Table 1
Distribution of study cohort by selected socioeconomic and immigration-related characteristics for immigrants, by admission category, relative to the Canadian-born population^{Table 1 Note ‡}

Table 1
Distribution of study cohort by selected socioeconomic and immigration-related characteristics for immigrants, by admission category, relative to the Canadian-born population‡
Table summary
This table displays the results of Distribution of study cohort by selected socioeconomic and immigration-related characteristics for immigrants Canadian-born, All immigrants and Immigrant category, calculated using number and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
	Canadian-born	All immigrants	Economic class	Family class	Refugee
	Canadian-born	All immigrants	Immigrant category
	number
Sample size	128,655	10,130	5,505	2,980	1,210
Estimated population	17,254,765	3,628,885	1,913,180	1,092,580	466,765
	percent
Age (years)
12 to 24	21.3	14.4^Note *	18.4^Note *	8.3^Note *	15.3^Note *
25 to 39	22.3	34.3^Note *	32.5^Note *	38.4^Note *	33.8^Note *
40 to 64	40.6	44.8^Note *	45.6^Note *	40.7	46.8^Note *
65 and older	15.8	6.5^Note *	3.5^Note *	12.6^Note *	4.1^Note *
Sex
Male	49.0	49.7	51.1	44.1^Note *	56.0^Note *
Female	51.0	50.3	48.9	55.9^Note *	44.0^Note *
Duration since landing
Recent (in Canada within 10 years of landing)	Note ...: not applicable	35.5	42.1	32.1	24.7
Established (in Canada for 10 years or more)	Note ...: not applicable	64.5	57.9	67.9	75.3
World source region
United States +	Note ...: not applicable	10.6	11.9	12.2	Note x: suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act
Latin America and Caribbean	Note ...: not applicable	16.1	8.7	25.6	18.3
Eastern Europe	Note ...: not applicable	10.9	11.0	6.7	21.6
Sub-Saharan Africa	Note ...: not applicable	5.2	4.2	4.0	11.4
North Africa, Middle East and West Asia	Note ...: not applicable	13.0	13.7	7.7	22.5
South Asia	Note ...: not applicable	16.4	14.8	20.7	13.4
Southeast Asia	Note ...: not applicable	12.6	15.6	11.4	7.2
East Asia	Note ...: not applicable	14.9	19.9	11.0	Note x: suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act
Official language proficiency
Both English and French	25.8	13.9^Note *	16.4^Note *	9.7^Note *	14.1^Note *
English only	58.6	73.7^Note *	73.6^Note *	73.7^Note *	72.1^Note *
French only	15.6	7.0^Note *	7.4^Note *	6.4^Note *	7.6^Note *
Neither English nor French	0.0^{Note E: Use with caution}	5.4^Note *	2.6^Note *	10.1^Note *	6.2^Note *^{Note E: Use with caution}
Education
Less than postsecondary	44.7	32.4^Note *	23.6^Note *	43.3	40.2^Note *
Postsecondary graduation	54.4	66.5^Note *	75.3^Note *	55.7	58.7
Marital status
Married or common-law	54.4	66.0^Note *	64.8^Note *	71.7^Note *	56.7
Widowed, separated or divorced	12.3	8.8^Note *	5.9^Note *	12.5	10.2
Single (never married)	33.1	25.0^Note *	29.2^Note *	15.6^Note *	32.1
Income (health region decile)
Lower 20%	15.5	32.4^Note *	29.5^Note *	32.4^Note *	45.8^Note *
Middle 60%	60.5	56.8^Note *	58.4	56.9^Note *	48.2^Note *
Upper 20%	23.7	10.7^Note *	12.1^Note *	10.7^Note *	6.0^Note *
Employment
Had a job	61.6	66.5^Note *	68.9^Note *	62.2	66.4
Did not have a job the week before	26.1	28.0^Note *	26.9	30.1^Note *	28.2
Permanently unable to work	2.6	1.3^Note *	0.7^Note *^{Note E: Use with caution}	1.6^Note *^{Note E: Use with caution}	2.9^{Note E: Use with caution}
Sense of belonging to local community
Weak	35.1	33.1^Note *	34.0	28.9^Note *	39.6^Note *
Strong	63.9	65.2	64.8	68.9^Note *	57.9^Note *
Excellent or very good mental health
No	27.5	29.8^Note *	28.5	31.2^Note *	33.1^Note *
Yes	72.5	70.2^Note *	71.5	68.8^Note *	66.9^Note *
... not applicable x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act ^E use with caution Note * significantly different from the reference category (p < 0.05) Return to note * referrer Note ‡ includes respondents from British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, Newfoundland and Labrador, the Northwest Territories, and Nunavut who participated in the mental health consultation module and question Return to note ‡ referrer Notes: A small sub-group of immigrants classified as others included in total, but not in the sub-categories (see cohort description in text on p4). Proportions may not add up to 100% because of missing data. United States + comprises the United States, Australia, New Zealand and Western Europe. Source: 2011-to-2014 Canadian Community Health Survey–Longitudinal Immigration Database linked database.

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Distribution of study cohort by selected socioeconomic and immigration-related characteristics for immigrants, by admission category, relative to the Canadian-born population^{Table 1 Note ‡}

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Distribution of study cohort by selected socioeconomic and immigration-related characteristics for immigrants, by admission category, relative to the Canadian-born population^{Table 1 Note ‡}