Table 3
Language transmission from immigrant mothers in 1981 to their daughters aged 25 to 42 in 2006 and their children aged less than 18, born in Canada, 1981 and 2006

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Table 3
Language transmission from immigrant mothers in 1981 to their daughters aged 25 to 42 in 2006 and their children aged less than 18, born in Canada, 1981 and 2006
 Table summary
 This table displays the results of Language transmission from immigrant mothers in 1981 to their daughters aged 25 to 42 in 2006 and their children aged less than 18. 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 et odd 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
German 24 19* 1.236 1.454
Portuguese 56 14* 1.976 0.693*
Spanish 41 30* 2.000 3.600
Italian 52 21* 1.487 0.489*
Greek 62 41* 2.119 1.884
Serbo-Croatian1 51 24* 2.497 3.097
Polish 34 17* 2.017 2.654
Hungarian 27 10* 1.357 2.750
Pundjabi (Pandjabi) 64 53 3.259 3.044
Chinese2 61 22* 2.751 1.000*
Others 19 23* 0.636 2.140*
Year's effect ... ... 1.000 0.644*
Year's effect (non-controlled) 41 23* 1.000 0.444*
... 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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