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Rendall, Michael S.; Torr, Berna M. – RAND Corporation, 2007
Second-generation immigrants are typically analyzed under the assumption that, having been born in the United States, they grew up in the United States. We challenge this assumption by investigating the prevalence and patterns of second-generation Mexican-American children's migration to and return from Mexico during childhood, and consider the…
Descriptors: Family Characteristics, Children, Foreign Countries, Immigrants
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Lichter, Daniel T.; Johnson, Kenneth M. – Rural Sociology, 2006
This paper analyzes geographic patterns of population concentration and deconcentration among the foreign-born population during the 1990-2000 period. A goal is to examine whether the foreign-born population, including recent arrivals, are dispersing geographically from metro gateway cities into rural and other less densely populated parts of the…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Migration Patterns, Population Distribution, Racial Segregation
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Passel, Jeffrey S.; Woodrow, Karen A. – International Migration Review, 1984
Compares the 1980 census count of aliens with estimates of the legally resident alien population based on data collected by the Immigration and Naturalization Service in January 1980. Provides estimates for each of the states for selected countries of birth and for age, sex, and period of entry categories. (RDN)
Descriptors: Census Figures, Data Analysis, Demography, Geographic Distribution
Ben-Porath, Yoram – 1976
This paper reviews issues pertaining to the relationship between child mortality and fertility and examines the fertility-mortality relationship of women who emigrated to Israel from various countries in Asia, Africa, and Europe and continued child bearing in Israel. Data from the 1961 Israel census of population is used. Among issues addressed in…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Birth Rate, Census Figures, Data Analysis
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Bean, Frank; And Others – International Migration Review, 1984
Uses 1980 Public Use Microfiles to delineate four Mexican-origin immigrant status groups--post-1975 Mexican-born noncitizens, pre-1975 Mexican-born noncitizens, self-reported naturalized citizens, and native-born Mexican Americans. Argues that the pattern of sociodemographic differences reveals that the first two categories contain a substantial…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Data Analysis, Demography, Educational Background
Reder, Stephen; Edmonston, Barry – 2000
Anticipated demographic changes in the United States adult population in the decade between the National Adult Literacy Survey (NALS) of 1992 and the National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL), which is scheduled for 2002, were reviewed. Next, the implications of those changes for the NALS and NAAL were analyzed. The analysis focused on births,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Agency Role, Aging (Individuals)