Table 1
Descriptive statistics (number and percentage) of demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of the 2001 Canadian Census Health and Environment Cohort, by immigrant status and duration in Canada

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Table 1
Descriptive statistics (number and percentage) of demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of the 2001 Canadian Census Health and Environment Cohort, by immigrant status and duration in Canada
Table summary
This table displays the results of Descriptive statistics (number and percentage) of demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of the 2001 Canadian Census Health and Environment Cohort. The information is grouped by Characteristic (appearing as row headers), Full cohort, Non-immigrants and Period of immigration, calculated using number and percentage units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Characteristic	Full cohort	Non-immigrants	Period of immigration
Characteristic	Full cohort	Non-immigrants	Pre-1971	1971 to 1980	1981 to 1990	1991 to 2001
Number	3,101,605	2,417,175	255,985	138,260	125,780	164,405
	number	percentage
Mean PM_2.5	Note ...: not applicable	7.53	9.13	9.28	9.54	9.69
Standard deviation	Note ...: not applicable	2.65	2.53	2.28	2.13	2.02
Age (in years)
25 to 29	254,345	9.0	0.0	5.1	8.6	12.7
30 to 39	699,420	23.4	4.6	17.8	28.3	37.9
40 to 49	785,910	26.0	12.0	27.4	32.3	27.8
50 to 59	588,400	18.3	26.1	30.3	15.5	11.3
60 to 69	390,230	11.8	27.6	11.8	7.3	6.2
70 to 79	283,140	8.5	22.9	5.6	5.9	3.4
80 to 89	100,160	3.2	6.8	2.1	2.0	0.8
Sex
Male	1,500,105	48.4	50.0	48.4	47.4	46.9
Female	1,601,500	51.7	50.0	51.7	52.6	53.1
Visible minority status
No^{Table 1 Note ‡}	2,651,875	93.6	90.0	49.0	35.4	28.4
Yes	449,735	6.4	10.0	51.0	64.6	71.6
Aboriginal identity
No^{Table 1 Note ‡}	2,974,315	94.8	99.9	99.7	99.7	99.9
Yes	127,295	5.2	0.1	0.3	0.3	0.1
Marital status
Single, never married	373,240	13.0	4.9	10.0	11.2	10.8
Common-law	310,610	11.8	3.2	4.5	4.0	3.2
Married^{Table 1 Note ‡}	1,987,330	61.3	73.0	72.9	73.5	77.0
Separated	75,420	2.4	2.1	2.7	2.9	2.6
Divorced	172,030	5.8	5.6	5.4	4.4	3.1
Widowed	182,970	5.7	11.2	4.5	4.0	3.3
Highest level of education
Did not complete high school	889,010	28.6	37.4	25.3	25.7	21.7
Completed high school	1,091,085	36.3	32.5	32.2	31.7	28.5
Postsecondary diploma	592,935	19.4	15.8	20.4	20.2	17.8
University degree^{Table 1 Note ‡}	528,575	15.8	14.3	22.1	22.4	32.0
Income adequacy
Quintile 1 (low)	578,390	17.4	19.4	16.7	22.9	33.7
2	615,285	19.0	21.3	19.8	24.3	26.6
3	626,060	20.3	19.3	21.3	21.7	18.6
4	634,540	21.2	19.2	21.6	17.8	12.7
Quintile 5 (high)^{Table 1 Note ‡}	647,330	22.1	20.8	20.6	13.3	8.4
Labour force status
Employed^{Table 1 Note ‡}	1,973,715	64.8	43.8	71.4	71.1	65.6
Unemployed	124,685	4.1	1.8	3.3	4.3	6.4
Not in labour force	1,003,205	31.1	54.5	25.3	24.6	28.1
Occupational class
Management^{Table 1 Note ‡}	258,590	8.43	7.35	10.03	8.52	7.00
Professional	382,700	12.36	9.27	14.88	13.08	14.11
Skilled	699,905	23.54	16.02	23.28	22.09	18.27
Semi-skilled	654,305	21.39	12.63	22.50	25.34	25.58
Unskilled	213,175	6.76	4.24	7.33	9.24	10.44
Not in workforce	892,930	27.53	50.49	21.97	21.72	24.59
Place of birth
Non-immigrant^{Table 1 Note ‡}	2,417,175	100.0	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable
United States	31,735	Note ...: not applicable	5.0	7.1	3.9	2.6
Latin America, Caribbean	67,760	Note ...: not applicable	4.2	15.5	14.9	10.2
Europe, Oceania	333,800	Note ...: not applicable	82.1	38.3	27.4	22.1
