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  1. Data from: Ethnic Albanian Organized Crime in New York City, 1975-2014

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    National Institute of Justice (2025). Ethnic Albanian Organized Crime in New York City, 1975-2014 [Dataset]. https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/ethnic-albanian-organized-crime-in-new-york-city-1975-2014-236ba
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    Mar 12, 2025
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    National Institute of Justicehttp://nij.ojp.gov/
    Area covered
    New York
    Description

    These data are part of NACJD's Fast Track Release and are distributed as they were received from the data depositor. The files have been zipped by NACJD for release, but not checked or processed except for the removal of direct identifiers. Users should refer to the accompanying readme file for a brief description of the files available with this collection and consult the investigator(s) if further information is needed. The main aim of this research is to study the criminal mobility of ethnic-based organized crime groups. The project examines whether organized crime groups are able to move abroad easily and to reproduce their territorial control in a foreign country, or whether these groups, and/or individual members, start a life of crime only after their arrival in the new territories, potentially as a result of social exclusion, economic strain, culture conflict and labeling. More specifically, the aim is to examine the criminal mobility of ethnic Albanian organized crime groups involved in a range of criminal markets and operating in and around New York City, area and to study the relevance of the importation/alien conspiracy model versus the deprivation model of organized crime in relation to Albanian organized crime. There are several analytical dimensions in this study: (1) reasons for going abroad; (2) the nature of the presence abroad; (3) level of support from ethnic constituencies in the new territories; (4) importance of cultural codes; (5) organizational structure; (6) selection of criminal activities; (7) economic incentives and political infiltration. This study utilizes a mixed-methods approach with a sequential exploratory design, in which qualitative data and documents are collected and analyzed first, followed by quantitative data. Demographic variables in this collection include age, gender, birth place, immigration status, nationality, ethnicity, education, religion, and employment status. Two main data sources were employed: (1) court documents, including indictments and court transcripts related to select organized crime cases (84 court documents on 29 groups, 254 offenders); (2) in-depth, face-to-face interviews with 9 ethnic Albanian offenders currently serving prison sentences in U.S. Federal Prisons for organized crime related activities, and with 79 adult ethnic Albanian immigrants in New York, including common people, undocumented migrants, offenders, and people with good knowledge of Albanian organized crime modus operandi. Sampling for these data were conducted in five phases, the first of which involved researchers examining court documents and identifying members of 29 major ethnic Albanian organized crime groups operating in the New York area between 1975 and 2013 who were or had served sentences in the U.S. Federal Prisons for organized crime related activities. In phase two researchers conducted eight in-depth interviews with law enforcement experts working in New York or New Jersey. Phase three involved interviews with members of the Albanian diaspora and filed observations from an ethnographic study. Researchers utilized snowball and respondent driven (RDS) recruitment methods to create the sample for the diaspora dataset. The self-reported criteria for recruitment to participate in the diaspora interviews were: (1) age 18 or over; (2) of ethnic Albanian origin (foreign-born or 1st/2nd generation); and (3) living in NYC area for at least 1 year. They also visited neighborhoods identified as high concentrations of ethnic Albanian individuals and conducted an ethnographic study to locate the target population. In phase four, data for the cultural advisors able to help with the project data was collected. In the fifth and final phase, researchers gathered data for the second wave of the diaspora data, and conducted interviews with offenders with ethnic Albanian immigrants with knowledge of the organized crime situation in New York City area. Researchers also approached about twenty organized crime figures currently serving a prison sentence, and were able to conduct 9 in-depth interviews.

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    Data from: “The Best Country in the World”: The Surprising Social Mobility...

