Data sources
Data for permanent migrants who arrived in Australia on a permanent visa since 1 January 2000 to December 2022 was obtained from the Department of Home Affairs’ Settlement Database. The Settlement Database provides statistical data on permanent arrivals to Australia. It brings together data from various sources to assist government and community agencies involved in the planning and provision of services to migrants.
The data set used for these analyses was created by the AIHW Data Linkage Unit by linking Settlement Database cohort information to health and welfare data sets held by the AIHW. The final linked data asset contains the following data:
- Settlement Database (SDB) January 2000 to December 2022
- Medicare Consumer Directory (MCD) January 2000 to December 2022
- Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) July 2002 to March 2023
- Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) January 2000 to March 2023
- National Death Index (NDI) January 2000 to December 2022
- National Hospital Morbidity Database (NHMD) July 2010 to June 2021
- National Non-Admitted Patient Emergency Department Care Database (NNAPEDCD) July 2010 to June 2021
- Specialist Homelessness Services Collection (SHSC) July 2011 to June 2021*
- Client files (July 2011–June 2021)
- Content data (July 2011–June 2022)
*Any new clients presenting after 30 June 2021 were not included in the linkage map used for this project and consequently, these clients will not be included in the client and support period content data files. If clients who first present before 30 June 2021 have support periods in June 2021– June 2022 these will be present in the data.
See sections below for further details of the sources of data used to create the linked data asset that were analysed for this report.
Data suppression
The data presented in this report adheres to strict rules of suppression to ensure the confidentiality of people presented in the data. The dataset rules of each database included in the linked data asset have been strictly adhered to, ensuring the confidentiality and privacy rules of all data providers are upheld.