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2016 Annual Survey of Refugees
Urban Institute
104642
https://doi.org/10.3886/E104642V4
2020-02-19
Since the 1980s,
the Office of Refugee Resettlement[1]
(ORR) has conducted the Annual Survey of Refugees (ASR), which collects
information on refugees during their first five years after arrival in the
U.S. The ASR is the only scientifically-collected
source of national data on refugees’ progress toward self-sufficiency and
integration. ORR uses the ASR results
alongside other information sources to fulfill its Congressionally-mandated
reporting following the Refugee Act of 1980.
Historically, the microdata from these surveys have generally been
unavailable to researchers.
In the Spring of
2017 ORR completed its 50th Annual Survey of Refugees (ASR). The data from the
ASR offer a window into respondents’ first five years in the United States and
shows the progress that refugee families made towards learning English,
participating in the workforce, and establishing permanent residence. This public use data deposit is only for the 2016 ASR with future years likely to be added to the ICPSR archive..
[1] The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR)
at the Administration for Children and Families in the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS) serves refugees and other humanitarian
entrants, including asylees, Cuban and Haitian entrants, Special Immigrant Visa
holders, Amerasians, victims of human trafficking, and unaccompanied children.
By providing these arrived populations with critical resources, ORR promotes
their economic and social well-being. The Annual Survey of Refugees focuses
solely on those refugees who have come to the U.S. in the past five fiscal
years.
refugees
United States
1/10/2017 – 4/20/2017 (Mid January 2017 through Mid April 2017)
survey data