Annual Survey of Refugees, 2017

United States of America, 2018

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ORR_USA_2017_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: 2017 ASR_Public_Use_File_v1

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Valid: 3299

Invalid: 1780

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 10

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	employment opportunities	250	7.6%
2	better public assistance	82	2.5%
3	reunification with relatives	1177	35.7%
11	a sponsor	159	4.8%
12	was sent by immigration/refugee office/government	386	11.7%
13	better living situation/opportunity (cost of living, housing, community, etc.)	198	6%
14	reunification with friends/people of similar background	84	2.5%
15	refugee/asylum seeker (not further specified)	132	4%
16	did not move to another state/it's the first state we lived in since living in u	566	17.2%
97	other	181	5.5%
98	don't know	73	2.2%
99	refused	11	0.3%
Sysmiss		1780

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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