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According to statistics from the 2000 census, the Bay Area had almost 100,000 fewer Vietnamese American residents than the OC/LA metro area. DHN (talk) 19:00, 24 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The cited source was this NYT article. Given the wording, they may've been looking at the 1990 Census's language usage statistics rather than their ethnicity statistics. I agree that an increase of a hundred thousand from 1990 to 2000 would be quite unexpected. It could also be that the article was inaccurate, so we could reword it to say "one of the top" instead. – Minh Nguyễn 💬 01:06, 25 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure where the NYT article got the 200,000 figure from – it bears no relation to any of the 1990 Census figures I can find (below). Maybe it came from the Knight Ridder market study that the article describes, but if that's the case, then that only raises more questions. As with the NYT article, the Viet Mercury article includes these statistics as background for why the Knight Ridder would launch a free local newspaper in Vietnamese. The article can certainly make that point without this seemingly flawed statistic.

Geography [1] Vietnamese speakers [2] Vietnamese-Americans [3]
* Los Angeles–Riverside–Orange County CMSA 124,787 145,464
** Los Angeles–Long Beach PMSA 51,313 61,361
*** Los Angeles County 51,313 61,361
** Orange County PMSA 62,228 70,572
*** Orange County 62,228 70,572
** Riverside–San Bernardino PMSA 9,453 11,222
*** Riverside County 3,845 4,508
*** San Bernardino County 5,608 6,714
** Ventura PMSA 1,793 2,309
*** Ventura County 1,793 2,309
* San Francisco–Oakland–San Jose CMSA 69,705 84,981
** Oakland PMSA 13,575 16,643
*** Alameda County 11,308 13,896
*** Contra Costa County 2,267 2,747
** San Francisco PMSA 7,895 11,662
*** Marin County 594 640
*** San Francisco County 5,608 8,952
*** San Mateo County 1,693 2,070
** San Jose PMSA 46,759 54,739
*** Santa Clara County 46,759 54,739
** Santa Cruz–Watsonville PMSA 252 319
*** Santa Cruz County 252 319
** Santa Rosa PMSA 539 790
*** Sonoma County 539 790
** Vallejo–Fairfield–Napa PMSA 685 828
*** Napa County 91 112
*** Solano County 594 716

 – Minh Nguyễn 💬 04:39, 25 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]