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American Community Survey of the Foreign Born

Harvard Dataverse (Africa Rice Center, Bioversity International, CCAFS, CIAT, IFPRI, IRRI and WorldFish)

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Title American Community Survey of the Foreign Born
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/EENUJP
 
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Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Users can obtain demographic characteristics of the foreign-born population in each state. Topics include: language, education, income, and poverty.

Background

The American Community Survey and Census Data on the Foreign-Born interactive map was created by the Migration Policy Institute using Census data. This website provides information pertaining to the immigrant population in the United States. Topics include: demographics, language, education, income and poverty of the foreign-born population.

User Functionality

Users can click on states to generate fact sheets about the demographic, social, language, educ
ation, workforce, income, and poverty characteristics of the population in each state. Data can be downloaded into SAS statistical software. Users can view demographic information by race/ethnicity, Hispanic origin, place of origin, citizenship status, sex/gender, and marital status.

Data Notes

Data are derived from the 1990 and 2000 Decennial Censuses and the 2007 American Community Surveys (ACS). Information is available on national and state levels. The website does not indicate when the data will be updated.
 
Subject Migration Policy Institute
foreign-born
immigrant
immigration
migrant
migration
native-born
language
education
income
poverty
country of origin
citizenship status
Hispanic
Latino
domestic migration
international migration
children
families
fertility
English proficiency
linguistically isolated household
educational attainment
adult English literacy
occupation