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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Apr 13.
Published in final edited form as: J Immigr Minor Health. 2014 Oct;16(5):1016–1022. doi: 10.1007/s10903-013-9796-6

Table 1.

Sample population: countries of origin and arrival statistics from 2005 to 2011

Country of origin Country of camp # Arrivals from country of origin, 2005–2011 % of Total a
Burma Bangladesh 77,239 18.9
Somalia Kenya (Dadaab camp) 42,095 10.3
Bhutan Nepal 45,755 11.2
Liberia Ghana 9,857 2.4
Burundi Tanzania 9,582 2.4
Eritrea Eastern Sudan 8,005 2.0
Democratic Republic of Congo Ghana 7,509 1.8
Sudan Kenya (Kakuma camp) 6,670 1.6
TOTAL SAMPLE 2,06,712 50.7

The other countries of origin were: Afghanistan, Congo, Cuba, Ethiopia, Former Soviet Union, Iran, Iraq, Laos, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Thailand, Vietnam

a

Total US arrivals from 2005 to 2011 = 407,649