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    Updated Nov 9, 2023
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    Anbinder, Tyler (2023). “The Best Country in the World”: The Surprising Social Mobility of New York’s Irish-Famine Immigrants [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/KGYS74
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    Nov 9, 2023
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    Authors
    Anbinder, Tyler
    Area covered
    New York
    Description

    The main dataset ("ESB Mobility Database") contains occupational data on 1,200 Irish immigrants who arrived in the U.S. in the Famine years and could be tracked for at least a decade. We also present the most up-to-date version of our Emigrant Savings Bank Depositor Database, which contains data on all 15,000 people who opened accounts at the bank from 1850 to 1858. Also provided are data from the 1855 New York State census documenting the occupations of New York's entire Irish-born population as well as datasets documenting the occupations held by New York's Irish immigrants one year and ten years after their arrival in America,

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    Foreign born health insurance coverage in Endicott, New York (2022)

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    Updated Sep 12, 2024
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    WelfareInfo.org (2024). Foreign born health insurance coverage in Endicott, New York (2022) [Dataset]. https://www.welfareinfo.org/health-insurance-coverage/new-york/endicott/stat-foreign-born-people/
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    Sep 12, 2024
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    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    Area covered
    Endicott, New York
    Description

    Foreign born Health Insurance Coverage Statistics for 2022. This is part of a larger dataset covering consumer health insurance coverage rates in Endicott, New York by age, education, race, gender, work experience and more.

  4. Data from: Immigrant Populations as Victims in New York City and...

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    Updated Mar 12, 2025
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    National Institute of Justice (2025). Immigrant Populations as Victims in New York City and Philadelphia, 1994 [Dataset]. https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/immigrant-populations-as-victims-in-new-york-city-and-philadelphia-1994-56bf1
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    Mar 12, 2025
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    New York, Philadelphia
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    The purpose of this study was to examine interrelated issues surrounding the use of the criminal justice system by immigrant victims and to identify ways to improve the criminal justice response to immigrants' needs and problems. Two cities, New York City and Philadelphia, were selected for intensive investigation of victimization of immigrants. In each of these cities, three immigrant communities in a neighborhood were chosen for participation. In New York's Jackson Heights area, Colombians, Dominicans, and Indians were the ethnic groups studied. In Philadelphia's Logan section, Vietnamese, Cambodians, and Koreans were surveyed. In all, 87 Jackson Heights victims were interviewed and 26 Philadelphia victims were interviewed. The victim survey questions addressed can be broadly divided into two categories: issues pertaining to crime reporting and involvement with the court system by immigrant victims. Variables include type of crime, respondent's role in the incident, relationship to the perpetrator, whether the incident was reported to police, and who reported the incident. Respondents were also asked whether they were asked to go to court, whether they understood what the people in court said to them, whether they understood what was happening in their case, and, if victimized again, whether they would report the incident to the police.

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    Foreign born health insurance coverage in Schenectady County, New York...

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    Updated Sep 12, 2024
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    WelfareInfo.org (2024). Foreign born health insurance coverage in Schenectady County, New York (2023) [Dataset]. https://www.welfareinfo.org/health-insurance-coverage/new-york/schenectady-county/stat-foreign-born-people/
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    Sep 12, 2024
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    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    Area covered
    Schenectady County, New York
    Description

    Foreign born Health Insurance Coverage Statistics for 2023. This is part of a larger dataset covering consumer health insurance coverage rates in Schenectady County, New York by age, education, race, gender, work experience and more.

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    Foreign born health insurance coverage in Yaphank, New York (2022)

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    Updated Sep 12, 2024
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    WelfareInfo.org (2024). Foreign born health insurance coverage in Yaphank, New York (2022) [Dataset]. https://www.welfareinfo.org/health-insurance-coverage/new-york/yaphank/stat-foreign-born-people/
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    Sep 12, 2024
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    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    Area covered
    Yaphank, New York
    Description

    Foreign born Health Insurance Coverage Statistics for 2022. This is part of a larger dataset covering consumer health insurance coverage rates in Yaphank, New York by age, education, race, gender, work experience and more.

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    Foreign born health insurance coverage in Richmond County, New York (2023)

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    Updated Sep 12, 2024
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    WelfareInfo.org (2024). Foreign born health insurance coverage in Richmond County, New York (2023) [Dataset]. https://www.welfareinfo.org/health-insurance-coverage/new-york/richmond-county/stat-foreign-born-people/
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    Sep 12, 2024
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    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    Area covered
    Staten Island, New York
    Description

    Foreign born Health Insurance Coverage Statistics for 2023. This is part of a larger dataset covering consumer health insurance coverage rates in Richmond County, New York by age, education, race, gender, work experience and more.

