Estimating Characteristics of the Foreign-Born by Legal Status

Download or read book Estimating Characteristics of the Foreign-Born by Legal Status written by Dean H. Judson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-03-29 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.