FIGURE1 Occupations With High Shares of Unauthorized Immigrants, 2012 % unauthorized limmigrants among workers in...
Unauthorized immigrants made up 5.1% of the nation’s labor force in 2012, numbering 8.1 million who were working or looking for work, according to previously published Pew Research estimates (Passel and Cohn, 2014). But as this new analysis shows, they account for a far higher share of the total workforce in specific jobs, notably farming (26%), cleaning and maintenance (17%), and construction (14%).
FIGURE1  | Occupations With High Shares of  | Unauthorized Immigrants, 2012  | % unauthorized limmigrants among workers in...  | Farming fishingand forestry  | 26  | fishingand forestry  | cleaning Building ground  | 17  | cleaning & maintenance  | Construction and  | 14  | extraction  | Food preparation serving &  | 11  | preparation serving  | Production  | Transportation and  | material moving  | Civilian labor force  | 5. 1  | Source: Pew Research Centerta bulations from augmented 2012  | American Community Survey data from Integrated augmented Public Use  | Microdata Series (IPUMS)  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER 