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

Number
Level of study	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
Secondary or less	7,015	8,898	9,733	8,956	8,090	8,389	8,757	9,867	10,088	10,207
Trade	4,637	5,831	6,656	6,461	5,906	5,361	5,334	5,291	5,266	4,498
University	12,119	13,476	15,895	15,831	15,287	15,063	15,444	15,696	16,331	17,599
Other post-secondary	2,651	3,345	4,941	4,828	4,533	3,442	4,074	4,556	5,481	8,088
Other	3,177	3,220	3,968	3,334	2,576	2,436	2,431	2,415	2,340	2,954
Level of study not stated	78	82	45	44	11	11	4	11	8	11
Males	29,677	34,852	41,238	39,454	36,403	34,702	36,044	37,836	39,514	43,357
Secondary or less	6,991	8,461	9,289	8,413	7,857	7,538	8,053	9,024	9,425	9,624
Trade	4,434	5,718	6,502	6,334	5,689	5,042	4,792	5,143	4,944	4,487
University	10,853	12,803	14,529	14,147	12,875	12,981	13,011	13,697	13,600	13,767
Other post-secondary	2,631	3,244	4,456	4,442	3,953	2,938	3,142	3,260	3,880	5,555
Other	3,776	3,935	4,863	4,135	2,928	2,916	2,829	2,815	2,670	2,709
Level of study not stated	50	58	30	16	4	2	2	5	3	6
Females	28,735	34,219	39,669	37,487	33,306	31,417	31,829	33,944	34,522	36,148
Secondary or less	14,006	17,359	19,022	17,369	15,947	15,927	16,810	18,891	19,513	19,831
Trade	9,071	11,549	13,158	12,795	11,595	10,403	10,126	10,434	10,210	8,985
University	22,972	26,279	30,424	29,978	28,162	28,044	28,455	29,393	29,931	31,366
Other post-secondary	5,282	6,589	9,397	9,270	8,486	6,380	7,216	7,816	9,361	13,643
Other	6,953	7,155	8,831	7,469	5,504	5,352	5,260	5,230	5,010	5,663
Level of study not stated	128	140	75	60	15	13	6	16	11	17
Gender not stated	13	33	12	7	3	2	4	6	2	4
Total	58,425	69,104	80,919	76,948	69,712	66,121	67,877	71,786	74,038	79,509

Percentage distribution
Level of study	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
Secondary or less	23.6	25.5	23.6	22.7	22.2	24.2	24.3	26.1	25.5	23.5
Trade	15.6	16.7	16.1	16.4	16.2	15.4	14.8	14.0	13.3	10.4
University	40.8	38.7	38.5	40.1	42.0	43.4	42.8	41.5	41.3	40.6
Other post-secondary	8.9	9.6	12.0	12.2	12.5	9.9	11.3	12.0	13.9	18.7
Other	10.7	9.2	9.6	8.5	7.1	7.0	6.7	6.4	5.9	6.8
Level of study not stated	0.3	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Males	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Secondary or less	24.3	24.7	23.4	22.4	23.6	24.0	25.3	26.6	27.3	26.6
Trade	15.4	16.7	16.4	16.9	17.1	16.0	15.1	15.2	14.3	12.4
University	37.8	37.4	36.6	37.7	38.7	41.3	40.9	40.4	39.4	38.1
Other post-secondary	9.2	9.5	11.2	11.8	11.9	9.4	9.9	9.6	11.2	15.4
Other	13.1	11.5	12.3	11.0	8.8	9.3	8.9	8.3	7.7	7.5
Level of study not stated	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Females	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Secondary or less	24.0	25.1	23.5	22.6	22.9	24.1	24.8	26.3	26.4	24.9
Trade	15.5	16.7	16.3	16.6	16.6	15.7	14.9	14.5	13.8	11.3
University	39.3	38.0	37.6	39.0	40.4	42.4	41.9	40.9	40.4	39.4
Other post-secondary	9.0	9.5	11.6	12.0	12.2	9.6	10.6	10.9	12.6	17.2
Other	11.9	10.4	10.9	9.7	7.9	8.1	7.7	7.3	6.8	7.1
Level of study not stated	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Gender 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