A more recent analysis of Asians within the NESARC Wave 1 sample demonstrated some variations in the lifetime prevalence of AUD among Asian-American ethnic subgroups. For example, 5.4 percent of East Asians (i.e., whose countries of origin were the People’s Republic of China, Japan, Korea, or the Republic of China [Taiwan]), 4.3 percent of Southeast Asians (i.e., whose countries of origin were Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, or a Pacific Island nation), and 3.6 percent of South Asians (i.e., whose countries of origin were India, Afghanistan, Pakistan, or Iran) met criteria for a DSM–IV AUD (Lee et al. 2015).
