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In commemoration of Filipino American History Month the article below is a recently released overview of data and statistics on Filipinos in America. The Migration Policy Institute offers research based information on international migration and refugee trends , particularly in the United States.  | | |  |
By Aaron Terrazas
Migration Policy Institute
http://www.migrationinformation.org/USFocus/display.cfm?ID=694
Filipino Immigrants in the United States By Aaron Terrazas
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September 2008
The number of Filipino immigrants in the United States tripled between 1980 and 2006, from 501,440 to 1.6 million, making them the second largest immigrant group in the United States after Mexican immigrants and ahead of the Chinese, Indian, and Vietnamese foreign born.
Over two-thirds of all Filipino immigrants resided in just five states although their numbers are growing in places like Nevada, North Carolina, and Texas (for more information on immigrants by state, please see the 2006 ACS/Census Data tool on the MPI Data Hub).
Men born in the Philippines have a lower rate of participation in the civilian labor force than immigrant men overall. By contrast, Filipino-born women have a higher rate of participation in the civilian labor force than immigrant women overall, and civilian employed immigrant women from the Philippines are concentrated in health-care and related occupations.
This spotlight focuses on Filipino immigrants residing in the United States, examining the population's size, geographic distribution, and socioeconomic characteristics using data from the US Census Bureau's 2006 American Community Survey (ACS) and 2000 Decennial Census, and the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Immigration Statistics (OIS) for 2006 and 2007.
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Size and Distribution | | | The US Census Bureau defines the foreign born as individuals who had no US citizenship at birth. The foreign-born population includes naturalized citizens, lawful permanent residents, refugees and asylees, legal nonimmigrants (including those on student, work, or other temporary visas), and persons residing in the country without authorization.
The terms foreign born and immigrant are used interchangeably. | | | Demographic and Socioeconomic Overview Legal and Unauthorized Filipino Immigrant Population Size and Distribution
There were 1.6 million foreign born from the Philippines residing in the United States in 2006.
The 1960 census counted 104,843 Filipino immigrants, a number that increased 15.6 times to 1,638,413 Filipino immigrants in 2006. The Filipino born were the second-largest foreign-born group in the United States in 2006 after immigrants from Mexico.
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Filipino immigrants made up 4.4 percent of all immigrants in 2006.
In 1960, Filipino immigrants composed 1.1 percent of all foreign born in the United States. That share more than tripled to 3.6 percent in 1980 and increased to 4.6 percent in 1990 but decreased slightly to 4.4 percent in 2006 (see Table 1).
| Table 1. Total and Filipino Foreign-Born Populations, 1960 to 2006 | | Year | Foreign born | Filipino born | | Rank(a) | Share of all foreign born | Number | | 1960 | 9,738,091 | 20 | 1.1% | 104,843 | | 1970 | 9,619,302 | 11 | 1.9% | 184,842 | | 1980 | 14,079,906 | 7 | 3.6% | 501,440 | | 1990 | 19,797,316 | 2 | 4.6% | 912,674 | | 2000 | 31,107,889 | 2 | 4.4% | 1,369,070 | | 2006 | 37,547,315 | 2 | 4.4% | 1,638,413 | | Notes: a Rank refers to the position of the Filipino born relative to other immigrant groups in terms of size of the population residing in the United States in a given census year.
Source: Data for 2000 from the 2000 census; data for 2006 from the American Community Survey 2006. Data for earlier decades from Gibson, Campbell, and Emily Lennon, US Census Bureau (Working Paper No. 29, Historical Census Statistics on the Foreign-Born Population of the United States: 1850 to 1990, US Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1999). Available online. | |
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Almost half of all Filipino immigrants resided in California in 2006, and over two-thirds of the population were concentrated in five states.
In 2006, California had the largest number of Filipino immigrants (750,056, or 45.8 percent), followed by Hawaii (99,341, or 6.1 percent), New York (87,407, or 5.3 percent), Illinois (85,612, or 5.2 percent), and New Jersey (82,356, or 5.0 percent).
Together, these five states accounted for 67.4 percent (1,104,772) of all Filipino-born immigrants.
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana, CA was the metropolitan area with the largest number of Filipino born (257,921, or 15.7 percent), followed by New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-PA (151,969, or 9.3 percent), San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA (148,611, or 9.1 percent), San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos, CA (88,283, or 5.4 percent), Chicago-Naperville-Joliet, IL-IN-WI (83,590, or 5.1 percent), San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA (59,351, or 3.6 percent), and Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA (51,506 or 3.1 percent). These seven metropolitan areas accounted for 51.3 percent of the 1.6 million Filipino immigrants in 2006.
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The size of the Filipino immigrant population grew more than 50 percent in 11 states between 2000 and 2006.
Between 2000 and 2006, 11 states, most of them with small Filipino immigrant populations, saw the number of Filipino immigrants grow more than 50 percent. These states are Vermont, Connecticut, Iowa, Nevada, North Carolina, Minnesota, West Virginia, Texas, Oregon, Maine, and Arkansas (see Table 2).
| Table 2. Top States for Growth of the Filipino-Born Population, 2000 to 2006 | | | 2000 | 2006 | Change 2000 to 2006 | | Vermont | 228 | 642 | 181.6% | | Connecticut | 6,247 | 10,457 | 67.4% | | Iowa | 1,795 | 3,004 | 67.4% | | Nevada | 31,491 | 52,016 | 65.2% | | North Carolina | 8,237 | 13,602 | 65.1% | | Minnesota | 4,518 | 7,336 | 62.4% | | West Virginia | 1,335 | 2,102 | 57.5% | | Texas | 45,907 | 71,699 | 56.2% | | Oregon | 7,474 | 11,649 | 55.9% | | Maine | 1,095 | 1,700 | 55.3% | | Arkansas | 1,867 | 2,842 | 52.2% | | Source: 2000 census; 2006 American Community Survey. | | | | In five states, the size of the Filipino immigrant population declined between 2000 and 2006.
Between 2000 and 2006, the Filipino immigrant population declined in five states including Louisiana (45.8 percent), Wyoming (30.1 percent), Nebraska (24.0 percent), South Dakota (16.5 percent), and Hawaii (2.7 percent) (see Table 3). Except for Hawaii, the states with the largest percentage declines in the Filipino immigrant population were states with a small foreign-born population from the Philippines.
| Table 3. States with a Decline in the Filipino-Born Population, 2000 to 2006 | | | 2000 | 2006 | Change 2000 to 2006 | | Louisiana | 3,722 | 2,018 | -45.8% | | Wyoming | 385 | 269 | -30.1% | | Nebraska | 1,702 | 1,293 | -24.0% | | South Dakota | 576 | 481 | -16.5% | | Hawaii | 102,063 | 99,341 | -2.7% | | Source: 2000 census; 2006 American Community Survey. | |  |
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