NEW IMMIGRANT SURVEY: A PILOT STUDY

描述（改编自研究者摘要）：主要负责人 研究者和同事们提出了一项对大量样本进行试验性研究 外国出生的规模，最终将导致纵向 分析回答移民领域的政策问题。 该提案要求根据 法律的移民和非移民的行政移民记录 移民.不久之后将进行问卷调查 入境事务处索取新移民的追溯资料， 他们的直系亲属和大家庭。第二份问卷将是 管理两年，以跟踪流动和适应 这些受访者。三四年后，第二批移民 将从行政记录中抽取样本进行比较 与第一组。 第一阶段将是设计一项试点调查的实施办法 以尽量减少可能伴随较大项目的问题， 更好地衡量全样本设计的成本。鉴于 项目的成功，主要研究人员和同事将 寻求后续研究的资金，以及如何导致第一次 真正的移民纵向研究。

DESCRIPTION (Adapted from Investigator's Abstract): The principal investigator and colleagues propose a pilot study of a substantial sample size of foreign born that will eventually lead to a longitudinal analysis to answer policy questions in the field of immigration. The proposal calls for a prospective-retrospective survey based on the administrative immigration records of legal immigrants and non- immigrants. A questionnaire would be administered soon after immigration to obtain retrospective information on the new immigrants and their immediate and extended families. A second questionnaire would be administered with two years to track the mobility and adaptation of these respondents. Three or four years later, a second immigrant cohort sample would be drawn from administrative records to permit comparison with the first group. The first stage would be to design an implementation of a pilot survey to minimize the problems that might attend the larger project and to gain a better gauge of the costs of the full sample design. Given the success of the project, the principal investigator and colleagues will seek funding for a follow-up study and what will lead to the first genuine longitudinal research on immigrants ever undertaken.