entre also provides Chinese language classes to
Chinese children and is also known as the Chinese School.
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Figure 1. Distribution of total and Chinese populations by age in England & Wales (A),
Shropshire County (B) and Telford & Wrekin (C). Numbers in millions for England & Wales.
(Source: Census 2001)
Chinese
0 0.01 0.02 0.03 0.04
All people
5 4 3 2 1 0
0 to 4
5 to 7
8 to 9
10 to 14
15
16 to 17
18 to 19
20 to 24
25 to 29
30 to 34
35 to 39
40 to 44
45 to 49
50 to 54
55 to 59
60 to 64
65 to 69
70 to 74
75 to 79
80 to 84
85 to 89
90 and over
25,000 20,000 15,000 10,000 5,000 0 0 50 100 150 200
0 to 4
5 to 7
8 to 9
10 to 14
15
16 to 17
18 to 19
20 to 24
25 to 29
30 to 34
35 to 39
40 to 44
45 to 49
50 to 54
55 to 59
60 to 64
65 to 69
70 to 74
75 to 79
80 to 84
85 to 89
90 and over
A
B
15,000 10,000 5,000 0 0 20 40 60 80
0 to 4
5 to 7
8 to 9
10 to 14
15
16 to 17
18 to 19
20 to 24
25 to 29
30 to 34
35 to 39
40 to 44
45 to 49
50 to 54
55 to 59
60 to 64
65 to 69
70 to 74
75 to 79
80 to 84
85 to 89
90 and over
C
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4. Methodology
The qualitative views of Chinese people in Shropshire County and Telford & Wrekin were
collected using the following methods:
A focus group held in Telford (9 participants)
Semi-structured interviews conducted over the telephone and in person (13 interviewees)
A questionnaire survey of Chinese takeaways, Chinese medicine shops and parents of the
Telford Chinese School (14 questionnaires returned)
A qualitative approach to the health needs assessment was adopted as lack of ethnic
monitoring data in the health system meant that analysis of service usage could not be
undertaken. Reaching into the dispersed community was also problematic and the number
of people surveyed was too small for quantitative analysis. The views obtained using the
methods described above (a total sample size of 36) were therefore pooled to produce a
qualitative analysis.
4.1. Focus group
Participants of the focus group were recruited through the Telford Chinese School. The
Chinese School provides Chinese language classes and one-to-one tuition to Chinese
children learning Cantonese and Mandarin. The school is based at the Telford Campus of
Wolverhampton University and currently has 20 Chinese students, 16 learning Cantonese
and 4 learning Mandarin. 3 live in nearby Shrewsbury and the remainder are from Telford.
According to the head of the school, the families from Shrewsbury are Cantonese-speaking
and own Chinese takeaways. At the participant recruitment stage, two focus groups were
planned to accommodate the two main Chinese dialects – Cantonese and Mandarin.
However, no participants were recruited for the Cantonese group and the most likely
explanation put forward by the head of the school was that they were occupied in their
takeaways. Therefore, only one focus group was convened and facilitated in Mandarin by a
teacher of the school for Mandarin-speaking residents of Telford (Table 2).
Table 2. Focus group sample
Participant Sex Age Languages
spoken
Country of
birth
A M 48 Mandarin
English
Singapore
B F 51 Mandarin Taiwan
C F 24 Mandarin
English
German
Taiwan
D F 45 Ma
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