Please Note: As announced by the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection on 25 June 2017, the Department of Immigration and Border Protection (DIBP) retired the paper-based Outgoing Passenger Cards (OPC) from 1 July 2017. The information previously gathered via paper-based outgoing passenger cards is now be collated from existing government data and will continue to be provided to users. Further information can be accessed here: http://www.minister.border.gov.au/peterdutton/Pages/removal-of-the-outgoing-passenger-card-jun17.aspx.

Due to the retirement of the OPC, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) undertook a review of the OAD data based on a new methodology. Further information on this revised methodology is available at: http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/Previousproducts/3401.0Appendix2Jul%202017?opendocument&tabname=Notes&prodno=3401.0&issue=Jul%202017&num=&view=

A sampling methodology has been applied to this dataset. This method means that data will not replicate, exactly, data released by the ABS, but the differences should be negligible.

Due to ‘Return to Source’ limitations, data supplied to ABS from non-DIPB sources are also excluded.

Overseas Arrivals and Departures (OAD) data refers to the arrival and departure of Australian residents or overseas visitors, through Australian airports and sea ports, which have been recorded on incoming or outgoing passenger cards. OAD data describes the number of movements of travellers rather than the number of travellers. That is, multiple movements of individual persons during a given reference period are all counted. OAD data will differ from data derived from other sources, such as Migration Program Outcomes, Settlement Database or Visa Grant information. Travellers granted a visa in one year may not arrive until the following year, or may not travel to Australia at all. Some visas permit multiple entries to Australia, so travellers may enter Australia more than once on a visa. Settler Arrivals includes New Zealand citizens and other non-program settlers not included on the Settlement Database. The Settlement Database includes onshore processed grants not included in Settler Arrivals.

These de-identified statistics are periodically checked for privacy and other compliance requirements. The statistics were temporarily removed in March 2024 in response to a question about privacy within the emerging technological environment. Following a thorough review and risk assessment, the Department of Home Affairs has republished the dataset.

The aim of Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia was to collect information on recently arrived migrants, to measure how they settle in Australia, and to provide reliable data for Commonwealth and other agencies to monitor and evaluate immigration and settlement policies, programs and services. Data collection for the first cohort, Phase 1 (SSDA NO. 1040) was completed in 1999. Interviews for the second cohort commenced in March 2000 for the purpose of evaluating the effects of immigration policy changes. Variables for the PA and MU surveys include: attitudes to their former country, and Australia; reasons for immigrating; sources of information about Australia and its States/Territories and why their chose the state they settled in; experience of and attitudes to different sources of information, support and assistance received before and after arrival, in areas including employment, education, accommodation, health and government assistance; awareness of the two year waiting period for social security benefits; education in and attainment of english language; future migration, citizenship and sponsorship plans; and indicators of happiness and satisfaction. Background variables for the PA's and MU's include country and date of birth, gender, marital status, languages spoken, occupation and employment, income and expenses, accomodation, visa and citizenship status. Background variables for the OH's include country and date of birth, gender, marital status, employment, visa and citizenship status, and income.

These indexes were created from the Registers of immigrant ships’ arrivals in Queensland ports as kept and used by the Immigration Department from 1848 to 1912. The records are held at Queensland State Archives.

Building a New Life in Australia: The Longitudinal Study of Humanitarian Migrants (BNLA) aims to identify factors which help or hinder positive settlement outcomes. BNLA follows 1,509 humanitarian migrating units who arrived in Australia or had their permanent visas granted in the six months between May and December 2013. Participants include offshore visa holders who arrived in Australia holding a permanent humanitarian visa and onshore visa holders who received their permanent protection visa between May and December 2013. Wave 1 took place from October 2013 to March 2014 interviewing 2,399 principal and secondary applicants. The first five waves of data collection were conducted annually. Waves 1, 3 and 5 interviews were conducted face-to-face and waves 2 and 4 interviews were conducted by telephone. Wave 6 was conducted 5 years after wave 5, between January and July 2023. Wave 6 data was collected online and face-to-face. The survey and participant materials were translated into 14 languages in wave 1, 9 languages in waves 2 - 5 and 5 languages in Wave 6. Interviews were conducted by bilingual interviewers; some interviews also used interpreters (interviews were conducted in nineteen languages in total in waves 1 and 2, thirteen languages in Wave 3, eleven languages in Wave 4, and ten languages in Wave 5 and seven languages in wave 6). For waves 2 and 4, shorter telephone interviews omit some of the questions asked in the longer face-to-face interviews. Topics covered by the study include: demographics, immigration experience, housing and neighbourhood, English language proficiency, education and training, employment and income, health, self-sufficiency, community support, personal resources and life satisfaction, and life in Australia. Additional modules include the child module in Wave 3, childcare and gender roles from Wave 5 and the COVID-19 and youth module in Wave 6. Researchers interested in using this data should note: (1) BNLA does not include data about migrants in the family and skilled streams of the permanent Migration Program; (2) BNLA only includes humanitarian migrants who arrived/were granted a visa during a specific time period; (3) Analysis at the state level is not possible.

