Table 2.2.2
Immigrants' request for Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition
(PLAR) at a postsecondary institution or other organizations within
two years of immigrating, by the occupation they wanted when they
decided to immigrate to Canada, Quebec, 2003
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| All immigrants | Requested PLAR | Requested PLAR with postsecondary institution (within Canada) | Requested PLAR with professional or work-related association (within Canada) | Requested PLAR with employer (within Canada) | Requested PLAR with other organizations7 | Did not request PLAR | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| number | standard error | % | standard error | % | standard error | % | standard error | % | standard error | % | standard error | % | standard error | |
| All occupations | 14,700 | (442) | 75.0 | (1.6) | 24.2 | (1.7) | 7.2 | (1.0) | 8.8 | (1.1) | 59.5 | (1.9) | 25.0 | (1.6) |
| Health occupations1 | 800 | (129) | 81.1 | (6.5) | 28.6 E | (7.5) | F | … | F | … | 61.8 | (8.2) | F | … |
| Professional occupations in health6 | 400 E | (97) | 93.3 | (6.7) | F | … | F | … | F | … | 63.7 E | (11.6) | F | … |
| Physicians2,5 | F | … | F | … | F | … | F | … | F | … | F | … | F | … |
| General practitioners and family physicians | F | … | F | … | F | … | F | … | F | … | F | … | F | … |
| Pharmacists, dieticians and nutritionists | F | … | F | … | F | … | F | … | F | … | F | … | F | … |
| Nurse supervisors and registered nurses | F | … | F | … | F | … | F | … | F | … | F | … | F | … |
| Registered nurses | F | … | F | … | F | … | F | … | F | … | F | … | F | … |
| Selected health-related occupations2,3 | F | … | F | … | F | … | F | … | F | … | F | … | F | … |
| All other occupations2,4 | 13,800 | (435) | 74.8 | (1.7) | 23.9 | (1.7) | 6.5 | (1.0) | 8.9 | (1.2) | 59.4 | (1.9) | 25.2 | (1.7) |
… not applicable
E use with caution
F too unreliable to be published
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.
7. Includes: Immigration officer in Canada, work-related or professional organization outside Canada, Visa officer, educational institution outside Canada, friend, relative, etc., Federal/Provincial government department or service, and other.
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.
PLAR request relates to credential for highest level of education only.
Percentages of immigrants requesting PLAR with the different organizations do not add up to percentage requesting PLAR because respondents were allowed multiple responses as to where they requested PLAR.
Source: Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada, Wave 2 (2003), Statistics Canada.
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