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Table 1 Characteristics of employed immigrants, age 25 to 54 with a university degree

  Men Women
Recent immigrants Established immigrants Recent immigrants Established immigrants
1991 2006 1991 2006 1991 2006 1991 2006
Total 28,600 108,100 27,700 54,000 17,600 75,900 19,300 50,800
  %
Age
25 to 34 41 30 21 20 52 41 24 23
35 to 44 44 50 50 41 39 44 56 43
45 to 54 16 20 29 40 9 15 20 34
Education
Bachelor's 66 64 71 71 75 72 79 78
Master's 25 30 21 22 21 25 18 18
Doctorate 9 6 8 7 4 4 3 3
Mother tongue
English 23 12 37 16 28 14 36 18
French 4 4 4 4 3 4 5 4
Other 73 84 58 80 69 81 59 78
Category of worker
Employee 91 92 89 91 94 93 92 93
Self-employed 9 8 11 9 6 7 8 7
Field of study
Non applied 48 35 48 43 71 61 71 66
Teaching and fine arts 5 3 6 5 15 10 19 13
Humanities and social sciences 19 11 20 17 28 24 30 27
Administration 20 17 18 16 21 22 15 21
Other1 5 4 5 5 7 5 6 6
Applied 52 65 52 57 29 39 29 34
Engineering 26 41 26 32 4 14 3 9
Mathematics, applied sciences and technology 11 8 12 9 7 7 7 7
Computer science 5 10 5 9 3 5 3 5
Health 8 5 9 7 14 12 16 13
Region of origin
North America 6 2 9 3 12 3 15 4
Central America, South America and Caribbean 7 6 8 6 5 7 8 7
Northern and Western Europe 10 6 19 6 9 6 14 6
Southern and Eastern Europe 13 15 8 17 13 16 7 19
Africa 10 9 10 11 6 7 7 8
Southern Asia 10 24 11 14 10 21 14 11
Southeast Asia 11 8 14 10 21 13 17 18
Eastern Asia 23 24 15 20 17 23 15 19
Western Asia 10 6 5 8 5 4 3 6
Oceania and other 1 1 1 3 1 1 1 2
Visible minority
Yes 68 73 59 67 64 72 59 66
No 32 27 41 33 36 28 41 34
Metropolitan region
Montréal 12 13 14 12 10 12 13 11
Ottawa-Gatineau 5 4 5 6 4 4 5 5
Toronto 46 47 36 42 48 46 37 43
Calgary 3 6 6 4 4 6 5 4
Vancouver 13 14 11 17 12 14 14 17
Other 21 17 27 18 23 18 27 19
1. Includes agriculture and all other fields of study not classified elsewhere
Source: Statistics Canada, Census of Population.