Characteristics of Respondents Missing “MIGPR†Information in ACS, 2005-2019

Bryanna Dixon and Anita Pena

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

Abstract: Internal migration is inherently difficult to study with public data, which often lacks the geographic precision necessary to distinguish between moves that occur within counties, between counties but within states, and between states. Unfortunately, while very well suited to studying these phenomena, generally, the restricted-use ACS contains a constructed variable, “MIGPR†, that distinguishes between each type of move but contains some missing data. This report summarizes the characteristics of those respondents missing data on the MIGPR question to better understand the limitations of using this variable for studies of internal migration.

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Date: 2023-03
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