The New Immigrant Survey

描述(由申请人提供)：我们建议首次对新来美国的合法移民进行全面的纵向调查，调查的基础是新获准永久居留的移民的管理记录的全国代表性样本。我们最近成功地完成了一轮基线调查，NIS-2003-1，访谈了8,573名抽样的成年移民、810名赞助人--儿童移民的父母以及这两个群体的配偶，并评估了他们的子女。我们在此提议一轮后续行动，重新约谈基线调查对象及其配偶，并评估他们的子女。从基线获得的结果已经为第二轮NIS-2003-2的设计的所有要素提供了信息。为了随着时间的推移监测适应情况，我们的基线样本必须在整个生命周期中定期接受采访。为了评估移民的遗产，还从他们的子女那里获得了信息，包括他们随身携带的移民子女和他们在美国所生的美国公民子女。我们还将把这些调查的公共使用数据库公之于众，这将为评估美国移民法、移民的同化和经历以及移民在美国的影响提供重要的信息来源。这些数据提供了新移民的移民前教育、工作、健康、移民、婚姻和生育史的前瞻性和追溯性信息。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信息，这些信息来自英语语言能力和母语不同的人群。人口趋势表明，移民及其后代的健康状况将在塑造美国人民的健康状况方面发挥越来越重要的作用。确定移民最初健康选择的决定因素，以及移民后形成健康路径的因素，对于理解种族健康差异至关重要。国家统计局将把可用于跟踪新移民健康轨迹的数据输入公共领域。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We propose to carry out, for the first time, a comprehensive longitudinal survey of new legal immigrants to the United States based on nationally representative samples of the administrative records of immigrants newly admitted to permanent residence. We recently completed a successful baseline round, NIS-2003-1, interviewing 8,573 sampled adult immigrants, 810 sponsor-parents of sampled child immigrants, and spouses of both groups, and assessing their children. We propose here a follow-up round that will re- interview baseline respondents and their spouses and assess their children. The results obtained from the baseline have informed all elements of the design for the second round, NIS-2003-2. To monitor adaptation over time, our baseline sample must be interviewed at regular intervals over the life cycle. To assess the immigrants' legacy, information is also 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 are also putting 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 provide prospective and retrospective information of pre-immigration education, work, health, migration, marriage and fertility histories for newly-arrived immigrants. They 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. Demographic trends suggest that the health status of immigrants and their descendants will play an increasingly central role in shaping health outcomes of the American people. Identifying the determinants of the original health selection of migrants and the forces that shape health paths following immigration is critical to understanding ethnic health differences. The NIS will put into the public-domain data that can be used to follow the health trajectories of new immigrants.