Indeed, immigrants perform a variety of jobs, and are slightly overrepresented in jobs in the professional and health fields, though they are very overrepresented in low-income service jobs, according to the Fiscal Police Institute's study.
And there are concerns that minorities are overrepresented on the DNA database.
Most changes worked in the Democrats' favour, but that is because Republicans had previously been overrepresented, relative to their support; demographic changes are turning California even bluer.
Groups that would normally not take part in consumer surveys, such as young people and extremists, are overrepresented in these online surveys, says Mr Krouwel.
One of the bits to be shunted north was its breakfast show, which lost its best presenter as a result and struggles to persuade celebrities to trek up to Salford.But the greatest danger comes from policies directed against various bêtes noires which are overrepresented in London.
The losses for women (who are overrepresented in, for example, schools and civil service) became more noticeable over time, as states and cities started slashing their budgets in response to the recession.
Although he credits the three universities with becoming more accessible to the underprivileged, he notes that even today, the wealthy are still vastly overrepresented among their student bodies.
Even by the obscure formula that the fund uses, several emerging economies are now hugely underrepresented and many European countries overrepresented (see table).Countries guard their quotas jealously.
Although Protestants were overrepresented, often unfairly, in skilled jobs and managerial positions, Belfast's economic magnet drew lower-class Catholics from the impoverished countryside.
Traditionally, particularly in the South, the populations of rural areas had been overrepresented in legislatures in proportion to those of urban and suburban areas.
The new Senate, which heavily overrepresented rural France, was safely monarchist from the outset; and the term of President Mac-Mahon, a loyal monarchist, ran until 1880.
