Abstract:
Objective To understand how Chinese immigrants evaluate their health status and how they are satisfied with the living and job situation in Canada.
Methods A stratified sampling design was used according to the age of the participants.A semi-structured questionnaire was distributed to the participants for their responses.All data were entered into a pre-tested MS-ACCESS database,which was later converted into SAS format for analysis.
Results The main problems raised by participants were low satisfaction to the health and living status;difficulties in finding suitable jobs,language barrier.The leading reasons for difficulties and dissatisfied things living in Canada were cannot finding a suitable job(45.0%),boing life(33.2%),language barrier(26.0%),hard to make friends(23.5%).
Conclusion The results from this study are expected to have important implications in terms of how best utilizing the human resources in the Chinese population in Canada.