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Table 6 Pre-arranged employment or previous Canadian experience and recognition of foreign credentials or work experience

	Coefficients	Odds ratio	Predicted probability of recognition (%)	Coefficients	Odds ratio	Predicted probability of recognition (%)
	Credentials model			Work experience model
Lived in Canada at least one year before landing
No (ref.)	0.000	1.00	29	0.000	1.00	44
Yes	0.488^**	1.63	43	0.199	1.22	51
Job arranged prior to landing
No (ref.)	0.000	1.00	29	0.000	1.00	42
Yes	0.378^**	1.46	40	1.045^*	2.84	87
Self-assessed spoken language knowledge
Very well (ref.)	0.000	1.00	35	0.000	1.00	50
Well	-0.087	0.92	32	-0.100	0.91	46
Fairly well	-0.588^*	0.56	21	-0.517^*	0.60	34
Poorly, not at all	-0.483^*	0.62	23	-0.256^**	0.77	41
* significantly different from the reference group (ref.) at the 0.001 level; at 0.01 Source:** Statistics Canada, Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada, 2000 to 2005.