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Foreign work experience, admission class, and source regions of entering female immigrants, 1991, 2000 and 2004, by earnings1 quartile

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Foreign work experience, admission class, and source regions of entering female immigrants, 1991, 2000 and 2004, by earnings quartile
  Distribution Changes in distribution
1991 2000 2004 1991 to 2000 2000 to 2004
  years
Bottom quartile  
Foreign experience 15.3 13.8 13.5 -1.5 -0.3
  percent
Admission class  
Family class 37.3 28.5 31.0 -8.8 2.5
Skilled principal applicants 8.6 14.9 15.9 6.4 0.9
Skilled spouse/dependants 24.5 39.5 36.8 15.0 -2.7
Refugees 20.0 13.5 11.7 -6.5 -1.8
Others 9.6 3.5 4.6 -6.1 1.1
Source region  
United States 2.1 0.9 1.5 -1.2 0.6
Caribbean, South and Central America 14.4 6.5 8.9 -7.9 2.3
Northern, Western and Southern Europe 9.1 4.5 3.8 -4.6 -0.7
Eastern Europe 22.2 18.0 13.5 -4.2 -4.5
Africa 7.0 8.2 9.8 1.2 1.5
South Asia 8.7 15.5 18.9 6.9 3.4
East Asia 13.3 32.1 31.0 18.8 -1.2
Other Asia 22.0 13.6 12.0 -8.4 -1.6
Other countries 1.2 0.5 0.6 -0.7 0.1
  years
2nd quartile  
Years of foreign experience 15.3 14.1 14.0 -1.3 -0.1
  percent
Admission class  
Family class 41.0 35.1 36.6 -5.9 1.4
Skilled principal applicants 10.7 15.3 16.0 4.6 0.7
Skilled spouse/dependants 20.6 33.2 29.0 12.6 -4.2
Refugees 16.1 10.7 9.9 -5.3 -0.8
Others 11.7 5.6 8.5 -6.1 3.0
Source region  
United States 1.8 1.3 1.3 -0.6 0.0
Caribbean, South and Central America 14.2 7.2 8.2 -7.0 1.0
Northern, Western and Southern Europe 10.4 4.4 4.4 -6.0 0.0
Eastern Europe 18.7 16.4 12.8 -2.3 -3.6
Africa 5.6 6.3 8.9 0.6 2.6
South Asia 10.3 19.9 21.4 9.6 1.4
East Asia 12.5 28.6 26.9 16.1 -1.7
Other Asia 25.0 15.5 15.4 -9.5 -0.1
Other countries 1.4 0.5 0.8 -0.9 0.3
  years
3rd quartile  
Foreign experience 15.6 14.4 14.1 -1.2 -0.3
  percent
Admission class  
Family class 38.3 29.6 30.3 -8.6 0.6
Skilled principal applicants 11.3 19.2 17.2 7.8 -2.0
Skilled spouse/dependants 21.2 28.9 28.3 7.7 -0.6
Refugees 11.7 8.7 8.8 -3.0 0.2
Others 17.5 13.6 15.4 -4.0 1.8
Source region  
United States 1.4 1.3 1.8 0.0 0.5
Caribbean, South and Central America 14.1 8.8 9.0 -5.3 0.3
Northern, Western and Southern Europe 11.4 6.4 4.4 -5.0 -2.0
Eastern Europe 13.8 13.1 12.5 -0.7 -0.5
Africa 3.8 5.5 8.2 1.7 2.7
South Asia 7.7 16.1 18.2 8.4 2.0
East Asia 14.0 25.2 21.4 11.1 -3.7
Other Asia 32.8 22.8 23.1 -10.0 0.3
Other countries 1.1 0.8 1.3 -0.3 0.4
  years
Top quartile  
Foreign experience 13.8 10.9 12.2 -2.9 1.3
  percent
Admission class  
Family class 29.2 21.6 22.4 -7.6 0.8
Skilled principal applicants 25.1 41.7 35.3 16.6 -6.4
Skilled spouse/dependants 18.8 26.4 20.1 7.6 -6.3
Refugees 6.8 3.8 6.9 -3.0 3.2
Others 20.2 6.6 15.4 -13.6 8.8
Source region  
United States 4.7 4.5 5.2 -0.2 0.8
Caribbean, South and Central America 12.9 7.5 8.4 -5.5 0.9
Northern, Western and Southern Europe 14.6 11.6 11.2 -3.0 -0.4
Eastern Europe 10.0 13.8 11.4 3.8 -2.4
Africa 5.8 7.7 9.9 1.9 2.2
South Asia 5.1 10.6 10.5 5.5 -0.1
East Asia 15.3 26.9 15.9 11.6 -11.0
Other Asia 30.7 15.8 24.7 -14.9 8.9
Other countries 0.8 1.6 2.7 0.7 1.1
1.
Earnings during the first two full years in Canada.
Source(s):
Statistics Canada, Longitudinal Administrative Databank and Longitudinal Immigration Database.