migrant_children: Migrant children dataset

migrant_childrenR Documentation

Migrant children dataset

Description

dataset on the placement of 550,000+ unaccompanied migrant children with local sponsors between January 2015 and May 2023. The variables are as follows:

Usage

data(migrant_children)

Format

A (tibble) data frame with 553,322 rows and 9 variables.

Details

  • childs_country_of_origin. Country of origin of the child.

  • childs_gender. Gender of child.

  • childs_date_of_entry. Date of entry of child.

  • childs_date_of_release. Date of release of child.

  • sponsor_category. Category of sponsor (note: I recoded "Family Friend" as "Distant relative or unrelated adult").

  • relationship_of_sponsor. Relationship of sponsor to child.

  • state_abbr. State abbreviation of sponsor.

  • county. County of sponsor.

  • city. City of sponsor.

Source

https://github.com/nytimes/hhs-child-migrant-data.


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