Table 21 Legal and illegal distributions from ACS 2007 using immigrant weights from 2007 ACS M3
From: Empirical characteristics of legal and illegal immigrants in the USA
| All ACS | Illegal | Legal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ACS | DHS | ACS | NIS | ||
| Below elementary | 0.0610 | 0.0671 | 0.0371 | 0.0845 | |
| Elementary | 0.1606 | 0.1809 | 0.0810 | 0.1277 | |
| Junior | 0.1399 | 0.1432 | 0.1267 | 0.1517 | |
| High school | 0.2943 | 0.2930 | 0.2996 | 0.2705 | |
| Some college | 0.2453 | 0.2178 | 0.3530 | 0.2634 | |
| Higher education | 0.0989 | 0.0980 | 0.1027 | 0.1023 | |
| Married with sp | 0.4348 | 0.3869 | 0.6230 | 0.8063 | |
| Married no sp | 0.1427 | 0.1594 | 0.0769 | 0.0475 | |
| Single | 0.4221 | 0.4533 | 0.2999 | 0.1462 | |
| European | 0.0892 | 0.0634 | 0.0200 | 0.1907 | 0.1427 |
| Asian | 0.2315 | 0.1972 | 0.1200 | 0.3665 | 0.3282 |
| American | 0.2321 | 0.2379 | 0.2400 | 0.2089 | 0.2548 |
| African | 0.0483 | 0.0228 | 0.0200 | 0.1485 | 0.1000 |
| Mexican | 0.3989 | 0.4787 | 0.5900 | 0.0854 | 0.1743 |
| Sex | 0.4514 | 0.4271 | 0.4400 | 0.5466 | 0.5140 |
| California | 0.2038 | 0.2101 | 0.2400 | 0.1791 | 0.0000 |
| Texas | 0.1094 | 0.1176 | 0.1400 | 0.0775 | 0.0000 |
| Florida | 0.0911 | 0.0902 | 0.0800 | 0.0946 | 0.0000 |
| Arizona | 0.0330 | 0.0369 | 0.0500 | 0.0173 | 0.0000 |
| New York | 0.0890 | 0.0825 | 0.0500 | 0.1148 | 0.0000 |