Annual Survey of Refugees, 2019

United States of America, 2020

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ORR_USA_2019_ASR_vEXT

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Office of Refugee Resettlement, Urban Institute (Contractor)

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26f. what was the primary reason that this person moved to this state? (qn26f)

Data file: 2019 ASR_Public_Use_File_v1

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Valid: 3029

Invalid: 1876

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 10

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	employment opportunities	191	6.3%
2	better public assistance	222	7.3%
3	reunification with relatives	1121	37%
11	a sponsor	26	0.9%
12	was sent by immigration/refugee office/government	136	4.5%
13	better living situation/opportunity (cost of living, housing, community, etc.)	227	7.5%
14	reunification with friends/people of similar background	96	3.2%
15	refugee/asylum seeker (not further specified)	203	6.7%
16	did not move to another state/it's the first state we lived in since living in u	222	7.3%
97	other	409	13.5%
98	don't know	160	5.3%
99	refused	16	0.5%
Sysmiss		1876

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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