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.

Australia Net Migration data was reported at 138,510.000 Person in 2024. This records a decrease from the previous number of 140,232.000 Person for 2023. Australia Net Migration data is updated yearly, averaging 108,852.000 Person from Dec 1960 (Median) to 2024, with 65 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 275,773.000 Person in 2008 and a record low of 23,833.000 Person in 1993. Australia Net Migration data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Australia – Table AU.World Bank.WDI: Population and Urbanization Statistics. Net migration is the net total of migrants during the period, that is, the number of immigrants minus the number of emigrants, including both citizens and noncitizens.;United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects: 2024 Revision.;Sum;

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.

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.

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.

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.

This dataset presents data on population and people available from the ABS Data by Region statistics. This release of Data by Region presents various data for 2011-2019 and Census of Population and Housing data for 2011 and 2016 and is based on the Local Government Area (LGA) 2019 boundaries. The dataset includes information in the following specified areas of population and people: Estimated Resident Population, Working Age Population, Median Age, Births and Deaths, Population Density, Internal and Overseas Migration, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, Overseas Born Proportion, Religious Affiliation and Speaks language other than English.

Data by Region contains a standard set of data for each region type, depending on the availability of statistics for particular geographies. Data are sourced from a wide variety of collections, both ABS and non-ABS. When analysing these statistics, care needs to be taken as time periods, definitions, methodologies, scope and coverage can differ across collections. Where available, data have been presented as a time series - to enable users to assess changes over time. However, when looked at on a period to period basis, some series may sometimes appear volatile. When analysing the data, users are encouraged to consider the longer term behaviour of the series, where this extra information is available.

For more information please visit the Explanatory Notes.

AURIN has made the following changes to the original data:

• Spatially enabled the original data with the ABS Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS) LGA 2019 dataset.

• Some data values in Data by Region have been randomly adjusted or suppressed to avoid the release of confidential details.

• Where data was not available, not available for publication, nil or rounded to zero in the original data, it has been set to null.

• Columns and rows that did not contain any values in the original data have been removed.

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.

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

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 held at Queensland State Archives. The register contains names of immigrants, date of admittance at Toowoomba, name of ship upon which they made the passage to Australia, destination from Brisbane to Toowoomba and date of leaving. Note many of the immigrants listed in this register originate from Ireland.

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.

Abstract

Previous surveys on labor migration from Pacific Island countries are often cross-sectional, not readily available, and focusing on one migration scheme, country, or issue and hence incompatible. Such limitation of existing data restricts analysis of a range of policy-relevant issues that present themselves over the migrants' life cycle such as those on migration pathways, long-term changes in household livelihood, and trajectory of migrants’ labor market outcomes, despite the significant impacts of labor migration on the economy of the Pacific Island countries. To address these shortfalls in the Pacific migration data landscape, the PLMS is designed to be longitudinal, spanning multiple labor sending and receiving countries and collecting omnibus information on both migrants, their households and non-migrant households. The survey allows for disaggregation and reliable comparative analysis both within and across countries and labor mobility schemes. This open-access and high-quality data will facilitate more research about the Pacific migration, help inform and improve Pacific migration policy deliberations, and engender broader positive change in the Pacific data ecosystem.

Geographic coverage

Tonga: Tongatapu, ‘Eua, Vava’u, Ha’apai, Ongo Niua. Vanuatu: Malampa, Penama, Sanma, Shefa, Tafea, Torba. Kiribati: Abaiang, Abemama, Aranuka, Arorae, Banaba, Beru, Butaritari, Kiritimati, Maiana, Makin, Marakei, Nikunau, Nonouti, North Tabiteuea, North Tarawa, Onotoa, South Tabiteuea, South Tarawa, Tabuaeran, Tamana, Teraina.

Analysis unit

• Households in Kiribati, Tonga, and Vanuatu.
• Temporary migrant workers from Kiribati, Tonga and Vanuatu who participated in the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme in Australia and the Recognised Seasonal Employers scheme in New Zealand

Kind of data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Sampling procedure

Sampling frame: The PLMS sample was designed based on a Total Survey Error framework, seeking to minimize errors and bias at every stage of the process throughout preparation and implementation.

The worker sample frame is an extensive list of approximately 11,600 migrant workers from Kiribati, Tonga and Vanuatu who had participated in the RSE and PALM schemes. Due to the different modes of interviews, sampling strategies for the face-to-face segment of the household survey in Tonga was different from the rest of the surveys implemented via phone interviews. The face-to-face segment of the household survey selected households using Probability Proportional to Size sampling based on the latest population census listing and our worker sample frame, with technical inputs from the Tonga Statistics Department. The phone-based segment of the household survey used a combination of Probability Proportional to Size sampling based on the existing sample frame and random digit dialing. The design of the sample benefited from technical inputs from the Tonga Statistics Departments and the Vanuatu National Statistics Office, as well as World Bank staff from Kiribati.

As participation in the survey is voluntary, a worker might agree to participate while their household did not, and vice versa. Because of this, the survey did not achieve a complete one-to-one match between interviewed workers and sending households. Of all interviewed respondents, 418 workers in the worker survey are linked to their households in the household survey. However, after removing incomplete interviews, 341 worker-household pairs remain. They are matched by either pre-assigned serial ID numbers or contact details collected in the household and worker surveys during the post-fieldwork data cleaning process.

