In June 2021, a total of 3,610 people entered Australia on a permanent skilled visa. From February 2020 the number of international arrivals in Australia plummeted as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Compared with the month of October in the previous year, which totaled nearly 800,000 visa entries, a total of just over 10,000 visa entries occurred in October 2020.

Australian visa types

The Australian immigration program manages a range of both permanent and temporary visa applications. The most common single visa type is the higher education sector visa, used by international students to study at Australian universities, this is followed by the two most common tourist visa types, visitor and working holiday visas. Of the permanent visa types, the skilled visa category is by far the most popular, with more and a million permanent migrants living in Australia on this visa category at the last Australian census in 2016.

The impact of Coronavirus on travel

With the rate of infection in China climbing steadily in early February 2020, the Australian government began to implement travel restrictions to slow the spread of the coronavirus. These measures began with the closing of borders to foreign nationals arriving from China and by April 2020 these restrictions had been extended to all foreign international travelers. Domestic travel also saw a drastic fall in traffic, even before the Australian states and territories began restricting interstate travel. The number of domestic travelers in April 2020 had dropped to just a fraction compared to the previous year.

Abstract

The most important aspects of the coverage and data collected in the Population and Housing Census 2006 are: - As in all past censuses, all Maldivian citizens were enumerated in the Population and Housing Census of Maldives 2006 living in the country as well as abroad. - Foreign nationals who were in the country with work permit were counted in the listing operation but their individual information was not collected. Tourists on tourist visa were not counted in the census. - Information were collected in the census regarding the types of materials used for the construction of walls and roofs of all houses in the country regardless if occupied or unoccupied, either by Maldivian or foreigners. - Data were collected on the available source of water, latrine and electricity facilities in the houses only in respect of the living quarters that were occupied. - As in the past four censuses, the enumeration of people in the census 2006 was carried out on de facto basis, i.e. where they were currently residing. Information was also collected of the Maldivians living abroad. Maldivians living abroad at the time of census for various reasons were collected at the place where they were residing before leaving the country. - In addition to the general information on social and economic characteristics of the enumerated population, attempts were also made in the census 2006 to collect data on migration, education, economic activities, nuptiality, and data on the past and current fertility.

Geographic coverage

National coverage

Analysis unit

Household Individual/ person Housing unit

Universe

All Maldivian citizens were enumerated in the Population and Housing Census of Maldives 2006 living in the country as well as abroad.

Foreign nationals who were in the country with work permit were counted in the listing operation but their individual information was not collected. Tourists on tourist visa were not counted in the census.

Kind of data

Census/enumeration data [cen]

Mode of data collection

Face-to-face [f2f]

Cleaning operations

Data processing activities were handled by a team of twelve staff of from the Statistics Section and additional 20 persons recruited on temporary basis for the special operations, such as editing, coding and data entry.

It took four months to complete editing, coding and scanning the census data. A total of 20 computers were used for data entry and its verification. Intelligent Character Recognition (ICRSmart Form) is a system to capture Digital information from the scanned images. ICR is one of the latest and advanced technologies in the field of data capturing. Advantage of ICR system is speed and accuracy using ICR the speed can be tremendously increased to 3-10 times faster than a normal data entry process.

The data entry system was set up by the assigned staff of the Statistics Section, coding and editing was done simultaneously. Consistency checks of the recorded information were made during the coding operation. If there were any mistakes or errors in the forms, the information was edited according to the given procedures. If there was a major error, first the forms were checked and corrections were made after discussing with the technical and subject matter persons. The data editing process also involved correcting the data. This required checking the raw data and removal of the errors. For the data editing, a program was developed so that it was possible to impute correction automatically. Validation procedures were built into the system and permit to edit the data.

People who have been granted permanent resident status in Canada. Please note that in these datasets, the figures have been suppressed or rounded to prevent the identification of individuals when the datasets are compiled and compared with other publicly available statistics. Values between 0 and 5 are shown as “--“ and all other values are rounded to the nearest multiple of 5. This may result to the sum of the figures not equating to the totals indicated.