Statistics Canada conducted a new study to find out immigrant children are doing well as compared to the rest of the population in terms of education as well as monetary growth in their professions.
The study was conducted basis the information available from Longitudinal Immigration Database (IMDB). They picked the income tax information for 2019 to conduct the study. IMDB has the information that showcases a long-term perspective on immigrant children’s growth in the Canadian economy.
The findings demonstrate that immigrants who arrived in Canada as children attended post-secondary education more frequently than the general Canadian population, with those entered at younger ages having the highest participation rates. From the age of 25, children admitted as economic immigrants fared better than the national median. Then, by the age of 30, sponsored and refugee children had median salaries that were comparable to the general population. These findings matched those of a survey conducted by Stats Can for the 2018 tax year.
In anticipation of future study on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on immigrant children, their transition period, and their long-term financial consequences in adulthood, data from 2019 will be used to create baseline estimations.
Post-secondary education and immigrants
Children who arrived in Canada before the age of 15 had unusually high rates of college enrollment. The participation percentage for 20-year-old immigrants admitted as children were around 70%, compared to roughly 59 percent for the rest of the Canadian population. At age 25, the participation rate for immigrants admitted as children were around 33%, compared to roughly 27% for the rest of the Canadian population.
Immigrant children’s engagement in higher education reduced as they grew older. In 2019, approximately 77 percent of 20-year-old immigrants who entered the country before the age of five enrolled in post-secondary education. For children entered between the ages of five and nine, the participation percentage dropped to almost 72 percent, and for those admitted between the ages of ten and fourteen, it was nearly 64 percent. Factors like academic preparation and proficiency in official languages impact the post-secondary education participants.
Participation in post-secondary education among children of immigrants appears to be linked to their parent’s socioeconomic status. Because of Canada’s economic immigration screening procedure, the majority of these parents already had some university degrees at the time of their entry. As a result, children of economic immigrants participate in post-secondary education at a substantially higher rate than children admitted under other immigration categories, particularly during early adulthood.
At the age of 20, kids of economic immigrants had a post-secondary participation rate of more than 75 percent, compared to roughly 61 percent for children of sponsored families and about 59 percent for the entire Canadian population. With a rate of roughly 54 percent, refugee children had the lowest involvement in higher education.
Economic class children have higher earnings.
Immigrants who arrived as children in Canada had lower median wages ($10,900) than the rest of the population ($12,900). This, according to the study, is because foreigners were most often enrolled in post-secondary courses at this age. Foreigners’ median salaries increased to $31,500 at age 25, outpacing the national average of $30,290.
Economical immigrant kids, on the other hand, had around 11% higher median incomes ($33,700) at age 25 than the general Canadian population ($30,290). The median wage of 25-year-old immigrants who arrived in Canada as sponsored children were less than the national average.
At the age of 30, newcomers admitted as children of economic immigrants had a median pay of $55,500, which was almost 29% higher than the national average of $42,940. Children from refugee families earned somewhat more than the Canadian average of $43,200, while children from sponsored families earned around $41,000.
