Tldr, the survey is based on self report, and more people are reporting that they’re citizens. Because why would you send a survey to the feds telling them you’re undocumented?
Also, this bit buried at the bottom of the article seems important
… the bureau adjusts its figures in relation to data from the Census Bureau on the size of the total U.S. population. This can result in sudden lurches in native-born and foreign-born job levels, making it impossible to compare them accurately over time.
“The decline in the foreign-born population is suspiciously large; the truth is probably a combination of a slowly growing or possibly slightly declining foreign-born population, combined with declining response rates for the foreign-born,” Kolko wrote in a blog post.
“But the huge jump in the native-born population is an artifact of survey sampling and weighting. It tells us nothing about the true population, employment, or labor-market experience of native-born Americans.”
Tldr, the survey is based on self report, and more people are reporting that they’re citizens. Because why would you send a survey to the feds telling them you’re undocumented?
Also, this bit buried at the bottom of the article seems important