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Indian Americans best educated, top earners: US Census
Indian Americans best educated, top earners: US Census
20 Feb 2009, 2023 hrs IST, IANS
WASHINGTON: The 1.5 million Indian Americans in the US continue to top the US Census charts as the best-educated, highest-paid and top-placed community among the 38.1 million foreign-born population in the country.
As per a fresh analysis of data on the foreign-born population from the 2007 American Community Survey, 74 percent of Indian-born US residents had bachelor's degree or higher, which was far more than the figure for people born in any other foreign country.
This was also nearly three times the 27 percent of the foreign-born and about 28 percent of the natives having bachelor's degrees, showed the new analysis that was released by the US Census Bureau of the Commerce Department.
These figures come from the new detailed characteristic profiles on the foreign-born population, or people who were not US citizens at birth, available on the basis of their countries of birth.
"Among the foreign-born, those from India, Australia, South Africa and the Philippines have the highest median household incomes," said the analysis, indicating the top positions Indian enjoy among the US workforce.
"The median household income for US residents born in India is $91,195 (per annum). The foreign-born from Somalia and the Dominican Republic had some of the lowest median household incomes," the survey added.
For Indians, this is several notches higher than the median household income of $50,740 for the total population, $46,881 for the foreign-born population and $51,249 for the native population.
In terms of people careers, India-born residents were again on the top of the ladder with just 8.3 percent of the group's population engaged in the so-called labour-intensive jobs.
This is, indeed, a long way from the days of early migration when Indians mainly came to the US as labourers to build the country's railroad.
"US residents born in India have the highest percentage of civilian-employed people working in management, professional and related occupations," the survey said, adding 69 percent of the population were in that category.
The survey showed that people from India ranked fourth in terms of sheer numbers when it came to the foreign-born living in the US.
Mexicans topped the list with 11.7 million, followed by China (1.19 million), the Philippines (1.7 million), India (1.5 million) and El Salvador and Vietnam (both 1.1 million).
"These new selected population profiles highlight the diversity among the many different foreign-born groups in the United States," said Elizabeth Grieco, chief of the Census Bureau's immigration statistics staff.
"This diversity is due in part to the way the various communities were established, whether it be through labour migration, family reunification or refugee flows."
20 Feb 2009, 2023 hrs IST, IANS
WASHINGTON: The 1.5 million Indian Americans in the US continue to top the US Census charts as the best-educated, highest-paid and top-placed community among the 38.1 million foreign-born population in the country.
As per a fresh analysis of data on the foreign-born population from the 2007 American Community Survey, 74 percent of Indian-born US residents had bachelor's degree or higher, which was far more than the figure for people born in any other foreign country.
This was also nearly three times the 27 percent of the foreign-born and about 28 percent of the natives having bachelor's degrees, showed the new analysis that was released by the US Census Bureau of the Commerce Department.
These figures come from the new detailed characteristic profiles on the foreign-born population, or people who were not US citizens at birth, available on the basis of their countries of birth.
"Among the foreign-born, those from India, Australia, South Africa and the Philippines have the highest median household incomes," said the analysis, indicating the top positions Indian enjoy among the US workforce.
"The median household income for US residents born in India is $91,195 (per annum). The foreign-born from Somalia and the Dominican Republic had some of the lowest median household incomes," the survey added.
For Indians, this is several notches higher than the median household income of $50,740 for the total population, $46,881 for the foreign-born population and $51,249 for the native population.
In terms of people careers, India-born residents were again on the top of the ladder with just 8.3 percent of the group's population engaged in the so-called labour-intensive jobs.
This is, indeed, a long way from the days of early migration when Indians mainly came to the US as labourers to build the country's railroad.
"US residents born in India have the highest percentage of civilian-employed people working in management, professional and related occupations," the survey said, adding 69 percent of the population were in that category.
The survey showed that people from India ranked fourth in terms of sheer numbers when it came to the foreign-born living in the US.
Mexicans topped the list with 11.7 million, followed by China (1.19 million), the Philippines (1.7 million), India (1.5 million) and El Salvador and Vietnam (both 1.1 million).
"These new selected population profiles highlight the diversity among the many different foreign-born groups in the United States," said Elizabeth Grieco, chief of the Census Bureau's immigration statistics staff.
"This diversity is due in part to the way the various communities were established, whether it be through labour migration, family reunification or refugee flows."
