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Developing Immigrants’ Literacy and Essential Skills
Summary of the Background Report on Quebec
Presented by: Ms. Anne-Marie Choquette, Project Manager, PROMIS
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• Immigration in Quebec • Francophone immigrants in Quebec
• Education • Unemployment • Wages
• Statistics on the training centers identified in the province
• Portrait of the participants in the action research.
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Fast growing immigration
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Number of immigrants per year (Index, 2005 = 100)
• Demographic decline and a shortage of skilled labour has pushed Quebec to make immigration a key element of its economic development policies.
• One of the fastest immigrant growth among the Canadian provinces.
Source: Cansim Table 051-0037.
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Its share of its immigration population in Canada is smaller than its share of the total population
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Share of immigrants vs share of population (in %)
Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census
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Provincial population as a % of the total Canadian population
Number of immigrants in the province as a % of the total immigrant population in Canada
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One of the youngest immigrant population
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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census
Average age of immigrants in Quebec
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Origin of immigrants is very different from tha tof the rest of Canada
6 Source: Statistics Canada, National Household Survey, 2011, reproduced from Boudarbat and Grenier (2014)
Main countries of origin of new immigrants since 2001
(a) Quebec
(b) Canada
France
Morocco
Algeria
P.R.C.
Haiti
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Philippines
India
U.S.
U.K..
45,000 40,000 35,000
30,000 25,000
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Quebec attracts the largest proportion of Francophone immigrants in Canada
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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census
Distribution of immigrants in Canada who can speak French
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Immigrants are less educated than in the rest of Canada
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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census
Average number of years of education of
immigrants
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Immigrants : Higher unemployment rate and lower income than non-immigrants
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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census
Income (In thousands of $) : Non-
immigrants vs Immigrants (2011)
Unemployment rate (in %) : Non-
immigrants vs Immigrants (2011)
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Unilingual Anglophone immigrants are the most prosperous
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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census
Unemployment rate of Unilingual and
Allophone immigrants (in %)
Average income of Unilingual and
Allophone immigrants (in thousands of $)
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Quebec is the only province where immigrants are less prosperous than non-immigrants in every category (according to language)
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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census
Difference between immigrant and non-immigrant incomes (in %)
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Training centers and their partners
• 108 literacy and essential skills training centers were identified in Quebec
• 10 partners participated in the action research: • Actions interculturelles de développement et d’éducation (AIDE),
Sherbrooke • CEGEP de Drummondville, Drummondville • Centre d’appui aux communautés immigrantes de Bordeaux-Cartierville,
Montréal • Centre d’éducation populaire de l’Estrie, Sherbrooke • Centre St-Michel, Sherbrooke • Centre William Hingston, Montréal • Collège Maisonneuve, Montréal • École Ste-Thérèse, Drummondville • Famille Espoir, Sherbrooke • Promotion Intégration Société Nouvelle (PROMIS), Montréal
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Employers followed
• In total, 96 employers were followed
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Breakdown of employers followed (Quebec)
Unemployed-Pursued training
9%
Unemployed- Control 12%
Employed-Pursued training
54%
Employed- Control 25%
Total : 96
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Immigrants participating in the action research
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• In total, in Quebec, 544 immigrants answered the first questionnaire.
• Of these, 504 were retained for analysis.
• The largest proportion of immigrants who answered the first questionnaire and were retained for analysis is the Unemployed-Pursued training group.
Breakdown of immigrants who answered the first
questionnaire
Breakdown of immigrants retained for analysis
Unemployed- Pursued training
50%
Unemployed- Control
15%
Employed-Pursued training
26%
Employed- Control
9%
Total : 544
Sans emploi-En formation
50%
Sans emploi-Témoin
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En emploi-En formation
25%
En emploi-Témoin
9%
Total : 504
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Types of training
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• Almost 95 percent of the training courses pursued in Quebec (and retained for analysis) were in Francization. • None of the training courses pursued were in English as a Second
Language.
Breakdown of the types of training in Quebec
Types of Training Unemployed- In training Employed- In training Francization (Beginner) 80 25 Francization (Intermediate) 79 68 Francization (advanced) 75 31 English as a Second Language
(Beginner) 0 0 English as a Second Language
(Intermediate) 0 0 English as a Second Language
(Advanced) 0 0 Computing (Beginner) 20 1
Total 254 125
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We are at your disposal should you need addition information.
Actions interculturelles de développement et d’éducation (AIDE)
465, rue Lawford, Sherbrooke (Québec) J1G 2C2
Telephone : 1 819 822-4180
Fax : 1 819 822-4415
Website : www.aide.org
E-mail address : aide@aide.org
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