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Table D. Immigrants' integration challenges, by major immigration category, 2001
  Family Skilled worker principal applicants Skilled worker spouse and dependants Refugees All immigrants1
(1) Total (number)
44,149
61,551
47,932
9,822
164,203
Tried to get services or achieve task number
(2) Health care
34,159
43,860
36,009
7,940
122,540
(3) Find housing
18,242
55,574
42,967
8,016
125,051
(4) Get education or training
23,256
42,431
35,127
7,767
108,865
(5) Find employment
27,069
54,244
30,030
4,661
116,695
Tried to get services or achieve task (as % of line 1) percentage
(6) Health care
77
71
75
81
75
(7) Find housing
41
90
90
82
76
(8) Get education or training
53
69
73
79
66
(9) Find employment
61
88
63
47
71
Reported problem(s) getting services or achieving task number
(10) Health care
5,207
11,793
10,028
1,558
28,648
(11) Find housing
2,767
23,333
17,943
3,037
47,138
(12) Get education or training
8,120
17,950
14,557
2,369
43,131
(13) Find employment
15,209
40,615
22,291
3,139
81,518
Reported problem(s) getting services or achieving task (as % of lines 2 to 5) percentage
(14) Health care
15
27
28
20
23
(15) Find housing
15
42
42
38
38
(16) Get education or training
35
42
41
31
40
(17) Find employment
56
75
74
67
70
Most serious problems (top 3)
Health care (as % of line 10) percentage
(18) Waiting list or doctor availability
36
48
50
23
45
(19) Cost
20
19
15
34
19
(20) Language
21
9
18
26
15
Find housing (as % of line 11)
(21) Cost
53
28
31
39
31
(22) No guarantor or co-signer
10E
26
23
12
23
(23) No suitable housing available
15E
9
12
...
11
(24) Language
...
...
...
15
...
Get education or training (as % of line 12)
(25) Language
32
18
36
31
27
(26) Cost
18
34
18
18
25
(27) Not enough courses or courses are full
10
11
12
14E
11
Find employment (as % of line 13)
(28) Lack of Canadian job experience or references
23
30
28
21
28
(29) Lack of recognition of foreign qualifications or
work experience
15
28
24
12
24
(30) Language
33
14
25
44
22
Received help with most serious problem(s) number
(31) Health care
2,211
2,663
2,656
603
8,149
(32) Find housing
856
9,617
6,989
1,662
19,124
(33) Get education or training
3,703
5,371
5,847
1,110
16,114
(34) Find employment
5,988
12,950
7,044
1,454
27,525
Received help with most serious problem(s) (as % of lines 10 to 13) percentage
(35) Health care
42
23
26
39
28
(36) Find housing
31
41
39
55
41
(37) Get education or training
46
30
40
47
37
(38) Find employment
39
32
32
46
34
Sources of help for most serious problem (top 3)
Health care (as % of line 31) percentage
(39) Relatives or household members
79
14E
29
35E
38
(40) Friends
11E
52
47
21E
37
(41) Health workers
...
23
16E
...
15
(42) Government agencies
F
...
...
...
...
(43) Settlement organizations2
...
...
...
22E
...
Find housing (as % of line 32)
(44) Friends
29E
69
65
36
63
(45) Relatives or household members
56
19
21
25
22
(46) Settlement organizations2
F
10
9
31
11
Get education or training (as % of line 33)
(47) Friends
19
43
41
...
35
(48) Relatives or household members
65
16
28
29E
32
(49) Education workers
27
30
36
34E
32
(50) Settlement organizations2
...
...
...
30E
...
Find employment (as % of line 34)
(51) Friends
24
44
35
...
36
(52) Relatives or household members
63
...
...
32
26
(53) Settlement organizations2
...
23
22
29
21
(54) Education workers
14
17
23
23
...
Did not receive help needed for most serious problem number
(55) Health care
1,327
3,505
2,361
563
7,777
(56) Find housing
467
6,110
4,200
805
11,582
(57) Get education or training
2,201
5,896
4,254
816
13,216
(58) Find employment
3,162
13,200
6,971
907
24,327
Did not receive help needed for most serious problem (as % of lines 10 to 13) percentage
(59) Health care
25
30
24
36
27
(60) Find housing
17E
26
23
27
25
(61) Get education or training
27
33
29
34
31
(62) Find employment
21
33
31
29
30
Type of help needed and not received (top 3)
Health care (as % of line 55)
(63) Financial
38
28
27
55
32
(64) Information
24E
29
25
F
26
(65) Counselling
16E
22
21
F
20
Find housing (as % of line 56)
(66) Information
42E
39
36
25E
37
(67) Counselling
F
31
28
26E
29
(68) Financial
41E
24
25
44
26
Get education or training (as % of line 57)
(69) Financial
27
52
33
50
42
(70) Information
36
29
29
22E
30
(71) Counselling
24
24
32
21E
26
Find employment (as % of line 58)
(72) Counselling
37
46
46
36
44
(73) Information
37
41
42
38
40
(74) Language
14E
...
13
28E
12
(75) Financial
...
11
...
...
...
1. Includes family class and economic class immigrants, refugees and other immigrants landed from abroad.
2. Settlement organizations grouping includes ethnic/cultural groups, religious groups, immigrant/refugee serving agencies and community organizations.
Data source: Statistics Canada, 2001, Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada.
Table source: Statistics Canada, 2005, A Portrait of Early Settlement Experiences, catalogue number 89-614-XWE2005001.