A Bayesian model to produce nowcasts of migrant stocks using Facebook and ACS data

Code and materials for 'Combining social media and survey data to nowcast migrant stocks in the United States'.

Open access paper is here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11113-020-09599-3

Citation:

Alexander, M., Polimis, K. & Zagheni, E. Combining Social Media and Survey Data to Nowcast Migrant Stocks in the United States. Popul Res Policy Rev (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11113-020-09599-3

Overview

R scripts are numbered in the order they should be run.

Notes about data:

• data folder contains five waves of Facebook data.
• ACS data were downloaded from IPUMS USA. We extracted ACS 1 year with the following variables: YEAR; STATEFIP; PERWT; SEX; AGE; BPL for all years 2001-2017.

Authors

• Monica Alexander (: MJAlexander | : @monjalexander)
• Kivan Polimis (: kpolimis | : @kpolimis)
• Emilio Zagheni (: ezagheni | : @ezagheni)