Asian households had a median income of $75,716 .

In turn, the Valley is increasingly a "move up" community for upwardly mobile Latino and Asian immigrant households.

But despite those elevated poverty rates, Asian households are still more likely than whites to have multiple wage earners.

By the year 2000, even leaving Japan out, some 75 million Asian households will have incomes comparable to middle-income Americans.

The investigation draws on data collected primarily through a questionnaire survey of second generation Asian households.

Additionally 28 percent of Asian American households had incomes exceeding $100,000, compared to 18 percent of the overall population.

The areas of highest exposure, proponents say, are neighborhoods with numerous black, Hispanic and Asian households.

Asian households averaged 3.1 people and Hispanic 3.5, both in the city and statewide.

Asian households are relatively large, second only to those of Latinos, and the average size of Asian families is among the largest in the city.

Married couples represent more than 70 percent of all Asian households surveyed, compared with 56 percent for non-Asians.