Appendix Table 3
Marginal effects from Probit models on high-school graduation and university completion for childhood immigrants 25 to 44 years of age Appendix Table 3
Marginal effects from Probit models on high-school graduation and university completion for childhood immigrants 25 to 44 years of age

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Appendix Table 3
Marginal effects from Probit models on high-school graduation and university completion for childhood immigrants 25 to 44 years of age
Table summary
This table displays the results of Marginal effects from Probit models on high-school graduation and university completion for childhood immigrants 25 to 44 years of age High-school graduation, University completion, Men, Women, Model 1 and Model 2, calculated using marginal effect and value units of measure (appearing as column headers).
	Men		Women		Men		Women
	High-school graduation				University completion
	Model 1	Model 2	Model 1	Model 2	Model 1	Model 2	Model 1	Model 2
	marginal effect
Business class	0.016^Note **	0.025^Note **	0.017^Note ***	0.023^Note ***	0.094^Note ***	0.069^Note ***	0.092^Note ***	0.076^Note ***
Live-in caregiver class	-0.077^Note ***	-0.031	0.002	0.020^Note *	-0.327^Note ***	-0.195^Note ***	-0.312^Note ***	-0.153^Note ***
Family class	-0.085^Note ***	-0.060^Note ***	-0.074^Note ***	-0.055^Note ***	-0.261^Note ***	-0.175^Note ***	-0.317^Note ***	-0.202^Note ***
Government-assisted refugees	-0.060^Note ***	-0.017	-0.042^Note ***	-0.010	-0.194^Note ***	-0.072^Note ***	-0.227^Note ***	-0.085^Note ***
Privately sponsored refugees	-0.044^Note ***	-0.008	-0.056^Note ***	-0.027^Note **	-0.175^Note ***	-0.059^Note *	-0.189^Note ***	-0.094^Note ***
Refugees landed in Canada	-0.065^Note ***	-0.059^Note **	-0.029^Note **	-0.014	-0.201^Note ***	-0.147^Note ***	-0.205^Note ***	-0.120^Note ***
Other refugees and humanitarian class	-0.081^Note ***	-0.039^Note ***	-0.052^Note ***	-0.015^Note *	-0.216^Note ***	-0.112^Note ***	-0.263^Note ***	-0.131^Note ***
Others	-0.099^Note ***	-0.070^Note **	-0.053^Note **	-0.037	-0.158^Note ***	-0.123^Note ***	-0.144^Note ***	-0.096^Note **
Class not identified	-0.092^Note ***	-0.060^Note ***	-0.073^Note ***	-0.048^Note ***	-0.166^Note ***	-0.097^Note ***	-0.210^Note ***	-0.115^Note ***
0 to 5 years of age at landing	Note ...: not applicable	0.025^Note ***	Note ...: not applicable	0.038^Note ***	Note ...: not applicable	0.032^Note ***	Note ...: not applicable	0.135^Note ***
6 to 12 years of age at landing	Note ...: not applicable	0.025^Note ***	Note ...: not applicable	0.028^Note ***	Note ...: not applicable	0.025^Note ***	Note ...: not applicable	0.082^Note ***
Years since immigration	Note ...: not applicable	0.002^Note **	Note ...: not applicable	0.000	Note ...: not applicable	0.006^Note ***	Note ...: not applicable	0.001
English or French mother tongue	Note ...: not applicable	0.026^Note ***	Note ...: not applicable	0.030^Note ***	Note ...: not applicable	0.012	Note ...: not applicable	0.014
Visible minority	Note ...: not applicable	0.073^Note ***	Note ...: not applicable	0.061^Note ***	Note ...: not applicable	0.056^Note ***	Note ...: not applicable	0.055^Note ***
Caribbean	Note ...: not applicable	-0.018	Note ...: not applicable	0.015	Note ...: not applicable	-0.139^Note ***	Note ...: not applicable	-0.080^Note ***
Central and South America	Note ...: not applicable	-0.058^Note *	Note ...: not applicable	-0.043^Note *	Note ...: not applicable	-0.124^Note ***	Note ...: not applicable	-0.090^Note ***
Northern Europe	Note ...: not applicable	0.039^Note *	Note ...: not applicable	0.039^Note *	Note ...: not applicable	-0.054^Note *	Note ...: not applicable	-0.017
Western Europe	Note ...: not applicable	0.047^Note *	Note ...: not applicable	0.047^Note **	Note ...: not applicable	-0.025	Note ...: not applicable	0.054^Note *
Southern Europe	Note ...: not applicable	0.010	Note ...: not applicable	0.011	Note ...: not applicable	-0.067^Note *	Note ...: not applicable	0.001
Eastern Europe	Note ...: not applicable	0.077^Note ***	Note ...: not applicable	0.074^Note ***	Note ...: not applicable	0.066^Note **	Note ...: not applicable	0.222^Note ***
Africa	Note ...: not applicable	0.037	Note ...: not applicable	0.009	Note ...: not applicable	-0.007	Note ...: not applicable	0.071^Note **
South Asia	Note ...: not applicable	-0.004	Note ...: not applicable	0.002	Note ...: not applicable	0.011	Note ...: not applicable	0.076^Note **
Southeast Asia	Note ...: not applicable	-0.026	Note ...: not applicable	0.005	Note ...: not applicable	-0.075^Note **	Note ...: not applicable	0.015
East Asia	Note ...: not applicable	0.025	Note ...: not applicable	0.032	Note ...: not applicable	0.150^Note ***	Note ...: not applicable	0.262^Note ***
West Asia	Note ...: not applicable	0.014	Note ...: not applicable	-0.001	Note ...: not applicable	0.021	Note ...: not applicable	0.095^Note ***
Oceania and other	Note ...: not applicable	0.006	Note ...: not applicable	0.005	Note ...: not applicable	-0.138^Note ***	Note ...: not applicable	-0.103^Note **
Family market income at entry (logged)	Note ...: not applicable	0.005	Note ...: not applicable	0.006	Note ...: not applicable	0.000	Note ...: not applicable	0.043^Note **
Family income growth	Note ...: not applicable	0.025^Note ***	Note ...: not applicable	0.024^Note ***	Note ...: not applicable	0.030^Note **	Note ...: not applicable	0.051^Note ***
Fathers with university degree at landing	Note ...: not applicable	0.069^Note ***	Note ...: not applicable	0.063^Note ***	Note ...: not applicable	0.137^Note ***	Note ...: not applicable	0.079^Note **
Fathers not speaking English or French	Note ...: not applicable	-0.035^Note **	Note ...: not applicable	-0.025^Note *	Note ...: not applicable	-0.070^Note **	Note ...: not applicable	-0.080^Note ***
Source-country gross domestic product per capita (logged)	Note ...: not applicable	0.001	Note ...: not applicable	0.005^Note *	Note ...: not applicable	0.005	Note ...: not applicable	0.010^Note **
	value
Pseudo R squared	0.037	0.090	0.042	0.112	0.051	0.088	0.060	0.113
... not applicable Note * significantly different from reference category (p<0.05) Return to note * referrer Note significantly different from reference category (p<0.01) Return to note referrer Note * significantly different from reference category (p<0.001) Return to note * referrer Notes: Model 2 also controls for geographic region of residence. The reference group is 'skilled workers' for immigration class, '13 to 17 years' for age at landing, 'other mother tongues' for mother tongue, and 'United States' for source region. Source: Statistics Canada, authors' calculations based on data from the 2011 National Household Survey and Immigrant Landing File linkage.

Date modified:: 2016-04-25

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