Table 5-2B.  Year of Entry of the Foreign-Born Population for Selected Metropolitan Areas:  1997
                                                                                                                                                    (Last revised, 5/5/99:A:table5-2B)
(Numbers in thousands.  Metropolitan areas as defined June 30, 1993, with 1 million or more foreign-born population in 1990.  Data are for civilian noninstitutional population plus 
Armed Forces living off post or with their families on post)
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                                                   |             |                                         5-year periods                                          | Selected periods
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                                                   |       Total |         |         |         |         |                       Before 1977                       |         |
                                                   |    foreign- |         |         |         |         |---------------------------------------------------------|         |
                                                   |        born | 1992 to | 1987 to | 1982 to | 1977 to |        | 1972 to | 1967 to | 1962 to | 1957 to | Before | 1990 to | 1980 to
Metropolitan area                                  |  population |    1997 |    1991 |    1986 |    1981 |  Total |    1976 |    1971 |    1966 |    1961 |   1957 |    1997 |    1989
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NUMBER
Chicago-Gary-Kenosha, IL-IN-WI CMSA................        1,062       240       188        94       149      390       115        68        41        45      121       349       245
Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange County, CA CMSA.......        4,778       741     1,170       706       975    1,187       436       295       186       120      151     1,152     1,935
Miami-Fort Lauderdale, FL CMSA.....................        1,440       261       198       227       266      489        88       152       109        72       68       328       518
New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-
    CT-PA CMSA.....................................        4,582     1,038       924       659       555    1,405       408       400       175       122      301     1,437     1,476
San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, CA CMSA............        1,356       197       221       241       234      462       159        92        90        30       92       284       509

PERCENT DISTRIBUTION
Chicago-Gary-Kenosha, IL-IN-WI CMSA................        100.0      22.6      17.7       8.8      14.1     36.7      10.9       6.4       3.8       4.3     11.4      32.9      23.0
Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange County, CA CMSA.......        100.0      15.5      24.5      14.8      20.4     24.8       9.1       6.2       3.9       2.5      3.2      24.1      40.5
Miami-Fort Lauderdale, FL CMSA.....................        100.0      18.1      13.7      15.8      18.5     33.9       6.1      10.5       7.6       5.0      4.7      22.8      36.0
New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-
    CT-PA CMSA.....................................        100.0      22.7      20.2      14.4      12.1     30.7       8.9       8.7       3.8       2.7      6.6      31.4      32.2
San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, CA CMSA............        100.0      14.6      16.3      17.7      17.3     34.1      11.7       6.8       6.6       2.2      6.8      20.9      37.5
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Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, March 1997 Current Population Survey.
Internet Release date:  October 15, 1999