Table 8.4
Odds-ratio and unemployment rate predicted by a logistic regression model on the unemployment rate of the immigrant population according to the first official language spoken for selected characteristics, Canada less Quebec
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| Characteristics | First official language spoken of immigrants | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| French | French and English | Other | |||||||
| Odds-ratio | Level of significance | Predicted actitvity rate | Odds-ratio | Level of significance | Predicted actitvity rate | Odds-ratio | Level of significance | Predicted actitvity rate | |
| thousands | percent | thousands | percent | thousands | percent | ||||
| Sex | |||||||||
| Women (ref.) | 1.000 | … | 9.1 | 1.000 | … | 8.9 | 1.000 | … | 7.3 |
| Men | 0.697 | 0.001 | 6.6 | 0.724 | 0.000 | 6.7 | 0.737 | 0.000 | 5.5 |
| Age | |||||||||
| 15 to 19 | 2.957 | 0.000 | 18.3 | 1.729 | 0.004 | 13.9 | 2.749 | 0.000 | 14.3 |
| 20 to 24 | 1.502 | 0.077 | 10.5 | 1.360 | 0.087 | 11.4 | 1.972 | 0.000 | 10.7 |
| 25 to 29 | 1.301 | 0.202 | 9.3 | 1.247 | 0.213 | 10.5 | 1.211 | 0.000 | 6.9 |
| 30 to 34 (ref.) | 1.000 | … | 7.4 | 1.000 | … | 8.7 | 1.000 | … | 5.8 |
| 35 to 39 | 0.983 | 0.927 | 7.2 | 0.701 | 0.041 | 6.3 | 0.941 | 0.017 | 5.5 |
| 40 to 44 | 0.560 | 0.008 | 4.3 | 0.705 | 0.050 | 6.3 | 0.874 | 0.000 | 5.1 |
| 45 to 49 | 0.928 | 0.733 | 6.9 | 0.754 | 0.136 | 6.7 | 0.870 | 0.000 | 5.1 |
| 50 to 54 | 0.804 | 0.346 | 6.0 | 0.767 | 0.206 | 6.8 | 0.884 | 0.000 | 5.2 |
| 55 to 59 | 1.025 | 0.923 | 7.5 | 0.699 | 0.171 | 6.2 | 0.999 | 0.984 | 5.8 |
| 60 to 64 | 1.206 | 0.537 | 8.7 | 0.472 | 0.031 | 4.3 | 1.163 | 0.000 | 6.7 |
| Knowledge of English | |||||||||
| No (ref.) | 1.000 | … | 11.0 | … | … | … | 1.000 | … | 9.7 |
| Yes | 0.656 | 0.004 | 7.7 | … | … | … | 0.607 | 0.000 | 6.2 |
| Knowledge of French | |||||||||
| No (ref.) | … | … | … | … | … | … | 1.000 | … | 6.5 |
| Yes | … | … | … | … | … | … | 0.967 | 0.305 | 6.3 |
| Period at which permanent residence was obtained |
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| 1970 or before (ref.) | 1.000 | … | 6.1 | 1.000 | … | 6.4 | 1.000 | … | 4.8 |
| 1971 to 1980 | 0.656 | 0.081 | 4.1 | 0.968 | 0.922 | 6.2 | 0.988 | 0.669 | 4.7 |
| 1981 to 1990 | 0.768 | 0.264 | 4.7 | 0.953 | 0.878 | 6.1 | 1.207 | 0.000 | 5.7 |
| 1991 to 1995 | 1.553 | 0.065 | 9.0 | 1.359 | 0.334 | 8.5 | 1.386 | 0.000 | 6.5 |
| 1996 to 2000 | 2.036 | 0.002 | 11.4 | 1.311 | 0.402 | 8.2 | 1.590 | 0.000 | 7.3 |
| 2001 to 2006 | 2.302 | 0.000 | 12.7 | 2.032 | 0.027 | 12.1 | 2.268 | 0.000 | 10.1 |
| University diploma | |||||||||
| No (ref.) | 1.000 | … | 8.6 | 1.000 | … | 8.2 | 1.000 | … | 6.7 |
| Yes | 0.774 | 0.027 | 6.9 | 0.932 | 0.483 | 7.7 | 0.909 | 0.000 | 6.2 |
| Continent of birth | |||||||||
| America | 1.802 | 0.001 | 9.2 | 0.862 | 0.371 | 5.9 | 1.231 | 0.000 | 6.4 |
| Europe (ref.) | 1.000 | 0.000 | 5.4 | 1.000 | … | 6.8 | 1.000 | … | 5.3 |
| Africa | 2.049 | 0.000 | 10.3 | 1.272 | 0.091 | 8.5 | 1.496 | 0.000 | 7.7 |
| Asia and Pacific | 1.768 | 0.003 | 9.0 | 1.372 | 0.002 | 9.1 | 1.369 | 0.000 | 7.1 |
| Region of residence | |||||||||
| Atlantic | 0.998 | 0.993 | 8.8 | 0.722 | 0.380 | 5.7 | 1.393 | 0.000 | 9.5 |
| Ontario (ref.) | 1.000 | … | 8.8 | 1.000 | … | 7.7 | 1.000 | … | 7.0 |
| Prairies | 0.829 | 0.471 | 7.5 | 0.725 | 0.394 | 5.7 | 0.615 | 0.000 | 4.5 |
| Alberta | 0.648 | 0.039 | 6.0 | 0.739 | 0.113 | 5.8 | 0.542 | 0.000 | 4.0 |
| British Columbia | 0.679 | 0.034 | 6.3 | 1.317 | 0.027 | 9.8 | 0.845 | 0.000 | 6.0 |
| Territories | 2.906 | 0.037 | 20.5 | 1.190 | 0.776 | 9.0 | 0.711 | 0.015 | 5.2 |
| thousands | |||||||||
| Number of observations | 6,999 | 8,638 | 572,490 | ||||||
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Note(s):
The Atlantic region comprises the provinces of Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick. The Prairies region comprises the provinces of Manitoba andSaskatchewan. The category FOLS other includes FOLS groups "English" and "neither English nor French". The odds ratio is the ratio of the odds of an event occurring in one group to the odds of it occurring in another group. An odds ratio of 1 indicates that the condition or event under study is equally likely to occur in both groups. An odds ratio greater than 1 indicates that the condition or event is more likely to occur in the first group. And an odds ratio less than 1 indicates that the condition or event is less likely to occur in the first group. The odds ratio must be greater than or equal to zero if it is defined. The level of significane idicates the probability that the effect of a given category on the dependant variable is the same as the reference category. It varies between 0 and 1. Source(s): Statistics Canada, Census of 2006. |
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