speak Armenian. 53% speak Western, 43% speak Eastern, but what the other 5% speak is an interesting question!

That's the stuff I found interesting about the respondents themselves - next time I'll post on some of their actual responses...