Weekly Viz 2023-05-29

US Employment Occupation Distribution

Today I saw this news stating that immigrants are now a record share of U.S. workers – in 2022, immigrants account for 18.1% of the employed population. Then I found the original newsletter by BLS. It has lots of interesting data points regarding foreign-born v.s. native-born workforce, and is a perfect candidate for my visualization this week :).

My Visualization

The data I chose to visualize this week is the occupation distribution of employed foreign born persons vs. naative born persons. The percentage should add up to 100% for foreign born and native born respectively. I used a gantt chart + circles to show the occupation distributon of these two population easily.

Please notice that all the visualizations are designed for desktop view, so it is recommended to view them on a desktop device.

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Insights

• Comparing the occupation distribution of foreign-born persons vs. native-born in the US, we see signifiant differences in some occupations:
• There are a significant higher percentage of native-born persons working in management, sales, professional, and related occupations;
• Meanwhile, we see more foreign-born persons working in service, construction and maintenance occupations.

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