New Immigrant Survey

General Information

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Evaluator(s) New York University
University of Pennsylvania
RAND
Investigator(s) Guillermina Jasso (New York University)
Douglas Massey (Princeton University)
Mark R. Rosenweig (Harvard University)
James P. Smith (RAND)
 
Domain Income Security/TANF
Status Operational with Findings
Duration Aug 1997 - Mar 2003
Type Research and/or Program Evaluation
Program/Policy Description The plan of the New Immigrant Survey (NIS) is to carry out, for the first time, a comprehensive, multi-cohort longitudinal survey of new legal immigrants to the United States based on representative samples of the administrative records, compiled by U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS), pertaining to immigrants newly admitted to permanent residence. To monitor changes across cohorts, new samples will be drawn periodically. To monitor adaptation over time, each sample will be interviewed at regular intervals over the life cycle. To assess immigrants’ legacy, information will also be obtained about and from their children, both the immigrant children brought with them and the U.S. citizen children born to them in the United States. The survey has the objective of improving the data base on immigrants to the United States in order to substantially advance understanding of the socioeconomic status of immigrants and their children and the effects of immigration in the United States.
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Last Updated 11/16/04
Type of Summary Unreviewed
Contact(s) James P. Smith (smith@rand.org)
RAND
1700 Main Street
P.O. Box 2138
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Submitter(s) Research Forum Staff (info@researchforum.org)
National Center for Children In Poverty
215 West 125th St, 3rd Fl
(T) (646)284-9600
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Populations Studied

Target Population Immigrants
Subgroups Analyzed Children 1-6
Sample Size and Unit Pilot survey: Stratified random sample of 1,982 persons admitted to legal permanent residence during the months of July and August of 1996 (Children were under sampled and employment-based immigrants were over sampled).
Execution Not reported.

Sites Studied

United States