Immigrants from Western Asia vs Subsaharan African Receiving Food Stamps

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Immigrants from Western Asia

Race

Asian Black/African American Hawaiian Hispanic or Latino Native/Alaskan White/Caucasian

Ancestry

Afghan African Alaska Native Alaskan Athabascan Albanian Aleut Alsatian American Apache Arab Arapaho Argentinean Armenian Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac Australian Austrian Bahamian Bangladeshi Barbadian Basque Belgian Belizean Bermudan Bhutanese Blackfeet Bolivian Brazilian British British West Indian Bulgarian Burmese Cajun Cambodian Canadian Cape Verdean Carpatho Rusyn Celtic Central American Central American Indian Cherokee Cheyenne Chickasaw Chilean Chinese Chippewa Choctaw Colombian Colville Comanche Costa Rican Cree Creek Croatian Crow Cuban Cypriot Czech Czechoslovakian Danish Delaware Dominican Dutch Dutch West Indian Eastern European Ecuadorian Egyptian English Estonian Ethiopian European Fijian Filipino Finnish French French American Indian French Canadian German German Russian Ghanaian Greek Guamanian/Chamorro Guatemalan Guyanese Haitian Hmong Honduran Hopi Houma Hungarian Icelander Indian (Asian)Indonesian Inupiat Iranian Iraqi Irish Iroquois Israeli Italian Jamaican Japanese Jordanian Kenyan Kiowa Korean Laotian Latvian Lebanese Liberian Lithuanian Lumbee Luxembourger Macedonian Malaysian Maltese Marshallese Menominee Mexican Mexican American Indian Mongolian Moroccan Native Hawaiian Navajo Nepalese New Zealander Nicaraguan Nigerian Northern European Norwegian Okinawan Osage Ottawa Paiute Pakistani Palestinian Panamanian Paraguayan Pennsylvania German Peruvian Pima Polish Portuguese Potawatomi Pueblo Puerto Rican Puget Sound Salish Romanian Russian Salvadoran Samoan Scandinavian Scotch-Irish Scottish Seminole Senegalese Serbian Shoshone Sierra Leonean Sioux Slavic Slovak Slovene Somali South African South American South American Indian Soviet Union Spaniard Spanish Spanish American Spanish American Indian Sri Lankan Sudanese Swedish Swiss Syrian Taiwanese Thai Tlingit-Haida Tohono O'Odham Tongan Trinidadian and Tobagonian Tsimshian Turkish U.S. Virgin Islander Ugandan Ukrainian Uruguayan Ute Venezuelan Vietnamese Welsh West Indian Yakama Yaqui Yugoslavian Yuman Yup'ik Zimbabwean

Immigration

Nonimmigrants Immigrants Afghanistan Africa Albania Argentina Armenia Asia Australia Austria Bahamas Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Brazil Bulgaria Burma/Myanmar Cabo Verde Cambodia Cameroon Canada Caribbean Central America Chile China Colombia Congo Costa Rica Croatia Cuba Czechoslovakia Denmark Dominica Dominican Republic Eastern Africa Eastern Asia Eastern Europe Ecuador Egypt El Salvador England Eritrea Ethiopia Europe Fiji France Germany Ghana Greece Grenada Guatemala Guyana Haiti Honduras Hong Kong Hungary India Indonesia Iran Iraq Ireland Israel Italy Jamaica Japan Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Korea Kuwait Laos Latin America Latvia Lebanon Liberia Lithuania Malaysia Mexico Micronesia Middle Africa Moldova Morocco Nepal Netherlands Nicaragua Nigeria North America North Macedonia Northern Africa Northern Europe Norway Oceania Pakistan Panama Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Romania Russia Saudi Arabia Scotland Senegal Serbia Sierra Leone Singapore Somalia South Africa South America South Central Asia South Eastern Asia Southern Europe Spain Sri Lanka St. Vincent and the Grenadines Sudan Sweden Switzerland Syria Taiwan Thailand Trinidad and Tobago Turkey Uganda Ukraine Uruguay Uzbekistan Venezuela Vietnam West Indies Western AfricaWestern AsiaWestern Europe Yemen Zaire Zimbabwe Azores

Subsaharan African

Race

Asian Black/African American Hawaiian Hispanic or Latino Native/Alaskan White/Caucasian

