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 |
7th
|
|
|
|
|
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 |
11th
|
|
All foreign-born |
6th
|
|
|
|
|
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%
|
|