DATASET: Construction Workers in New York City, Selected Demographic and Socioeconomic Characteristics by Citizenship and Immigration Status, 2015-2019

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Variables:

• Total number of construction workers by citizenship and legal status
• Demographic characteristics: Borough of residence, age, mutually exclusive race and Hispanic origin, sex, marital status, educational attainment, ability to speak English, limited English speaking households
• Labor force characteristics: Employment status, class of worker, mode of travel to work, earnings
• Income and public benefits: Poverty, household income, health insurance, Medicaid
• Housing characteristics: Household/family type, tenure, overcrowding
• Immigration characteristics: Birthplace, year of entry, top languages spoken, top countries of birth

Time range:

• 2015-2019

Source:

• CMS calculations using the five-year 2015-2019 American Community Survey (ACS) (Ruggles et al. 2021)

Estimates are rounded to the nearest hundred.  Pre-rounded figures under 500 are represented by ‘-‘.

Citation:

Center for Migration Studies (CMS). 2022. “Democratizing Data Initiative: Construction Workers in New York City, Selected Demographic and Socioeconomic Characteristics by Citizenship and Immigration Status, 2015-2019 [dataset].” New York, NY: CMS. https://cmsny.org/dataset-construction-workers-in-nyc-selected-demographic-and-socioeconomic-characteristics-by-citizenship-and-immigration-status-2015-2019/