06 July 2011

The Ageing Experience of Australians from Migrant Backgrounds

One in five Australians aged 50 and over were born in non-English-speaking countries, numbering more than 1 million people.

The Ageing Experience of Australians from Migrant Backgrounds digs deeper into the 2006 Census – the first to collect a range of data that can be used to examine productive ageing and wellbeing of older Australians – to provide a detailed picture of this large and significant group.

The results highlighted in this report are sometimes surprising and certainly deserve wider recognition.

It shows that older Australians from migrant backgrounds differ in their social and economic well-being according to country of origin and ancestry suggesting that cultural factors and migration experiences influence their ageing experiences.

This report is about quantifying these different ageing experiences.

Click here to download a copy of the report.