Question

Which text structure does the word whereas signal in this paragraph?

Foreign-born noncitizens in California’s agricultural labor force also tend to be less well educated than foreign-born noncitizens in the nonagricultural labor force. Whereas 85.5 percent of foreign-born noncitizens in agriculture have not completed high school, less than half (47 percent) of those in nonagricultural industries have completed high school.


description
cause and effect
sequence
compare and contrast