Taiwanese immigrants do well in U.S.

Based on statistics provided by the Census Bureau and the Department of Homeland Security, the study found that the number of Taiwanese immigrants stood at 342,444 in 2008, the last year for which statistics are available.

This number included people who had not yet naturalized as U.S. citizens.

It made Taiwanese the 24th-largest immigrant group in the U.S., a position that tied it with Japan and Iran in terms of numbers.

According to the study, 71.6 percent of Taiwanese immigrants have bachelor's or higher degrees, which is far more than the 27.1 percent for all immigrants and the 27.8 percent for those born in the U.S.

More than 50 percent of Taiwanese male immigrants work in the fields of management, business, finance, information technology, science and engineering, while 25 percent of female Taiwanese immigrants are in the fields of management, business and finance.

Compared with immigrants as a whole, the economic status of Taiwanese is excellent, with 76 percent of them owning their own houses against 57 percent for all immigrants and 73 percent for those born in the U.S.

Taiwanese also boasted a high naturalization percentage, with 72 percent of them having U.S. citizenship against 43 percent for all immigrants.

California houses the largest number of Taiwanese immigrants, accounting for 47 percent of them, including 24.3 percent in metropolitan Los Angeles, followed by metropolitan New York with 11.6 percent, San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Barbara with 8.9 percent and metropolitan San Francisco with 6.8 percent.

The increase in the number of Taiwanese immigrants, which expanded from 75,353 in 1980 to 326,215 in 2000, has slowed to 16,229 in the eight years since then.

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