Public Use Data on Mexican Immigration

摘要 墨西哥移民可能是政策面临的最具争议性的人口问题 今天在美国的制造者和公民。该提案寻求继续支持 墨西哥移民项目(MMP)提供关于特征的高质量公共使用数据 以及前往美国的有证和无证墨西哥移民的行为。到目前为止 该项目已经调查了118个社区，产生了一个数据库，其中有128,940人被列举在 19,726户家庭，其中包括21,988名现任和前任移民 其中13,793人在调查时没有证件。数据将被传播 来自MMP网站，该网站目前拥有1,508名注册用户，平均收到5,079名 每周点击量。在下一个拨款周期，我们建议增加25个新的社区样本 包含5,500个家庭和大约34,650个个人到数据库，支付特别 关注移民派遣州的社区，这些社区目前在移民和移民保护委员会中没有代表 样本。此外，我们建议在调查中增加一个基本健康问题单元 增强其对数据用户和政策制定者的价值的工具，并添加选定的 将环境指标添加到用户可用的社区级变量列表中。

Abstract Mexican immigration is probably the most controversial demographic issue facing policy makers and citizens in the United States today. The proposal seeks continued support for the Mexican Migration Project (MMP) to provide high-quality public use data on the characteristics and behavior of documented and undocumented Mexican migrants to the United States. To date the project has surveyed 118 communities, yielding a database of 128,940 persons enumerated in 19,726 households, which together contain 21,988 current and former migrants to the United States, 13,793 of whom were undocumented at the time of the survey. Data will be disseminated from the MMP website, which currently has 1,508 registered users and receives an average of 5,079 hits per week. In the coming funding cycle, we propose to add 25 new community samples containing 5,500 households and roughly 34,650 individuals to the database, paying special attention communities in migrant-sending states that are not currently represented in the MMP sample. In addition, we propose to add a module of basic health questions to the survey instrument to enhance its value to data users and policy makers, and to add selected environmental indicators to the list of community-level variables available to users.