Estimating Characteristics of the Foreign-Born by Legal Status

Written from 50 years of experience in both demographic and statistical methodology, this volume offers methods for estimating characteristics of the foreign-born population in the United States, with a specific focus on legal status.

This brief represents a comprehensive review of methods for estimating characteristics of the foreign-born population in the United States, specifically oriented toward characteristics by legal status . A variety of methods have been proffered over the past many decades, in a large variety of venues; this work brings them together, attempts to impart some order on the definition of legal status, and describes strengths and deficiencies both in methods and in data. The authors have a combined 50 years of experience in both demographic and statistical methodology.

Describes 'state of the art' methods for estimating this hard-to-estimate population Suggests future directions for researchers and data collection Brings together a disparate literature in one place Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Inhalt
I: Introduction.- II: The Foreign-Born and Immigration.- III: General Methods of Population Estimation.- IV: Estimating the Foreign-Born Using Residual Methods.- V: Estimating the Foreign-Born using Administrative Records.- VI: Estimating the Foreign-Born Using Specialized Survey and Related Statistical Methods.- VII: An Evaluation of Data and Methods for Estimating the Foreign-Born.- Suggestions.- Endnotes.-