Remittances from the U.S. to Latin America 2006 | | Total Amount: $ 208 million | Amount 2004: $ 61 million | Increase: 241% | | |  | Contribution to Louisiana's economy: $ 2,102 million | Latin American adult immigrants in Louisiana: 71,861 | Percentage of immigrants that send money regularly: 78% |
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See full data for 2004 >> | | | Methodology for 2006: Bendixen and Associates interviewed 2,511 Latin American immigrants in 2006 by telephone in Spanish with a margin of error of two percentage points. Additional information was obtained from focus groups of LAC transnational families. The remittance senders lived in New York City, Los Angeles and Miami. The recipients lived in Mexico, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Ecuador, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica and Haiti.
Source: Bendixen & Associates. |
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