NIS - The New Immigrant Survey

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The NIS Project:

The New Immigrant Survey (NIS) is a multi-cohort prospective-retrospective panel study of new legal immigrants to the United States. The first full cohort (NIS-2003-1) sampled immigrants in the period May-November 2003. The baseline survey was conducted from June 2003 to June 2004. A survey pilot project (NIS-P) was carried out in 1996 to inform the fielding and design of the full NIS. The follow-up interview (NIS-2003-2) was conducted from June 2007 to December 2009.

NIS is supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH)/ National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)/ National Institute on Aging (NIA)/Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research (OBSSR) under grant HD33843, the National Science Foundation (NSF) under grants SRS-9907421 and SES-0096867, the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (now the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services). Additional support was provided by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE)and the Pew Charitable Trusts. This collaborative research project spans four institutional settings - RAND, Princeton University, New York University, and Yale University.

In this section, you will find:

Study Goals: a description of the project justification and objectives.
Overview: the design of the study.
Key Findings: a list of preliminary results based on the NIS Pilot and NIS 2003 surveys.