The Associated Press is running an interesting story today about a recent census report on the status of Arabs in the United States. The story, picked up by Al Jazeera, reports:
The 1.2 million people of Arab descent living in the United States tend to be better educated and wealthier than other Americans, the U.S. Census Bureau reported Tuesday.
The population of U.S. residents whose ancestry is solely or partly Arab is less than a half-percent of all Americans. The details in Tuesday’s report covered the people who identified themselves in the 2000 census as having only Arab ancestry.
Arabs are nearly twice as likely as the typical U.S. resident to have graduated from college — 41 percent to 24 percent. The median income for an Arab family was $52,300, about $2,300 more than the median income for all U.S. families.
I looked for the report on the Census Bureau website, but all I could find was this December 2003 report (.pdf).
UPDATE: The new report is available here.
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