Characteristics of the Components of Net International Migration: 2004

Betsy Guzmán, U.S. Census Bureau

International migration is a topic that reaches beyond the interest of demographers and media. With the advent of annually updated data from the American Community Survey (ACS), the U.S. Census Bureau has worked to update the methods from the 1990s that relied on new information every ten years. This poster looks at the descriptive statistics for the components of net international migration (net migration of the foreign born, net movement from Puerto Rico and native emigration) as well as for the combined components used in the 2004 population estimates. By looking at distributions by broad age group, sex, Hispanic origin, race, and geography, we examine the effects of international migration on the estimates of the population. The poster will summarize the methods used to derive the final estimates for the component pieces as well as the combined international migration component and indicate the direction of future research using the ACS.