Assessment by "New Danes" of the Introduction Programme and their Level of Integration
Refugees and Immigrants Granted a Residence Permit between 1 March and 31 December 2004

This study maps newly arrived aliens’ participation in different aspects of life in Denmark, their participation in the introduction programme for new Danes, and their satisfaction with various components of the programme.

With regard to the level of integration, there have been improvements with regard to the new Danes’ assessment of their Danish language skills and the proportion of them in work.
It must be considered a positive finding that a very considerable proportion of the new Danes considered that they managed better about four years after receiving their residence permit mainly because their Danish had improved, they had found work, they had made more friends or had a better understanding of Danish society.

There were two factors that seemed to be consistently relevant to new Danes’ social participation. One was age: younger people had a higher degree of participation than their elders. The other was Danish language skills. New Danes on “Danish 3” had a higher degree of participation than those on “Danish 1” or “Danish 2”.