Immigration Statistics

Panel on Immigration Statistics, Committee on National Statistics, National Research Council

• 1 Front Matter; 2 1 Overview and Major Recommendations; 3 2 Immigration Policy: Past to Present; 4 3 Needs for Statistics on Immigration; 5 4 The Immigration and Naturalization Service; 6 5 Other Government Sources of Information on Immigration; 7 6 The Role of Nongovernmental Activities in Immigration Studies; 8 7 Collecting Data on Refugees and Asylees: An Illusion of a Complex Process; 9 8 Data Gaps and Ways to Fill Them; 10 9 Recommendations; 11 Glossary; 12 Appendix A: Selected Forms; 13 Appendix B: Some Methodological Issues in Analyzing Data on Immigration; 14 Appendix C: The Settlement Process Among Mexican Migrants to the United States: New Methods and Findings; 15 Appendix D: A Review of Statistical Aspects Contained Within Pending Immigration Legislation: A Letter Report to the INS, May 1983; 16 Appendix E: A Summary of Panel Activities; 17 Appendix F: Bibliographic Sources of Information; 18 Appendix G: Biographical Sketches of Panel Members and Staff