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A Sociology of Official Unauthorized Statistics: Estimation or Guesstimation?

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Abstract

Immigration issues are in the mainstream of public interest as rarely before in the United States. National, state, and local level knowledge about immigrants, by composition on legality, country of origin, and economic well-being, is at a premium for political debates. After long neglect, federal statistics systems have made some advances in monitoring immigration and describing demographic, social, and economic characteristics of immigrants, but informational demands still outweigh statistical assets. In 2009 there were approximately 200 million migrants living away from their countries of birth, and within countries there is considerable migration, so migration is the primary shaper of the contours of populations. Just as the increase in numbers has been dramatic, there has been an increase in research and attention to managing migration, with several U.N. meetings and workshops, including eight Coordination Meetings on International Migration involving governments, non-governmental organizations, experts, and others. Immigration statistics for the U.S. situation may be worse than statistics for assessing immigration impacts among European state-nations for which there have been efforts toward producing consistent immigration statistics for more than two decades (Kelly 1987).

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Woodrow-Lafield, K.A. (2012). A Sociology of Official Unauthorized Statistics: Estimation or Guesstimation?. In: Hoque, N., Swanson, D. (eds) Opportunities and Challenges for Applied Demography in the 21st Century. Applied Demography Series, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2297-2_5

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