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Permanent residents

Canada – Permanent residents by category and language ability

*principal applicants
**spouses and dependants

Number
Language ability 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
English 29,300 23,406 28,171 32,872 33,399 35,638 35,857 37,690 37,797 34,558
French 2,228 1,778 1,975 2,386 2,535 2,904 2,639 3,002 2,865 4,356
Both French and English 1,784 1,371 1,869 2,510 2,514 2,727 2,908 2,994 3,092 2,866
Neither 33,483 35,737 33,106 24,507 24,926 29,248 24,838 21,896 21,450 18,440
Family class 66,795 62,292 65,121 62,275 63,374 70,517 66,242 65,582 65,204 60,220
English 41,047 35,887 28,254 30,737 36,215 34,650 33,200 39,334 39,440 49,159
French 3,350 3,596 2,536 2,392 2,493 2,597 2,721 2,757 3,111 3,817
Both French and English 7,599 8,306 9,126 12,348 12,367 12,425 13,510 13,904 16,172 16,646
Neither 13,279 10,432 11,307 9,704 10,543 6,049 4,391 5,308 5,282 6,939
Economic immigrants - p.a.* 65,275 58,221 51,223 55,181 61,618 55,721 53,822 61,303 64,005 76,561
English 32,652 27,256 22,018 29,817 38,386 37,965 36,062 44,761 46,470 57,813
French 3,467 3,336 2,926 3,305 3,602 3,609 3,926 4,381 5,184 5,528
Both French and English 2,854 2,896 3,758 5,713 6,143 5,883 6,308 6,688 7,523 8,271
Neither 51,469 46,154 41,122 39,731 46,563 35,072 31,127 31,938 30,309 38,740
Economic immigrants - s.d.** 90,442 79,642 69,824 78,566 94,694 82,529 77,423 87,768 89,486 110,352
English 11,751 9,809 10,861 15,807 19,791 16,969 13,123 9,479 10,330 11,604
French 2,284 1,715 1,879 2,364 2,705 2,634 2,495 1,695 1,626 2,114
Both French and English 801 905 1,041 1,776 1,622 883 730 609 752 889
Neither 13,083 12,684 12,202 12,740 11,658 12,014 11,606 10,075 10,142 10,089
Refugees 27,919 25,113 25,983 32,687 35,776 32,500 27,954 21,858 22,850 24,696
English 144 3,139 7,494 5,476 5,247 7,904 8,967 8,788 8,867 7,206
French -- 208 656 855 730 817 1,042 857 911 1,021
Both French and English -- 241 452 261 364 739 649 431 393 278
Neither 56 192 595 523 436 913 654 659 455 340
Other immigrants 206 3,780 9,197 7,115 6,777 10,373 11,312 10,735 10,626 8,845
English 114,894 99,497 96,798 114,709 133,038 133,126 127,209 140,052 142,904 160,340
French 11,331 10,633 9,972 11,302 12,065 12,561 12,823 12,692 13,697 16,836
Both French and English 13,042 13,719 16,246 22,608 23,010 22,657 24,105 24,626 27,932 28,950
Neither 111,370 105,199 98,332 87,205 94,126 83,296 72,616 69,876 67,638 74,548
Category not stated 1 0 1 0 2 2 1 2 1 7
Total 250,638 229,048 221,349 235,824 262,241 251,642 236,754 247,248 252,172 280,681

*principal applicants
**spouses and dependants

Percentage distribution
Language ability 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
English 43.9 37.6 43.3 52.8 52.7 50.5 54.1 57.5 58.0 57.4
French 3.3 2.9 3.0 3.8 4.0 4.1 4.0 4.6 4.4 7.2
Both French and English 2.7 2.2 2.9 4.0 4.0 3.9 4.4 4.6 4.7 4.8
Neither 50.1 57.4 50.8 39.4 39.3 41.5 37.5 33.4 32.9 30.6
Family class 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
English 62.9 61.6 55.2 55.7 58.8 62.2 61.7 64.2 61.6 64.2
French 5.1 6.2 5.0 4.3 4.0 4.7 5.1 4.5 4.9 5.0
Both French and English 11.6 14.3 17.8 22.4 20.1 22.3 25.1 22.7 25.3 21.7
Neither 20.3 17.9 22.1 17.6 17.1 10.9 8.2 8.7 8.3 9.1
Economic immigrants - p.a.* 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
English 36.1 34.2 31.5 38.0 40.5 46.0 46.6 51.0 51.9 52.4
French 3.8 4.2 4.2 4.2 3.8 4.4 5.1 5.0 5.8 5.0
Both French and English 3.2 3.6 5.4 7.3 6.5 7.1 8.1 7.6 8.4 7.5
Neither 56.9 58.0 58.9 50.6 49.2 42.5 40.2 36.4 33.9 35.1
Economic immigrants - s.d.** 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
English 42.1 39.1 41.8 48.4 55.3 52.2 46.9 43.4 45.2 47.0
French 8.2 6.8 7.2 7.2 7.6 8.1 8.9 7.8 7.1 8.6
Both French and English 2.9 3.6 4.0 5.4 4.5 2.7 2.6 2.8 3.3 3.6
Neither 46.9 50.5 47.0 39.0 32.6 37.0 41.5 46.1 44.4 40.9
Refugees 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
English 69.9 83.0 81.5 77.0 77.4 76.2 79.3 81.9 83.4 81.5
French -- 5.5 7.1 12.0 10.8 7.9 9.2 8.0 8.6 11.5
Both French and English -- 6.4 4.9 3.7 5.4 7.1 5.7 4.0 3.7 3.1
Neither 27.2 5.1 6.5 7.4 6.4 8.8 5.8 6.1 4.3 3.8
Other immigrants 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
English 45.8 43.4 43.7 48.6 50.7 52.9 53.7 56.6 56.7 57.1
French 4.5 4.6 4.5 4.8 4.6 5.0 5.4 5.1 5.4 6.0
Both French and English 5.2 6.0 7.3 9.6 8.8 9.0 10.2 10.0 11.1 10.3
Neither 44.4 45.9 44.4 37.0 35.9 33.1 30.7 28.3 26.8 26.6
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
Canada – Permanent residents by category and language ability, 2010 (showing percentage distribution)
Image Representing Canada – Permanent residents by category and language ability, 2010 (showing percentage distribution) as describe above

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