Annual Survey of Refugees, 2018

United States of America, 2019

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ORR_USA_2018_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: 2018 ASR_Public_Use_File

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Valid: 3273

Invalid: 1987

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 10

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	employment opportunities	294	9%
2	better public assistance	145	4.4%
3	reunification with relatives	1237	37.8%
11	a sponsor	118	3.6%
12	was sent by immigration/refugee office/government	543	16.6%
13	better living situation/opportunity (cost of living, housing, community, etc.)	188	5.7%
14	reunification with friends/people of similar background	80	2.4%
15	refugee/asylum seeker (not further specified)	159	4.9%
16	did not move to another state/it's the first state we lived in since living in u	205	6.3%
97	other	121	3.7%
98	don't know	157	4.8%
99	refused	26	0.8%
Sysmiss		1987

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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