The Migration Policy Institute has published a new analysis titled "The Education and Work Profiles of the DACA Population," a data-driven profile of the educational attainment and labour force participation of recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.

The report addresses the population covered by DACA, the United States programme that grants temporary relief from removal and work authorisation to people brought to the country as children. MPI, a Washington-based immigration research institute, has tracked this population across successive policy cycles.

The publication arrives amid continuing uncertainty over the programme's legal standing, which has repeatedly reached the federal courts since DACA took effect in 2012.

What does the report cover?

According to its title and scope, the analysis profiles two dimensions of the DACA population:

• Education: the schooling levels reached by DACA recipients. -- Work: the employment patterns and labour market presence of the group.

MPI frames these profiles as evidence for policy debates on the programme's future, which Congress and the courts have left unresolved for more than a decade.

Who is affected?

The population in question consists of DACA recipients, people who arrived in the United States as children and received deferred action along with work permits under the programme established in 2012. Their ability to study, work and remain in the country depends on the programme's continuation.

Where to read the findings

The full dataset and methodology appear in the Migration Policy Institute's publication, available through the institute's public research portal. Readers should consult the MPI report directly for the exact figures, definitions and survey sources behind the profiles.

MPI's analysis offers the most recent institutional snapshot of who DACA recipients are in the classroom and the workplace.