National Data | Chart | Looking (In Vain) For Latino Assimilation

Educational Attainment by Generation of California Immigrants

All Californians

Latinos

Whites

The Latino Gap(a)

Percent With Less Than High School Education

First Generation

39%

67%

13%

72%

Second Generation

14%

35%

9%

150%

Third Generation

8%

22%

6%

175%

Total

19%

53%

7%

179%

Percent College Graduates

First Generation

24%

7%

42%

-71%

Second Generation

29%

10%

35%

-66%

Third Generation

31%

11%

35%

-65%

Total

28%

8%

35%

-71%

a. Percent by which Latino achievement level is worse than that of all Californians.

Note: Based on 1998, 2000, 2002, and 2004 data for adults age 25 and over.

Source: S. Karthick Ramakrishnan and Hans P. Johnson, "Second-Generation Immigrants in California," Public Policy Institute of

California, May 2005. Table 5.

English Proficiency by Immigrant Generation

All California Immigrants

Latino Immigrants

The Latino Gap (a)

Percent that speak only English

First Generation

11%

5%

-55%

Second Generation

29%

10%

-66%

Third Generation

94%

75%

-20%

Percent that speak English Not Well or Not At All

First Generation

27%

34%

25.9%

Second Generation

6%

9%

50.0%

Third Generation

0%

2%

(infinite)

a. Percent by which Latino achievement level is worse than that of all Californian immigrants.

Note: Based on October 1999 Current Population Survey.

Source: S. Karthick Ramakrishnan and Hans P. Johnson, "Second-Generation Immigrants in California," Public Policy Institute of

California, May 2005. Table 7.