加拿大华人移民健康状况及生活工作满意度

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

目的了解加拿大华人移民对生活、工作及健康状况的认知与评价,包括健康状况自我评价、工作及生活满意度、不满意的原因等。方法以问卷调查为主,辅以电话调查和网络通讯调查。按年龄分层抽取调查对象。结果移民健康状况自我评价不高,主要困难和不满意之处是难以找到合适工作(45.0%),生活缺乏乐趣(33.2%),看病时与医务人员交流有语言障碍(26.0%),交朋友困难(23.5%)。结论调查结果反映了加拿大华人移民对工作、生活的感知、认识与看法,反映了华人移民生活与工作的需要。对于社会各界及政府了解加拿大华人移民的生活与工作状况,完善移民相关政策具有参考价值。

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.