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Definition

The label that represents the main Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) background.

Representation

Data Type ALPHANUMERICSTRING
Format X(25)
Maximum character length 25

Values

Value Meaning Start Date End Date
Permissible Values Acehnese
Acholi
Afghan
African American
African so described
Afrikaner
Akan
Albanian
Algerian
American
Amhara
Anglo-Burmese
Anglo-Indian
Angolan
Arab nec
Argentinian
Armenian
Asian so described
Assyrian
Aboriginal
Australian
Australian Aboriginal
Australian Peoples
Australian South Sea Islander
Austrian
Azeri
Bahraini
Balinese
Bandjalang
Bangladeshi
Barbadian
Bari
Basque
Batswana
Belarusan
Belgian
Bengali
Berber
Bermudan
Bhutanese
Bolivian
Bosnian
Brazilian
British nec
Bruneian
Bulgarian
Burgher
Burmese
Burundian
Cameroonian
Canadian
Caribbean Islander nec
Catalan
Caucasian so described
Central American nec
Central and West African nec
Central Asian nec
Chaldean
Channel Islander
Chilean
Chin
Chinese
Chinese Asian nec
Colombian
Congolese
Cook Islander
Creole so described
Coptic
Costa Rican
Croatian
Cuban
Cypriot
Czech
Danish
Darfur
Dhanggatti
Dinka
Dutch
Eastern European nec
Ecuadorian
Egyptian
Emirati
English
Eritrean
Estonian
Ethiopian
Eurasian
European so described
Fijian
Fijian Indian
Filipino
Finnish
Flemish
French
French Canadian
Frisian
Fulani
Gamilaraay
Georgian
German
Ghanaian
Gibraltarian
Gio
Greek
Guatemalan
Gujarati
Guyanese
Hawaiian
Hazara
Hispanic North American
Hmong
Hungarian
Hutu
Icelandic
Igbo
I-Kiribati
Indian
Indian Tamil
Indonesian
Iranian
Iraqi
Irish
Italian
Ivorean
Jamaican
Japanese
Javanese
Jewish
Jordanian
Kadazan
Karen
Kashmiri
Kazakh
Kenyan
Khmer (Cambodian)
Korean
Krahn
Kunama
Kurdish
Kuwaiti
Kyrgyz
Lao
Latvian
Lebanese
Liberian
Libyan
Lithuanian
Luxembourg
Macedonian
Madi
Madurese
Mainland South-East Asian nec
Malawian
Malay
Malayali
Maldivian
Maltese
Mandaean
Mandinka
Manx
Maori
Maritime South-East Asian nec
Masai
Mauritian
Mayan
Melanesian and Papuan nec
Mexican
Micronesian nec
Moldovan
Mon
Mongolian
Montenegrin
Moroccan
Mozambican
Namibian
Native North American Indian
Nauruan
Nepalese
New Caledonian
New Zealand Peoples
New Zealander
New Zealander - Maori
New Zealander - Non Maori
Nicaraguan
Nigerian
Niuean
Ni-Vanuatu
North American nec
Northern European nec
Norwegian
Nubian
Nuer
Ogaden
Omani
Oromo
Other North African and Middle Eastern nec
Other North-East Asian nec
Pakistani
Palestinian
Papua New Guinean
Paraguayan
Parsi
Pathan
Peoples of the Sudan nec
Peruvian
Pitcairn
Polish
Polynesian
Polynesian nec
Portuguese
Puerto Rican
Punjabi
Qatari
Rohingya
Roma Gypsy
Romanian
Russian
Rwandan
Salvadoran
Samoan
Saudi Arabian
Scottish
Senegalese
Serbian
Seychellois
Shona
Sierra Leonean
Sikh
Sindhi
Singaporean
Sinhalese
Slovak
Slovene
Solomon Islander
Somali
Sorb/Wend
South African
South American nec
South Eastern European
South Eastern European nec
South Sudanese
Southern and East African nec
Southern Asian nec
Southern European nec
Spanish
Sri Lankan
Sri Lankan Tamil
Sudanese
Sundanese
Swahili
Swazilander
Swedish
Swiss
Syrian
Tahitian
Taiwanese
Tajik
Tamil nfd
Tanzanian
Tatar
Telugu
Temoq
Thai
Themne
Tibetan
Tigrayan
Tigre
Timorese
Togolese
Tokelauan
Tongan
Torres Strait Islander
Trinidadian Tobagonian
Tunisian
Turkish
Turkmen
Tuvaluan
Ugandan
Uighur
Ukrainian
Uruguayan
Uzbek
Venezuelan
Vietnamese
Vlach
Welsh
Western European nec
Yemeni
Wiradjuri
Yezidi
Yoruba
Zambian
Zimbabwean
Zulu
Supplementary Values Inadequately described
Not stated

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