Ancestry

Afghan African Alaska Native Alaskan Athabascan Albanian Aleut Alsatian American Apache Arab Arapaho Argentinean Armenian Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac Australian Austrian Bahamian Bangladeshi Barbadian Basque Belgian Belizean Bermudan Bhutanese Blackfeet Bolivian Brazilian British British West Indian Bulgarian Burmese Cajun Cambodian Canadian Cape Verdean Carpatho Rusyn Celtic Central American Central American Indian Cherokee Cheyenne Chickasaw Chilean Chinese Chippewa Choctaw Colombian Colville Comanche Costa Rican Cree Creek Croatian Crow Cuban Cypriot Czech Czechoslovakian Danish Delaware Dominican Dutch Dutch West Indian Eastern European Ecuadorian Egyptian English Estonian Ethiopian European Fijian Filipino Finnish French French American Indian French Canadian German German Russian Ghanaian Greek Guamanian/Chamorro Guatemalan Guyanese Haitian Hmong Honduran Hopi Houma Hungarian Icelander Indian (Asian)Indonesian Inupiat Iranian Iraqi Irish Iroquois Israeli Italian Jamaican Japanese Jordanian Kenyan Kiowa Korean Laotian Latvian Lebanese Liberian Lithuanian Lumbee Luxembourger Macedonian Malaysian Maltese Marshallese Menominee Mexican Mexican American Indian Mongolian Moroccan Native Hawaiian Navajo Nepalese New Zealander Nicaraguan Nigerian Northern European Norwegian Okinawan Osage Ottawa Paiute Pakistani Palestinian Panamanian Paraguayan Pennsylvania German Peruvian Pima Polish Portuguese Potawatomi Pueblo Puerto Rican Puget Sound Salish Romanian Russian Salvadoran Samoan Scandinavian Scotch-Irish Scottish Seminole Senegalese Serbian Shoshone Sierra Leonean Sioux Slavic Slovak Slovene Somali South African South American South American Indian Soviet Union Spaniard Spanish Spanish American Spanish American Indian Sri LankanSubsaharan AfricanSudanese Swedish Swiss Syrian Taiwanese Thai Tlingit-Haida Tohono O'Odham Tongan Trinidadian and Tobagonian Tsimshian Turkish U.S. Virgin Islander Ugandan Ukrainian Uruguayan Ute Venezuelan Vietnamese Welsh West Indian Yakama Yaqui Yugoslavian Yuman Yup'ik Zimbabwean

Immigration

Receiving Food Stamps

Social Comparison

Income

Per Capita Income Median Family Income Median Household Income Median Earnings Median Male Earnings Median Female Earnings Householder Income Under 25 years Householder Income Ages 25 - 44 years Householder Income Ages 45 - 64 years Householder Income Over 65 years Wage/Income Gap

Poverty

Poverty Family Poverty Male Poverty Female Poverty Female Poverty Among 18-24 Year Olds Female Poverty Among 25-34 Year Olds Child Poverty Under the Age of 5 Child Poverty Under the Age of 16 Child Poverty Among Boys Under 16 Child Poverty Among Girls Under 16 Single Male Poverty Single Female Poverty Single Father Poverty Single Mother Poverty Married-Couple Family Poverty Seniors Poverty Over the Age of 65 Seniors Poverty Over the Age of 75Receiving Food Stamps

Unemployment

Labor Participation

Family Structure

Family Households Family Households with Children Married-couple Households Average Family Size Single Father Households Single Mother Households Currently Married Divorced or Separated Births to Unmarried Women

Vehicle Availability

No Vehicles in Household 1 or more Vehicles in Household 2 or more Vehicles in Household 3 or more Vehicles in Household 4 or more Vehicles in Household

Education Level

No Schooling Completed Nursery School Kindergarten 1st Grade 2nd Grade 3rd Grade 4th Grade 5th Grade 6th Grade 7th Grade 8th Grade 9th Grade 10th Grade 11th Grade 12th Grade, No Diploma High School Diploma GED/Equivalency College, Under 1 year College, 1 year or more Associate's Degree Bachelor's Degree Master's Degree Professional Degree Doctorate Degree

Disability

Disability Male Disability Female Disability Disability Age Under 5 Disability Age 5 to 17 Disability Age 18 to 34 Disability Age 35 to 64 Disability Age 65 to 74 Disability Age Over 75 Vision Disability Hearing Disability Cognitive Disability Ambulatory Disability Self-Care Disability

Receiving Food Stamps Comparison

Immigrants from Western Asia

Sub-Saharan Africans

Average

Tragic

11.6%

RECEIVING FOOD STAMPS

56.4/ 100

METRIC RATING

171st/ 347

METRIC RANK

14.1%

RECEIVING FOOD STAMPS

0.3/ 100

METRIC RATING

255th/ 347

METRIC RANK

Immigrants from Western Asia vs Subsaharan African Receiving Food Stamps Correlation Chart

The statistical analysis conducted on geographies consisting of 403,001,394 people shows a substantial positive correlation between the proportion of Immigrants from Western Asia and percentage of population receiving government assistance and/or food stamps in the United States with a correlation coefficient (R) of 0.568 and weighted average of 11.6%. Similarly, the statistical analysis conducted on geographies consisting of 506,389,803 people shows a significant positive correlation between the proportion of Sub-Saharan Africans and percentage of population receiving government assistance and/or food stamps in the United States with a correlation coefficient (R) of 0.630 and weighted average of 14.1%, a difference of 21.1%.

