Immigration: Educational Differences

Canada Report Dept: Among male immigrants who came to Canada at age 12 or younger in the 1980s, nearly 32 per cent held a university degree by age 25 to 34, compared to just over 20 per cent of Canadian-born counterparts. The difference was smaller for those who arrived as children in the 1960s, with male immigrants having a university education rate about six percentage points higher than the Canadian born, according to Vancouver Sun. The increasing educational differences between child immigrants and the Canadian-born reflects changes in the source countries of Canada's immigrants, Statistics Canada says, with more immigrants coming from countries where children of immigrants have traditionally had higher education levels and immigrants who arrived in Canada as children are more likely than their Canadian-born counterparts to earn university degrees, and that education gap has widened over time, according to a Statistics Canada report released Tuesday. The pattern is similar for women, although the agency found that the share of both immigrant and Canadian-born women with a university degree increased faster than men in recent decades. As reported in the news.
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