 Of this group, 2,537 cited "Algerian" as their primary ancestry, and 678 people cited it as their secondary ancestry.Of the "other Arabs" category in the 1990 U.S. Census, 45 percent were married, 40 percent were female, and 60 percent were male.During the 1990s, work visas for Algerians to the European Union were reduced, while the number of worker visas for Algerians and other North African people increased in the United States.