Table 19 Means of key variables (Continued)
From: Does it matter if immigrants work in jobs related to their education?
Males | Females | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Immigrants | Canadian-born | Immigrants | Canadian-born | |||
(1) | (2) | (3) | (1) | (2) | (3) | |
Traditional | Non-traditional | All | Traditional | Non-traditional | All | |
Demographic and human capital | ||||||
Age | 48.8 | 45.1 | 41.9 | 47.2 | 44.2 | 41.4 |
Married (%) | 80.9 | 85.3 | 63.2 | 71.2 | 73.0 | 56.4 |
Years of schooling | 15.9 | 16.3 | 15.3 | 15.8 | 15.5 | 15.2 |
Canadian years (if > 0) | 3.9 | 4.4 | 15.3 | 3.7 | 3.4 | 15.2 |
Foreign years | 14.3 | 14.5 | – | 14.0 | 14.0 | – |
Work experience | 25.4 | 17.2 | 20.2 | 19.4 | 15.6 | 17.3 |
Canadian years | 17.7 | 10.2 | 20.3 | 13.2 | 9.7 | 17.0 |
Foreign years (if > 0) | 8.0 | 6.8 | – | 5.9 | 5.4 | – |
Supervisor responsibility | 50.9 | 39.8 | 45.4 | 35.0 | 26.6 | 33.1 |
Years since migration | 22.0 | 16.2 | – | 21.4 | 16.4 | – |
Geographic location | ||||||
Toronto (%) | 15.8 | 29.6 | 3.5 | 17.0 | 30.3 | 3.4 |
Montreal (%) | 6.0 | 6.7 | 4.4 | 4.2 | 7.3 | 4.2 |
Vancouver (%) | 7.0 | 10.2 | 2.5 | 6.9 | 11.2 | 2.3 |
Ontario (%) | 48.3 | 48.3 | 27.9 | 48.6 | 49.1 | 26.6 |
Quebec (%) | 9.4 | 9.1 | 21.8 | 7.1 | 8.8 | 20.5 |
Atlantic (%) | 6.5 | 2.8 | 20.4 | 5.6 | 1.9 | 23.0 |
Prairies (%) | 21.6 | 26.5 | 22.8 | 23.7 | 26.8 | 23.3 |
BC (%) | 14.2 | 13.3 | 7.0 | 15.1 | 13.5 | 6.7 |
Mother tongue | ||||||
English (excl. Quebec %) | 45.0 | 16.0 | 89.0 | 46.0 | 17.7 | 88.3 |
English (Quebec %) | 9.4 | 2.6 | 4.3 | 10.6 | 18.8 | 3.5 |
French (excl. Quebec %) | 2.3 | 0.8 | 6.8 | 1.7 | 0.9 | 7.3 |
French (Quebec %) | 47.2 | 12.3 | 93.2 | 50.0 | 18.8 | 94.4 |
No English or French | 52.7 | 83.2 | 4.2 | 52.3 | 81.4 | 4.3 |
(excl. Quebec %) | ||||||
No English (Quebec %) | 43.4 | 85.0 | 2.5 | 39.4 | 62.3 | 2.0 |
Field of study | ||||||
Education, arts, humanities, and | 12.4 | 7.1 | 10.7 | 18.9 | 16.5 | 18.1 |
communications technologies (%) | ||||||
Social and behavioral sciences and law (%) | 6.3 | 6.2 | 8.1 | 14.7 | 10.8 | 13.0 |
Business, management, and public | 10.2 | 19.7 | 15.8 | 23.9 | 30.4 | 30.7 |
administration (%) | ||||||
Physical and life sciences and | 7.3 | 6.8 | 3.8 | 5.5 | 5.8 | 2.0 |
technologies (%) | ||||||
Mathematics, computer, and | 7.0 | 8.8 | 5.6 | 5.6 | 6.3 | 3.9 |
information sciences (%) | ||||||
Architecture, engineering, and | 43.0 | 41.4 | 40.4 | 6.0 | 5.5 | 3.1 |
related technologies (%) | ||||||
Agriculture, natural resources, | 9.8 | 5.0 | 11.3 | 6.1 | 2.7 | 6.1 |
conservation, personal, protective, and transportation services (%) | ||||||
Health, parks, recreation, and fitness (%) | 4.1 | 4.9 | 4.3 | 19.1 | 22.0 | 23.1 |
N (person-years) | 1691 | 2502 | 40,815 | 1474 | 2178 | 43,021 |
N (unique persons) | 673 | 1009 | 15,418 | 605 | 936 | 16,744 |