Table 1
Educational attainment among children of immigrants,1 aged from 25 to 34, by source country/region

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  At least finishing high school With university degree Sample size
percent number
Africa 96.0 55.9 *** 132
Caribbean 96.6 26.3 273
Latin America 91.3 23.5 172
China 99.2 69. 5 *** 177
Philippines 98.8 39.9 103
India 92.0 65.2 *** 131
West Asia/Middle East 87.8 44.3 * 79
Other Asia 90.7 52 2 *** 151
United States 94.4 33.8 207
United Kingdom 95.8 37.6 *** 523
Germany 93.0 24.0 215
Italy 93.1 32.2 315
Portugal 91.0 25.8 85
Netherlands 94.8 26.4 214
Other Northern/Western Europe 96.1 34.5 190
Eastern Europe 94.0 37.5 * 162
Other Europe 95.2 45.2 *** 145
Other countries 88.9 36.9 56
All groups of children of immigrants 94.3 37.6 *** 3,330
Children of Canadian-born parents 88.4 27.5 2,689

* p < 0.01 (level is significantly different from that among children of Canadian-born parents)

*** p < 0.001

1. Includes Canadian-born children with at least one immigrant parent and foreign-born children who immigrated to Canada before age 13.

Source: Statistics Canada, Ethnic Diversity Survey.