Immigrants admitted to the United States, 1980
By: principal investigator, United States Department of Justice, Immigration and Naturalization Service
Series: ICPSR -- 8960; ICPSR (Series) -- 8960
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] /
Subjects: Immigrants
Description: This data collection contains information on the characteristics of aliens who became legal permanent residents of the United States in fiscal year 1980 (October 1979 through September 1980). Data are presented for two types of immigrants. The first category, New Arrivals, arrived from outside the United States with valid immigrant visas issued by the United States Department of State. Those in the second category, adjustments, were already in the United States with temporary status and were adjusted to legal permanent residence through petition to the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service. Variables include port of entry, month and year of admission, class of admission, and state and area to which immigrants were admitted. Demographic information such as age, sex, marital status, occupation, country of birth, country of last permanent residence, and nationality is also provided.
Notes: ICPSR data class: Class IV.

Chronological coverage: October 1979-September 1980.

United States Immigration and Naturalization Service. Statistical Analysis Branch.

Event/transaction data.

United States.

LRECL data format. This data collection is missing information for ten variables on 132,541 records.

Codebook available.

Part number: 1 ; file structure: rectangular ; case count: 530,639 ; variable count: 17 ; LRECL: 43 ; records per case: 1.