Table 2
Voting rates of recent versus established immigrants by region of birth

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Table 2
Voting rates of recent versus established immigrants by region of birth
Table summary
 This table displays the results of voting rates of recent versus established immigrants by region of birth. This information is grouped by immigrants (recent, established) and difference appearing as column headers, calculated using percentage and percentage point as units of measure.
  Immigrants Difference
Recent Established
% % point
Western/Northern Europe1 x 76.8 ...
United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand 68.2 76.3 8.1
Southern Europe x 67.8 ...
Southern Asia 60.0 70.8 10.8
Africa 43.1 70.3 27.2*
Eastern Europe 45.2 66.3 21.1*
Caribbean, Central/South America 56.3 61.7 5.4
Southeast Asia 48.3 60.7 12.4
Eastern Asia 48.1 55.2 7.1
West Central Asia and Middle East 39.6 57.0 17.4
Other x x ...
1. Excludes the United Kingdom and Ireland.
* significantly different at the 5% level
x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act
... not applicable
Source: Statistics Canada, Labour Force Survey, May 2011.
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