This statistic displays the estimated number of senior executive managers and equivalents in Australia in 2018, broken down by cultural background. That year, there were around 2,118 thousand senior executive management positions, not including C-level positions, in Australia. Out of that number, 1,604 were from Anglo-Celtic background and only nine were of indigenous background.
Estimated number of senior executive management and equivalent in Australia in 2018, by cultural background
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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