Resources for IIR staff

IIR Resources

These documents are also found on the M: drive. Use the Word, Publisher, or Excel documents if you need to fill them in.

• IIR Style Guide
• IIR Research and Methodology Plan
• IIR Communications Plan and Checklist
• IIR Research Production Process

Immigration Data on Demand (iDod) Resources

• iDod Style Guide
• iDod Management Document
• iDod Spreadsheet Template
• iDod Fact Sheet Publisher Template
• SPSS Training Manual for iDod
• ArcGIS Training Manual
• Making a Factsheet Steps
• Steps to Convert an iDod Excel Spreadsheet to a PDF
• Using ACS and IPUMS for iDod

Immigration Data Sources

• IPUMS USA: This is a source of US Census data for social, economic, and health research. IPUMS USA collects, preserves, and harmonizes U.S. census microdata and provides easy access to this data with enhanced documentation. Data includes decennial censuses from 1790-2010 and American Community Surveys (ACS) from 2000 to the present.

• Social Explorer: Provides data and data visualizations on a wide range of topics.

• Immigration Data Matters: This useful online guide published by the Migration Policy Institute links users directly to the most credible, high-quality data on immigrants and immigration in the United States and internationally. The easy-to-use publication includes more than 250 data resources compiled by governmental and authoritative nongovernmental sources. The guide covers a wide range of topics, among them foreign-born population stocks and flows, humanitarian and labor migration, naturalization, education and language attainment, labor force participation, income and poverty rates, remittance size and flow, immigration enforcement actions, public opinion, religious affiliation, and development indicators.

• Office of Immigration Statistics: The Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Immigration Statistics (OIS) leads the collection and dissemination to Congress and the public of statistical information and analysis useful in evaluating the social, economic, environmental, and demographic impact of immigration laws, migration flows, and immigration enforcement. The Office establishes standards of reliability and validity for the Department’s immigration statistics. The Office also develops other immigration-related reports and conducts research at the direction of the Secretary.

• Frequently Requested Statistics on Immigrants and Immigration in the United States. This resource from Migration Policy Institute contains data on the sociodemographic and economic characteristics of immigrants in the U.S.