IMMIGRANT-INDIANS 3LST

Among the Indian foreign born, 43.8 per cent were
naturalised US citizens, compared to 43.0 per cent among the
overall foreign-born population.
Also three of every 10 Indian immigrants in 2008 were
limited English proficient. About 9.2 per cent of Indian
immigrants age 5 and older reported speaking "English only"
while 62.4 per cent reported speaking English "very well".
In terms of academic achievement, Indian immigrants
were better educated than other immigrants and the native
born. In 2008, 73.6 per cent of Indian-born adults age 25 and
older had a bachelor's degree or higher compared to 27.1
percent among all 31.9 million foreign-born adults and 27.8
per cent of all 168.
1 million native-born adults. An additional 8.6 per
cent had some college education or an associate's degree
compared to 16.4 per cent among all immigrant adults and 30.
8 per cent of all native-born adults.
Among the 713,000 Indian immigrant male workers age
16 and older employed in the civilian labor force in 2008, 27.
0 per cent reported working in information technology; 20.2
per cent in management, business, and finance; 10.7 per cent
in other sciences and engineering; and 10.6 per cent in sales,
the report said.
About 16.4 per cent of Indian immigrants lived in
poverty in 2008 compared to 37.9 per cent of all immigrants
and 28.7 per cent of the native born.
The estimated number of unauthorised immigrants from
India has increased from about 120,000 in 2000 to about
200,000 in 2009, an increase of 64 per cent, the report said.
PTI