The New Immigrant Survey

移民对美国社会有重大影响，但信息需求与现有数据之间存在很大差距。关于移民子女和移民子女的短期和长期前景、移民入境群体的健康和技能构成随时间的变化、合法和非法身份之间的转变、移民对经济的贡献及其同化等基本问题仍未得到回答。该项目首次根据美国移民和归化局(INS)汇编的有关新获准永久居留的移民的具有全国代表性的行政记录样本，对新来美国的合法移民进行了全面、多队列的纵向调查，以满足这些信息需求。新的移民调查是一个试点项目的后续行动，该试点项目得到了NICHD、NIA、NSF和INS的共同资助，该项目试图评估在这里提出的全面调查的成本和可行性。这项试验计划所得的结果，反映了全面新移民调查的所有设计元素。为监察各组别的变化，当局会定期抽取新样本。为了随着时间的推移监测适应情况，每个样本将在整个生命周期内定期接受采访。为了评估移民的遗产，还将从他们的子女那里获得信息，包括他们随身携带的移民子女和他们所生的美国公民子女。该项目还将这些调查的公共使用数据库纳入公共领域，这些数据库为评估美国移民法、移民的同化和经历以及移民在美国的影响提供了重要的信息来源。这些数据提供了关于新移民在移民前和移民后的教育、工作、健康、移民、婚姻和生育率的前瞻性和前瞻性信息。它们还提供了关于健康、经济状况、学校教育和儿童福祉的有用数据，这些数据来自英语和母语不同的人口。

Immigration has a major impact on American society, but there is a large gap between information needs and existing data. The fundamental questions concerning the short run and long run prospects for immigrant children and the children of immigrants, changes in the health and skill composition of entry cohorts of immigrants over time, the transitions between legal and illegal statuses, the contributions of immigrants to the economy and their assimilation remain unanswered. This project addresses these information needs by conducting 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 (INS), pertaining to immigrants newly admitted to permanent residence. The 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 evaluated 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.To monitor changes across cohorts, new samples 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. The project also puts into the public domain public-use databases from these surveys that 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 provide prospective and retrospective information about pre- and post-immigration education, work, health, migration, marriage, and fertility for new immigrants. They also provide useful data on health, on economic status, on schooling, and on children's well being from a population heterogeneous in English and native languages.