Citizenship Acquisition in Canada

The take-up rates for immigrants with 5+ YSL were respectively 92.3%, 83.6% and 92.4% for those born in P. R. China, India and the Philippines; while for those who were born in Japan, the United States of America and Australia, the rates were 58.8%, 63.1% and 66.1 % respectively. [...] The take-up rates for immigrants with 25-34 YSL were 98.4%, 93.9% and 98.1% for those who were born in China, India and the Philippines; while for those who were born in Japan, the United States of America and Australia, the rates were 70.6%, 59.4% and 60.8%. [...] In 2006, the citizenship take-up rates were 88.3% for immigrants with 5+ YSL and 85.1% for those with 3+YSL— approximately eight and six percentage points higher than the corresponding take-up rates in the 1986 census. [...] Immigrants from Africa and Asia showed citizenship take-up rates greater than the average rates for all regions of birth for each of the four YSL categories ( 5-14, 15-24, 25-34 and 35+ or more), while immigrants from the Americas and Oceania exhibited citizenship take- up rates below the average take-up rates for these YSL periods. [...] At the sub-regional level, the difference in citizenship take-up rates between male and females was the largest for immigrants born in North America and the smallest for those born in Caribbean and Bermuda.