Table 3
Education and language ability by work status and the degree of
co-ethnic concentration at the workplace among people aged 25 to
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Not working | Most co-workers have the same ethnic ancestry | About half co-workers have the same ethnic ancestry | Few or no co-workers have the same ethnic ancestry | Ethnic ancestry not important | |
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percent | |||||
With at least some postsecondary education | |||||
Immigrants | 57.3 | 49.1 | 50.0 | 71.7 | 67.5 |
Visible minorities | 56.0 | 51.9 | 57.1 | 73.7 | 66.4 |
European origins | 60.7 | 39.2 | 33.8 | 67.6 | 69.0 |
Canadian born of immigrant parents | 68.3 | 61.6 | 70.8 | 80.2 | 73.6 |
Visible minorities | 74.3 | 33.6 | 78.8 | 87.0 | 85.3 |
European origins | 66.4 | 71.1 | 69.4 | 78.1 | 71.2 |
With English/French as mother tongue or grown up in English/French environment | |||||
Immigrants | 44.5 | 30.7 | 47.8 | 62.3 | 67.6 |
Visible minorities | 40.6 | 26.6 | 48.0 | 59.2 | 58.2 |
European origins | 55.0 | 45.1 | 47.2 | 68.8 | 81.5 |
Canadian born of immigrant parents | 96.6 | 83.6 | 97.0 | 97.0 | 97.6 |
Visible minorities | 89.2 | 34.8 | 90.5 | 93.1 | 91.0 |
European origins | 98.9 | 100.0 | 98.1 | 98.2 | 98.9 |
Source: Statistics Canada, Ethnic Diversity Survey.
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