Sub-Saharan Africa^{Table 1 Note ‡‡}	20,560	Note ...: not applicable	0.6	4.5	4.1	4.7
West and Central Asia, North Africa	36,245	Note ...: not applicable	2.1	4.2	7.8	9.4
East Asia	138,375	Note ...: not applicable	4.2	22.1	31.3	35.0
South Asia	55,955	Note ...: not applicable	1.9	8.3	10.5	16.1
Age at immigration
Non-immigrant^{Table 1 Note ‡}	2,417,175	100.0	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable
Younger than 10	82,570	Note ...: not applicable	23.7	14.2	1.7	0.0
10 to 17	73,040	Note ...: not applicable	14.5	14.4	11.4	1.1
18 to 24	150,540	Note ...: not applicable	26.5	24.7	22.0	12.7
25 to 39	275,000	Note ...: not applicable	31.8	35.4	44.3	54.2
40 to 54	74,590	Note ...: not applicable	3.5	9.0	13.3	22.2
55 and older	28,690	Note ...: not applicable	0.1	2.2	7.3	9.9
Neighbourhood instability
Quintile 1 (low)^{Table 1 Note ‡}	734,265	23.9	21.4	27.0	25.1	19.7
2	802,220	26.8	24.1	23.4	22.4	20.1
3	613,760	19.5	21.6	20.0	20.5	19.9
4	553,285	17.3	20.5	17.5	18.7	21.4
Quintile 5 (high)	398,075	12.5	12.4	12.1	13.4	18.9
Neighbourhood deprivation
Quintile 1 (low)^{Table 1 Note ‡}	554,545	16.9	23.3	23.3	20.6	17.3
2	651,600	21.2	22.7	21.3	19.0	17.6
3	580,995	18.4	19.7	20.1	20.1	20.3
4	573,685	18.3	17.9	18.0	19.4	21.8
Quintile 5 (high)	740,775	25.3	16.3	17.3	21.0	23.0
Neighbourhood dependency
Quintile 1 (low)^{Table 1 Note ‡}	537,930	16.5	14.9	23.4	24.3	23.9
2	529,285	16.2	16.6	22.4	22.7	22.5
3	498,585	15.3	18.2	18.5	18.8	19.8
4	681,610	22.6	22.5	18.6	18.4	18.3
Quintile 5 (high)	854,200	29.5	27.8	17.2	15.9	15.4
Neighbourhood ethnic concentration
Quintile 1 (low)^{Table 1 Note ‡}	946,070	35.8	19.8	10.3	6.9	4.1
2	737,040	26.9	18.8	12.5	9.0	5.9
3	536,545	17.7	19.7	16.6	13.6	10.7
4	439,290	12.3	19.6	22.6	22.4	20.3
Quintile 5 (high)	442,655	7.3	22.1	38.1	48.1	59.0
Urban form
Active urban core^{Table 1 Note ‡}	237,970	7.07	8.65	9.23	9.69	12.15
Transit-reliant suburb	238,645	5.60	10.90	13.57	17.27	21.18
Car-reliant suburb	1,276,230	36.41	54.19	60.96	61.37	58.41
Exurban	156,160	5.53	4.40	3.29	2.59	2.03
Non-CMA/CA	1,192,605	45.39	21.87	12.95	9.08	6.23
Community size (population in 2001)
1.5 million and more^{Table 1 Note ‡}	980,060	23.7	47.7	60.1	66.0	72.5
500,000 to 1.49 million	501,910	16.3	15.6	17.0	16.6	14.2
100,000 to 499,999	518,435	17.9	17.5	11.5	9.7	8.1
30,000 to 99,000	275,900	10.2	6.7	3.9	2.7	1.9
1,000 to 29,999	111,960	4.3	2.1	1.4	0.7	0.6
Rural	713,340	27.6	10.4	6.2	4.4	2.8
Airshed
Western^{Table 1 Note ‡}	381,310	10.7	16.7	18.1	16.7	20.3
Prairie	401,165	13.9	9.0	11.0	10.1	8.3
West Central	187,180	6.8	4.1	3.5	3.1	2.0
Southern Atlantic	279,305	11.1	1.9	1.9	1.2	0.9
1,830,165	56.5	68.3	65.4	68.8	68.5
Northern	22,475	0.9	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0
... not applicable Note ‡ Reference value in adjusted models. Return to note ‡ referrer Note ‡‡ South African immigrants were categorized based on ethnic origin (e.g., German, Chinese, Black African). Return to note ‡‡ referrer Note: PM: particulate matter. Source: 2001 Canadian Census Health and Environment Cohort.

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Descriptive statistics (number and percentage) of demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of the 2001 Canadian Census Health and Environment Cohort, by immigrant status and duration in Canada

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Descriptive statistics (number and percentage) of demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of the 2001 Canadian Census Health and Environment Cohort, by immigrant status and duration in Canada