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Facts and figures 2008 – Immigration overview:
Permanent and temporary residents

Permanent residents

Canada – Permanent residents 15 years of age or older by category and level of education

Number
Level of education 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
0 to 9 years of schooling 12,324 13,514 14,605 14,170 12,834 9,973 11,418 14,250 11,471 10,769
10 to 12 years of schooling 12,958 14,467 15,657 13,970 13,921 12,607 13,032 14,565 13,187 12,664
13 or more years of schooling 5,096 6,197 6,765 6,109 6,429 6,119 5,781 6,048 5,827 5,456
Trade certificate 3,508 3,022 3,266 2,798 2,715 3,637 3,563 3,796 3,637 3,907
Non-university diploma 3,844 4,323 4,976 4,350 4,823 6,208 6,164 6,737 6,692 7,037
Bachelor’s degree 7,888 9,297 10,842 10,473 12,448 12,641 12,259 13,627 14,103 14,753
Master’s degree 1,529 1,955 2,243 2,378 3,003 3,015 3,278 3,763 3,689 4,230
Doctorate 306 305 406 345 444 459 426 483 538 593
Family class 47,453 53,080 58,760 54,593 56,617 54,659 55,921 63,269 59,144 59,409
0 to 9 years of schooling 1,004 942 1,054 682 273 441 733 1,055 2,067 2,091
10 to 12 years of schooling 2,168 2,084 2,167 1,652 1,154 1,228 1,444 1,563 1,696 2,155
13 or more years of schooling 2,219 2,640 2,983 2,429 1,971 2,050 2,162 1,818 1,492 1,634
Trade certificate 3,076 2,521 2,437 1,986 1,805 1,833 1,975 2,086 2,217 2,912
Non-university diploma 4,570 5,051 6,066 5,379 5,056 5,685 6,379 6,479 6,329 8,125
Bachelor’s degree 23,150 30,867 35,909 32,392 29,244 28,467 30,396 25,592 23,547 25,949
Master’s degree 8,856 11,520 12,092 11,450 9,951 12,934 15,743 14,187 13,528 15,252
Doctorate 2,202 2,419 2,510 2,206 1,751 2,507 2,749 2,894 2,906 3,134
Economic immigrants – p.a.* 47,245 58,044 65,218 58,176 51,205 55,145 61,581 55,674 53,782 61,252
0 to 9 years of schooling 4,474 5,698 6,481 5,362 4,879 6,134 8,194 7,663 8,165 8,822
10 to 12 years of schooling 6,710 7,501 8,272 7,426 6,418 7,103 8,667 8,217 7,667 8,659
13 or more years of schooling 3,332 4,700 5,333 4,697 4,417 4,525 5,266 4,575 3,897 4,426
Trade certificate 2,763 2,589 2,356 1,825 1,715 1,980 2,264 2,135 2,199 2,612
Non-university diploma 3,053 3,893 5,088 4,401 4,363 4,774 5,968 5,269 4,602 5,698
Bachelor’s degree 11,065 14,784 17,215 15,326 13,618 15,115 17,536 14,308 13,213 14,804
Master’s degree 2,510 3,518 3,796 3,751 3,093 4,383 5,587 4,899 4,407 5,046
Doctorate 345 402 508 458 399 589 694 764 728 808
Economic immigrants – s.d.** 34,252 43,085 49,049 43,246 38,902 44,603 54,176 47,830 44,878 50,875
0 to 9 years of schooling 4,378 6,250 6,089 6,265 6,728 7,608 7,500 7,284 6,875 5,493
10 to 12 years of schooling 5,790 7,443 6,615 5,848 5,960 7,470 8,098 7,370 6,322 4,842
13 or more years of schooling 1,761 2,198 1,826 1,695 1,911 2,401 2,994 2,501 2,041 1,546
Trade certificate 1,737 1,575 1,134 771 738 1,039 1,128 979 883 730
