TABLE 1.
Selected Descriptive Statistics of Sample, by Region of Origin: New Immigrant Survey, 2003
| Total Sample | South and Central America, Caribbean | Mexico | Western Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand | Eastern Europe, Former Soviet Union | Asia | India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Middle East | Africa | |
| Percentage of sample | 100.0 | 20.9 | 12.7 | 4.5 | 13.3 | 20.9 | 16.1 | 11.6 |
| Admission category, % | ||||||||
| Family preference | 66.3 | 62.6 | 95.6 | 69.6 | 38.0 | 79.6 | 57.7 | 40.5 |
| Refugee | 13.7 | 31.9 | 4.2 | 4.6 | 23.3 | 2.1 | 6.7 | 13.1 |
| Diversity visa or other | 9.6 | 2.1 | 1.6 | 3.9 | 34.5 | 1.8 | 7.3 | 42.3 |
| Employment preference | 10.4 | 3.3 | 2.6 | 21.9 | 4.2 | 16.4 | 28.3 | 4.1 |
| Age, y, mean | 37.8 | 37.8 | 35.9 | 35.9 | 38.8 | 41.0 | 38.3 | 33.9 |
| Women, % | 55.8 | 54.1 | 58.9 | 52.3 | 56.5 | 64.0 | 49.6 | 45.1 |
| Married, % | 75.9 | 63.6 | 79.5 | 85.3 | 79.9 | 80.6 | 87.2 | 64.5 |
| First trip to United States was after 2000, % | 48.3 | 37.3 | 24.7 | 39.4 | 59.8 | 68.6 | 52.8 | 60.7 |
| Occupational prestige,a mean | 39.4 | 27.8 | 22.5 | 40.3 | 30.0 | 28.1 | 35.6 | 32.8 |
| ≥ 12 Years of education,b % | 67.7 | 59.3 | 39.6 | 92.4 | 83.4 | 69.1 | 79.5 | 86.3 |
| ≥ 12 Years of education abroad,b % | 61.4 | 52.1 | 26.6 | 86.8 | 78.5 | 66.5 | 78.3 | 83.3 |
| Current health very good or excellent, % | 65.5 | 67.5 | 53.0 | 86.7 | 63.0 | 62.3 | 69.5 | 78.4 |
| Health selection, % | ||||||||
| Negative | 3.8 | 3.3 | 6.6 | 1.6 | 4.2 | 3.5 | 2.8 | 1.9 |
| None | 24.4 | 21.8 | 32.1 | 16.5 | 21.0 | 29.2 | 21.8 | 17.5 |
| Positive | 71.8 | 74.8 | 61.3 | 81.8 | 74.9 | 67.2 | 75.5 | 80.6 |
| Entire Sample, no. | 6183 | 1293 | 783 | 281 | 822 | 1293 | 997 | 714 |
Note: All descriptive statistics were weighted with sampling weights.
a
Occupational prestige was measured using the International Socioeconomic Index. Averages are for those who were in the labor force.
b
Education was categorized as a dummy variable that took a 0 for respondents with less than 12 years and a 1 for those with 12 or more years of education.