Figure 4. Nativity of U.S. civilian labor force in creative IT occupations in metropolitan IT clusters excluding Silicon Valley, IT industries, 2005–14 average
Occupation Percent native origin Percent naturalized citizens Percent noncitizens

All creative IT occupations

65.9 10.3 23.8

Computer programmers

72.9 9.3 17.8

Computer scientists and systems analysts, network systems analysts, and web developers

79.6 7.8 12.6

Software developers, applications and systems software

56.5 11.5 32.0

Computer and information systems managers

76.9 10.0 13.1

Computer hardware engineers

64.7 12.0 23.4

Note: Because of rounding, percentages may not add up to 100.

Source: IPUMS-USA and authors' calculations.