Non-university diploma 1,880 1,821 1,956 1,611 1,794 2,452 3,123 2,754 2,016 1,395
Bachelor’s degree 1,823 2,013 2,090 1,822 1,965 2,788 3,571 2,890 2,110 1,540
Master’s degree 237 308 350 304 280 421 574 506 323 207
Doctorate 75 89 99 102 84 120 126 99 52 50
Refugees 17,681 21,697 20,159 18,418 19,460 24,299 27,114 24,383 20,622 15,803
0 to 9 years of schooling 303 115 54 490 1,435 1,238 1,028 1,544 1,601 1,546
10 to 12 years of schooling 234 130 46 829 2,087 1,807 1,886 2,770 2,967 2,792
13 or more years of schooling 62 41 19 510 1,092 722 759 1,143 1,174 1,032
Trade certificate 78 31 10 326 835 843 691 956 1,164 878
Non-university diploma 47 18 13 572 1,234 745 712 1,249 1,316 1,420
Bachelor’s degree 32 32 19 712 1,458 710 669 1,271 1,518 1,587
Master’s degree 2 3 1 165 298 98 90 200 267 287
Doctorate 1 0 1 49 90 38 19 33 46 58
Other immigrants 759 370 163 3,653 8,529 6,201 5,854 9,166 10,053 9,600
0 to 9 years of schooling 22,483 26,519 28,283 26,969 26,149 25,394 28,873 31,796 30,179 28,721
10 to 12 years of schooling 27,860 31,625 32,757 29,725 29,540 30,215 33,127 34,485 31,839 31,112
13 or more years of schooling 12,470 15,776 16,926 15,440 15,820 15,817 16,962 16,085 14,431 14,094
Trade certificate 11,162 9,738 9,203 7,706 7,808 9,332 9,621 9,952 10,100 11,039
Non-university diploma 13,394 15,106 18,099 16,313 17,270 19,864 22,346 22,488 20,955 23,675
Bachelor’s degree 43,958 56,993 66,075 60,725 58,733 59,721 64,431 57,688 54,491 58,633
Master’s degree 13,134 17,304 18,482 18,048 16,625 20,851 25,272 23,555 22,214 25,022
Doctorate 2,929 3,215 3,524 3,160 2,768 3,713 4,014 4,273 4,270 4,643
Category not stated 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1
Total 147,390 176,276 193,350 178,086 174,714 184,907 204,647 200,323 188,480 196,940
Percentage distribution
Level of education 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
0 to 9 years of schooling 26.0 25.5 24.9 26.0 22.7 18.2 20.4 22.5 19.4 18.1
10 to 12 years of schooling 27.3 27.3 26.6 25.6 24.6 23.1 23.3 23.0 22.3 21.3
13 or more years of schooling 10.7 11.7 11.5 11.2 11.4 11.2 10.3 9.6 9.9 9.2
Trade certificate 7.4 5.7 5.6 5.1 4.8 6.7 6.4 6.0 6.1 6.6
Non-university diploma 8.1 8.1 8.5 8.0 8.5 11.4 11.0 10.6 11.3 11.8
Bachelor’s degree 16.6 17.5 18.5 19.2 22.0 23.1 21.9 21.5 23.8 24.8
Master’s degree 3.2 3.7 3.8 4.4 5.3 5.5 5.9 5.9 6.2 7.1
Doctorate 0.6 0.6 0.7 0.6 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.9 1.0
Family class 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
0 to 9 years of schooling 2.1 1.6 1.6 1.2 0.5 0.8 1.2 1.9 3.8 3.4
10 to 12 years of schooling 4.6 3.6 3.3 2.8 2.3 2.2 2.3 2.8 3.2 3.5
13 or more years of schooling 4.7 4.5 4.6 4.2 3.8 3.7 3.5 3.3 2.8 2.7
Trade certificate 6.5 4.3 3.7 3.4 3.5 3.3 3.2 3.7 4.1 4.8
Non-university diploma 9.7 8.7 9.3 9.2 9.9 10.3 10.4 11.6 11.8 13.3
Bachelor’s degree 49.0 53.2 55.1 55.7 57.1 51.6 49.4 46.0 43.8 42.4
