Is this why NPLT arrivals has diverged from NOM?

For decades, net permanent and long-term (NPLT) arrivals data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) provided a strong, reliable leading indicator of the direction of net overseas migration (NOM). When the rate of NPLT arrivals rose or fell, it reliably suggested that NOM was moving in the same direction. The strong correlation between NPLT The post Is this why NPLT arrivals has diverged…

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