Australia - cultural background leading positions 2018

This statistic displays the share of CEOs and equivalents in Australia in 2018, broken down by position and cultural background. That year, 84.5 percent of federal and state government department heads were of Anglo-Celtic origin, compared to only one percent that were of non-European origin. Indigenous people were non represented in the leading positions of the federal and state government at all in that year.

Cultural background of chief executive officers (CEOs) and equivalents in Australia in 2018 by type

Characteristic	Anglo-Celtic	European	Non-European	Indigenous
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Release date

April 2018

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Australia

Survey time period

2018

Supplementary notes

Cultural backgrounds are classified in the following way:

Indigenous designates those who have an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander cultural background.

Anglo-Celtic describes those cultural backgrounds that are English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish.

European includes all European backgrounds other than Anglo-Celtic – including North-West European (e.g. German, French, Dutch) and Southern and Eastern European (e.g. Italian, Greek, Polish).

Non-European encompasses all other cultural backgrounds, including South-East Asian (e.g. Vietnamese, Malaysian), North-East Asian (e.g. Chinese, Japanese, Korean), Southern and Central Asian (e.g. Indian, Sri-Lankan, Afghani), Latin American (e.g. Mexican, Colombian), Middle Eastern and North African (e.g. Egyptian, Turkish), Sub-Saharan African (e.g. Nigerian, Zimbabwean) and Oceanic and Pacific Islander (e.g. Maori, Tongan).

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