Voies vers la prospérité: Canada

Faits saillants

• En 2012, la division de recensement (DR) avec le plus haut taux d’arrivée d’immigrants per capita a été la DR de Montréal (1,9% de sa population totale).
• De 2007 à 2012, le taux d’augmentation le plus élevée d’arrivée d’immigrants a été dans la DR no.3 de la Saskatchewan (qui inclut Assiniboia), avec une augmentation moyenne de 54% par an sur cette période.

Highlights

• In 2012, the census division (CD) with the highest level of immigrant arrivals per capita was the CD of Montreal (1.9% of its total population).
• From 2007 to 2012, the highest rate of increase in immigrant arrivals was in Saskatchewan CD 13 (which includes Assiniboia), with an average increase of 54% per year over this period.

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Examining the possibilities for international students and foreign graduates to settle in Atlantic Canada, this new study seeks to do three thing: to better understand the strategic initiatives and the practices that are implemented in this region of the country to attract and integrate these…

Highlights

• For the 12 months ending December, 2012, 76.5% of landed immigrants (25 to 54 years of age) were employed.
• This is 6.8 percentage points lower than the employment rate for the Canadian born.
• The gap in the employment rate widened, but only slightly, during the economic downturn.
• Most of the overall gap is due to a higher gap for women than for men.

Faits saillants

• Pour les 12 derniers mois jusqu’à décembre 2012, 76,5% des immigrants reçus (âgés entre 25 et 54 ans) occupaient un emploi.
• Ce taux est 6,8% plus bas que le taux d’emploi des citoyens canadiens de naissance.
• L’écart entre ces deux taux d’emploi s’est accru, mais très légèrement, pendant le ralentissement économique.
• Une grande partie de cet écart est dû à un plus grand écart pour les femmes que pour les hommes.

This report reviews research on the factors shaping the economic and social integration outcomes of permanent immigrants to Canada. The impact of source country/region and immigration class are of principal interest, but the effects of secondary explanatory variables, including, but not limited to, education, gender, age, and language…