Table 2.1.4
Distribution of immigrants by the occupation they wanted when they
decided to immigrate to Canada, Alberta, 2001
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| Immigrants who knew what job they wanted when they decided to immigrate to Canada | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| number | standard error | % | standard error | |
| All occupations | 7,100 | (298) | 100.0 | (0.0) |
| Health occupations1 | 1,000 | (125) | 14.1 | (1.6) |
| Professional occupations in health6 | 400 E | (80) | 6.0 E | (1.1) |
| Physicians2,5 | 200 E | (53) | 2.7 E | (0.7) |
| General practitioners and family physicians | 200 E | (57) | 2.5 E | (0.7) |
| Pharmacists, dieticians and nutritionists | F | … | F | … |
| Nurse supervisors and registered nurses | 200 E | (49) | 3.2 E | (0.8) |
| Registered nurses | 200 E | (49) | 3.2 E | (0.8) |
| Selected health-related occupations2,3 | F | … | F | … |
| All other occupations2,4 | 6,000 | (275) | 84.9 | (1.7) |
… not applicable
E use with caution
F too unreliable to be published
0 true zero or a value rounded to zero
1. Excludes Veterinarians and Animal health technologists.
2. Not a Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) category.
3. Includes Managers in health care, Medical secretaries, Court recorders and medical transcriptionists, Inspectors in public and environmental health and occupational health and safety, Psychologists and Social workers.
4. Includes Veterinarians and Animal health technologists.
5. Includes Specialist physicians and General practitioners and family physicians.
6. Excludes Veterinarians.
Notes: Excludes immigrants who did not plan to work or did not have an idea of the type of job they wanted when they decided to immigrate to Canada.
Occupations are defined using the Standard Occupational Classification (SOC), 1991. See Appendix 2 for more details.
Due to rounding, percentages may not add up exactly to 100.
Don't know, refused and not stated excluded from percentage calculations.
Source: Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada, Wave 2 (2003), Statistics Canada.
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