The National Agricultural Workers Survey, Employment & Training Administration (ETA)

Findings from the National Agricultural Workers Survey (NAWS) 2001 - 2002
A Demographic and Employment Profile of United States Farm Workers

Appendix B: Index of Means and Percentages of Key Variables

Note: Sum of all portions may not equal 100 percent because of rounding.

Chapter 1 Variables		Mean or Percentage
Place of Birth		100%
Mexico		75%
United States (including Puerto Rico)		23%
Central America		2%
Other Country		1%

Mexico Sending Region	States in Region	100%
Agricultural Northwest	Baja California, Sinaloa, Sonora	7%
Northwest	Chihuahua, Coahuila	2%
Northeast	Nuevo Leon, Tamaulipas	8%
Core North Central	Durango, Zacatecas, Aguascalientes	4%
Core Northeast	San Luis Potosi, Queretaro, Hidalgo	8%
Pacific Central	Nayarit, Colima	3%
West Central	Guanajuato, Jalisco, Michoacan	46%
Urban Federal District	Estado de Mexico, Mexico Distrito Federal	3%
Pacific South	Guerrero, Oaxaca, Chiapas	11%
Gulf	Yucatan, Campeche, Tabasco, Puebla, Tlaxcala, Morelos, Veracruz, Quintana Roo	9%
Ethnicity		100%
Mexican American		7%
Mexican		72%
Chicano		1%
Other Hispanic		3%
Not Hispanic or Latino		16%

Race		100%
White		41%
Black or African American		4%
American Indian / Alaskan Native / Indigenous		8%
Asian		<1%
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander		<1%
Other		47%

Foreign-born Workers:		100%
Years Passed Since First U.S. Arrival
<1		22%
1 – 2		11%
3 – 4		9%
5 – 9		16%
10 – 14		13%
15 +		29%

Foreign-born Workers:
Years Passed Since First U.S. Arrival, by Place of Birth
Mexico		10
Central America		5

Foreign-born Newcomers:
Share Among All Crop Workers		16%

Employment Eligibility (All Workers)		100%
Work authorized		47%
Citizens		25%
Legal permanent residents		21%
Other		1%
Unauthorized		53%

Migrant Types		100%
Settled (non migrant)		58%
Migrant		42%
Foreign-born newcomer		16%
International shuttle		13%
International follow-the-crop		2%
Domestic shuttle		6%
Domestic follow-the-crop		6%

Chapter 2 Variables	Mean or Percentage
Gender is Male	79%

Age	33

Age cohorts	100%
14 – 17	6%
18 – 19	5%
20 – 24	20%
25 – 34	30%
35 – 44	20%
45 – 54	12%
55 – 64	6%
65 +	1%

Age by Demographic Characteristics
All Crop Workers	33
Foreign-born
All Foreign-born	32

Authorized Foreign-born	40
Unauthorized Foreign-born	28

Newcomers	24
Arrived more than year ago	34

Born in Mexico	32
Born in Central American country	28

U.S.-born
All U.S.-born	36

African American	43
White	36
Hispanic	33

Family Type	100%
Married parent	45%
Married, no children	12%
Unmarried parent	6%
Single, no children	37%

Number of Children of Parent Respondents
Average	2

Number of children	100%
1	31%
2	33%
3	20%
4	10%
5	3%
6	2%
7+	1%

Cohabitation of Parent and Minor Children	100%
Parent lives with all minor children	61%
Parent lives away from all minor children	37%
Parent lives with some of minor children	2%

Crop Worker: Unity with / Separation from Nuclear Family	100%
Accompanied (lives with at least one nuclear family member)	43%
Unaccompanied (living away from all nuclear family)	57%

Among unaccompanied	100%
Single, no children	61%
Parents	31%
Married, no children	8%

Chapter 3 Variables	Mean or Percentage
Native Language	100%
Spanish	81%
English	18%
Other	2%

Education
Highest grade completed	7^th

Years of Schooling	100%
No schooling	4%
1st – 3rd grade	13%
4th – 7th grade	38%
8th – 11th grade	28%
12th grade	13%
13 + years	5%

Highest grade completed by place of birth
United States	11^th
All foreign-born	6^th

Participation in adult education in the U.S. (lifetime)	20%

Type of adult education (multiple responses)
English	10%
GED	5%
College or university	3%
Citizenship class	2%
Job training	2%
Other	1%


Ability to Speak English	100%
Not at all	44%
A little	26%
Some	6%
Well	24%

Ability to Read English	100%
Not at all	53%
A little	20%
Some	6%
Well	22%