Master’s degree 18.7 19.8 18.5 19.7 19.4 23.5 25.6 25.5 25.2 24.9
Doctorate 4.7 4.2 3.8 3.8 3.4 4.5 4.5 5.2 5.4 5.1
Economic immigrants – p.a.* 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
0 to 9 years of schooling 13.1 13.2 13.2 12.4 12.5 13.8 15.1 16.0 18.2 17.3
10 to 12 years of schooling 19.6 17.4 16.9 17.2 16.5 15.9 16.0 17.2 17.1 17.0
13 or more years of schooling 9.7 10.9 10.9 10.9 11.4 10.1 9.7 9.6 8.7 8.7
Trade certificate 8.1 6.0 4.8 4.2 4.4 4.4 4.2 4.5 4.9 5.1
Non-university diploma 8.9 9.0 10.4 10.2 11.2 10.7 11.0 11.0 10.3 11.2
Bachelor’s degree 32.3 34.3 35.1 35.4 35.0 33.9 32.4 29.9 29.4 29.1
Master’s degree 7.3 8.2 7.7 8.7 8.0 9.8 10.3 10.2 9.8 9.9
Doctorate 1.0 0.9 1.0 1.1 1.0 1.3 1.3 1.6 1.6 1.6
Economic immigrants – s.d.** 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
0 to 9 years of schooling 24.8 28.8 30.2 34.0 34.6 31.3 27.7 29.9 33.3 34.8
10 to 12 years of schooling 32.7 34.3 32.8 31.8 30.6 30.7 29.9 30.2 30.7 30.6
13 or more years of schooling 10.0 10.1 9.1 9.2 9.8 9.9 11.0 10.3 9.9 9.8
Trade certificate 9.8 7.3 5.6 4.2 3.8 4.3 4.2 4.0 4.3 4.6
Non-university diploma 10.6 8.4 9.7 8.7 9.2 10.1 11.5 11.3 9.8 8.8
Bachelor’s degree 10.3 9.3 10.4 9.9 10.1 11.5 13.2 11.9 10.2 9.7
Master’s degree 1.3 1.4 1.7 1.7 1.4 1.7 2.1 2.1 1.6 1.3
Doctorate 0.4 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.4 0.5 0.5 0.4 0.3 0.3
Refugees 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
0 to 9 years of schooling 39.9 31.1 33.1 13.4 16.8 20.0 17.6 16.8 15.9 16.1
10 to 12 years of schooling 30.8 35.1 28.2 22.7 24.5 29.1 32.2 30.2 29.5 29.1
13 or more years of schooling 8.2 11.1 11.7 14.0 12.8 11.6 13.0 12.5 11.7 10.8
Trade certificate 10.3 8.4 6.1 8.9 9.8 13.6 11.8 10.4 11.6 9.1
Non-university diploma 6.2 4.9 8.0 15.7 14.5 12.0 12.2 13.6 13.1 14.8
Bachelor’s degree 4.2 8.6 11.7 19.5 17.1 11.4 11.4 13.9 15.1 16.5
Master’s degree 0.3 0.8 0.6 4.5 3.5 1.6 1.5 2.2 2.7 3.0
Doctorate 0.1 0.0 0.6 1.3 1.1 0.6 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6
Other immigrants 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
0 to 9 years of schooling 15.3 15.0 14.6 15.1 15.0 13.7 14.1 15.9 16.0 14.6
10 to 12 years of schooling 18.9 17.9 16.9 16.7 16.9 16.3 16.2 17.2 16.9 15.8
13 or more years of schooling 8.5 8.9 8.8 8.7 9.1 8.6 8.3 8.0 7.7 7.2
Trade certificate 7.6 5.5 4.8 4.3 4.5 5.0 4.7 5.0 5.4 5.6
Non-university diploma 9.1 8.6 9.4 9.2 9.9 10.7 10.9 11.2 11.1 12.0
Bachelor’s degree 29.8 32.3 34.2 34.1 33.6 32.3 31.5 28.8 28.9 29.8
Master’s degree 8.9 9.8 9.6 10.1 9.5 11.3 12.3 11.8 11.8 12.7
Doctorate 2.0 1.8 1.8 1.8 1.6 2.0 2.0 2.1 2.3 2.4
Category not stated 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

*p.a. = principal applicants
**s.d. = spouses and dependants

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Date Modified: 2009-08-25

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