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    Foreign born health insurance coverage in Tappan, New York (2022)

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    Updated Sep 12, 2024
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    WelfareInfo.org (2024). Foreign born health insurance coverage in Tappan, New York (2022) [Dataset]. https://www.welfareinfo.org/health-insurance-coverage/new-york/tappan/stat-foreign-born-people/
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    Sep 12, 2024
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    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    Area covered
    Tappan, New York
    Description

    Foreign born Health Insurance Coverage Statistics for 2022. This is part of a larger dataset covering consumer health insurance coverage rates in Tappan, New York by age, education, race, gender, work experience and more.

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    Replication Data for: \"The Problem of False Positives in Automated Census...

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    Updated Dec 16, 2023
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    Anbinder, Tyler; O Grada, Cormac; Connor, Dylan; Wegge, Simone A. (2023). Replication Data for: \"The Problem of False Positives in Automated Census Linking: Nineteenth-Century New York's Irish Immigrants as a Case Study\" [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/NHV2IH
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    Dec 16, 2023
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    Anbinder, Tyler; O Grada, Cormac; Connor, Dylan; Wegge, Simone A.
    Area covered
    New York
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    Data sets referred to in our article that examines the problem of false positives in automated census linking.

  10. immigrants.income.csv

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    Updated Jan 18, 2016
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    Michael Walsh (2016). immigrants.income.csv [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.964901.v1
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    Jan 18, 2016
    Dataset provided by
    Figsharehttp://figshare.com/
    Authors
    Michael Walsh
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    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    Description

    Immigrant census data for New York City

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    Franz Boasâ¿¿s Immigrant Study

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    Updated Oct 15, 2019
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    Gravlee, Clarence C.; Leonard, William W.; Bernard, H. Russell (2019). Franz Boasâ¿¿s Immigrant Study [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.3886/E112086V2
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    Oct 15, 2019
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    da|ra (Registration agency for social science and economic data)
    Authors
    Gravlee, Clarence C.; Leonard, William W.; Bernard, H. Russell
    Description

    In 1910, Franz Boas published the first results from his classic study, Changes in Bodily Form of Descendants of Immigrants. This landmark work became controversial almost immediately, as it challenged many prevailing ideas about human biology and race. The most striking finding at the time was that head shapeâ¿¿long thought to be a fixed, purely hereditary marker of raceâ¿¿was in fact sensitive to changes in environment within a single generation.Boasâ¿¿s most impressive response to the controversy was his decision in 1928 to publish 504 pages of raw, handwritten data from the immigrant study as Materials for the Study of Inheritance in Man (New York: Columbia University Press). He explained: "It seemed necessary to make the data accessible, because a great many questions relating to heredity and environmental influences may be treated by means of this material." In the same spirit, here we provide the machine-readable data set that is the basis of our published reanalysis of Boasâ¿¿s data set.The data are provided in two structures:Files labeled "master" are formatted to match Boasâ¿¿s original. Each individual is assigned to a unique case.Files labeled "family" facilitate parent-offspring comparisons. Second-generation immigrants are assigned to cases, with data for each descendantâ¿¿s mother and father assigned as variables.Both data structures are available as SPSS files (.sav) and as ASCII text.

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    Foreign born health insurance coverage in Manhasset, New York (2022)

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    Updated Sep 12, 2024
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    WelfareInfo.org (2024). Foreign born health insurance coverage in Manhasset, New York (2022) [Dataset]. https://www.welfareinfo.org/health-insurance-coverage/new-york/manhasset/stat-foreign-born-people/
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    Sep 12, 2024
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    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    Area covered
    Manhasset, New York
    Description

    Foreign born Health Insurance Coverage Statistics for 2022. This is part of a larger dataset covering consumer health insurance coverage rates in Manhasset, New York by age, education, race, gender, work experience and more.

