United States. General Accounting Office
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 28
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The makeup of the foreign-born population living in the United States continues to interest policymakers as they debate immigration issues. These policymakers have expressed concern that the information needed to make informed decisions on immigration policy either has been unavailable or inadequate. This report, one in a series, identifies federal guidance on the production of demographic information on foreign-born residents and provides information on agencies' status relative to that guidance. GAO (1) identifies the federal guidance available to the agencies responsible for collecting, analyzing, and disseminating information on the foreign-born and (2) provides information that compares the agencies to federal guidance on independence, capacity to provide information, and efforts to coordinate the production of information, which includes statistical data on the foreign-born.