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    Educational attainment methodology

    Data on the educational attainment level of populations for advanced economies (International Monetary Fund’s 2015 list) with immigrant populations of 500,000 or more and an immigrant share of about 10% or greater in 2015 are based on United Nations data. Education data were collected and harmonized between 2016 and 2018.[5. numoffset=”5″ Hong Kong was not […]

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    The Growing Partisan Divide in Views of Higher Education

    Americans see value in higher education whether they graduated from college or not. Even so, there is an undercurrent of dissatisfaction – even suspicion – among the public about the role colleges play in society.

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    5. Numbers fall in U.S. states with the largest unauthorized immigrant populations

    From 2007 to 2016, the estimated unauthorized immigrant population declined in a dozen states and rose in three. Other states may have undergone changes, but that cannot be determined definitively because of the margin of error in the data. Among the states with losses since 2007 were most of those with the largest unauthorized immigrant […]

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    3. Most unauthorized immigrants live with family members

    The unauthorized immigrant population in 2016 consisted of 5.5 million men, 4.5 million women and 675,000 children. The number of unauthorized immigrant adult men declined by about half a million since 2007, while the number of women did not change. The number of unauthorized immigrant children also declined by more than half. The number of […]

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    4. Unauthorized immigrant workforce is smaller, but with more women

    A total of 7.8 million unauthorized immigrants ages 18 and older were in the labor force in 2016 – the first time since 2006 that the number working or looking for work has declined significantly below 8 million. The decline was driven by a decreased number of unauthorized immigrant men in the labor force – […]

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    1. Unauthorized immigrants became a smaller share of U.S. foreign-born population

    Compared with 2007, when their population was at its peak, unauthorized immigrants make up a smaller share of all U.S. residents (3% vs. 4%) and of all immigrants (24% vs. 30%). The number of unauthorized immigrants rose sharply in the 1990s and reached 12.2 million in 2007, as the recession began. It declined through the […]

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    Methodology

    The estimates presented in this report supersede all previously published Pew Research Center estimates. Although this report draws largely on U.S. Census Bureau data, our estimates will not generally agree exactly with those published by the Census Bureau because we include adjustments for survey omissions and corrections for various types of survey errors and anomalies. […]

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    2. Unauthorized immigrants are more likely to be long-term residents

    Long-term unauthorized immigrant adults are no longer the exception and have become a decided majority of this population in the years since 2007. In 2016, about two-thirds of unauthorized immigrant adults had lived in the U.S. for more than a decade, and the share has risen from less than half (41%) in 2007. Only 18% […]

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