Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-v9fdk Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-16T05:39:10.985Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Immigrants and the Social Services

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 March 2020

Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

This note, by Mrs. K. Jones, is one chapter of a study on ‘Some Economic Aspects of Immigration’, which is being undertaken at the Institute. Research is still in progress on other aspects, such as employment, earnings, expenditure, savings and remittances, housing and capital requirements. It is hoped to publish the results as an Occasional Paper by the end of 1968.

Type
Research Article
Information
National Institute Economic Review , Volume 41 , August 1967 , pp. 28 - 35
Copyright
Copyright © 1967 National Institute of Economic and Social Research

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

note (1) page 28 The population estimates used are given in the Appendix, page 36, with a description of the way in which the estimates are reached.

note (1) page 29 It covers immigrants from the British Caribbean, India and Pakistan, Africa (excluding South Africa), Cyprus and Malta, together with estimates of the number of their children born in this country. Immigrants from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and other Commonwealth countries in Asia, and the Republic of Ireland are excluded.

note (2) page 29 See also Deborah Paige and Kit Jones, Health and Welfare Services in 1975, pages 9-10.

note (3) page 29 See, for example, Immigration from the Commonwealth, Cmnd. 2739, 1965; and K. Schwarz, ‘Public Health Aspects of Migration’, Immigration : Medical and Social Aspects, CIBA Foundation Report, 1966.

note (4) page 29 See Appendix, page 38.

note (5) page 29 See Appendix, pages 38-39.

note (6) page 29 See Appendix, page 39.

note (7) page 29 See Appendix, page 40.

note (1) page 30 Census data are not particularly helpful, since no distinction was made between hospital patients and staff on Census night, and a fairly high proportion of the staff in mental hospitals are immigrants.

note (2) page 30 See A. Kiev, Psychiatric illness among West Indians in London’, Race, Vol. V, 1964.

note (1) page 31 In 1961, we estimate that births were 21 thousand, and the immigrant population aged 0-14 seems to have been about 156 thousand. In 1966, births were probably about 30 thousand and the population aged 0-14 was probably around 280 thousand (see Appendix, page 36).

note (2) page 31 Appropriate adjustments are made for the assumptions about the proportions of births in hospital; the proportion of those aged 65 and over in institutions; and the proportion of mentally handicapped children.

note (3) page 31 The calculation assumes that immigrants stay in this country for life, and do not return to their country of birth to retire.

note (4) page 31 See Appendix, page 37.

note (1) page 32 Based on information supplied by the Home Office. This is at 1961 prices. It would be £1½ million at current prices.

note (2) page 32 See Appendix, page 36, for the age distribution.

note (1) page 34 See Appendix, table 16, page 40.

note (2) page 34 See Appendix, table 16, page 40.

note (3) page 34 Since all the comparisons have been made between the immigrant population on the one hand and the total population including immigrants on the other, these percentages are very slightly overstated.

note (4) page 34 Taking 1955 = 100, the cost per person in 1965 of health and welfare was 199; of education 231; and of national insurance and assistance 228.

A correction has been issued for this article:

Errata