Table 5
Employment rates, by immigration status and age group, Canada, 2006

Table 5
Employment rates, by immigration status and age group, Canada, 2006
 Table summary
 This table displays the results of Employment rates. The information is grouped by Age group appearing as row headers and is grouped by Canadian-born, Total immigrants, Recent immigrants, Female, Male appearing as column headers, calculated using percentage as a unit of measure.
Age group Canadian-born Total immigrants Recent immigrants
Female Male Female Male Female Male
percentage
Age 15 and over 59.5 68.5 51.5 65.0 50.4 68.4
15 to 24 59.4 58.5 49.0 49.9 41.0 44.3
25 to 54 78.5 86.3 70.5 85.3 56.8 78.6
55 to 64 48.4 62.5 50.4 70.2 29.9 55.9
65 and over 6.3 15.8 6.1 14.7 10.6 19.4
Source: Statistics Canada, Census of Population, 2006.
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