May 15, 2006
European data question
In writing and researching the last article, something occurred to me about all the economic and social data collected from the European nations in the past few decades: does the data fully include their resident non-citizen immigrant populations? Because if it doesn't they're basically ignoring their entire lower class, which would certainly help the numbers.
I'm not really sure how one would obtain such information, and would be open to suggestions.
I'd check out the Country info-sheets at the State Dept./CIA, and if not there, check out the Venezualan Embassy/Consulate.
Posted by: jCave at May 15, 2006 03:40 PMThat's not exactly what I mean. Say, for example, a European claims that a certain percentage of their people are, oh, I don't know, employed, or have a college degree, or are married, or had a certain number of kids. How much of their non-citizen immigrant community does that count? Everyone? No one? A statistical sampling? Because the majority of European citizens seem to be pretty well integrated, if not downright homogenous. Like America, Europe does have a poverty-bound class. Unlike America, most of them seem to be migrant, non-citizen immigrants. Do they make it into the data or not?
Posted by: ryan at May 15, 2006 04:46 PM