Hollo Liz, my name is Michelle Mccormick I work for the Humane Society of the county in twinsburg OH. We are doing a pause in Paris themed ball in August. I found your book and thought it was amazing Is there anyway that you would donate a signed copy fundraiser auction?
Hi, Michelle,
I apologize for not responding sooner. I would very much like to donate copies of my book to your event. You can email the details to my email account and I will send them right off! (elizabethgrieco@gmail.com) Can you tell me more about your organization and the event? Looking forward to hearing from you.
Liz
There are two options, I think, both not exactly what you want. And it will require you to download the data and analyze it yourself.
The **2021** American Community Survey is one option. Unfortunately, the data collection activities for 2020 ACS were severely disrupted by COVID, so you may not want to use the 2020 1-year file (but I would check with the Census about this — it *might* be good enough for estimates of the foreign-born population at the state level — but you’ll want to check with them on the constraints around the data). A second option would be to use the 2016-2020 ACS file — the Census Bureau was able to make adjustments to the 5-year file so the negative impact of COVID on data collection/quality were minimized.
One other option would be to reach out to someone in the Foreign-Born Population Branch at the Census Bureau and ask them if the new data tools can develop the same/similar American FactFinder table “ACS Table B05006 Place of Birth of the Foreign-Born Population” at the state level. I am not as familiar with the newer data tools available, so I can’t be much help, sadly.
Liz Grieco,
I recently came across and read with great interest your 2004 piece for MPI on “Immigrant Union Members.” I am eager to see if these data have been updated, but MPI doesn’t seem to have done so. Nor can I find more recent numbers aggregated and broken out this way. By any chance, have you done any subsequent work on this topic, or would you know who has, or where such data might be found.
I would be most appreciative.
Peter Skerry
Professor, Political Science
Boston College
Thank you for contacting me about the fact sheet on “Immigrant Union Members” I wrote for MPI back in 2004. Apologies for the delayed response. It’s hard to believe it was 20 years ago! I have not updated this research, unfortunately. I agree it would be interesting to see the more recent numbers as well as the continued trend line. As I recall, it was not a technically difficult analysis (other than having basic statistical programming skills — I used SPSS) and some understanding of the Current Population Survey data (the annual “March supplement” or what is now called the “ASEC supplement” is available on the U.S. Census Bureau’s website along with codebooks and other documentation). This would be a good project for a graduate student, possibly a Master’s project if developed properly.
Hollo Liz, my name is Michelle Mccormick I work for the Humane Society of the county in twinsburg OH. We are doing a pause in Paris themed ball in August. I found your book and thought it was amazing Is there anyway that you would donate a signed copy fundraiser auction?
Thank you,
Michelle McCormick
Events/fundraising Coordinator
234-212-9826 ext:239
Hi, Michelle,
I apologize for not responding sooner. I would very much like to donate copies of my book to your event. You can email the details to my email account and I will send them right off! (elizabethgrieco@gmail.com) Can you tell me more about your organization and the event? Looking forward to hearing from you.
Liz
Ms. Grieco,
I am trying to find statistics comparable to Table 3 in ‘The Size, Place of Birth & Geographic Distribution …’ for 2020
What I want to is to situate state of Georgia in top 20 US states with highest # of foreign-born
I would appreciate any guidance you might send my way
Hi, Michael,
There are two options, I think, both not exactly what you want. And it will require you to download the data and analyze it yourself.
The **2021** American Community Survey is one option. Unfortunately, the data collection activities for 2020 ACS were severely disrupted by COVID, so you may not want to use the 2020 1-year file (but I would check with the Census about this — it *might* be good enough for estimates of the foreign-born population at the state level — but you’ll want to check with them on the constraints around the data). A second option would be to use the 2016-2020 ACS file — the Census Bureau was able to make adjustments to the 5-year file so the negative impact of COVID on data collection/quality were minimized.
One other option would be to reach out to someone in the Foreign-Born Population Branch at the Census Bureau and ask them if the new data tools can develop the same/similar American FactFinder table “ACS Table B05006 Place of Birth of the Foreign-Born Population” at the state level. I am not as familiar with the newer data tools available, so I can’t be much help, sadly.
I hope this helps.
Liz
Liz Grieco,
I recently came across and read with great interest your 2004 piece for MPI on “Immigrant Union Members.” I am eager to see if these data have been updated, but MPI doesn’t seem to have done so. Nor can I find more recent numbers aggregated and broken out this way. By any chance, have you done any subsequent work on this topic, or would you know who has, or where such data might be found.
I would be most appreciative.
Peter Skerry
Professor, Political Science
Boston College
Hi, Peter,
Thank you for contacting me about the fact sheet on “Immigrant Union Members” I wrote for MPI back in 2004. Apologies for the delayed response. It’s hard to believe it was 20 years ago! I have not updated this research, unfortunately. I agree it would be interesting to see the more recent numbers as well as the continued trend line. As I recall, it was not a technically difficult analysis (other than having basic statistical programming skills — I used SPSS) and some understanding of the Current Population Survey data (the annual “March supplement” or what is now called the “ASEC supplement” is available on the U.S. Census Bureau’s website along with codebooks and other documentation). This would be a good project for a graduate student, possibly a Master’s project if developed properly.
I hope this helps.
Liz