Dataset

The Statistical Abstract files are distributed by the US Census Department as Microsoft Excel files. These files have data mixed with notes and references, multiple tables per sheet, and, worst of all, the table headers are not easily matched to their rows and columns.

A few files had extraneous characters in the title. These were corrected to be consistent. A few files have a sheet of crufty gibberish in the first slot. The sheet order was shuffled but no data were changed.

The tables that were changed (this is table 518):

0166 0257 0362 0429 0445 0446 0459 0461 0462 0464 0465 0466 0467
0469 0479 0480 0481 0482 0483 0484 0485 0486 0487 0559 0628 0629
1144 1227 1231

This dataset consists of a table of 30 rows and 10 columns.

As of the end of September. The administrative reason for formal removal is the legal basis for removal. Some aliens who are criminals may be removed under a different administrative reason (or charge) for the convenience of the government. See definitions of immigration enforcement terms, “Immigration Enforcement Actions 2005, Yearbook of Immigration Statistics”

Footnotes

1. Voluntary departures verified include aliens under docket control
   required to depart and voluntary departures not under docket control;
   first recorded in 1927. Beginning FY 2004, voluntary departures verified
   include both Deportable Alien Control System (DACS) cases under docket control
   and Performance Analysis System (PAS) Border Patrol voluntary departures
   verified-cases not under docket or aliens processed for removal under
   safeguard. The latter is used as a measure of border patrol voluntary
   departures verified-cases not under docket. In FY 2004, complete Detention
   and Removal Office district level figures for voluntary departures-cases
   not under docket are unavailable in PAS and as a result are excluded for
   that year. Prior to FY 2004, the reporting of voluntary departures verifed included
   all locations, Border Patrol Sectors and districts.
2. Formal removals include deportaions, exclusions, and removals.
3. Includes those aliens charged under the statutes previous to April 1,
   1997, as “entered without inspection” (EWI).