The Australian Government's Settlement Database

David Marshall, Gill McPadden and David Smith

Australian Economic Review, 2015, vol. 48, issue 2, 209-213

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The Australian Government's Settlement Database contains over 3 million records of permanent migrants to Australia. Records in the Settlement Database extend back to 1991 and are compiled from a number of different visa-processing and movement-recording systems. This article provides an overview of the Settlement Database, including a summary of the data fields, actual and potential uses for the data, recognised limitations of the dataset and details on how to access the data.

Date: 2015
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