The growing importance of immigration in the United States today prompted this examination of the adequacy of U.S. immigration data. This volume summarizes data needs in four areas: immigration trends, assimilation and impacts, labor force issues, and family and social networks. It includes recommendations on additional sources for the data needed for program and research purposes, and new questions and refinements of questions within existing data sources to improve the understanding of immigration and immigrant trends.
- Statistics on U.S. Immigration
- Copyright
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Summary
- CONCLUSIONS
- Research Issues
- Research Improvements
- RECOMMENDATIONS
- Parental Nativity
- Public Use Microdata Sample
- Current Population Survey
- Joint Mexico-United States Surveys
- Immigration and Naturalization Service Records
- A Longitudinal Survey
- 1 Introduction
- INTEREST IN IMMIGRATION ISSUES
- SHIFTS IN IMMIGRATION PATTERNS
- Immigration Today
- Perceptions of the Past
- Effects of Immigration
- ESTABLISHING DATA PRIORITIES
- ADEQUACY OF IMMIGRATION DATA
- DEFINITION OF TERMS
- ORGANIZATION OF THE REPORT
- 2 Trends in U.S. Immigration
- A DEMOGRAPHIC PERSPECTIVE
- Trends Since 1900
- Data Needs
- AN ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVE
- Economic Trends
- Data Needs
- 3 Effects of Immigration and Assimilation
- SOCIAL POLICY AND WELFARE
- Employment and Income Dynamics
- The Context of Immigration
- Comparing Political and Economic Immigration
- Effects of Amnesty
- Research Issues
- Perinatal Health
- MENTAL HEALTH
- EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
- RESEARCH NEEDS
- DATA NEEDS
- 4 Labor Force Issues
- ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF IMMIGRATION
- WAGE TRENDS
- IMMIGRANTS AND EMERGING INDUSTRIES
- RESEARCH ISSUES
- 5 Social and Family Networks
- IMMIGRATION NETWORKS
- IMMIGRATION AND THE FAMILY
- RESEARCH ISSUES
- DATA NEEDS
- 6 Immigration Data Needs
- DECENNIAL CENSUS
- CURRENT POPULATION SURVEY
- IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE RECORDS
- CASE STUDIES
- DATA ON NATIONALITY, RACE, AND ETHNICITY
- 7 Longitudinal Studies of Immigrants
- ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES
- ALTERNATIVES TO A LONGITUDINAL SURVEY OF IMMIGRANTS
- SPECIAL-PURPOSE IMMIGRANT SURVEYS
- NEED FOR LONGITUDINAL DATA
- References
- Appendix Workshop on U.S. Immigration Statistics: An Assessment of Data Needs for Future Research
- AGENDA
- PAPERS PRESENTED AT THE WORKSHOP
- WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS
- National Research Council Staff
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