Wednesday, 28 January 2009
English or Hindi or Marathi/ Malayalam or Tamil/ Telugu or Kannada – All just to communicate Bro’s
Last November, When Mumbai was attacked by terrorists; it was Mumbai Cops and the NSG Commandos belonging to various states who speaks Non-Marathi languages, has battled and rescued the people. 17 Policemen and 2 NSG commandos had sacrificed their lives too. At that moment, I thought that at least thereafter, MNS Chief, Raj Thackeray would have learnt that India is one and stop his heinous acts and Hooliganism against the people belonging to different region or different language.
I really felt bad, when I watched this incident of MNS activists attacking a Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) school in Satpur suburb of the city, where a cultural programme of North Indians was being held and a session of Bhojpuri song was going on. I don’t understand and gets puzzled thinking, is it all for a language or region?
There were few incidents in Tamilnadu last before year, few parties like PMK and others forcing the sign boards of shops to be only in Tamil. Is it all for political gains??
Even during my college days, I myself had seen hostility among students from Andhra and Tamilnadu. Those stray incidents still hurt me sometimes and I felt bad for even younger and well educated generation getting into it. I don’t understand what pride you have in your language/region; it doesn’t say who you are and it doesn’t determine your attitude?
What is language? If you key in this word in Wikipedia, this is what you get:
“A language is a dynamic set of sensory symbols of communication and the elements used to manipulate them. Language can also refer to the use of such systems as a general phenomenon. Strictly speaking, language is considered to be an exclusively human mode of communication.”
It is just a mode of communication to express/understand the feeling of each other. I feel the same since my childhood as my mother tongue is Tamil, born and brought up in Andhra studying Telugu and married to a Malayali living in Karnataka.
These political people are using it just for their gains and to get publicity. But the governemnt shouldn’t be a mute spectator watching these people creating nuisance to Public. I hope the government takes stringent action against these people who creates disunity and attack the innocent people of India. Such organisations should be banned as terror groups and people involved in such hooligan act should be given the highest punishments as they are more dangerous than the outside terrorists.
If these leaders want to be so proud about their language/region, let them first eradicate Poverty, Illiteracy, Corruption and so many other things in their language/region instead of doing all these non-sense.
I wish that the Modern India and Its young generation don’t restrict themselves into smaller circles like Language/Religion. World is Big.
I am niether proud to be a Tamilian, Andraiite nor a Malayalli / Bangalorean….
Proud to be an Indian and More than that a Human.
Chandra.
I really felt bad, when I watched this incident of MNS activists attacking a Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) school in Satpur suburb of the city, where a cultural programme of North Indians was being held and a session of Bhojpuri song was going on. I don’t understand and gets puzzled thinking, is it all for a language or region?
There were few incidents in Tamilnadu last before year, few parties like PMK and others forcing the sign boards of shops to be only in Tamil. Is it all for political gains??
Even during my college days, I myself had seen hostility among students from Andhra and Tamilnadu. Those stray incidents still hurt me sometimes and I felt bad for even younger and well educated generation getting into it. I don’t understand what pride you have in your language/region; it doesn’t say who you are and it doesn’t determine your attitude?
What is language? If you key in this word in Wikipedia, this is what you get:
“A language is a dynamic set of sensory symbols of communication and the elements used to manipulate them. Language can also refer to the use of such systems as a general phenomenon. Strictly speaking, language is considered to be an exclusively human mode of communication.”
It is just a mode of communication to express/understand the feeling of each other. I feel the same since my childhood as my mother tongue is Tamil, born and brought up in Andhra studying Telugu and married to a Malayali living in Karnataka.
These political people are using it just for their gains and to get publicity. But the governemnt shouldn’t be a mute spectator watching these people creating nuisance to Public. I hope the government takes stringent action against these people who creates disunity and attack the innocent people of India. Such organisations should be banned as terror groups and people involved in such hooligan act should be given the highest punishments as they are more dangerous than the outside terrorists.
If these leaders want to be so proud about their language/region, let them first eradicate Poverty, Illiteracy, Corruption and so many other things in their language/region instead of doing all these non-sense.
I wish that the Modern India and Its young generation don’t restrict themselves into smaller circles like Language/Religion. World is Big.
I am niether proud to be a Tamilian, Andraiite nor a Malayalli / Bangalorean….
Proud to be an Indian and More than that a Human.
Chandra.
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