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Culturally and linguistically diverse

 The Children and Young People in Tasmania (CAYPIT) resource is designed to facilitate statistics, qualitative research and other information to a cross section of audiences, including young people, policy makers, program planners and service providers at a state, regional and local level.

At a Glance – Culturally and Linguistically Diverse

The 2006 ABS Census recorded that 10.6 per cent of people living on Tasmania reported that they were born overseas, compared to 22.2 per cent nationally. [1]

In 2006-07, Tasmania received 245 people as part of the Humanitarian Program of whom 18.0 per cent were born in Burma (Myanmar), 15.9 per cent in Sudan and 13.5 per cent in Ethiopia. [2]

In 2006-2007 5.4 per cent of Vocational Education and Training (VET) students reported that they were form a non-English speaking background. [3]


Cultural and Linguistically Diverse (CALD)

Link to data – Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) Publications, Statistics and Report

Link to data -Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), Migrant and Ethnicity Releases 2008

Statistics - National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) - VET students by language spoken and sex, Mersey-Lyell, Tasmania and Australia, 2006

Summary - Australian Clearinghouse for Youth Studies (ACYS) - Ethnic/Multicultural Youth

Summary ACYS – Youth facts and statistics

Report - Jo Flanagan Dropped From the Moon: the settlement experiences of refugee communities in Tasmania -Anglicare Tasmania, 2007

General information

Migrant Resource Centre – Northern Tasmania

Migrant Resource Centre – Southern Tasmania

Multicultural Tasmania

Centre for Multicultural Youth Issues

Newly Arrived Youth Support Service

Diversity Health Institute Clearinghouse

Tasmania Together indicators and measures

Tasmania Together indicator - 6.3.1. Number of multicultural events in Tasmania

Tasmania Together indicator - 6.3.2. Number of schools integrating multicultural perspectives in the curriculum

[1] Stronger Communities Taskforce, ‘The State of Our Community Report 2007,’ Department of Premier and Cabinet, February 2008

[2] Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) Population Flows – Immigration Aspects, Tasmania 2006-2007

[3] Department of Education (2007) Annual Report 2006-2007

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