Sample Reports from LSIA 3
Tables and charts for LSIA 3
Tables and charts from LSIA 3 are arranged under the following six themes:
- Migrant characteristics
- English skills and language
- Qualifications and their assessment
- The labour market
- Earnings and other income
- Settlement
A note on the tables and charts
Most of these tables and charts report on changes between wave one and wave two of LSIA 3 - for example changes in the employment rate between Waves. In reporting these movements, only people who were interviewed in both waves are included in this sort of analysis.
In other words people who were not interviewed in wave two are excluded.
An analysis that does include people who were not interviewed in wave two, would draw on a larger sample but would be harder to interpret. For example if the unemployment rate drops between wave one and wave two, a contributing factor could be a large number of migrants who left Australia because they could not find a job, and were therefore were not interviewed in wave two.
By only including those people who were interviewed in both waves, the effect described above is removed, giving a more precise measure of change.
However, it should also be noted that some tables - in particular those looking at Demographic characteristics only look at wave one data. In these cases people are included in the analysis whether or not they were interviewed in wave two.