Table 8
Estimated odds ratio of reporting low levels of life satisfaction, relative to workers with few or no ethnic co-workers, by ethnic group, combining immigrants and Canadian born of immigrant parents

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	Model 11 Earnings not included	Model 2 Model 1+ log annual earnings
Chinese
Most co-workers have the same ethnic ancestry	0.73	0.68 *
About half co-workers have the same ethnic ancestry	2.10 ***	2.06 **
Ethnic ancestry not important	2.02 ***	2.05 ***
South Asians
Most co-workers have the same ethnic ancestry	0.89	0.89
About half co-workers have the same ethnic ancestry	0.12 ***	0.12 ***
Ethnic ancestry not important	0.77	0.77
Blacks
Most co-workers have the same ethnic ancestry	0.57	0.57
About half co-workers have the same ethnic ancestry	2.03 *	2.06 *
Ethnic ancestry not important	1.13	1.14
Filipinos and other visible minorities
Most co-workers have the same ethnic ancestry	0.51 **	0.51 **
About half co-workers have the same ethnic ancestry	2.78 ***	2.75 ***
Ethnic ancestry not important	1.77 ***	1.77 ***
Italians
Most co-workers have the same ethnic ancestry	0.62	0.62
About half co-workers have the same ethnic ancestry	1.60	1.60
Ethnic ancestry not important	0.92	0.92
German, Portuguese and other European minority groups
Most co-workers have the same ethnic ancestry	0.46 **	0.47 **
About half co-workers have the same ethnic ancestry	1.70 **	1.71 **
Ethnic ancestry not important	1.23 *	1.23 *

* significant at p<0.05

** significant at p<0.01

*** significant at p<0.001

^1. Model 1 includes sex, potential year of work experience, education, language proficiency, immigrant status, ethnic belonging and friends, occupation, industry, selfemployment status and weeks worked.

Source: Statistics Canada, Ethnic Diversity Survey.