THE NEW IMMIGRANT SURVEY

我们建议首次开展一项全面的、多队列的 对美国新法律的移民的纵向调查， 行政记录的全国代表性样本，由 美国移民和归化局，关于新移民 允许永久居留。这个新 移民调查是后续行动 一个试点项目，该项目得到了NICHD、NIA、NSF和INS的共同资助， 该机构试图评估进行全面调查的成本和可行性， 在这里提出。试点项目取得的成果使所有人了解到， 新移民调查的设计要素。 为了监测各群体的变化，将对新的移民样本进行分析。 定期绘制。为了监测随着时间的推移的适应情况，每个样本将 在生命周期中定期进行访谈。为了评估移民的 遗产，还将获得有关其子女的信息， 他们带来的移民儿童和美国公民儿童 他们在美国出生。 我们还将把这些数据库中的一个公共数据库放入公共领域。 调查将提供重要的信息来源，以评估美国 移民法，移民的同化和经验，以及 移民对美国的影响。这些数据将提供前瞻性的 以及移民前的教育、工作、健康、 新移民的移民、婚姻和生育史。他们 还将提供有关健康、经济状况、学校教育、 和儿童的福祉从一个人口异质性的英语 语言能力和母语。

We propose to carry out, for the first time, a comprehensive, multi-cohort longitudinal survey of new legal immigrants to the United States based on nationally representative samples of the administrative records, compiled by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, pertaining to immigrants newly admitted to permanent residence. This New Immigration Survey is a follow-up to a pilot project, which received co-funding from NICHD, NIA, NSF, and INS, that has attempted to evaluate the cost and feasibility of fielding the full survey proposed here. The results obtained from the pilot project have informed all elements of the design for the full New Immigrant Survey. In order to monitor changes across cohorts, new samples of immigrants will be drawn periodically. To monitor adaptation over time, each sample will be interviewed at regular intervals over the life cycle. To assess the immigrants' legacy, information will also be obtained about and from their children, both the immigrant children they brought with them and the U.S. citizen children born to them in the United States. We also will put into the public domain a public-use data base from these surveys that will provide an important source of information to assess U.S. immigration laws, the assimilation and experiences of immigrants, and the impact of immigration in the United States. These data will provide prospective and retrospective information of pre-immigration education, work, health, migration, marriage and fertility histories for newly-arrived immigrants. They will also provide useful information on health, on economic status, on schooling, and on children's well-being from a population heterogeneous in English language abilities and native languages.