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Re:H-1B: Government issues first-ever official estimate of v... by woobar on Monday July 06, 2020 @08:40PM (#23754406)
Not sure where are you getting 32% from. The table on p. 15 has "Systems Analysis And Programming" at 56% of all petitions. Other computer related occupations are 10.4%

https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/reports-studies/Ch...

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Re:H-1B: Government issues first-ever official estimate of v... by jacobriis on Monday July 06, 2020 @09:29PM (#23754669)
"Systems Analysis And Programming" (62.2%) and "Computer Occupations, Other" (8.4%) are together 70.6% in 2017. That's the approximately the same population as "254k/365k of H1B petitions in 2017 were for computer occupations" which is about ~70%.

So 86% of of "Systems Analysis And Programming" and "Computer Occupations, Other" are "Systems Analysis And Programming".

If you want to assume "Computer Occupations, Other" are not devs, which is not a good assumption in my opinion then fine only 86% are devs.

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Re:H-1B: Government issues first-ever official estimate of v... by woobar on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @12:06PM (#23760616)
Why are we switching to 2017 suddenly? Still, where are the 32% came from in your previous comment?
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