Index to the Register of immigrants arriving by ship at Mackay 1884 to 1911. The register was kept by the Assistant Immigration Agent, Mackay to record passenger lists of immigrants arriving by ship at Mackay, now held at Queensland State Archives. Details for each entry include the name of the ship and date of arrival, number, immigrant's name, adult - whether married or single, children 1-12 or infants under 1, and remarks.

This dataset provides information concerning the patterns of labour market access and the employment outcomes of African refugees in Australia. It focuses on recently-arrived migrants and refugees from Eritrea who came to Australia predominantly on humanitarian grounds. It explores the correlation between academic qualifications and previous employment experiences on the one hand and employment outcomes in Australia on the other. In doing so, a number of related factors including language skills, links to community organisations and level and nature of job assistance services are analysed as variables that potentially impact upon access to and ultimately integration into the labour market.

Note: Based on [28]. Note that the most traditional source countries such as the UK, Ireland, and New Zealand have for most of the time been important for Australian immigration.Typical source countries for the waves of immigration to Australia.

Name searchable index to Series S5631 Card Register of Immigrants and Missing Immigrants. This series is a card register of immigrants and missing immigrants dealt with in various correspondence although most cards contain very little information. The cards mainly register the administrative file movement/s of the Immigration Department's correspondence regarding a particular immigrant, but may include the name of the immigrant/missing immigrant, a file number, i.e. 269/24, name of ship, date of arrival, movements of File (dates and file numbers), the name of (correspondence) writer, subject and action. Some cards contain annotations such as "file returned to (other state)" or details concerning an immigrant, for example, age at date of departure etc. There are stamp marks on many of the cards, for example, "Domestic", Decontrolled", "Final", "Decentralised", "Salvation Army", etc

For the Longitudinal Survey of Immigration to Australia, two pilot studies, collectively known as the Prototype Survey, were undertaken with the purpose to research the experiences, concerns and needs of recently migrated peoples to Australia. Respondents, and in some cases their spouses, were asked questions on the migration process (i.e. had they migrated before, why they chose Australia, had they been sponsored to come out to Australia); occupation status, assets, income, and type of dwelling before and after migration; expectations and opinions of living in Australia; social activities; their ability to speak english and details about classes taken to learn English; the type and source of information requested before migration (ie, job prospects, recognition of qualifications); return visits to their home country; citizenship; the household budget; financial help received and given; changes in residence; unemployment and health. Background variables included age, sex, marital status, citizenship status; country of birth; date of arrival in Australia; occupation status, and highest qualification.

This dataset contains data on single, female, assisted immigrants arriving in New South Wales, Australia between 1848 and 1887 compiled from shipping lists held by the NSW State Archives. It contains information on 3,768 single (unmarried), female, assisted (sponsored or subsidised) immigrants and any children travelling with them arriving in Sydney, NSW between the opening of the Female Immigration Depot in 1848 and its closure in 1887. This sample was selected by using a random number generator to choose one ship arriving in Sydney for each year of the period. Data for each woman or child was transcribed by hand from digitized copies of 'NRS 5316 Persons on bounty ships (Agent's Immigrant Lists), 1838-96' made available online by NSW State Archives. For information about data collection, cleaning, and the variables used see the Data Schema.

