Only 5 percent of the foreign-born population lived outside metro areas, compared with 21 percent of natives. Less than 1 in 10 of the foreign-born people who entered the United States in the 1990s had become citizens, compared with 8 in 10 who arrived before 1970. The report, a slide presentation, an interactive quiz and 60 statistical tables update the 1999 report on the foreign-born population issued last September. The statistics were collected in the March 2000 Current Population Survey, which uses the 1990 census as a base for its sample. The report contains data on characteristics of the foreign-born population such as region of birth, geographic distribution in the United States, age, citizenship, household size, marital status, educational level, employment status, occupation, earnings and poverty status.
Survey data are subject to sampling and nonsampling error.