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Annual Survey of Refugees, 2016

United States of America, 2017
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ORR_USA_2016_ASR_vEXT
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Office of Refugee Resettlement, Urban Institute (Contractor)
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Other organizations Americas
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26f. What was the primary reason that this person moved to this state? (qn26f)

Data file: 2016 ASR Public

Overview

Valid: 3179
Invalid: 1597
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Width: 8
Range: 1 - 99
Format: Numeric

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Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Employment opportunities 309
9.7%
2 Better public assistance 43
1.4%
3 Reunification with relatives 1026
32.3%
11 A sponsor 254
8%
12 Was sent by immigration/refugee office/government 237
7.5%
13 Better living situation/opportunity (cost of living, housing, community, etc.) 195
6.1%
14 Reunification with friends/people of similar background 66
2.1%
15 Refugee/asylum seeker (not further specified) 177
5.6%
16 Did not move to another state/it's the first state we lived in since living in U 533
16.8%
97 Other 89
2.8%
98 Don't know 130
4.1%
99 Refused 120
3.8%
Sysmiss 1597
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.
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