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Data Guide On Finding, Using the Most Accurate, Recent Immigration Data Resources
The Immigration: Data Matters guide shows where to locate some of the most credible, up-to-date US and global immigration-related data compiled by government and non-governmental sources. The online guide, also available in hard copy, includes clickable links to resources that offer immigrant population estimates; the size of the unauthorized immigrant population; English proficiency rates; the share of immigrants in the workforce; education, health, and income and poverty statistics relating to immigrants; and other data.
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Sources of US Data

• US Census Bureau
  • American FactFinder
  • Foreign-Born Data
• DHS Office of Immigration Statistics
  • Yearbook of Immigration Statistics
  • Annual Population Estimates (e.g., estimates of the unauthorized immigrant population, estimates of legal permanent residents)
• Department of Labor
  • Bureau of Labor Statistics
• State Department
  • Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration
• Economic Research Service (Department of Agriculture; information about persons living in rural and urban areas)

• National Statistical Agencies
• Australia
  • Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs
  • Immigration Statistics
  • Bureau of Statistics
• Austria
  • Statistics Austria
  • Austrian Integration Fun (stats on integration)
• Canada:
  • Statistics Canada
  • Citizenship and Immigration Canada
• Denmark
  • Statistics Denmark
• Finland:
  • Statistics Finland
• Germany
  • Federal Statistical Office
• Italy:
  • The National Institute of Statistics (Istat)
• Mexico
  • National Institute of Statistics and Geography
  • National Council on Population
• Netherlands
  • Statistics Netherlands
• Norway
  • Statistics Norway
• Russia
  • Federal State Statistics Service
• Spain
  • National Statistics Institute (INE)
• Sweden
  • Statistics Sweden
• United Kingdom
  • The Home Office’s Immigration Research and Statistics
  • Office of National Statistics
  • SOPEMI Report "International Migration and the United Kingdom" (OECD, 2009)

• International Labor Organization (ILO)
• International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• International Organization for Migration (IOM)
• Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
  • Migration
• EUROSTAT (European Union statistics)
  • Migration
• United Nations
  • Population Division
    • International migrant stock
    • International migrant flows
    • Net migration
  • Statistics Division
  • Population Information Network
• World Bank: Development Data and Statistics

Remittances

• Inter-American Development Bank
• World Bank’s Development Prospects Group
  • Annual remittances in- and outflows
  • Monthly remittances data
  • Costs of sending remittances

Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons (IDP)

• UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
• UN Relief Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
• Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre
• US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants

Research Centers and Non-Governmental Organizations

Europe

• Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) (UK)
• Consortium for Applied Research on International Migration (CARIM) (based in Italy; focuses on the Mediterranean, North Africa, and Middle East)
• Development Research Center on Migration, Globalization and Poverty (UK)
• International Migration, Integration, and Social Cohesion (EU; focuses on Europe)
• Mediterranean Migration Observatory (based in Greece; focuses on the Mediterranean and South-East European regions)
• MIREM (based in Italy; focuses on return migration to the Maghreb countries)
• Sussex Centre for Migration Research (UK)

United States

• Center for Comparative Immigration Studies (University of California, San Diego)
• Center for Research on Immigration, Population and Public Policy (University of California, Irvine)
• Migration Dialogue (University of California, Davis)
• Office of Population Research (Princeton University)
• Pew Hispanic Center
• Population Reference Bureau (PRB)
• Public Policy Institute of California
• Urban Institute