Receiving Food Stamps Correlation Summary

Measurement	Immigrants from Western Asia	Subsaharan African
Minimum	1.2%	4.3%
Maximum	41.0%	70.0%
Range	39.8%	65.7%
Mean	14.4%	23.8%
Median	12.6%	16.8%
Interquartile 25% (IQ1)	9.6%	13.9%
Interquartile 75% (IQ3)	18.2%	31.0%
Interquartile Range (IQR)	8.6%	17.1%
Standard Deviation (Sample)	7.4%	14.4%
Standard Deviation (Population)	7.3%	14.3%

Similar Demographics by Receiving Food Stamps

Demographics Similar to Immigrants from Western Asia by Receiving Food Stamps

In terms of receiving food stamps, the demographic groups most similar to Immigrants from Western Asia are Costa Rican (11.6%, a difference of 0.22%), Immigrants from Eastern Africa (11.6%, a difference of 0.28%), Guamanian/Chamorro (11.7%, a difference of 0.32%), Tlingit-Haida (11.6%, a difference of 0.40%), and Immigrants from Syria (11.7%, a difference of 0.42%).

Demographics	Rating \| Rank	Receiving Food Stamps
Immigrants \| Chile	65.0 /100 \| #164	Good 11.5%
Arabs	64.7 /100 \| #165	Good 11.5%
Immigrants \| Belarus	62.8 /100 \| #166	Good 11.5%
Kenyans	60.2 /100 \| #167	Good 11.6%
Tlingit-Haida	59.1 /100 \| #168	Average 11.6%
Immigrants \| Eastern Africa	58.3 /100 \| #169	Average 11.6%
Costa Ricans	57.9 /100 \| #170	Average 11.6%
Immigrants \| Western Asia	56.4 /100 \| #171	Average 11.6%
Guamanians/Chamorros	54.2 /100 \| #172	Average 11.7%
Immigrants \| Syria	53.4 /100 \| #173	Average 11.7%
Immigrants \| Eritrea	50.0 /100 \| #174	Average 11.7%
Osage	49.8 /100 \| #175	Average 11.7%
Peruvians	49.3 /100 \| #176	Average 11.7%
Immigrants \| Ukraine	48.4 /100 \| #177	Average 11.8%
German Russians	48.1 /100 \| #178	Average 11.8%

Demographics Similar to Sub-Saharan Africans by Receiving Food Stamps

In terms of receiving food stamps, the demographic groups most similar to Sub-Saharan Africans are Marshallese (14.1%, a difference of 0.010%), Japanese (14.1%, a difference of 0.020%), Arapaho (14.1%, a difference of 0.12%), Immigrants from Ghana (14.1%, a difference of 0.20%), and Creek (14.1%, a difference of 0.33%).

Demographics	Rating \| Rank	Receiving Food Stamps
Immigrants \| Laos	0.7 /100 \| #248	Tragic 13.8%
Indonesians	0.6 /100 \| #249	Tragic 13.9%
Immigrants \| Cambodia	0.5 /100 \| #250	Tragic 13.9%
Yaqui	0.5 /100 \| #251	Tragic 13.9%
Ghanaians	0.5 /100 \| #252	Tragic 14.0%
Spanish Americans	0.4 /100 \| #253	Tragic 14.0%
Marshallese	0.3 /100 \| #254	Tragic 14.1%
Sub-Saharan Africans	0.3 /100 \| #255	Tragic 14.1%
Japanese	0.3 /100 \| #256	Tragic 14.1%
Arapaho	0.3 /100 \| #257	Tragic 14.1%
Immigrants \| Ghana	0.3 /100 \| #258	Tragic 14.1%
Creek	0.3 /100 \| #259	Tragic 14.1%
Central Americans	0.3 /100 \| #260	Tragic 14.1%
Immigrants \| Congo	0.3 /100 \| #261	Tragic 14.1%
Paiute	0.2 /100 \| #262	Tragic 14.3%