Statistics on U.S. Immigration An Assessment of Data Needs for Future Research (1996) / Chapter Skim
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7 Longitudinal Studies of Immigrants
7 Longitudinal Studies of Immigrants
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This type of design is preferable to the first design because it collects past information on the respondents at the very beginning of the study. A fourth type is a prior prospective design with newly matched administrative records.
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Both alternatives are cheaper than prospective longitudinal surveys, although both have limitations (a retrospective survey would not include past immigrants who have already emigrated, for instance)
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For example, both the Panel Survey on Income Dynamics and the Health and Nutrition Examination Survey have added Hispanic samples to their data collection in recent years. Alternatively, one could alter the survey instrument in a current survey.
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Sixth, ethnographic data are important to consider.] Studies using participant or direct observation can offer useful additional insights into immigrant adjustment.
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A key point of contention is whether existing longitudinal surveys, with potential cost savings derived from building on an existing survey, could be redesigned to offer an adequate comparison population for an immigrant subsample, or whether it would be more cost effective to begin an entirely new longitudinal survey. Longitudinal data takes considerable time to accumulate for questions involving years of data.
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For the analysis of such data, researchers need to have access to local-area geographic codes that would allow them to measure labor markets and other local context variables; alternatively, these contextual data need to be collected as part of the survey operation. Government agencies ordinarily suppress local geographic identification in the data they collect, which limits the analysis by eliminating contextual information.
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Workshop participants encouraged the development of new special-purpose immigration surveys. NEED FOR LONGITUDINAL DATA Workshop participants considered whether a special longitudinal survey of immigrants should be pursued, recognizing that a new prospective survey would be expensive yet would yield valuable data.
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reintervie, Households The survey covered a broad range of family domains: composition, living arrangements, growing up, leaving home, education, employment, marriage/divorce, cohabitation, fertility, relations with elder parents, etc. Health and Data collection focused on retirement decisions, recognizing roles Survey sty Retirement Survey played by: pension and social security retirement incentives, job scheduled demands and worker capacities, health and longevity, family other year responsibilities, husband/wife career choices, economic status, years and housing and location choices National Survey of farmworkers that provides data on the occupational 1988 to p: Agricultural activities of agricultural workers and families, job history longitudir Workers Survey matrices, descriptions of employment conditions (pay, health care, ended 195 (NAWS)
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, assets, and household expenses (to determine food stamp eligibility) Annual Survey of Survey of current employment or job search activity, past work Survey sta Refugees history, income, English ability, household composition, social conducted services received, and household use of welfare.
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LONGITUDINAL STUDIES OF IMMIGRANTS 79 Original Panel Survey Dates Sample Size Foreign-Born in Sample s of Every two years, 1973 60,000 persons Approximately 20% and to present (two follow orn ups each survey year) ders (at Survey started in Seoul: 1,834 All if- 1986- 1987, resurveyed individuals sited in 1988-1989 and Manila: 2,077 All 1991 - 1992 individuals ng with 1992; Follow-up 5,267 individuals 3,194 and planned for 1995 nce.
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For a major longitudinal survey of immigrants to be started, it may be cost-effective to consider building it onto a major ongoing longitudinal data collection program. But, as noted earlier, some existing longitudinal surveys do not offer an adequate representation of the ethnic and racial diversity of the U.S.
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Oversampling of recent immigrants in SIPP would provide valuable data, but it would also increase the survey complexity and cost. This report has dealt with a number of improvements other than a new longitudinal survey of immigrants that would provide immigration researchers with better data.
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