A Test of the Validity of Imputed Legal Immigration Status.

IF 3.6 1区社会学 Q1 DEMOGRAPHY

Demography Pub Date : 2024-04-01 DOI:10.1215/00703370-11189687

Marcelo Castillo, Alexandra Hill, Thomas Hertz

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Abstract

We evaluate the performance of a widely used technique for imputing the legal immigration status of U.S. immigrants in survey data-the logical imputation method. We validate this technique by implementing it in a nationally representative survey of U.S. farmworkers that includes a well-regarded measure of legal status. When using this measure as a benchmark, the imputation algorithm correctly identifies the legal status of 78% of farmworkers. Of all the variables included in the algorithm, we find that Medicaid participation poses the greatest challenge for accuracy. Using the American Community Survey, we show that increased Medicaid enrollments stemming from the implementation of the Affordable Care Act in 2014 led to sizable changes in the share of immigrants imputed as legal over time and across space. We explore the implications of these changes for two previous studies and conclude that including Medicaid criteria in the imputation algorithm can significantly impact research findings. We also provide tools to gauge the sensitivity of results.

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测试推定合法移民身份的有效性。

我们评估了在调查数据中广泛使用的美国移民合法移民身份估算技术--逻辑估算法的性能。我们在一项具有全国代表性的美国农民工调查中采用了这一技术，并对其进行了验证。以该指标为基准，估算算法正确识别了 78% 的农民工的合法身份。我们发现，在算法中包含的所有变量中，参与医疗补助（Medicaid）对准确性的挑战最大。通过美国社区调查，我们发现，2014 年《平价医疗法案》实施后，医疗补助的注册人数增加，导致被认定为合法移民的比例在时间和空间上都发生了巨大变化。我们探讨了这些变化对之前两项研究的影响，并得出结论：将医疗补助标准纳入估算算法会对研究结果产生重大影响。我们还提供了衡量结果敏感性的工具。

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Demography DEMOGRAPHY-

CiteScore

5.90

自引率

2.90%

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期刊介绍： Since its founding in 1964, the journal Demography has mirrored the vitality, diversity, high intellectual standard and wide impact of the field on which it reports. Demography presents the highest quality original research of scholars in a broad range of disciplines, including anthropology, biology, economics, geography, history, psychology, public health, sociology, and statistics. The journal encompasses a wide variety of methodological approaches to population research. Its geographic focus is global, with articles addressing demographic matters from around the planet. Its temporal scope is broad, as represented by research that explores demographic phenomena spanning the ages from the past to the present, and reaching toward the future. Authors whose work is published in Demography benefit from the wide audience of population scientists their research will reach. Also in 2011 Demography remains the most cited journal among population studies and demographic periodicals. Published bimonthly, Demography is the flagship journal of the Population Association of America, reaching the membership of one of the largest professional demographic associations in the world.