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Published in final edited form as: Int Migr Rev. 2014 Mar 5;48(2):538–566. doi: 10.1111/imre.12059

Table 7.

Comparative Profiles of the Adult Unauthorized Foreign-Born Population in the United States, by Estimation Method/Source

	SIPP, 2004			Residual Estimates
	Hot-Deck Allocation	Multiple Imputation	Logical Allocation	Pew	DHS
Legal Status of Foreign-Born (%)
Naturalized	45,5	39.7	38.9	32.0 ^a	n/a
Legal Non-Citizen	36.5	41.2	35.3	39.0 ^a	n/a
Unauthorized	18.1	19.1	25.7	29.0 ^a	n/a
Unauthorized, Years in the U.S. (%)
0–5	40.7	44.0	39.2	30.0 ^a	29.0 ^c
6–10	32.2	30.5	25.5	35.0 ^a	30.0 ^c
11–15	10.7	13.3	13.5	21.0 ^a	20.0 ^c
15+	16.4	12.1	21.8	14.0 ^a	21.0 ^c
Unauthorized, Country of Birth (%)
Mexico	51.6	56.4	54.8	57.0 ^a	57.0 ^c
Other Latin America	20.3	19.5	20.1	24.0 ^a	n/a
Asia	17.7	12.1	12.6	9.0 ^a	11.4 ^c
Europe & Canada	6.1	5.9	6.5	6.0 ^a	n/a
Africa & Other	4.3	6.0	6.1	4.0 ^a	n/a
Unauthorized, State of Residence (%)
California	27.5	27.4	27.3	24.0 ^a	26.0 ^c
Texas	10.8	11.3	10.3	14.0 ^a	13.0 ^c
Florida	7.7	8.0	10.1	9.0 ^a	8.0 ^c
New York	6.0	7.4	10.2	7.0 ^a	5.0 ^c
Illinois	2.6	3.0	3.3	4.0 ^a	5.0 ^c
Unauthorized, Male (%)	53.6	53.8	54.7	56.0 ^a	56.6 ^d
Unauthorized, Age Distribution (%)
18–24	20.4	21.3	20.1	18.3 ^b	18.4 ^d
25–34	40.7	41.6	35.2	33.2 ^b	41.5 ^d
35–44	19.7	20.8	19.7	27.5 ^b	27.7 ^d
45–54	11.2	10.9	11.2	14.2 ^b	8.7 ^d
55+	7.9	5.4	7.9	6.7 ^b	3.5 ^d

Note: SIPP estimates are for the unauthorized population aged 15 and older; Pew and DHS estimates are for the total unauthorized population (all ages); SIPP estimates are weighted

Passel (2005), based on 2004 Current Population Survey data

Authors’ calculations based on Figure 7, Passel and Cohn (2009), based on 2008 March Current Population Survey data

Hoefer, Rytina and Campbell (2006), residual estimates using the 2005 American Community Survey

Hoefer, Rytina and Campbell (2008), residual estaimtes using the 2007 American Community Survey