{"id":3873,"date":"2010-12-19T21:39:28","date_gmt":"2010-12-20T02:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=3873"},"modified":"2010-12-19T21:39:28","modified_gmt":"2010-12-20T02:39:28","slug":"for-the-ajc-on-the-use-of-census-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/19\/for-the-ajc-on-the-use-of-census-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"For the AJC: ON THE USE OF CENSUS NUMBERS"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201c&#8230;The U.S. Census Bureau always needs to have good population estimates, and you need to know how many illegal immigrants there are to refine those estimates,\u201d she says. But since the census doesn\u2019t ask if someone\u2019s an illegal immigrant, getting a count is \u201ctricky,\u201d she adds.<\/p>\n<p>The census does ask for place of birth, duration of residence in the United States and whether the person is a U.S. citizen, \u201cso we have a pretty fair sense of the size of the foreign-born population,\u201d explains Van Hook, who earned a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Texas in 1996 and has been at BGSU since 1999.<\/p>\n<p>Administrative records\u2014of births, deaths and naturalizations, for example\u2014are used to develop estimates of the legally resident foreign-born population, which in 2000 numbered roughly 23.6 million. At the same time, the 2000 census indicated about 31 million foreign-born people were in the United States, leaving a difference that can be assumed is illegal immigrants\u2014but with assumptions, she points out.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bgsu.edu\/downloads\/ua\/file22110.pdf\">    HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>For instance, because foreign-born legal residents leave the country, too, an emigration estimate is built into the legal-resident count. The problem, however, is that the government stopped keeping actual records of \u201coutmigration\u201d of the legally resident foreign-born in the 1950s, so that factor may not be accurately estimated, according to Van Hook&#8230;&#8221;    <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>AJC: Your reporters shouldn&#8217;t require more than a week or two to figure this out. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c&#8230;The U.S. Census Bureau always needs to have good population estimates, and you need to know how many illegal immigrants there are to refine those estimates,\u201d she says. But since the census doesn\u2019t ask if someone\u2019s an illegal immigrant, getting a count is \u201ctricky,\u201d she adds. The census does ask for place of birth, duration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3873"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}