Results of Settlement Outcomes Surveys
This panel will examine key results from recent settlement outcome surveys in Canada which provide important insights into the economic and social outcomes of recent immigrants, their settlement needs, and their utilization of services and information. The panel will also include a presentation on new linkages of Statistics Canada surveys and landing data that will prove useful for future analyses. Presenters have been asked to focus on a subset of the following topics: (i) Limited users or non-users of services and the reasons for non-utilization; (ii) Desire for pre-arrival information; (iii) Use of the internet and social media; (iv) Civic engagement and belonging; (v) Economic trajectories; and (vi) Smaller versus larger communities.
Moderator: Martha Justus – Director, Strategic Research, Research and Evaluation, Citizenship and Immigration Canada
Presentations on Surveys
- Making Ontario Home Survey: Audrey Kobayashi – Pathways to Prosperity and Professor, Queen’s University
- Alberta Settlement Outcomes Survey: Victoria Esses
- Western Settlement Outcomes Survey: Leah Hamilton – Pathways to Prosperity and Professor, Mount Royal University
- Pan-Canadian Settlement Outcomes Survey: Alice Wong – Senior Manager, Immigrant Settlement and Language Programs, Human Services, Government of Alberta & Suresh Kumar – Manager, Integration-Foreign Credentials Referral Office, Citizenship and Immigration Canada
- Statistics Canada Surveys – Landing Data Linkages: Project Status and Future Potential: Xiaoyi Yan – Director, Knowledge Dissemination and External Relations, Citizenship and Immigration Canada & Lorna Jantzen – Policy and Research Analyst, Knowledge Dissemination and External Relations, Citizenship and Immigration Canada
