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This interesting article appeared in the paper last week and is now on the StatsCan website. Quite a interesting read!
Most immigrants settled in big cities: StatsCan
CTV.ca News Staff
Canada's major urban centres were home to most of the 1.8 million immigrants who arrived in the 1990s, according to a Statistics Canada survey.
Settlement was spread over Canada's 27 census metropolitan areas, but nearly three-quarters made their homes in the three largest centres -- Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver, StatsCan said.
As well, most Canadian-born children of immigrants also reside in those three main centres.
Immigrants from East and South Asia made up the majority of all new arrivals in Canada, according to the StatsCan report, based primarily on data from 2001.
The report on immigrants in Canada's urban centres also took a look at the education and employment levels of immigrants.
It found that while most immigrants had higher levels of education than their Canadian counterparts, they were more likely to be employed in lower-skilled jobs.
"In fact, recent immigrants with a university degree were much more likely than their Canadian-born counterparts to be working in occupations that typically require no formal education," the report says.
It also says recent immigrants have higher levels of unemployment, and lower levels of employment. Women are also more likely than men to suffer this trend.
The two main areas most impacted by these trends in immigration are transit and schools in Canada's major urban centres, according to StatsCan.
"This high rate of public transit use among recent immigrants, coupled with the sizable number of recent immigrants living in metropolitan areas, means that they are an important and growing customer base for public transit systems in many urban centres," the report says.
Recent immigrants and their children are also more likely than their Canadian-born counterparts to attend school.
"In all age groups between 18 and 54, recent immigrants were more likely than people born in Canada to have attended school in the academic year 2000/01," StatsCan says.
Other findings in the report:
Just under one-third of new immigrants had taken at least one course in either English or French within six months of arriving in Canada
Recent immigrants were less likely to work on a full-year, full-time basis
On average, immigrants earn less than Canadian-born individuals, but the gap is reduced as immigrants gain work experience in Canada
In most urban centres, recent immigrants were at least twice as likely as Canadian-born workers to earn less than $20,000 a year
Most immigrants settled in big cities: StatsCan
CTV.ca News Staff
Canada's major urban centres were home to most of the 1.8 million immigrants who arrived in the 1990s, according to a Statistics Canada survey.
Settlement was spread over Canada's 27 census metropolitan areas, but nearly three-quarters made their homes in the three largest centres -- Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver, StatsCan said.
As well, most Canadian-born children of immigrants also reside in those three main centres.
Immigrants from East and South Asia made up the majority of all new arrivals in Canada, according to the StatsCan report, based primarily on data from 2001.
The report on immigrants in Canada's urban centres also took a look at the education and employment levels of immigrants.
It found that while most immigrants had higher levels of education than their Canadian counterparts, they were more likely to be employed in lower-skilled jobs.
"In fact, recent immigrants with a university degree were much more likely than their Canadian-born counterparts to be working in occupations that typically require no formal education," the report says.
It also says recent immigrants have higher levels of unemployment, and lower levels of employment. Women are also more likely than men to suffer this trend.
The two main areas most impacted by these trends in immigration are transit and schools in Canada's major urban centres, according to StatsCan.
"This high rate of public transit use among recent immigrants, coupled with the sizable number of recent immigrants living in metropolitan areas, means that they are an important and growing customer base for public transit systems in many urban centres," the report says.
Recent immigrants and their children are also more likely than their Canadian-born counterparts to attend school.
"In all age groups between 18 and 54, recent immigrants were more likely than people born in Canada to have attended school in the academic year 2000/01," StatsCan says.
Other findings in the report:
Just under one-third of new immigrants had taken at least one course in either English or French within six months of arriving in Canada
Recent immigrants were less likely to work on a full-year, full-time basis
On average, immigrants earn less than Canadian-born individuals, but the gap is reduced as immigrants gain work experience in Canada
In most urban centres, recent immigrants were at least twice as likely as Canadian-born workers to earn less than $20,000 a year