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. Migration histories often neglect return migration. More than a million Britons migrated to Australia in the peak years of migration between 1945 and 1971, the majority using the assisted passage migration scheme. A significant proportion returned to Britain. This research involved the collection and analysis of written and oral life stories by these return migrants. It complemented La Trobe University (Melbourne) research involving the life stories of postwar British migrants still resident in Australia. The research aimed to enrich our understanding of the post war movements of people between Britain and Australia, of the experiences of British migrants in Australia, and of the motivations, processes and meanings of return migration. The research also aimed to develop more general theoretical understandings of the ways in which migrants deal with disjuncture and displacement and construct life stories which make sense of the turbulent interconnections between memory and identity, and between migration, place and nationality. Main Topics: The digital resource comprises: 1. Transcripts of 31 interviews conducted with men and women who emigrated to Australia under the assisted passage scheme between 1947 and 1973; 2. Summaries of these interviews; 3. A database in which these 31 interviews are coded according to the primary themes of interpretation. Simple random sample Face-to-face interview

The total population in Australia was estimated at 27.4 million people in 2024, according to the latest census figures and projections from Trading Economics. This dataset provides - Australia Population - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

This index was created from the register of immigrants by ship and destination, by the Immigration Agent Toowoomba, 1880 to 1888. The register contains names of immigrants, date of admittance at Toowoomba, name of ship upon which they made the passage to Australia, destination from Toowoomba and date of leaving. Note many of the immigrants listed in this register originate from Ireland.

USDA publishes weekly reports on the meat and poultry imports from country of origin. Of the 250 or so countries, US imports come from less than 40 countries. Total imports amount is a nearly 31.9 Metric tons, much of it coming from just a handful of countries such as Canada, Australia, Mexico, New Zealand, Nicargua. The dataset for this map was published on 14th May, 2007. Source: USDA Market News Portal.

Resistance to trade and demands for protectionist policy can derive from social as well as economic factors. A sense of cultural threat surrounding immigrants, especially immigrants visibly from groups that are widely stigmatized among the local population, may potentially stimulate such recoiling from exposure to the world. Voting patterns in the 1889 election in New South Wales, Australia, confirm this hypothesis: in a contest between the Protectionist and Free Trade Parties amidst reaction against the Chinese-Australian population, larger shares of voters preferred the protectionist, trade-restricting side in areas with proportionately larger ethnically Chinese populations than in otherwise similar areas elsewhere.

This collection represents anonymised and redacted interview transcripts from interviews with NGO/INGO organisational representatives. Interviews were conducted between 2016 and 2020, across several case studies: Canada (Vancouver, Ottawa), Greece (Athens, Kos), Spain (Almeria, Madrid), Australia (Canberra, Melbourne). Each organisation has a targeted responsibility for refugee settlement, support, or processing in each cases; in some cases, the NGO is internationally focused, and so interviews included discussion of advocacy and a comparison across cases. Interviews focus on practical experience and day-to-day activities, barriers to effective support, successes, and recommendations for change.This project interrogates changing patterns of irregular, or undocumented, migration in maritime space. It asks how the experiences and practices of irregular migrants are impacted by changing policies in border security and asylum, and also how these patterns of migration are themselves driving policy change. The project has a particular focus on how security efforts that attempt to respond to human trafficking and people smuggling (and that often conflate the two) are impacting the vulnerabilities of migrants, particularly asylum seekers, as they cross maritime borders. In pursuing these questions, this research prioritises the experiences and perspectives of migrants themselves by using innovative qualitative methods that enable migrants to tell their own stories, in their own ways. The objectives of this project are to place the migrant experience at the centre of our understanding of irregular maritime migration, to bring local case studies together to reveal global patterns of policy change, and to understand how the maritime space offers opportunities to rethink how we understand the international realm. The project is built around two case studies: the Pacific Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. In both cases, two migration routes will be studied. For the Pacific, the journey that transits through Indonesia to Australia, and that which transits through Thailand to Canada are the focus; in the Mediterranean, the journeys examined are from Morocco to Spain, and from Libya to Italy. To understand these routes, in-depth field research will be undertaken in the four destination states (Australia, Canada, Spain, and Italy) in order to trace the experience of migrants backwards from their destination through their migration journeys. These experiences will be analyzed against patterns of policy change in each state, and of interstate cooperation and governance at regional and global levels to reveal how states have responded to the arrival of boats carrying undocumented migrants, and how these responses have then impacted the mobility of these individuals. The guiding research method is ethnography, which includes participant observation, unstructured interviews, and visual ethnographies. The visual ethnographies represent a new method, and will allow migrants themselves to tell their own stories through video and photography. These pieces will then be made available on the Project Website, and will be screened at a final Public Engagement Event. Ethnographies will also be supported by semi-structured interviews and by policy analysis. Throughout the project, this research will be supported by comprehensive skills development for the researcher, which includes methodology training, the development of academic and practitioner networks, and the development of leadership skills and opportunities in the field. The research in this project will enhance our understanding of irregular migration and processes of political change that impact border security and asylum politics. This will be reflected in several journal articles, and a final book manuscript that will be submitted for review at the end of the project. This research will also have important non-academic impacts. Through activities that include the Website and Public Event noted above, targeted Workshops in each research site, and the regular publication of Briefing Notes and Project Reports, this project will build and enhance cross-community networks. The key audiences for this research include the general public, policy makers, advocacy and support workers, and migrants themselves. Through this research, policy debates will be informed by deeper understandings of irregular migration. Further, the activities and publications of the project will build new opportunities for communication, and for consultation and collaboration in developing more effective and humane responses to the challenges posed by irregular migration across water. Semi-structured interviews with representatives from NGOs and community organisations that work with migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers. Sampling took place through snowballing methods and via organisation-network mapping. The collection represents transcripts of interviews where recordings were taken and consent obtained for transcript deposit. Seven transcipts are included, with 3 from Canada, 3 from Australia, and one from Greece.

