In 2022, close to 2 million immigrants admitted to Canada since 1980 were children 14 years of age or younger at the time of admission. This represents about one-fifth of immigrants admitted during this period. Immigrants admitted to Canada as children are generally more likely to participate in postsecondary education during early adulthood and report higher median wages at the age of 25 years compared with the reference set by all taxfilers of an equivalent age in Canada.
These findings are from the Longitudinal Immigration Database (IMDB) Children Data Module, which focuses immigrants admitted to Canada as children. It matches immigrants admitted as children with their parental socioeconomic background and provides their tax filing information from the ages of 18 to 30 years. This module allows analysis of the extent to which young adult immigrants' labour market outcomes are associated with their socioeconomic conditions during childhood or early adolescence.
The IMDB is a collaborative effort among Statistics Canada, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada and the provinces.
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