Statistical portrait of English-speaking immigrants in Québec : Portrait statistique des immigrants anglophones au Québec

The portrait applies 2006 Census data results to a comparison of the demographic and socio-economic outcomes of immigrants in the two English-speaking FOLS categories (English FOLS and English-French FOLS) with the French-speaking category (French FOLS) within the Province of Quebec and in Quebec Economic Regions (ERs). [...] The percentage of non-immigrants assigned to the FOLS categories are 9%, 89% and 1% for English FOLS, French FOLS and English-French FOLS respectively, while the percentage of non-immigrants assigned to English MT, French MT and English-French MT are 8%, 88%, and 1% respectively. [...] FOLS distribution This section examines and compares individual FOLS categories by immigrant and non- immigrant from the 1991 to the 2006 Censuses.20 English FOLS Although the English FOLS category has decreased as a percentage of the Quebec population, from 12.2% in 1991 to 11.9% in 2006, numerically it has increased from 832,050 to 885,450.21 Immigrants in the English FOLS category are increasin [...] The rationale for considering immigrants assigned to the English-French FOLS category separately is: 1) almost one in four immigrants in the Anglophone (FOLS) category is from the English-French FOLS category; 2) its contribution to the Anglophone population is increasing over time as more and more immigrants in Quebec are assigned to this category, and; 3) of the three FOLS categories, it is the [...] The proportion of immigrants living in Montréal ER is relatively high across the three FOLS language categories: 73% of the English FOLS immigrants, 59% of the French FOLS immigrants and 71% of the English-French FOLS immigrants live in the Montréal ER.