Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees - GCIR

The 2000 Census of Population and Housing includes an extensive list of series of demographic characteristics and report briefs, profiles by state, and special reports. The PDF documents are easily accessible from this website.

The American Community Survey (ACS) is a new nationwide survey designed to provide communities a fresh look at how they are changing.  ACS collects data from a smaller population than the official count every 10 years, and presents information on topics such as age, race, veteran status, home value, commute time to work, and other data that creates a snapshot of America's communities. 

Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) immigrant populations are often perceived as financially successful and well-educated, but this report reveals that poverty, overcrowded housing, and below-average high school graduation rates are also prevalent in the AAPI communities. This report profiles growth and settlement patterns of major Asian-American groups, along with tables on their ethnicity, education, age, housing, language, poverty, language, and immigration and citizenship status.

Presents a concise portrait of the immigrant population with 2002-03 data on sources and types of immigrants, their geographic concentrations, and educational, occupational, and income distribution.

Many Americans are concerned about the social and economic impacts of immigration. Traditionally, immigrants have settled in “gateway” states such as California, New York, Texas, Florida, Illinois, and New Jersey, but in a demographic shift, new areas are becoming immigrant receiving communities in the Midwestern and Southern states. In some states the stream of immigrants is essential to population growth and maintaining the economy.

This publication provides national- and state-level data from the 2000 Census on who speaks English and who does not, broken down by type of household, age of householder, education, and income.

Historically, only a certain few states were home to the majority of immigrants, but between the years 1990 and 1999, there was a significant growth of immigrant populations in non-traditional immigrant-receiving states.  Over the years, immigrant populations have been concentrated in just a few states, but those states have changed.  This historic demographic concentration and disbursement have policy implications at the national, state, and local levels.

The Legal Arizona Workers Act makes Arizona the first state in the nation to penalize employers for knowingly hiring undocumented workers. This fact sheet examines the characteristics of Arizona's population and workforce with descriptive data and tables.

The second generation in New York City largely comes from non-European ethnic origins. This report is a look at how growing up in a "majority minority" city has affected their experiences in school and on the job, how they feel about their progress, and where they think they fit within American society.

Twenty percent of children in the United States now live with at least one foreign-born parent. This research brief by Child Trends and the Center for Social and Demographic Analysis of the State University of New York at Albany, reveals that children in immigrant families are deeply rooted in the United States (four in five are American citizens) and nearly one-half speak both English and a second language at home. At the same time, many young children in immigrant families would benefit from quality early education programs to further their integration into American society.

This special issue, with pieces from many contributors, profiles the strengths and challenges of children growing up in immigrant families and the types of resources and supports they need to become engaged and productive citizens. In addition to articles describing the unique developmental and educational needs of children in immigrant families, this issue provides recommendations at the federal, state, and local levels.

The Census Bureau conducts the Current Population Survey (CPS) for the Bureau of Labor Statistics as a source of data on employment and unemployment. Each month the survey contacts about 50,000 households and collects basic data on the characteristics of households and their labor force status: employment, job search, occupation, weeks worked, hours worked last week, etc. More recently, the survey asks supplemental questions on a variety of other subjects: income, poverty, education, and migration.

New analysis of the Census shows large differences between the marriage and birth choices of Northeastern states residents and residents of the South. The study shows that though immigrants accounted for 15 percent of babies in the past year, there were many states where immigrants made up only 3-5 percent of new mothers. This suggests a population that is clumped into certain states and regions. Please click this link for The Census Bureau's study.

The past few decades have seen the confluence of two eras in the United States: an era of mass immigration and an era of mass imprisonment. A great deal has been said and written about each, reinforcing age-old popular stereotypes about immigration and crime. But rarely are carefully researched connections made between the two, based on rigorous evidence. This study finds evidence of downward assimilation, with low incarceration rates among immigrant young men, but a sharp increase among the U.S.-born second generation.

This presentation includes results from past and present work on immigrant populations using several data sources for national, state and local-level analyses.

Rates of immigration remained high throughout the 1990’s, but rather than settling in the few traditional immigrant-receiving states, the immigrant populations more than doubled in the Southeast, Midwest, and the Rocky Mountain regions. This report examines these new immigration growth centers and the national implications due to the population shift.

Estimates that eight million LPRs were eligible to naturalize as of September 2004; provides tables by year admitted, country of birth, and state of residence.

While children's quality of life improved from the mid-1990s through 2002, further progress has stalled, according to the Foundation for Child Development's 2007 Child and Youth Well-Being Index (CWI). This stall can be found across five of the CWI's seven domains. The exceptions are children's health, which continues its dramatic decline, and children's safety and behavior, which continues to improve.

This report describes the foreign-born population in the United States in 2003. It provides a profile of demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, such as region of birth, geographic distribution in the United States, age, educational attainment, earnings, and poverty status. These characteristics are compared with those of the native population. The findings are based on data collected by the Census Bureau in the Current Population Survey (CPS).

Using data from Census 2000, this report updates information on the foreign-born populations, including tables and graphs on place of birth, citizenship status, and year of entry. It also provides a U.S. map broken down by county showing the distribution of the foreign-born population.