Analysis on health status as well as living and job satisfaction of Chinese immigrants in Canada

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.