Abstract
Based on administrative and survey data as well as data-based assumptions about the bounds on alien address reporting, this study provides estimates of the lower and upper bounds for the cumulative net emigration rates, by country and area of origin, of the FY1971 cohort of legal immigrants to the United States as of January 1979. The merged data indicate that the cumulative net emigration rate for the entire cohort could have been as high as 50 percent. Canadian emigration was probably between 51 and 55 percent. Emigration rates for legal immigrants from Central America, the Caribbean (excluding Cuba), and South America were at least as high as 50 percent, and could have been as high as 70 percent. Emigration rates for Koreans and Chinese could not have exceeded 22 percent over the same period.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Keely, Charles B. and Ellen Percy Kraly. 1978. Recent Net Alien Immigration to the United States: Its Impact on Population Growth and Native Fertility. Demography 15:267–283.
Nie, Norman H., C. Hadlai Hull, Jean G. Jenkins, Karin Steinbrenner, and Dale H. Bent. 1975. Statistical Package for the Social Sciences. Second Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill.
Passel, Jeffrey S. and Jennifer M. Peck. 1979. Estimating Emigration from the United States— A Review of Data and Methods. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Population Association of America, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Shryock, Henry S., Jacob S. Siegl, and Associates. 1975. The Methods and Materials of Demography. Third printing (rev.), U. S. Bureau of the Census. Washington, D.C.: U. S. Government Printing Office.
Siegel, Jacob S. 1978. Collection and Analysis of Immigration Data at the Census Bureau. Prepared statement submitted at hearings before the Select Committee on Population, Ninety-fifth Congress, Second Session. Pp. 707–726 in Immigration to the United States. Washington, D.C.: U. S. Government Printing Office.
U. S. Bureau of the Census. 1960. Historical Statistics of the United States. Washington, D.C.: U. S. Government Printing Office.
— 1978. Money and Income and Poverty Status in 1975 of Families and Persons in the United States and the South Region, by Division and States (Spring 1976 Survey of Income and Education). Current Population Reports, Series P-60, No. 112. Washington, D.C.: U. S. Government Printing Office.
U. S. Immigration and Naturalization Service. 1971–1978. Annual Report. Washington, D.C.: U. S. Government Printing Office.
Warren, Robert. 1977. Recent Immigration and Current Data Collection. Monthly Labor Review 72:36–41.
Warren, Robert. 1979. Alien Emigration from the United States: 1963 to 1974. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Population Association of America, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Warren, Robert and Jennifer Marks Peck. 1980. Foreign-born Emigrationfrom the United States: 1960 to 1970. Demography 17:71–84.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Jasso, G., Rosenzweig, M.R. Estimating the emigration rates of legal immigrants using administrative and survey data: The 1971 cohort of immigrants to the United States. Demography 19, 279–290 (1982). https://doi.org/10.2307/2060971
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060971