Abstract
The county-to-county migration data of the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) is an incredible resource for understanding migration in the United States. Produced annually since 1990 in conjunction with the US Census Bureau, the IRS migration data represents 95% to 98% of the tax-filing universe and their dependents, making the IRS migration data one of the largest sources of migration data. However, any analysis using the IRS migration data must process at least seven legacy formats of this public data across more than 2000 data files – a serious burden for migration scholars.
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Publication
Demographic Research, (40), pp. 1153–1166
Mathew E. Hauer
Assistant Professor of Sociology
My research interests include demography, migration, and climate change.