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HILDA Online Data Dictionary Release 22
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Variable
uanmigc
Label
History: Migration category when you or your family first arrived in Australia
Population
Overseas born, non NZ citizen and arrived in 2000 or later
Subject Area
BACKGROUND - Ancestry
Survey Wave
21
Data File
Responding Person File
Frequency
No frequency data available
Notes
First asked in wave 4, and thereafter just in the first interview. Combined from wave 4 and answers from NPQ for new persons.
Variable Occurrence
W4
W5
W6
W7
W8
W9
W10
W11
W12
W13
W14
W15
W16
W17
W18
W19
W20
W21
W22
Value
Label
1
Skilled migrant
2
Business migrant
3
Family migrant
4
Refugee or Special Humanitarian migrant
5
New Zealand citizen
8
None of the above
Missing data values
-1
Not asked
-2
Not applicable
-3
Dont know
-4
Refused/Not stated
-5
Multiple response SCQ
-6
Implausible value
-7
Not able to be determined
-8
No SCQ
-9
Non-responding household
-10
Non-responding person