Soci 330: U.S. Immigrants and Immigration
Guide to Statistical Profile of an Immigrant Group
• Short statistical overview of an immigrant group of your choice to the United States (3-4 pages, excluding tables)

• Summarize and discuss the following information from immigration statistics:
o Total number and percentage of the immigrant group; How does your group compare with other immigrant groups? such as Salvadorians
o Primary means of entry – family-sponsored, employment, temporary, refugees and asylees, undocumented; time of arrival and change over time
o Top three destinations (state, metropolitan areas) and reasons behind choice of settlement areas (consult readings and provide a plausible explanation)
o Select demographic and socioeconomic characteristics such as gender, age, family structure, education, occupation, income, citizenship and discussion of these patterns (consult readings and provide a plausible explanation)

• Provide 3-5 simple, but effective statistics (tables) of your immigrant group and discuss these descriptive statistics in your statistical profile. Please make sure the tables you have created are readable, meaning it is regular font size and has been reformatted or customized from web pages so that they can be read on a 8.5 by 11 paper. In short, a reader should be able to get most of the content of the statistical profile by just looking at the tables. Please be aware that you do not want to overwhelm the reader by squeezing in too much information onto one single table either. Check some examples of informative tables from websites which provide a clean interface with sufficient information.

• Construct your own tables using the most current data from the American Fact Finder, DHS Excel Files, and Social Explorer. You can also draw indirect information from the Migration Policy Institute, the Pew, and other migration-related reports, but the tables presented in these reports should not be copied and pasted. Instead, create a customized table of your own incorporating information from these tables.

• Consult various data sources, including those below (Also ee Statistical Profile Websites Data file on Blackboard):
o American Fact Finder, U.S. Census
o Department of Homeland Security (INS before becoming the DHS) http://uscis.gov/graphics/shared/aboutus/statistics/ybpage.htm (scroll to bottom).
o Social explorer.com
o U.S. Census Bureau reports and tables on the “Foreign-born”: http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/foreign.html
o Migration Policy Institute (a non-partisan think tank in Washington, DC) data center: http://www.migrationinformation.org/DataTools/
o The Pew