Combining Restricted-Access Census and Department of Homeland Security Data to Generate Novel Immigration Estimates

Parag Mahajan and Dean Yang

CES Technical Notes Series from Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau

Abstract: This memo combines restricted-access demographic data from the Census Bureau with administrative data from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to generate novel estimates of new arrivals of lawful, permanent residents to the U.S. by country of birth from 1983 through 2005. We detail our model selection process, which uses cross-validation methods to search for the best prediction model among several unpenalized and penalized linear options. We demonstrate how our estimates may be useful in an application derived from Mahajan and Yang (2020).

Keywords: Decennial Census; ACS (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-05
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