Table 1.
Essential Frontline Workers, by Nativity and Immigrant Legal Status.
| All | Native-born | Foreign-born | Foreign-born Breakdown | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Naturalized | Authorized | Unauthorized | ||||
| Total population | 328,941,635 | 283,451,479 | 45,490,156 | 23,024,064 | 12,117,209 | 10,348,883 |
| Total porkers | 174,638,559 | 144,986,115 | 29,652,443 | 15,036,871 | 7,265,679 | 7,349,893 |
| Essential frontline workers | ||||||
| Total essential frontline workers | 87,312,376 | 70,593,073 | 16,719,303 | 7,638,429 | 3,924,263 | 5,156,611 |
| Percent workers essential frontline | 50.0 | 48.7 | 56.4 | 50.8 | 54.0 | 70.2 |
| (49.92–50.07) | (48.61–48.77) | (56.19–56.58) | (50.53–51.06) | (53.61–54.41) | (69.73–70.58) | |
Note. Universe for workers includes all persons 16 years or older who reported working in the last year. All results are population weighted and adjusted for underreporting with 95 percent confidence intervals reported in parentheses. Authors’ calculations using 2019 ACS from ipums.org.