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Record W6923623255 · doi:10.14288/1.0447864

Survey study on Hong Kong residents recently arrived in Canada (second wave) : Preliminary report

2025· article· en· W6923623255 on OpenAlex

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
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Bibliographic record

VenuecIRcle (University of British Columbia) · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicEducation Methods and Technologies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMental healthResidenceImmigrationPopulationSettlement (finance)Public healthPreliminary report

Abstract

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To further understand how Hong Kong residents who recently arrived or returned to Canada experience their settlement and integration process and how this process may have influenced their health and mental health conditions, we conducted a second wave of online surveys between September 8 and October 10, 2024. A total of 636 respondents completed the survey. As reported in this survey, this group of respondents are primarily middle-aged, highly educated, and fluent in English, consistent with the targeted population of the Canadian government’s special public policy, the Permanent Residence Pathways for Hong Kong Residents. The findings indicate that most respondents experienced difficulties searching for jobs that met their expectations, securing affordable housing, and accessing health care services; their settlement process was largely smooth. Many respondents established and maintained a relatively active social connection with families and friends in Canada and Hong Kong, who have been their significant social support and help. So far, their social circle has tended to be confined to other people from Hong Kong. Most respondents also demonstrated “healthy immigrant effects,” as most reported no major health and mental health concerns. Among all the stressors, over half of the respondents stated that their status and work problems were their significant sources of stress. These problems are interrelated and may be worsened due to the slowdown of their permanent resident application process. Indeed, nearly half of the respondents were unsure if they would stay in Canada for good. When encountering health and mental health issues, most did not receive formal support. They relied mainly on the support from their informal network, showcasing their impressive adaptability in navigating the challenges of settlement.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.126
Threshold uncertainty score0.488

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.031
GPT teacher head0.268
Teacher spread0.237 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it