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    Foreign born health insurance coverage in Johnson City, New York (2022)

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    Updated Sep 12, 2024
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    WelfareInfo.org (2024). Foreign born health insurance coverage in Johnson City, New York (2022) [Dataset]. https://www.welfareinfo.org/health-insurance-coverage/new-york/johnson-city/stat-foreign-born-people/
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    Sep 12, 2024
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    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    Area covered
    Johnson City
    Description

    Foreign born Health Insurance Coverage Statistics for 2022. This is part of a larger dataset covering consumer health insurance coverage rates in Johnson City, New York by age, education, race, gender, work experience and more.

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    Foreign born health insurance coverage in Warren County, New York (2023)

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    WelfareInfo.org (2024). Foreign born health insurance coverage in Warren County, New York (2023) [Dataset]. https://www.welfareinfo.org/health-insurance-coverage/new-york/warren-county/stat-foreign-born-people/
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    Sep 12, 2024
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    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    Area covered
    Warren County, New York
    Description

    Foreign born Health Insurance Coverage Statistics for 2023. This is part of a larger dataset covering consumer health insurance coverage rates in Warren County, New York by age, education, race, gender, work experience and more.

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    Foreign born health insurance coverage in Glens Falls, New York (2022)

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    WelfareInfo.org (2024). Foreign born health insurance coverage in Glens Falls, New York (2022) [Dataset]. https://www.welfareinfo.org/health-insurance-coverage/new-york/glens-falls/stat-foreign-born-people/
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    Sep 12, 2024
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    WelfareInfo.org
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    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    Area covered
    Glens Falls, New York
    Description

    Foreign born Health Insurance Coverage Statistics for 2022. This is part of a larger dataset covering consumer health insurance coverage rates in Glens Falls, New York by age, education, race, gender, work experience and more.

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    Foreign born health insurance coverage in Baldwin, New York (2022)

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    Updated Sep 12, 2024
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    WelfareInfo.org (2024). Foreign born health insurance coverage in Baldwin, New York (2022) [Dataset]. https://www.welfareinfo.org/health-insurance-coverage/new-york/baldwin/stat-foreign-born-people/
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    Sep 12, 2024
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    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    Area covered
    Baldwin, New York
    Description

    Foreign born Health Insurance Coverage Statistics for 2022. This is part of a larger dataset covering consumer health insurance coverage rates in Baldwin, New York by age, education, race, gender, work experience and more.

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    Foreign born health insurance coverage in Huntington, New York (2022)

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    Updated Sep 12, 2024
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    WelfareInfo.org (2024). Foreign born health insurance coverage in Huntington, New York (2022) [Dataset]. https://www.welfareinfo.org/health-insurance-coverage/new-york/huntington/stat-foreign-born-people/
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    Sep 12, 2024
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    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    Area covered
    Huntington, New York
    Description

    Foreign born Health Insurance Coverage Statistics for 2022. This is part of a larger dataset covering consumer health insurance coverage rates in Huntington, New York by age, education, race, gender, work experience and more.

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    Foreign born health insurance coverage in Oswego, New York (2022)

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    Updated Sep 12, 2024
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    WelfareInfo.org (2024). Foreign born health insurance coverage in Oswego, New York (2022) [Dataset]. https://www.welfareinfo.org/health-insurance-coverage/new-york/oswego/stat-foreign-born-people/
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    Sep 12, 2024
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    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    Area covered
    Oswego, New York
    Description

    Foreign born Health Insurance Coverage Statistics for 2022. This is part of a larger dataset covering consumer health insurance coverage rates in Oswego, New York by age, education, race, gender, work experience and more.

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    Foreign born health insurance coverage in Albany, New York (2023)

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    Updated Sep 12, 2024
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    WelfareInfo.org (2024). Foreign born health insurance coverage in Albany, New York (2023) [Dataset]. https://www.welfareinfo.org/health-insurance-coverage/new-york/albany/stat-foreign-born-people/
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    Sep 12, 2024
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    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    Area covered
    Albany, New York
    Description

    Foreign born Health Insurance Coverage Statistics for 2023. This is part of a larger dataset covering consumer health insurance coverage rates in Albany, New York by age, education, race, gender, work experience and more.

