Table 1
Descriptive statistics on selected characteristics at landing and labour market outcomes (unadjusted) in 2010 of economic immigrant principal applicants and spouses, by gender

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Table 1
Descriptive statistics on selected characteristics at landing and labour market outcomes (unadjusted) in 2010 of economic immigrant principal applicants and spouses, by gender
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This table displays the results of Descriptive statistics on selected characteristics at landing and labour market outcomes (unadjusted) in 2010 of economic immigrant principal applicants and spouses Male, Female, Principal applicant and Spouse, calculated using percent and dollars units of measure (appearing as column headers).
  Male Female
Principal applicant Spouse Principal applicant Spouse
percent
Education level at landing  
High school or less 9.7 22.9 9.6 26.6
Postsecondary below bachelor's degree 15.0 21.2 15.6 19.4
Bachelor's degree 50.5 44.0 54.9 42.9
Master's or Doctorate 24.7 11.8 19.9 11.1
Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
Mother tongue, knowledge of official languages at landing  
Mother tongue English, unilingual 7.9 8.4 8.3 7.9
Mother tongue French, unilingual 0.7 0.8 0.7 0.8
Mother tongue English or French, knows English and French 2.0 1.6 2.1 1.5
Mother tongue other:  
Knows English 59.4 47.4 51.9 46.9
Knows French 3.5 5.9 4.9 4.7
Knows English and French 10.7 13.0 17.9 7.8
Knows neither English nor French 15.9 22.9 14.2 30.3
Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
Age at landing  
24 or younger Note ...: not applicable 0.3 Note ...: not applicable 3.0
25 to 29 9.3 9.5 15.6 20.4
30 to 34 28.3 25.7 33.2 32.9
35 to 39 33.5 29.8 31.0 28.3
40 to 45 28.9 25.2 20.2 14.2
Older than 45 Note ...: not applicable 9.5 Note ...: not applicable 1.2
Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
Labour market outcomes in 2010  
Percent employed 91.5 87.7 82.9 73.8
Percent employed full time, full year 60.5 52.5 46.4 37.4
    dollars
Weekly employment earnings  
Average 1,270 931 858 613
Median 962 690 675 434
Weekly employment earnings, conditional on being employed  
Average 1,385 1,060 1,033 829
Median 1,057 784 802 629
... not applicable
Note: Percentages may not add up to 100.0% because of rounding.
Source: Statistics Canada, the 2011 National Household Survey linked with the Immigrant Landing File.

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