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Table 3 Recognition of foreign credentials and work experience by selected sociodemographic characteristics

	Coefficients	Odds ratio	Predicted probability of recognition (%)	Coefficients	Odds ratio	Predicted probability of recognition (%)
	Credentials model			Work experience model
Sex
Men (ref.)	0.000	1.00	36	0.000	1.00	56
Women	-0.166	0.85	32	-0.225^**	0.80	48
Age at landing
18 to 24	0.241	1.27	39	0.053	1.05	50
25 to 34 (ref.)	0.000	1.00	32	0.000	1.00	48
35 to 44	-0.176^***	0.84	28	-0.148^***	0.86	43
45 to 59	-0.490^**	0.61	21	-0.431^*	0.65	35
Visible minority status
No (ref.)	0.000	1.00	28	0.000	1.00	52
Yes	0.122	1.13	31	-0.291^**	0.75	42
Immigrant category
Skilled immigrant, principal applicant (ref.)	0.000	1.00	39	0.000	1.00	56
Skilled immigrant, spouse and dependents	-0.599^*	0.55	23	-0.473^*	0.62	39
Family class	-0.792^*	0.45	20	-0.539^*	0.58	37
Refugee	-1.295^*	0.27	12	-1.478^*	0.23	17
Provincial nominees, business immigrants, other	-0.870^*	0.42	18	-1.076^*	0.34	24
* significantly different from the reference group (ref.) at the 0.001 level; at the 0.01 level; * at the 0.05 level Source: Statistics Canada, Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada, 2000 to 2005.