Recent Immigrants in Metropolitan Areas: Hamilton—A Comparative Profile Based on the 2001 Census

Prepared by
Strategic Research and Statistics
in collaboration with Informetrica Limited

April 2005

Table of Contents

• Foreword
• Highlights
• Part A: Immigrants and Recent Immigrants
  • 154,700 immigrants in the Hamilton Census Metropolitan Area
  • A stable share of the population
  • One-third of immigrants landed after 1985
  • A decreasing share of Ontario’s and Canada’s immigrants
  • 51,100 recent immigrants—8% of the Hamilton CMA population
  • Four out of five eligible recent immigrants have become Canadian citizens
• Part B: Who Are the Recent Immigrants?
  • Origin, immigration category and religion
    • Countries of origin changing
    • A preferred destination for immigrants from the former Yugoslavia
    • Large numbers of economic immigrants
    • Religions changing with countries of origin
  • Age and gender
    • Close to one-half of recent immigrants are young adults
    • More women than men
  • Language and education
    • Almost nine in ten very recent immigrants speak English or French
    • Seven in ten very recent immigrants speak a foreign language at home
    • Many university graduates among very recent immigrants
    • Recent immigrants add to Hamilton’s pool of scientists and engineers
    • Recent immigrants more likely to attend school
• Part C: Families and Households
  • Family and household affiliation of individuals
    • Older recent immigrants more likely to be living with relatives
    • Recent immigrants more likely to live in extended families
  • Families
    • One in ten families in Hamilton is a recent immigrant family
    • Recent immigrant families more likely to have children in the home
    • Older recent immigrant families have more children living at home
    • In majority of recent immigrant families, both spouses are recent immigrants
  • Households
    • One in eleven households is a recent immigrant household
    • Recent immigrant households more likely to be larger than a nuclear family
    • Recent immigrant households tend to be large
    • More care of children
• Part D: Participation in the Economy
  • Participation in the labour market
    • Labour force participation lower the more recent the arrival
    • Pattern of adjustment similar for most levels of education
    • Knowledge of English important for labour force participation
    • Unemployment not uncommon during initial years
    • Share of men and women with jobs increases with length of stay
  • The jobs of recent immigrants
    • Part-time jobs generally more common for very recent immigrants
    • More recent immigrants in sales and services and processing occupations
    • Many very recent immigrants in manufacturing, fewer in the public sector
    • Skill requirements of jobs of recent immigrants only slightly lower for men
    • Education of recent immigrants not fully utilized
• Part E: Income
  • Sources and level of income
    • Sources of income vary by time in Canada
    • Average income higher for immigrants who have been in Canada longer
    • Earnings of recent immigrants working mostly full-time lower than average
    • Transfer payments a larger share of household income of non-seniors
  • The distribution of income
    • Personal income approaches parity and similar distribution with longer stay
    • Distribution of household income becomes similar
    • More than one-third of very recent immigrants have low income
• Part F: Housing
  • Crowded accommodations more common for recent immigrants
  • Large households likely to have crowded accommodations
  • Three in ten recent immigrant households face high housing costs
  • Housing of very recent immigrants in somewhat better state of repair
  • Home ownership rare among households of only very recent immigrants
• Glossary
• List of Tables
• List of Figures

 

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©Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada, represented by the Minister of Public Works and Government Services Canada, 2005.

Cat. no. MP22-20/14-2005E-HTML
ISBN 0-662-39094-6

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