The Asianisation of Australia: volume 2, part 1, section 7
Immigration Categories
Because of category jumping, it has therefore been recommended by some demographers to look at short-term, long-term, and permanent arrivals as a whole, not just at the "settler", or even "permanent and long-term" immigration statistics.
To illustrate the difference between the different categories of immigration statistics, compare the different categories in the following Tables.
TABLE 7
COMPARISON OF IMMIGRATION STATISTICS:
IMMIGRATION: FINANCIAL YEAR 1994/95 (20)
U.K. and
Asia % Europe % Other % Total %
Permanent (settlers) 38 448 44.0 25 523 29.2 23 457 26.8 87 428 100
Permanent
and long-term 96 416 40.4 53 714 22.5 88 393 37.1 238 523 100
Total permanent, long
-term, and short-term 2 163 354 35.1 1 321 957 21.5 2 675 439 43.4 6 160 750 100
TABLE 8
COMPARISON OF IMMIGRATION STATISTICS:
NET IMMIGRATION: FINANCIAL YEAR 1994/95 (21)
U.K. and
Asia % Europe % Other % Total %
Settlers 35 923 47.9 20 660 27.6 18 373 24.5 74 956 100
Permanent 35 118 58.1 19 746 32.6 5 616 9.3 60 480 100
Permanent
and long-term 52 604 56.5 27 338 29.4 13 100 14.1 93 042 100
Total permanent, long
-term, and short-term 40 495 37.9 42 576 39.8 23 852 22.3 106 923 100
However, it should be noted that total immigration figures are based largely upon short-term arrivals, which unfortunately are derived from sampling estimates, rather than proper counting of all such short-term movement. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) says that "All movements with a duration of stay of less than one year are sampled", and maintains that "For any estimate of greater than 10,000 the relative standard error will be less than 6%". The ABS reports that "All movements with a duration of stay less than one year are sampled using the following stratification:
"Country of Citizenship: Sample:
Australia 1 in 55
Japan 1 in 50
New Zealand, United Kingdom (excluding Ireland)
and the United States of America 1 in 40
Germany, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan 1 in 20
Canada, France, Indonesia, Italy, Netherlands,
Republic of Korea, Switzerland and Thailand 1 in 15
Any other individual country depending on the
number of movements 1 in 1, or 1 in 4,
or 1 in 10 ".(22)
The Asianisation of Australia:
Statistics (Immigration, Ethnicity, and Trade) (Volume 2)
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