If natives are included in the measure, the diversity index is in practice (given that in most cases the native born account for 80to90percentent of employment) highly correlated with the share of migrants in total employment.
In California, the foreign-born accounted for 70percentt, and in Hawaii for 71percentt, of TB cases.
The European-born accounted for another one million, while the Asian-born were just under 860,000.
Foreign born cases accounted for 1,299 (21.2%) of all TB cases, increasing from 6.3% in 1993 to 37.2% in 2006.
Persons born overseas accounted for 86.4% of tuberculosis cases in Australia in 2007, despite constituting ≈30% of the population.
The protective effect of being born abroad accounted for ethnic differences in some groups, signalling a role for socio-environmental factors in patterning ethnic differences in asthma in adolescence.
They are more likely to be working than the native-born, accounting for just 13% of the population but 16% of the workforce.
Indeed, according to a recent report by the Partnership for a New American Economy, a group of mayors and business leaders led by Mr. Bloomberg and Mr. Murdoch, immigrants are more than twice as likely to start a business as the native-born, accounting for the start of 28 percent of new American businesses in 2011, despite representing just 12.9 percent of the population.
Although these LBW babies account for 14% of the children born, they account for 60 80% of neonatal deaths [ 6].
Although low-birth-weight infants make up only 14percentt of babies born, they account for 60percentto80percentcent of neonatal deaths.
