Table 3-3.  Country or Area of Birth of the Foreign-Born Population from Africa and Oceania:  1997
                                                                                                                                           (Last revised, 5/6/99:A:table3-3)
(Numbers in thousands.  Data are for civilian noninstitutional population plus Armed Forces living off post or with their families on post)
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                                        |                    Number                  ||                                         |                    Number
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                                        |           |          |      90-percent     ||                                         |           |          |     90-percent
                                        |           |          |   confidence level  ||                                         |           |          |  confidence level
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                                        |     Point | Standard |    Lower |    Upper ||                                         |     Point | Standard |    Lower |    Upper
Country or area (CPS code) 1/           |  estimate |    error | bound 2/ |    bound || Country or area (CPS code) 1/           |  estimate |    error | bound 2/ |    bound
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     Africa.............................        558         76        433        683    Western Africa..........................        141         38         78        203
Eastern Africa..........................        102         33         49        156      Cape Verde (-)........................       (NA)        (X)        (X)        (X)
  Ethiopia (417)........................         63         26         21        106      Ghana (421)...........................         32         18          2         62
  Kenya (427)...........................         39         20          6         72      Liberia (-)...........................       (NA)        (X)        (X)        (X)
  Somalia (-)...........................       (NA)        (X)        (X)        (X)      Nigeria (440).........................        109         34         54        164
  Tanzania (-)..........................       (NA)        (X)        (X)        (X)      Senegal (-)...........................       (NA)        (X)        (X)        (X)
  Uganda (-)............................       (NA)        (X)        (X)        (X)      Sierra Leone (-)......................       (NA)        (X)        (X)        (X)
  Zambia (-)............................       (NA)        (X)        (X)        (X)    Africa n.e.c. (462).....................        180         43        109        251
  Zimbabwe (-)..........................       (NA)        (X)        (X)        (X)

Middle Africa...........................       (NA)        (X)        (X)        (X)
  Angola (-)............................       (NA)        (X)        (X)        (X)
  Cameroon (-)..........................       (NA)        (X)        (X)        (X)
  Zaire (-).............................       (NA)        (X)        (X)        (X)

Northern Africa.........................         83         29         35        131         Oceania............................        176         43        105        246
  Algeria (-)...........................       (NA)        (X)        (X)        (X)    Australia and New Zealand...............         94         31         42        145
  Egypt (415)...........................         66         26         23        110      Australia (501).......................         61         25         19        102
  Libya (-).............................       (NA)        (X)        (X)        (X)      New Zealand (514).....................         33         18          3         63
  Morocco (436).........................          8          9          -         23
  Sudan (-).............................       (NA)        (X)        (X)        (X)    Pacific Islands.........................         82         29         34        130
  Tunisia (-)...........................       (NA)        (X)        (X)        (X)      Fiji (507)............................         11         10          -         28
  North Africa n.e.c. (468).............          9         10          -         25      Tonga (-).............................       (NA)        (X)        (X)        (X)
                                                                                          Western Samoa (-).....................       (NA)        (X)        (X)        (X)
Southern Africa.........................         52         23         14         90      Other Pacific Islands (527)...........         71         27         27        116
  South Africa (449)....................         52         23         14         90
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(-) No country code in March 1997 CPS.
- Represents zero or rounds to zero.
(NA) Not available.
(X) Not applicable.
n.e.c. Not elsewhere classified.
1/ Countries or areas listed are those shown in U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1999a, Table 3.
2/ Lower bound truncated at zero.
Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, March 1997 Current Population Survey.
Internet Release date:  October 15, 1999