Table 2
Demographic characteristics by migration status, age 60 and over

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Table 2 Demographic characteristics by migration status, age 60 and over
Table summary
 This table displays the results of demographic characteristics by migration status. This information is grouped by women appearing as row header and is grouped by returnees, stayers, Canadian-born and immigrants appearing as column headers, calculated using percentage as a unit of measure.
  Returnees1 Stayers
Canadian-born Immigrants Canadian-born Immigrants
%
Woman 49.2 49.5 54.7 53.0
Married 63.3 65.7 62.9 66.9
Education
Less than high school graduation 17.2 23.9 39.1 36.4
High school diploma 27.8 25.1 33.9 32.1
Some postsecondary 21.7 20.4 16.7 17.4
University degree 33.3 30.6 10.4 14.1
Citizenship
Canadian citizenship 90.6 59.1 99.8 80.1
Dual citizenship 9.4 20.5 0.2 10.8
Not Canadian citizen 0 20.4 0 9.2
Live in owned home 71.4 69.9 76.2 81.2
Living arrangement
Live alone 29.2 20.3 29.8 21.6
With spouse only 51.9 39.2 52.5 43.6
With spouse and others 9.6 23.5 9.8 22.3
With others 9.2 17.1 7.9 12.5
Geographic distribution
The three largest census metropolitan areas (CMAs)2 26.0 54.3 22.3 54.0
Large metropolitan areas 16.4 15.1 15.2 14.9
Other metropolitan areas 20.0 15.6 17.9 15.0
Small urban areas 13.9 6.9 17.2 7.8
Non urban areas 23.7 8.1 27.4 8.2
1. Returnees include the Canadian-born and long-term immigrants who lived in Canada at the time of the census but in another country 5 years before the census.
2. Montréal, Toronto and Vancouver.
Note: Statistical significance is not marked individually in the table because comparisons can be made in various ways. Given the sample size of the groups used in the study, a difference of 3 percentage points or more is statistically significant at p <0.05.
Source: Statistics Canada, Census of Population, 2006.
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