More and more Asians are gathering under one roof for both economic and cultural reasons, according to a Census study released last month. The state with the largest percentage of multigenerational households among Asians was Hawaii at 8.8 percent, twice the national average of 4.4 percent.

The 50th state owes its large percentage to high real-estate prices and the 47 percent of its population that is of Asian or Pacific Island descent, according to Sarah Yuan, a sociologist at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. Her research on the state's Filipino residents found "multigenerational households are most common among the poor, who live together so they can pool their resources, and the rich, who have the space."

Job losses and the difficulty of purchasing a home make young people more likely to live with their parents, according to D'Vera Cohn, a senior writer with Pew who has studied the trend. Longer life spans and growth in the Hispanic and Asian populations keep older folks in the house.

The nation's two fastest-growing ethnic groups are 50 percent more likely to live in multigenerational families than are whites, according to Pew research.

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