Immigrants’ perceptions of shared values in Canada, 2020
Release date: February 9, 2023
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Description: Immigrants’ perceptions of shared values in Canada, 2020
Perceptions of shared values refers to the extent to which a person feels that Canadians share values.
A proportionally larger number of immigrants than Canadian-born people believed that democratic values are shared “to a great extent” among Canadians, although this depended on their age at arrival, province and years since landing.
Human rights | Respect for the law | Gender equality | Linguistic duality | Ethnic and cultural diversity | Respect for Indigenous culture | |
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percent | ||||||
13 years or older at arrival | 70.1 | 67.3 | 55.9 | 46.9 | 51.5 | 41.8 |
0 to 12 years at arrival | 56.5 | 43.6 | 30.5 | 24.4 | 32.0 | 20.4 |
Canadian-born | 54.9 | 40.4 | 30.3 | 23.3 | 24.4 | 17.5 |
Human rights | Gender equality | Ethnic and cultural diversity | ||||
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Immigrant | Canadian-born | Immigrant | Canadian-born | Immigrant | Canadian-born | |
percent | ||||||
Canada | 67.1 | 54.9 | 50.3 | 30.3 | 47.1 | 24.4 |
Atlantic provincesPerceptions of shared values in Canadian society among immigrants and Canadian-born people by province Note 1 | 60.0 | 54.4 | 47.8 | 30.1 | 36.7 | 24.1 |
Quebec | 65.0 | 56.6 | 48.4 | 37.0 | 40.9 | 23.0 |
Ontario | 67.9 | 55.3 | 50.7 | 29.3 | 48.5 | 26.8 |
Manitoba | 71.3 | 48.1 | 56.1 | 26.3 | 54.9 | 23.7 |
Saskatchewan | 68.6 | 47.2 | 62.1 | 23.5 | 56.1 | 21.4 |
Alberta | 66.0 | 51.8 | 47.8 | 23.9 | 47.4 | 20.3 |
British Columbia | 66.9 | 57.0 | 50.3 | 27.9 | 46.8 | 25.5 |
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Years since landing | Human rights | Respect for the law | Gender equality | Linguistic duality | Ethnic and cultural diversity | Respect for Indigenous culture |
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percent | ||||||
0 to 5 years | 76.7 | 71.7 | 61.2 | 56.3 | 56.3 | 45.6 |
6 to 9 years | 71.3 | 62.5 | 61.9 | 49.8 | 55.8 | 45.1 |
10 to 19 years | 68.2 | 63.4 | 54.8 | 45.1 | 51.1 | 39.0 |
20 years or more | 61.9 | 57.6 | 40.9 | 33.1 | 39.4 | 31.0 |
Source: Schimmele, C., Stick, M., Karpinski, M., & Cissokho, S. (2022). Perceptions of shared values in Canadian society among the immigrant population. Economic and Social Reports, 2(12).
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