Data does not include chief executive officers ('C-suite').
Estimations are based on 2016 Census data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
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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Representation cultural background executive management Australia 2018
This statistic displays a representation of senior executive managers and equivalents in Australia in 2018, broken down by cultural background. That year, around **** percent of the senior leaders in Australia were from Anglo-Celtic background, compared to ** percent of the total Australian population that was of Anglo-Celtic background. This shows that Anglo-Celtic Australians are overrepresented in senior executive management by **** percent.
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