Impact of Migration on Poverty

Elizabeth over 9 years ago

We are currently working on a poverty study, and have observed that the percentage of residents migrating to our county and migrating away from it are different than the percentage of residents below the poverty threshold in our community. Does anyone know if there is a way to determine how this migration potentially impacts the overall poverty rate?

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Beth Jarosz over 9 years ago

To clarify... Are you trying to find the poverty rates of the in- and out-migrants? Or just how the poverty rate changes over time?

If it's the former, you could find the poverty rate of in-migrants using the Public Use Microdata (though you won't be able to get at the poverty rate of people who moved out).

If it's the latter, is there a reason why just tracking the year-to-year change in poverty is not sufficient?
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Beth Jarosz over 9 years ago

To clarify... Are you trying to find the poverty rates of the in- and out-migrants? Or just how the poverty rate changes over time?

If it's the former, you could find the poverty rate of in-migrants using the Public Use Microdata (though you won't be able to get at the poverty rate of people who moved out).

If it's the latter, is there a reason why just tracking the year-to-year change in poverty is not sufficient?
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