Table 2
Immigrant language transmission, children aged less than 18, born in Canada, 1981 and 2006

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Table 2
Immigrant language transmission, children aged less than 18, born in Canada, 1981 and 2006
 Table summary
 This table displays the results of Immigrant language transmission. This information is grouped by Mother's mother tongue, children with same mother tongue as their mother's, and Odds of having same mother tongue as mother,(appearing as column headers), calculated using percentage and odds ratio as a unit of measure.
Mother's mother tongue Children with same mother tongue as their mother's Odds of having same mother tongue as mother
1981† 2006 1981† 2006
percentage odds ratio3
Dutch 3 15* 0.022 0.249*
German 24 43* 0.230 0.632*
Portuguese 56 35* 0.295 0.362
Spanish 41 53* 0.296 0.778*
Italian 52 20* 0.292 0.229*
Greek 62 42* 0.372 0.674*
Armenian 78 75 1.346 2.425*
Serbo-Croatian1 51 62* 0.345 1.013*
Czech 37 21* 0.306 0.445
Polish 34 64* 0.350 1.196*
Ukrainian 44 66* 1.033 1.929*
Hungarian 27 43* 0.224 0.817*
Arabic 30 55* 0.131 0.349*
Pundjabi (Pandjabi) 64 81* 0.602 1.950*
Hindi 29 50* 0.150 0.696*
Urdu 44 76* 0.248 1.362*
Japanese 34 52* 0.220 2.390*
Korean 32 54* 0.109 0.645*
Chinese2 61 70* 0.462 1.000*
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 12 15 0.066 0.112*
Other languages 26 52* 0.247 0.498*
Year's effect ... ... 1.000 2.312*
Year's effect (non-controlled ) 41 55* 1.000 1.777*
... not applicable
† reference year
* statistically significant difference from the reference year at p <  0.01
1. Includes Croatian, Serbian, Serbo-Croatian and Bosniac.
2. Chinese languages: Chinese (not otherwise specified), Mandarin, Cantonese, Hakka, Chaochow (Teochow), Fukien, Shanghainese and Taiwanese.
3. The odds ratios related to the language groups are from model 1. The odds rations related to the year's effect stem from models 2 and 3. See "What you should know about this study".
Source: Statistics Canada, 1981 and 2006 Censuses of Population.
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