The New Immigrant Survey Round 1 (NIS-2003-1), United States, 2003-2004 [Restricted-Use Version 2] (ICPSR 38063)

Version Date: Nov 13, 2023

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Principal Investigator(s):
Guillermina Jasso, New York University; Douglas Massey, Princeton University. Office of Population Research; Mark Rosenzweig, Yale University; James Smith, RAND Corporation

Series:

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR38063.v1

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Alternate Title

NIS-2003-1 Version 2

Summary

The New Immigrant Survey (NIS) is a nationally representative, multi-cohort, longitudinal study of new legal immigrants to the United States and their children. The sampling frame is based on the electronic administrative records compiled for new legal permanent residents (LPRs) by the U.S. government (via, formerly, the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) and now its successor agencies, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and the Office of Immigration Statistics (OIS)). The geographic sampling design takes advantage of the natural clustering of immigrants. It includes all top 85 Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) and all top 38 counties, plus a random sample of MSAs and counties. The baseline survey (ICPSR 38031) was conducted from June 2003 to June 2004 and yielded data on:

  • 8,573 Adult Sample respondents
  • 810 sponsor-parent of the Sampled Child
  • 4,915 spouses
  • and 1,072 children aged 8-12.

Interviews were conducted in the respondents' language of choice. Round 2 instruments were designed to track changes from the baseline and also included new questions. As with the Round 1 questionnaire, questions that were used in social-demographic-migration surveys around the world as well as the major U.S. longitudinal surveys were reviewed in order to achieve comparability.

Citation

Jasso, Guillermina, Massey, Douglas, Rosenzweig, Mark, and Smith, James. The New Immigrant Survey Round 1 (NIS-2003-1), United States, 2003-2004 [Restricted-Use Version 2]. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2023-11-13. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR38063.v1

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Funding

United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health, United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health. Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health. National Institute on Aging, United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health. Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (HD33843), National Science Foundation (SRS-9907421 and SES-0096867), United States. Immigration and Naturalization Service, United States Department of Health and Human Services. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Pew Charitable Trusts

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Smallest Geographic Unit

City

Restrictions

This data collection may not be used for any purpose other than statistical reporting and analysis. Use of these data to learn the identity of any person or establishment is prohibited. To protect respondent privacy, this data collection is restricted from general dissemination. To obtain this file, researchers must agree to the terms and conditions of a Restricted Data Use Agreement in accordance with existing ICPSR servicing policies.

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

2003 -- 2004

Date of Collection

2003-06 -- 2004-06

Data Collection Notes

  1. Version 1 of The New Immigrant Survey Round 1 study (ICPSR 38031) contains variables pertaining to respondents' demographics. The Version 2 study contains information pertaining to the respondents' immigration details and geographic identifiers.
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Study Purpose

The purpose of The New Immigrant Survey (NIS) was to obtain a general overview of the population of legal immigrants to the United States. Aims of the study included assessing changes in immigrants' lifestyles, evaluating employment situations and societal assimilations, and examining the education of immigrants and their transition towards permanent citizenship.

Study Design

The New Immigrant Survey (NIS) was a nationally representative, multi-cohort, longitudinal study. Interviews were conducted in the respondents' language of choice. Questions that were used in social-demographic-migration surveys around the world as well as the major U.S. longitudinal surveys were reviewed in order to achieve comparability.

Sample

The sampling frame consists of new-arrival immigrants and adjustee immigrants. New-arrival immigrants are those who are arriving in the United States with immigrant documents acquired abroad while adjustee immigrants are already in the United States with a temporary nonimmigrant visa and adjust to lawful permanent residence. The Adult and Proxy Child Samples are defined in terms of immigration category and age. The Adult Sample covers all immigrants who are 18 years of age or older at admission to the Lawful Permanent Residence (LPR) program. The Proxy Child Sample covers immigrants with child-of-U.S.-citizen visas who are under 18 years of age and adopted orphans under five years of age. The sampling frame is based on the electronic administrative records compiled for new legal permanent residents (LPRs) by the U.S. government (via, formerly, the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) and now its successor agencies, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and the Office of Immigration Statistics (OIS)). The first full cohort (NIS-2003-1) was sampled during May through November of 2003, yielding data on:

  • 8,573 Adult Sample respondents
  • 810 sponsor-parent of the Sampled Child
  • 4,915 spouses
  • and 1,072 children aged 8-12.

Time Method

Longitudinal: Cohort / Event-based

Universe

Legal immigrants to the United States and their families.

Unit(s) of Observation

Individual

Data Source

Office of Immigration Statistics (OIS)

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)

Data Type(s)

Mode of Data Collection

Description of Variables

The variables in this study contain information pertaining to the respondents' immigration details and geographic identifiers. The immigration details include Immigrant Class of Admission INS codes and nationality. The geographic information includes geographic description of previous and current living situations, along with geographic description of work and schooling.

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Original Release Date

2023-11-13

Version History

2023-11-13 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

  • Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

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Notes

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  • One or more files in this data collection have special restrictions. Restricted data files are not available for direct download from the website; click on the Restricted Data button to learn more.