percentage distribution of immigrant landing file cohort, by sex, age group, immigration category, landing year, and source world region
Table:
male
female

total number
1,242,600
1,352,000

mean age
38.6
39.4

% distribution

age group

0 to 24
22.5
19.8

25 to 44
41.7
44.4

45 to 64
29.0
27.2

65 or older
6.8
8.6

immigration category

economic class

principal applicant
26.2
12.2

dependant
23.5
33.7

family class
28.9
37.4

refugee class
16.4
12.7

other
5.0
4.0

landing year

1980 to 1989
23.2
22.3

1990 to 1999
44.1
44.9

2000 to 2006
32.7
32.8

source world region

united states
2.1
2.6

caribbean/central and south america
10.1
11.0

western europe
8.1
7.3

eastern europe
12.6
12.6

sub-saharan africa
4.8
4.6

north africa/middle east/west asia
9.4
7.7

south asia
19.3
17.6

south east asia
11.9
14.1

east asia
20.7
21.8

oceania
0.7
0.7

Provide the shortest accurate answer you can to the following question, based only on the table data. Your output should look like {"answer": ["YOUR ANSWER"]}. For several items, comma-separate them within the list. 'percentage distribution of immigrant landing file cohort, by sex, age group, immigration category, landing year, and source world region' is the caption of the table. Now answer the following question based on the table information: What the percent of male immigrants did the economic class principal applicants account for?

{"answer": ["26.2"]}