Chinese Australians
As a whole, Australian residents identifying themselves as having Chinese ancestry made up 5.6% of those nominating their ancestry at the 2016 census and numbered 1,213,903. At the 2016 census, 509,555 people declared that they were born in Mainland China, 86,886 declared that they were born in Hong Kong, while 46,882 declared that they were born in Taiwan. There are also a large number of persons of Chinese ancestry among those born in Southeast Asian countries such as Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, the Philippines and Vietnam.
Chinese Australians
Many Chinese Australians work in white collar middle class jobs. But Chinese Australians are under-represented in occupations such
as journalism, law and other professions that require language skills and face to face contact. First-generation Chinese Australians
also experience problems in getting white collar jobs commensurate with their qualifications and work experience instead they go
into business and operate convenience stores, car dealerships, grocery stores, coffee shops, news agencies and restaurants while
sacrificing to pay for their children education as perceiving education as the only available channel of social mobility, substantial
investment in their children's education at a disproportionate sacrifice to family finance and social well-being is an indication of
parental concerns and expectations.