Canadian migration destinations of recent immigrants and interprovincial migrants: similarities, differences and explanations

Shannon, Mike

doi:10.1186/s40176-015-0038-7

Table 6 Duncan dissimilarity indices for subsamples^a

From: Canadian migration destinations of recent immigrants and interprovincial migrants: similarities, differences and explanations

	Men						Women
	1981	1986	1991	1996	2001	2006	1981	1986	1991	1996	2001	2006
Full sample	0.351	0.297	0.382	0.370	0.435	0.431	0.335	0.272	0.341	0.366	0.425	0.402
Age 20–34	0.368	0.291	0.380	0.392	0.437	0.462	0.344	0.258	0.354	0.386	0.422	0.423
Age 35–49	0.300	0.313	0.389	0.344	0.432	0.392	0.321	0.321	0.317	0.355	0.427	0.377
Single	0.367	0.303	0.368	0.390	0.415	0.486	0.415	0.267	0.313	0.366	0.383	0.375
Not single	0.349	0.295	0.389	0.363	0.448	0.413	0.330	0.283	0.350	0.366	0.443	0.418
Students	0.297	NA	0.316	0.308	0.387	0.434	0.333	NA	0.324	0.345	0.400	0.379
Non-students	0.362	NA	0.394	0.378	0.444	0.424	0.333	NA	0.340	0.365	0.429	0.406
No post-sec. or trades	0.375	0.324	0.412	0.392	0.449	0.428	0.356	0.294	0.371	0.392	0.462	0.418
PS Below Bachelors	0.383	0.297	0.399	0.395	0.457	0.446	0.336	0.263	0.350	0.383	0.456	0.421
Bachelors or higher	0.227	0.232	0.302	0.315	0.375	0.370	0.284	0.226	0.261	0.294	0.334	0.342
Higher degree only	0.183	0.201	0.253	0.249	0.387	0.298	0.289	0.175	0.257	0.313	0.348	0.289
Post-secondary by Field of Study
Education	NA	0.303	0.480	0.401	0.429	0.446	NA	0.287	0.288	0.427	0.430	0.396
Arts^b	NA	0.253	0.284	0.305	0.336	0.359	NA	0.194	0.271	0.350	0.372	0.350
Business	NA	0.269	0.295	0.321	0.421	0.380	NA	0.283	0.290	0.326	0.391	0.413
Engineering	NA	0.309	0.361	0.346	0.416	0.439	NA	0.433	0.337	0.354	0.338	0.291
Trades and Technology	NA	0.323	0.404	0.410	0.474	0.496	NA	0.294	0.358	0.438	0.434	0.419
Health	NA	0.297	0.333	0.252	0.450	0.379	NA	0.255	0.305	0.345	0.412	0.426
Science^c	NA	0.235	0.379	0.399	0.432	0.418	NA	0.345	0.343	0.345	0.413	0.420
University by Field of Study
Education	NA	0.331	0.469	0.413	0.463	0.490	NA	0.233	0.285	0.454	0.394	0.444
Arts^b	NA	0.271	0.277	0.271	0.321	0.358	NA	0.182	0.221	0.315	0.321	0.317
Business	NA	0.259	0.270	0.277	0.401	0.356	NA	0.274	0.199	0.239	0.327	0.291
Engineering	NA	0.328	0.345	0.343	0.423	0.431	NA	0.358	0.316	0.315	0.347	0.285
Health	NA	0.298	0.327	0.269	0.399	0.367	NA	0.257	0.273	0.294	0.385	0.399
Science^c	NA	0.240	0.306	0.362	0.380	0.403	NA	0.372	0.338	0.356	0.408	0.396
Ethnicity:
British	0.347	0.242	0.326	0.257	0.269	0.318	0.325	0.234	0.287	0.286	0.315	0.337
French	0.703	0.644	0.747	0.749	0.742	0.874	0.632	0.831	0.651	0.827	0.768	0.826
Other Europe	0.458	0.411	0.570	0.529	0.480	0.578	0.467	0.390	0.508	0.523	0.448	0.518
Asia^d	0.347	0.218	0.219	0.226	0.266	0.334	0.292	0.379	0.083	0.284	0.201	0.143
Not Visible minority	NA	0.286	0.428	0.426	0.425	0.450	NA	0.255	0.372	0.425	0.415	0.419
Visible minority	NA	0.171	0.332	0.267	0.312	0.305	NA	0.253	0.230	0.221	0.285	0.218
Mother tongue:
English	0.359	0.331	0.433	0.431	0.415	0.411	0.348	0.301	0.367	0.444	0.429	0.387
French	0.605	0.454	0.415	0.435	0.455	0.418	0.519	0.495	0.355	0.511	0.415	0.406
Other	0.431	0.338	0.196	0.420	0.253	0.340	0.392	0.375	0.152	0.410	0.313	0.236

^a Duncan dissimilarity indices (DDIs) are calculated as ½ ∑i|ip_i-im_i| where ip_i is the share of interprovincial migrants whose destination is province i and im_i is the share of immigrants with province i as their destination location
^b Arts includes humanities, social sciences and fine arts
^c Math, physical, biological, agricultural sciences
^d In 1981 figure the figure for Asia indicates Chinese only

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