Table 20 Legal and illegal distributions from ACS 2007 using immigrant weights from 2007 ACS M2
From: Empirical characteristics of legal and illegal immigrants in the USA
| All ACS | Illegal | Legal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ACS | DHS | ACS | NIS | ||
| Below elementary | 0.0610 | 0.0672 | 0.0372 | 0.0845 | |
| Elementary | 0.1606 | 0.1813 | 0.0812 | 0.1277 | |
| Junior | 0.1399 | 0.1434 | 0.1264 | 0.1517 | |
| High school | 0.2943 | 0.2930 | 0.2993 | 0.2705 | |
| Some college | 0.2453 | 0.2172 | 0.3529 | 0.2634 | |
| Higher education | 0.0989 | 0.0979 | 0.1030 | 0.1023 | |
| Married with sp | 0.4348 | 0.3860 | 0.6223 | 0.8063 | |
| Married no sp | 0.1427 | 0.1598 | 0.0771 | 0.0475 | |
| Single | 0.4221 | 0.4539 | 0.3004 | 0.1462 | |
| European | 0.0892 | 0.0629 | 0.0200 | 0.1902 | 0.1427 |
| Asian | 0.2315 | 0.1964 | 0.1200 | 0.3665 | 0.3282 |
| American | 0.2321 | 0.2379 | 0.2400 | 0.2097 | 0.2548 |
| African | 0.0483 | 0.0225 | 0.0200 | 0.1475 | 0.1000 |
| Mexican | 0.3989 | 0.4804 | 0.5900 | 0.0861 | 0.1743 |
| Sex | 0.4514 | 0.4266 | 0.4400 | 0.5464 | 0.5140 |
| California | 0.2038 | 0.2102 | 0.2400 | 0.1792 | 0.0000 |
| Texas | 0.1094 | 0.1177 | 0.1400 | 0.0776 | 0.0000 |
| Florida | 0.0911 | 0.0902 | 0.0800 | 0.0947 | 0.0000 |
| Arizona | 0.0330 | 0.0370 | 0.0500 | 0.0174 | 0.0000 |
| New York | 0.0890 | 0.0824 | 0.0500 | 0.1147 | 0.0000 |