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Table 1
Highly qualified persons by immigrant status and period of immigration, 2001

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Immigrant status Total university degrees (BA or higher) Earned doctorate degree Master's degree(s) Bachelor's degree(s) Degree in medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine, or optometry University certificate or diploma above bachelor
Total 3,687,645 128,625 642,055 2,411,475 122,535 382,955
Non-immigrants 2,567,590 60,070 400,460 1,763,095 74,750 269,210
Immigrants 1,068,275 64,750 229,030 621,120 45,100 108,270
1960 and earlier 95,030 6,690 20,865 50,200 4,400 12,875
1961 to 1970 133,895 12,750 29,740 69,675 6,930 14,790
1971 to 1980 202,140 11,190 37,765 124,000 10,225 18,960
1981 to 1990 201,005 10,250 39,700 124,815 8,245 17,990
1991 to 2000 413,325 22,900 95,310 239,385 14,510 41,215
Non-permanent residents 51,785 3,805 12,565 27,250 2,680 5,475
Notes: Although most non-immigrants were born in Canada, a small number were born outside Canada to Canadian parents which accounts for the slight differences between the non-immigrant and Canada figures shown in Table 1 and Table 3, respectively. In the aggregate, the figures for non-immigrants in Table 1 and those born in Canada in Table 3 are almost identical.
Immigrants and non-permanent residents' degrees include those who had a degree when they immigrated to Canada as well as those who earned their degree after they arrived. The 2001 figures for the first 5 months prior to the Census are included in the total. Figures may not add to totals due to rounding.
Data source: Statistics Canada, 2001 Census of Population.
Table source: Statistics Canada, Innovation Analysis Bulletin, 2007, Vol. 9, no. 2, Catalogue no. 88-003-XWE.
Date Modified: 2008-12-01

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