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A dashboard of key metrics for the USA
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Immigration metrics #47

Open seanjtaylor opened 7 years ago

seanjtaylor commented 7 years ago

Figure out a way to measure/estimate inflow and outflow of immigrants.

chrisdick14 commented 7 years ago

I created a document to start discussing this here. A couple of notes:

  1. We will want to decide what is important to us. Is it merely aggregate inflows and outflows? Or, are we interested in breaking it down by types of migration(work-based, family-based, refugee/asylee)?

  2. What is our goal with this? Are we interested in migration and its potential impact on a geography, or how our immigration system is working? While definitely related, these are two different things.