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MEXICAN MIGRATION PROJECT
Description:
The Mexican Migration Project is designed to make timely, high-quality data on documented and undocumented Mexican migrants available to researchers and policy analysts. Each year since 1987 the project has administered a semi-structured interview schedule to representative samples of 4-6 Mexican communities at varying levels of urbanism. Each Mexican community sample is paired with a parallel sample of out-migrants from that place who have settled in the United States, gathered using chain-referral sampling methods. The Mexican samples are generally gathered in December and January and the U.S. samples in July and August. To date, approximately 58 communities have been sampled. As new communities are sampled, and the resulting data are entered, cleaned, and processed, these data are annually added to the database to provide timely information on the changing nature of Mexican migration to the United States.
