Health of refugees and humanitarian entrants in Australia

This interactive data visualisation (Figure 4.7) presents data on self-reported long-term health conditions in humanitarian entrants and other permanent migrants by country of birth.

Reporting by country of birth reflects the recorded country the person was born in. This does not necessarily reflect a person's ethnicity, nationality, or religious group. This is particularly relevant for humanitarian entrants who may be born in refugee camps in countries of asylum.

The permanent migrant comparison group may differ by country of birth, for example, a higher proportion of other permanent migrants from Afghanistan who arrive on family visas may have a more refugee-like background than other permanent migrants from Bhutan who are more likely to arrive on skilled visas.

Figure 4.7: Self-reported long-term health conditions by country of birth, 2021

Notes

1. ‘Proportion’ is the percentage of humanitarian entrants or other permanent migrants from a selected country of birth who self-reported a long-term health condition in the 2021 Census.
2. ‘Age-standardised proportion’ is the hypothetical percentage of people with a long-term health condition that would have been observed if population groups had the same age structure. The population standard used was the 2001 Australian Standard Population.
3. Data were not presented and marked as ‘n.p.’ (not published) when suppression was applied to manage confidentiality and when the number of events or the size of a population were not sufficient to produce reliable estimates.
4. For more information on how these data were calculated, see the Technical notes.

References

Person-Level Integrated Data Asset (PLIDA), 2021, PLIDA Modular Product, ABS DataLab. Findings based on use of PLIDA data.