CAR for Immigration Stories

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CAR for Immigration Stories

• Steve Doig
• Arizona State University

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Some immigration data sources

• Current Population Survey (CPS)
• INS Yearbook
• INS Legal Residency file
• Miscellaneous
• Decennial Census

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Current Population Survey

• Done by Census for BLS
• 50,000 surveyed each month
• Citizenship question added in 1994
• http//www.census.gov/
• Annual report of Foreign-Born Population in the
  U.S.
• 60 detailed tables (ASCII text)

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Table example
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CPS limits

• National or regional focus
• Have to combine years for states
• Available tables dont cover all possibilities
• Use FERRET to make own cross-tabs

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INS Yearbook

• http//www.ins.usdoj.gov
• Subjects
• Immigrants
• Refugees/Asylees
• Temporary Admissions
• Naturalizations
• Enforcement
• Downloadable Excel tables

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INS Excel table example
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INS Legal Residency file

• Covers legal immigrants 1980-1998
• Data Entry point, admission date, age, gender,
  nationality, occupation, ZIP,etc.
• 659,000 records in 1998
• Purchase from NICAR

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Miscellaneous data sources

• Census population estimates
• Health care admissions
• Criminal justice system

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Decennial Census

• Done every 10 years
• Census Day April 1, 2000
• To be answered by everyone
• Huge effort!
• Uses
• Political redistricting
• Government planning and policy
• Marketing
• Sociological research

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Short Form

• 7 questions
• 10 minutes to fill out
• Goes to 5/6 of households
• Also called 100 data

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Short Form Questions

• Name and phone (confidential)
• Gender
• Age and date of birth
• Relationship
• Race
• Hispanic Origin
• Tenure

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Long Form (Sample data)

• 52 questions (including the short form)
• Personal social characteristics
• Education, mobility, disability, veteran, et al
• Personal economic characteristics
• Occupation, industry, income, et al.
• Housing physical characteristics
• Rooms, year, vehicles, facilities, et al.
• Housing financial characteristics
• Rent, shelter costs, et al.

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Immigration-related questions

• Race/national origin
• Hispanic origin
• Citizenship status
• Relationship
• Occupation, industry and sector
• Highest schooling completed

• Language spoken at home
• English ability
• Birth place
• Year of entry
• Home five years ago
• Income
• Housing

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Whats NOT Asked

• Religious preference
• Political party affiliation
• Sexual orientation
• Crime victimization
• Health status and disability
• Union membership

• Number of miles commuting to work
• Age of vehicle
• Type of vehicle
• Size of house
• Condition of house

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Immigration questions NOT asked

• Legal vs. illegal immigrant
• Place of entry
• Type of visa
• Work permit
• Family in home country
• Income sent to home country

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Rollout March, 2001

• PL94-171 data
• Count of population by race/ethnic group
• Down to block level
• Immigration (?) stories
• Growth
• Children
• Segregation
• Diversity

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Rollout Summer 2001

• 100 data (SF1)
• Flow state by state
• Down to block level
• Age, race, Hispanic origin, gender, relationship,
  tenure

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Rollout Fall 2001

• Summary File 2 (short form)
• Detailed race and Hispanic origin counts down to
  the census tract

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Rollout Summer 2002

• Sample (long form) data
• All the good stuff!
• Released state by state
• Down to block-group(?) level

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Finding SF3 stories

• General principles
• Change over time
• Comparisons to other areas
• Comparisons within own area
• Study the tables for ideas
• Interview the data

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Some SF3 story ideas

• National origin by neighborhood
• Languages spoken
• Occupations and industries
• Income and poverty
• Citizenship by birthplace
• Household relationships
• Compare generations

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Rollout PUMS

• Public Use Microdata Sample
• Anonymous answers to census questions
• Allows you to create your own tables
• Available in 2003 (maybe sooner on internet)

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CAR tools

• Computer
• Internet connection
• Web browser
• Spreadsheet (Excel)
• Database manager (Access, et al.)
• Mapping (ArcView, et al.)

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ArcView mapping
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Census geography

• Tiled
• Block
• Block-group
• Tract
• County
• State
• Other Place, ZIP, reservation, et al.

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Online census resources

• www.census.gov
• Factfinder.census.gov
• Reporting Census 2000
• cronkite.pp.asu.edu/census
• steve.doig_at_asu.edu

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Questions??