Building a New Life in Australia: The Longitudinal Study of Humanitarian Migrants, Release 6 (Waves 1-6)

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Description	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.
Subject	Social Sciences
Keyword	Australia, Communities, Education, Employment, English language, Family, Groups, Health, Housing, Humanitarian migrants, Immigration, Mental illness, Refugees, Self perception, Stress, Translation services
Related Publication	Department of Social Services. (2017). Building a New Life in Australia (BNLA): The Longitudinal Study of Humanitarian Migrants - Findings from the first three waves. Canberra.
License/Data Use Agreement	CC0 1.0


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Persistent Identifier	doi:10.26193/KPE7EH
Publication Date	2024-08-22
Title	Building a New Life in Australia: The Longitudinal Study of Humanitarian Migrants, Release 6 (Waves 1-6)
Alternative URL	https://www.dss.gov.au/our-responsibilities/families-and-children/programmes-services/building-a-new-life-in-australia-bnla-the-longitudinal-study-of-humanitarian-migrants
Author	Department of Social Services (Australian Government) Australian Institute of Family Studies (Australian Government)
Point of Contact	Use email button above to contact. Australian Data Archive (The Australian National University)
Description	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.
Subject	Social Sciences
Keyword	Australia (APAIS) http://vocabularyserver.com/apais/ Communities (APAIS) Education (APAIS) Employment (APAIS) English language (APAIS) Family (APAIS) Groups (APAIS) Health (APAIS) Housing (APAIS) Humanitarian migrants (APAIS) Immigration (APAIS) Mental illness (APAIS) Refugees (APAIS) Self perception (APAIS) Stress (APAIS) Translation services (APAIS)
Related Publication	Department of Social Services. (2017). Building a New Life in Australia (BNLA): The Longitudinal Study of Humanitarian Migrants - Findings from the first three waves. Canberra. url: http://www.dss.gov.au/bnla De Maio, J., Silbert, M., Jenkinson, R., & Smart, D. (2014). Building a New Life in Australia: Introducing the Longitudinal Study of Humanitarian Migrants. Family Matters, 94, 5-14. issn: 1030-2646 https://aifs.gov.au/publications/family-matters/issue-94/building-new-life-australia FLoSse Research, DSS's Longitudinal Surveys Electronic Research. url: http://flosse.dss.gov.au/index.php
Language	English
Producer	Department of Social Services (Australian Government) (DSS) https://www.dss.gov.au/
Contributor	Data Manager : Australian Institute of Family Studies Data Manager : Department of Social Services Funder : Department of Social Services Data Collector : Verian (formally known as Kantar Public (2022) and Colmar Brunton Social Research (prior to 2022)) Data Collector : Multicultural Marketing and Management
Depositor	Department of Social Services
Deposit Date	2019-06-12
Time Period	Start Date: 2013-10-01 ; End Date: 2023-06-17
Data Type	Survey data

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Geographic Coverage	Australia

Social Science and Humanities Metadata

Unit of Analysis	Migrating Unit (MU); Individual
Time Method	Longitudinal/panel/cohort study
Sampling Procedure	No sampling (total universe). Participants were eligible to be recruited from 11 sites around Australia. A total of 4,035 Migrating Units (MUs) who met the eligibility criteria (visa sub-class and time period of visa grant/arrival in Australia) were identified as potential participants in the study. Only 2,769 migrating units were required to be approached for contact to achieve the sample target.
Collection Mode	The vast majority of interviews in waves 1 and 3 were conducted face-to-face, either as a Computer-Assisted Self-Interview (CASI) (70.5% of interviews in wave 1, 63.3% in wave 3 and 45.0% in wave 5), or as a Computer-Assisted Personal Interview (CAPI) (29.5% in wave 1, 33.4% in wave 3 and 50.0% in wave 5). In waves 2 and 4, interviews were conducted over the phone (99.4% in wave 2 and 100% in wave 4). In wave 3, a one-off Child Self-Report module was completed on paper by selected children aged 11-17 years old. In Wave 6, main wave respondents were initially offered a CAWI (Computer-Assisted Web Interview), and 52.1% used this mode. 30.5% completed using a CAPI and 11.9% a CASI. Telephone interviews were offered where other modes were not appropriate for the respondent. 5.6% completed using a CATI. For the Youth cohort, the only mode offered was a CAWI.

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