Demography
Volume 20, Issue 1, 1983, Pages 99-109

The number of illegal migrants of Mexican origin in the United States: Sex ratio-based estimates for 1980 (Article)

Bean F.D.* , King A.G. , Passel J.S.
  • a Department of Sociology and Population Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, 78712, Texas, United States
  • b Department of Economics and Population Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, 78712, Texas, United States
  • c Population Division, Bureau of the Census, United States Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C., 20233, United States

Abstract

This article reports the results of applying a sex ratio-based method to estimate the number of undocumented Mexicans residing in the United States in 1980. The approach centers on a comparison between the hypothetical sex ratio one would expect to find in Mexico in the absence of emigration to the United States and the sex ratio that is in fact reported in preliminary results from the 1980 Mexican Census. The procedure involves, inter alia, assuming a range of values for the sex ratio at birth and for census coverage differentials by sex in Mexico. Even the combinations of these values most likely to result in large estimates suggest that no more than 4 million illegal migrants of Mexican origin were residing in the United States in 1980. © 1983 Population Association of America.

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Index Keywords

Population Surveillance sex ratio human ethnic group ethnology Mexico Hispanic Americans United States Adolescent Infant, Newborn male preschool child female Infant Child, Preschool newborn Article Support, Non-U.S. Gov't adult migration Emigration and Immigration Child Middle Age health survey
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https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-0020709818&doi=10.2307%2f2060904&partnerID=40&md5=67e5815439489d300cef40e402638a2e
DOI: 10.2307/2060904
ISSN: 00703370
Cited by: 18
Original Language: English