TABLE 1


TABLE 1 SOCIOECONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS OF IMMIGRANTS AND NATIVES IN THE UNITED STATES, 1970-1990

LGroup/Variable	1970	1980	1990
Natives:
Mean Educational Attainment (in years)	11.5	12.7	13.2
All Immigrants
Mean Educational Attainment (in years)	10.7	11.7	11.6
Percent Wage Differential Between Immigrants and Natives	+.9	–9.2	–15.2
Recent Immigrants (Less than 5 years in U.S.)
Mean Educational Attainment (in years)	11.1	11.8	11.9
Percent Wage Differential Between Immigrants and Natives	–16.6	–27.6	–31.7

TABLE 2


TABLE 2 REGIONAL DISTRIBUTION OF ADULT-AGE U.S. POPULATION, 1950-90

Percent of Total U.S. Population Living in:
	California	Other Immigrant States	Rest of Country
1950	7.2	26.9	65.9
1960	8.9	27.3	63.7
1970	10.2	27.1	62.7
1980	10.9	26.7	62.4
1990	12.4	27.0	60.7

TABLE 3

Percent of Native U.S. Population Living in:
	California	Other Immigrant States	Rest of Country
1950	6.9	25.4	67.7
1960	8.6	26.2	65.2
1970	9.6	26.2	64.2
1980	9.7	25.6	64.8
1990	10.0	25.5	64.4

TABLE 4

Percent of Foreign-Born U.S. Population Living in:
	California	Other Immigrant States	Rest of Country
1950	10.4	44.4	45.2
1960	14.6	44.9	40.6
1970	20.1	43.8	36.0
1980	27.2	41.9	30.9
1990	33.8	40.0	26.1

TABLE 5


Table 1: BLS Projected Job Growth for Systems Analysts, Computer Engineers and Scientists, and Computer Programmers

Occupation	Numbers of workers in thousands		Percentage change
	1994	2005   (projected)
IT occupations	1,365	2,184	60
Systems analysts	483	928	92
Computer scientists and engineers	345	655	90
Computer programmers	537	601	12
All other occupations	125,649	142,524	13
Total, all occupations	127,014	144,708	14

TABLE 6

American Management Systems	2%
Broderbund Software	1%
Deltanet	4%
ECbridges	2%
Flashpoint Technology	2 to 5%
Inktomi	less than 5%
Microsoft	2%
Qualcomm	4.5%

TABLE 7

American Management Systems	under 25%
Broderbund	30%
City of San Jose (civil service)	10%
Deltanet	possibly as much as 40%
ECbridges	20%
Flashpoint Technology	25 to 30%
high-tech job fairs	as few as 6%
Inktomi	50%
Microsoft	25%
Quintet under	5%

TABLE 8

b	bENGINEER		bTEMPORARY ADMISSION			bPERM. ADMISS.
YEAR	BS GRAD	CS GRAD	ENGIN.	COMP. SCI	NAT. SCI	ENGIN.	COMP. SCI.
1986	78,178	41,889	18,423	3,424	6,259	8,389	1,042
1987	75,735	39,589	18,432	2,916	6,628	8,340	1,176
1988	71,386	34,523	19,939	2,231	7,205	8,081	1,164
1989	68,824	30,454	22,522	3,157	9,201	9,520	1,582
1990	65,967	27,257	26,040	3,070	10,473	10,417	1,782
1991	63,986	25,083	35,619	4,608	12,765	10,676	1,739
1992	63,653	24,507	36,826	5,732	13,095	15,629	3,407
1993	65,001	24,200	39,474	10,846	9,344	14,345	4,119
1994	64,946	24,200	43,778	12,271	9,423	10,793	2,781
1995	64,749	24,404	55,400	13,900	10,500	9,102	2,128
1996	65,267		67,800	11,600	9,900	11,748	3,281
1997

TABLE 9


TABLE I

LYear	Degree	58%   Degree	56%   Expansion	Immigration	Deaths	Retirements	Engineers	Rivers Delta	Surplus or   Deficit	Accum. Surplus or   Deficit	Accum. E.E.   Surplus or   Deficit
1960	37,679			3354	5040	7,580	796,700
1961	37,528	21,750	+  1,675	2890	5230	7,890	828,500	2,989	10,206	10,206	2,245
1962	36,070	20,900	17,500	2940	5490	8,260	869,400	31,377	–  3,787	6,419	1,412
1963	34,972	20,250	+  5,450	4014	5800	8,740	918,300	9,720	5,450	11,873	2,612
1964	37,014	21,550	–  9,320	3725	5950	8,960	941,300	–16,613	17,658	29,531	6,497
1965	38,514	22,300	+14,800	3446	6670	10,060	1,057,000*	26,389	–  2,573	26,958	5,931
1966	37,972	22,000	44,200	4915	6980	10,520	1,107,000	79,16	–25,571	1,387	305
1967	38,693	22,400	24,700	8821	7350	11,070	1,163,000	44,086	–  6,585	–  5,198	–  1,144
1968	40,541	23,500	11,620	9313	7530	11,360	1,193,000	20,792	4,751	–    447	–      98
1969	45,517	26,400	11,720	7150	7720	11,620	1,222,000	20,981	4,949	4,502	990
1970	49,678	28,800	–10,925	9305	7560	11,400	1,198,000	–19,515	27,735	32,237	7,092
1971	50,046	29,200	–20,600	9015	7330	11,030	1,160,000	–36,847	36,102	68,339	15,035
1972	51,080e	29,600	–11,430	7436	7330	11,030	1,160,000	–20,417	27,663	96,002	21,120
1973	50,560			3000e
1974	50,880
1975	43,840
1976	41,110
1977	43,520
1978	45,680
1979	47,770
1980	49,240
1981	50,600
1982	51,590