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    Foreign born health insurance coverage in North Babylon, New York (2022)

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    Updated Sep 12, 2024
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    WelfareInfo.org (2024). Foreign born health insurance coverage in North Babylon, New York (2022) [Dataset]. https://www.welfareinfo.org/health-insurance-coverage/new-york/north-babylon/stat-foreign-born-people/
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    Sep 12, 2024
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    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    North Babylon, New York
    Description

    Foreign born Health Insurance Coverage Statistics for 2022. This is part of a larger dataset covering consumer health insurance coverage rates in North Babylon, New York by age, education, race, gender, work experience and more.

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National Institute of Justice (2025). Ethnic Albanian Organized Crime in New York City, 1975-2014 [Dataset]. https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/ethnic-albanian-organized-crime-in-new-york-city-1975-2014-236ba
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Data from: Ethnic Albanian Organized Crime in New York City, 1975-2014

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Dataset updated
Mar 12, 2025
Dataset provided by
National Institute of Justicehttp://nij.ojp.gov/
Area covered
New York
Description

These data are part of NACJD's Fast Track Release and are distributed as they were received from the data depositor. The files have been zipped by NACJD for release, but not checked or processed except for the removal of direct identifiers. Users should refer to the accompanying readme file for a brief description of the files available with this collection and consult the investigator(s) if further information is needed. The main aim of this research is to study the criminal mobility of ethnic-based organized crime groups. The project examines whether organized crime groups are able to move abroad easily and to reproduce their territorial control in a foreign country, or whether these groups, and/or individual members, start a life of crime only after their arrival in the new territories, potentially as a result of social exclusion, economic strain, culture conflict and labeling. More specifically, the aim is to examine the criminal mobility of ethnic Albanian organized crime groups involved in a range of criminal markets and operating in and around New York City, area and to study the relevance of the importation/alien conspiracy model versus the deprivation model of organized crime in relation to Albanian organized crime. There are several analytical dimensions in this study: (1) reasons for going abroad; (2) the nature of the presence abroad; (3) level of support from ethnic constituencies in the new territories; (4) importance of cultural codes; (5) organizational structure; (6) selection of criminal activities; (7) economic incentives and political infiltration. This study utilizes a mixed-methods approach with a sequential exploratory design, in which qualitative data and documents are collected and analyzed first, followed by quantitative data. Demographic variables in this collection include age, gender, birth place, immigration status, nationality, ethnicity, education, religion, and employment status. Two main data sources were employed: (1) court documents, including indictments and court transcripts related to select organized crime cases (84 court documents on 29 groups, 254 offenders); (2) in-depth, face-to-face interviews with 9 ethnic Albanian offenders currently serving prison sentences in U.S. Federal Prisons for organized crime related activities, and with 79 adult ethnic Albanian immigrants in New York, including common people, undocumented migrants, offenders, and people with good knowledge of Albanian organized crime modus operandi. Sampling for these data were conducted in five phases, the first of which involved researchers examining court documents and identifying members of 29 major ethnic Albanian organized crime groups operating in the New York area between 1975 and 2013 who were or had served sentences in the U.S. Federal Prisons for organized crime related activities. In phase two researchers conducted eight in-depth interviews with law enforcement experts working in New York or New Jersey. Phase three involved interviews with members of the Albanian diaspora and filed observations from an ethnographic study. Researchers utilized snowball and respondent driven (RDS) recruitment methods to create the sample for the diaspora dataset. The self-reported criteria for recruitment to participate in the diaspora interviews were: (1) age 18 or over; (2) of ethnic Albanian origin (foreign-born or 1st/2nd generation); and (3) living in NYC area for at least 1 year. They also visited neighborhoods identified as high concentrations of ethnic Albanian individuals and conducted an ethnographic study to locate the target population. In phase four, data for the cultural advisors able to help with the project data was collected. In the fifth and final phase, researchers gathered data for the second wave of the diaspora data, and conducted interviews with offenders with ethnic Albanian immigrants with knowledge of the organized crime situation in New York City area. Researchers also approached about twenty organized crime figures currently serving a prison sentence, and were able to conduct 9 in-depth interviews.

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