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Old 08-27-2014, 03:04 PM
 
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Pittsburgh has a higher percentage of 25- to 34-year-olds with graduate/professional degrees than San Jose.
This other one had Pgh at only 13%.

Whence the disparity?
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Old 08-27-2014, 03:59 PM
 
Location: Foot of the Rockies
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So we are the best of the low immigrant population cities, and on par with those with high immigrant populations?
No, it's the high immigrant cities that don't have as many with the grad/professional degrees.
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Old 08-27-2014, 04:06 PM
 
Location: Manchester
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No, it's the high immigrant cities that don't have as many with the grad/professional degrees.
NYC, DC, Boston, San Fran don’t have high immigrant populations? All large cities with large immigrant populations, and we are on par with those cities.

Are we talking about smaller cities with high populations of immigrants that we are outpacing in terms of grad/professional degrees?

Maybe I need to reread this thread.
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Old 08-27-2014, 04:08 PM
 
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This other one had Pgh at only 13%.

Whence the disparity?
It appears that the Huffington Post cited the Bureau of Labor Statistics, while the Pittsburgh Business Times cited its own research.
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Old 08-27-2014, 04:11 PM
 
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NYC, DC, Boston, San Fran don’t have high immigrant populations? All large cities with large immigrant populations, and we are on par with those cities.

Are we talking about smaller cities with high populations of immigrants that we are outpacing in terms of grad/professional degrees?

Maybe I need to reread this thread.
I think the poster (eschaton) meant low-skill immigrants. He explained that in his next post. Plus, some of those metros are way larger than Pittsburgh, meaning way more of just about everything. Certainly NYC (23 millnion) and SF CSA (8 1/2 million) are much bigger than Pittsburgh.
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Old 08-27-2014, 04:44 PM
 
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The study cited on HuffPo (warning, .pdf)

Footnote from page 4: "The Current Population Survey (CPS) is a monthly survey of households conducted by the Bureau of Census for the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The monthly workforce educational attainment rate estimates were aggregated for a 2013 annual estimate."

Monthly!
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Old 08-27-2014, 05:22 PM
 
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Pittsburgh's immigrant population is highly educated.

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For example, 38 percent of the current foreign-born residents in Allegheny County have a graduate or professional degree, compared to 13 percent of the native-born population.

Regional Insights: Pittsburgh could use some immigrants - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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Old 08-27-2014, 05:51 PM
 
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It's also very small, both numerically and percentagewise:

22,981 residents are foreign born (2.5% Asia, 1.9% Europe, 1.1% Latin America).
This city: 7.4%

Read more: http://www.city-data.com/city/Pittsb...#ixzz3BdhuIHjq Pittsburgh


Compare to New York: 3,136,592 residents are foreign born (10.7% Latin America, 8.2% Asia, 5.7% Europe).
This city: 37.6%

Read more: http://www.city-data.com/city/New-Yo...#ixzz3BdflVics New York

Boston: 167,272 residents are foreign born (7.8% Latin America, 5.7% Asia, 3.5% Europe).
This city: 26.2%

Read more: http://www.city-data.com/city/Boston...#ixzz3Bdg6J1eE Boston

San Francisco: 285,541 residents are foreign born , , (22.6% Asia7.8% Latin America5.1% Europe).
This city: 36.8%

Read more: http://www.city-data.com/races/races...#ixzz3BdhaEqCd SF

I chose these cities b/c they were mentioned earlier in the thread.
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Old 08-27-2014, 06:28 PM
 
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It's also very small, both numerically and percentagewise:
You're ignoring that Pittsburgh is on par with DC, Boston, San Jose, NY and San Francisco even without having their high immigrant populations. You can't use immigrant populations as an excuse for why other cities didn't rank as high as Pittsburgh since the other top ranking cities have high immigrant populations.
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Old 08-27-2014, 06:36 PM
 
Location: Manchester
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You're ignoring that Pittsburgh is on par with DC, Boston, San Jose, NY and San Francisco even without having their high immigrant populations. You can't use immigrant populations as an excuse for why other cities didn't rank as high as Pittsburgh since the other top ranking cities have high immigrant populations.
That’s where my confusion was coming from. Pittsburgh ranks high for having a small population AND a small immigrant population. Basically, although we don’t have as many people as other places, the ones we have are highly educated.
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