These files held at Queensland State Archives record the particulars of travel of nominated/sponsored immigrants who came to Queensland between 1947 and 1976. Each file may include: a nominal roll of assisted passage migrants (passenger list), luggage lists, notes of passenger travel arrangements after arrival, correspondence on payment of rail fares, and welfare officers report on meeting ship. The passenger lists include: name of passenger (nominated immigrants), age, religion, occupation, country / place of origin, name of ship or flight number of aircraft, date of arrival, and name and address of nominator. For the majority of the aircraft files only the passenger list for the flight is included on the file. The files are arranged in chronological order by the date of arrival of the ship or aircraft. While each ship has a separate file for each voyage, the aircraft files include passenger lists for several months or a period of one year.

This document describes the background and methodology of four surveys under the general study title Issues in Multicultural Australia. The four surveys are: a general sample of the population; non-English speaking born immigrants in general (the NESB sample); persons born in Australia whose father or mother was born in a non-English speaking country (the second generation sample); and persons who migrated to Australia since July 1981 from non-English speaking countries (the new arrivals sample). The general of this study are: to examine multiculturalism as a policy, through the experience of Australians; as a set of beliefs, through their attitudes; and as an aspect of cultural maintenance, through their perceptions. The study concentrates on three broad themes. First, it examines the attitudes of the Australian and overseas born towards multiculturalism, focussing in particular on views about the maintenance of customs, ways of life and patterns of behaviour among immigrants. Second, the barriers which exist to providing full access and equity to overseas born groups are analysed, principally in the fields of education, jobs and in the provision of general health and welfare programmes and services. Third, the study looks at levels of participation in the social and political spheres in community, culture and work related organisations, and in the use of the political process to remedy problems and grievances. Separate sections of the questionnaire deal with the respondent's background - country of birth and parents' country of birth, father's occupation and educational level; language - English language ability, languages spoken, use of own language, ethnicity - identification with ethnic groups, government aid to such groups, religious observance; education - school leaving age, qualifications obtained, recognition of overseas qualifications, transition to employment; current job - job status, occupation , industry, working conditions, trade union membership, gross income, problems looking for work; spouse - country of birth, education and qualifications, occupation and industry, income and income sources; immigration - attitudes to immigration policy, opportunities for immigrants, social distance from various ethnic groups, and attitudes to authority; family and social networks - numbers of children, siblings in Australia, numbers of close friends in Australia, neighbours; citizenship - citizenship status, participation in political matters and interest in politics, trust in government; and multiculturalism - views on what multiculturalism means, and its importance to Australian society.

This series consists of registers, kept by the Immigration Agent, Maryborough, of immigrants arriving at Maryborough. The registers are not arranged consistently but all include names of ships, passenger lists and arrival dates. IMA3/4 - 5 include agreements with employers; IMA3/7 -10 may include the country of origin of the passengers and where they have gone after leaving the depot.

This dataset displays the annual import of both beef and veal stocks into the United States. The figures are given in a carcass wt. 1,000 pounds scale. Data is available from 2003 to January of 2008. The main sources being Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.