Table 12 Legal and illegal distributions: with students assumed to be illegal (Pr(illegal) = 1)
From: Empirical characteristics of legal and illegal immigrants in the USA
| All ACS | Illegal | Legal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ACS | DHS | ACS | NIS | ||
| Below elementary | 0.0473 | 0.0492 | 0.0339 | 0.0845 | |
| Elementary | 0.1462 | 0.1556 | 0.0772 | 0.1277 | |
| Junior | 0.1613 | 0.1655 | 0.1308 | 0.1517 | |
| High school | 0.2719 | 0.2678 | 0.3019 | 0.2705 | |
| Some college | 0.2728 | 0.2611 | 0.3578 | 0.2634 | |
| Higher education | 0.1005 | 0.1008 | 0.0984 | 0.1023 | |
| Married with sp | 0.3749 | 0.3395 | 0.6335 | 0.8063 | |
| Married no sp | 0.1179 | 0.1242 | 0.0720 | 0.0475 | |
| Single | 0.4907 | 0.5177 | 0.2942 | 0.1462 | |
| European | 0.0956 | 0.0817 | 0.0200 | 0.1969 | 0.1427 |
| Asian | 0.2717 | 0.2579 | 0.1200 | 0.3724 | 0.3282 |
| American | 0.2311 | 0.2368 | 0.2400 | 0.1896 | 0.2548 |
| African | 0.0637 | 0.0481 | 0.0200 | 0.1773 | 0.1000 |
| Mexican | 0.3379 | 0.3755 | 0.5900 | 0.0637 | 0.1743 |
| Sex | 0.4626 | 0.4500 | 0.4400 | 0.5541 | 0.5140 |
| California | 0.2046 | 0.2084 | 0.2400 | 0.1773 | 0.0000 |
| Texas | 0.1021 | 0.1056 | 0.1400 | 0.0770 | 0.0000 |
| Florida | 0.0904 | 0.0902 | 0.0800 | 0.0915 | 0.0000 |
| Arizona | 0.0308 | 0.0329 | 0.0500 | 0.0159 | 0.0000 |
| New York | 0.0966 | 0.0935 | 0.0500 | 0.1190 | 0.0000 |