9 Other Statistics Canada research

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The summaries provided above draw on only a few of the 64 immigrant-related papers produced at Statistics Canada over the past six years. Other research papers have addressed such topics as are listed below.

Immigrant health, including the 'healthy immigrant effect:' the observation that immigrants coming to Canada are often healthier than their Canadian-born counterparts; however, as they remain in Canada, they converge to health levels of the Canadian born.
Outcomes for young children of immigrants—including their school performance, which may lag when the children are very young—tend to catch up and at times exceed those of the Canadian born by the time that they reach late elementary or early secondary school.
Issues surrounding adequate housing for immigrants.
The spatial distribution of immigrants in Canada, particularly the tendency to concentrate in the three largest cities.
Fertility patterns among immigrant groups, and projections of the visible-minority population in Canada.
The effect of immigration on the wages of Canadian-born workers, and comparisons with the United States and Mexico.
Re-accreditation and outcomes for immigrants in particular occupations, such as engineering and medicine.
Changing ethnic diversity in the neighbourhoods of the three large cities, and the effect of this on the general sense of 'trust' in the neighbourhoods. This research is suggesting that the effect of rising ethnic diversity in Canada on the population's sense of 'trust' is different than in other immigrant-receiving countries, notably the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia. In those countries, empirical studies suggest that trust is negatively associated with racial diversity. The preliminary results suggest that this relationship is not negative in Canada and, if anything, is positive. Rising neighbourhood ethnic diversity—larger numbers of ethnic groups represented in a neighbourhood—is not associated with a decline in the sense of trust. However, a rising neighbourhood concentration of one particular ethnic group is negatively correlated with trust, mainly among the white community.