Immigrants Admitted to the United States

DESCRIPTION: These data are collected and distributed by the United States Department of Justice, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (formerly referred to as the Immigration and Naturalization Service). The data contain information about the characteristics of aliens who became legal permanent residents of the United States each fiscal year (October-September) from 1972-2000. Information is provided for two types of immigrants, New Arrivals and Adjustments. New Arrivals are defined as those that arrived from outside the United States with valid immigration visas issued by the United States . Adjustments are those individuals that were already in the United States with temporary status and were adjusted to legal permanent residence through petition.

Variables available in the dataset include port of entry, month and year of admission, class of admission, and state and area to which the immigrants were admitted. Demographic information such as age, sex, marital status, occupation, country of birth, country of last permanent residence, and nationality is also provided.

CODEBOOKS: Codebooks for each year of data are available on the local area network (T:\Public\Data\INS) or from ICPSR ( www.icpsr.umich.edu ). The codebooks do not include variable frequencies.

DATA: Separate data files are available for each fiscal year from 1972-2000 on CD-ROM from the CFDR office or can be downloaded from ICPSR ( www.icpsr.umich.edu ). The data are in raw format. A SAS input statement is available on the local area network.

WEBLINKS: Additional information is available on the ICPSR website (http://webapp.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR-SERIES/00121.xml ).