Sampling deviation

The survey was originally planned to be conducted face-to-face and was so for most of the collection of household data in Tonga. However, due to COVID-19, it was switched to phone-based mode and the survey instruments were adjusted accordingly to better suit the phone-based data collection while ensuring data quality. In particular, the household questionnaire was shortened, and sampling strategy changed to a combination of Probability Proportional to Size sampling based on the existing household listing and random digit dialing.

Compared to in-person data collection, the usual caveats of potential biases in phone-based survey related to disproportional phone ownership and connectivity apply here. The random digit dialing approach provides data representative of the phone-owning population. Yet due to lack of information, it is difficult to judge whether sending households in Kiribati, Tonga, and Vanuatu are more or less likely to own a phone and/or respond positively to survey request than non-sending households.

Mode of data collection

Computer Assisted Personal Interview [capi]

Research instrument

• The questionnaires were jointly designed in English by the World Bank and researchers at the Development Policy Centre, Australian National University. They were translated into Bislama, Gilbertese and Tongan, scripted into CAPI/CATI programs, tested and piloted before being finalized. The design of the questionnaires and the samples benefited from technical inputs from the Tonga Statistics Departments, Pacific consultants, and academic experts specialized in Pacific labor mobility and remittances.
• Enumerators are native speakers from the labor-sending countries covered in the survey and were trained to elicit information asked in the questionnaire in local languages.
• The phone-based household questionnaire is moderately shorter than the in-person version.

Cleaning operations

The published data have been cleaned and anonymized. All incomplete interview records have been removed from the final datasets. The anonymization process followed the theory of Statistical Disclosure Control for microdata, aiming to minimize re-identification risk, i.e. the risk that the identity of an individual (or a household) described by a specific record could be determined with a high level of confidence. The anonymization process employs the k-anonymity method to calculate the re-identification risk. Risk measurement, anonymization and utility measurement for the PLMS were done using sdcMicro, an add-on package for the statistical software R for Statistical Disclosure Control (SDC) of microdata.

Since the household questionnaire was shortened when the survey switched from face-to-face to phone-based data collection, there face-to-face datasets and phone-based datasets are not identical, but they are consistent and can be harmonized. The mapping guide enclosed in this publication provides a guide to data users to wish to harmonize them.

Household expenditure variables in the household dataset and individual wage variable in the household member dataset are in USD. Local currencies were converted into USD based on the following exchange rates: 1 Tongan Pa'anga= 0.42201412 USD; 1 Vanuatu Vatu= 0.0083905322 USD; 1 Kiribati dollar= 0.66942499 USD.

Response rate

Face-to-face segment of the PLMS household survey: not applicable. Phone-based segment of the PLMS household survey: 26%. The PLMS Worker survey: 31%

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.

Le Règlement sur les consultants en immigration (chapitre I-0.2.1, r. 1) a pour objectif d’enrayer les mauvaises pratiques et de mieux protéger les ressortissants étrangers souhaitant s’établir au Québec.

Il encadre les activités des consultants en immigration ainsi que les conditions d’obtention d’une reconnaissance et d’un renouvellement de reconnaissance à titre de consultant en immigration.

Pour agir à titre de consultant en immigration, une personne physique doit être reconnue comme tel par le ministre.

Lorsqu'un consultant en immigration obtient la reconnaissance, son nom figure au Registre québécois des consultants en immigration.

Origo is a geospatial spreadsheet dataset documenting ancient migrants attested in the Epigraphic Database Heidelberg (EDH). It is derived from a subset of individuals in the EDH People dataset (available at: https://edh.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/data/download/edh_data_pers.csv) who explicitly declare their geographic origin in the inscriptions. Based on the data curated by the EDH team, we have geocoded the stated places of origin and further enriched the dataset with additional metadata, prioritizing machine readability. We have developed the dataset for the purpose of a quantitative study of migration trends in the Roman Empire as part of the Social Dynamics in the Ancient Mediterranean Project (SDAM, http://sdam.au.dk). The scripts used for producing the dataset and for our related publications are available from here: https://github.com/sdam-au/LI_origo/tree/master.

The dataset includes two point geometries per individual:

• Geographic origin (origo_geometry) – representing the individual’s place of origin or birth.

• Findspot (findspot_geometry) – indicating the location where the inscription was discovered, which often approximates the place of death, as approximately 70% of the inscriptions are funerary.

Scope and Structure:

The dataset covers 2,313 individuals, described through 36 attributes. For a detailed explanation of these attributes, please refer to the accompanying file origo_variable_dictionary.csv.

File Formats:

We provide the dataset in two formats for download and analysis:

1. CSV – for general spreadsheet use.

2. GeoParquet (v1.0.0) – optimized for geospatial data handling.

In the GeoParquet version, the default geometry is defined by the origo_line attribute, a linestring connecting the origo_geometry (place of origin) and the findspot_geometry (findspot of the inscription). This allows for immediate visualization and analysis of migration patterns in GIS environments.

Getting Started with Python:

To load and explore the GeoParquet dataset in Python, you can use the following code:

import geopandas as gpd import fsspec origo = gpd.read_parquet(fsspec.open("https://zenodo.org/records/14604222/files/origo_geo.parquet?download=1").open())

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.

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.

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.