Topics Covered by the LSIA
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Topics
Although they were conducted as separate surveys, the LSIA 1 and LSIA 2 cover similar topics. These topics are as follows:
- Pre-migration experience
- The immigration process
- Initial settlement and location
- Sponsorship activity
- Perceptions of Australia
- Use of support services - government and non-government
- Return migration and visits
- Ancestry, religion and ethnicity
- Citizenship
- Views on immigration
- English language proficiency and learning
- Qualifications and skills assessment
- Education and training
- Labour force activity
- Health
- Housing arrangements
- Household budget
- Financial support received/given
- Transferral of assets/remittances
- Pensions and allowances
- Income and finances.
At this stage, the range of topics covered by LSIA 3 is more limited and includes:
- Reasons for migration
- The immigration process
- Initial settlement and location
- Sponsorship activity
- Perceptions of Australia
- Use of interpreting services
- English language proficiency and learning
- Qualifications and skills assessment
- Current study
- Labour force activity
- Use of qualifcations
- Housing arrangements
- Community participation
- Government payments
- Transferral of assets into Australia
- Income
Differences between surveys
Although they cover similar topics, the questions that make up the various LSIA surveys can vary because of the emergence of important new issues, For example the use of the Internet in the settlement process for LSIA 2, and performance in the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) for skilled migrants in LSIA3.
Questions also vary between different collection waves. This is because different issues are relevant at different stages of the migration and settlement process.
For more detail on the particular questions that were asked in LSIA 1, 2 and 3.See: LSIA Questionnaires