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Figures adapted from the
TIEDI Analytical Report #10:
How does immigration class affect immigrants' experiences with
credential recognition?
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3. The experiences of immigrants vary according to their immigration class. While more than half of immigrants need certification or a license to work, the proportion of those who have had their credentials checked varies significantly among immigration classes.
Principal applicants under the skilled immigrant class are the most likely to check if their credentials are recognized.
Immigrant men who arrived under the business class and refugee women were the least likely to have had their credentials checked by employers, organizations or individuals.
Adapted from TIEDI Analytical Report #10, Table 3 using data from the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada (LSIC).

4. Less than 1 in 5 immigrants had checked their credentials before arriving in Canada.
Principal applicants, business class immigrants and female spouses under the skilled immigrant class were the most likely to have checked their credentials, while immigrant men under the family class and refugee women were the least likely to have checked them.
Adapted from TIEDI Analytical Report #10, Table 3 using data from the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada (LSIC).

5. Looking at gender differences, immigrant men are more likely to need licensing and to have checked if their credentials would be recognized than immigrant women, except in the case of business immigrant women.
Adapted from TIEDI Analytical Report #10, Table 3 using data from the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada (LSIC).

6. Refugees are most likely to experience difficulties in getting accreditation. Half of refugee men experienced difficulties in getting their credentials accepted, compared to about a third of immigrants who arrived under other immigrant classes.
More than half of female refugees and female business class immigrants experience difficulties in having their credentials accepted.
Immigrant women also experience more difficulties with accreditation than their male counterparts, although only in the case of business class immigrants are these gender differences substantial.
Adapted from TIEDI Analytical Report #10, Table 4 using data from the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada (LSIC).

7. A quarter of immigrant women who arrived under the family class and refugee women did not know how to check their credentials.
Adapted from TIEDI Analytical Report #10, Table 4 using data from the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada (LSIC).

8. Among immigrants who did not check their credentials due to lack of time, immigrants who arrived under the family class, refugees and female spouse under the skilled immigrant class came first.
Adapted from TIEDI Analytical Report #10, Table 4 using data from the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada (LSIC).

9. Principal applicants under the skilled immigration class are most likely to not check their credentials because they know they will be accepted or because it was not necessary, along with business class immigrants and male spouses under the family class.
Adapted from TIEDI Analytical Report #10, Table 4 using data from the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada (LSIC).

10. Spouses who arrived under the skilled immigrant class are more likely to not check their credentials because they know the assessment will not be recognized by employers or because they have been told informally that their credentials would not be accepted .
Adapted from TIEDI Analytical Report #10, Table 4 using data from the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada (LSIC).

11. Across all immigration classes, the two most common reasons given for not checking credentials were lack of time and the fact that it was not necessary to have their credentials checked, either because they knew that their credentials were accepted, or because they were not looking for work.
Adapted from TIEDI Analytical Report #10, Table 4 using data from the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada (LSIC).

12. Adapted from TIEDI Analytical Report #10, Table 4 using data from the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada (LSIC).

13. Compared to other immigration classes, refugees are more likely than other groups to say that they cannot afford having their credentials recognized, or because it is not their main priority.
Adapted from TIEDI Analytical Report #10, Table 4 using data from the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada (LSIC).

14. Adapted from TIEDI Analytical Report #10, Table 4 using data from the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada (LSIC).

15. Compared to other immigration classes, refugees are more likely than other groups to say that they cannot afford having their credentials recognized, or because it is not their main priority.
Adapted from TIEDI Analytical Report #10, Table 4 using data from the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada (LSIC).

16. Adapted from TIEDI Analytical Report #10, Table 4 using data from the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada (LSIC).

17. Relevant for this series (Figures 3A-C):
Principal applicants under the skilled immigrant class, both men and women, have higher proportions of credential recognition than other groups.
Refugees and business immigrants have among the lowest levels of credential recognition of all groups, with slightly more than a quarter of business immigrants and a third of refugees having their highest level of education recognized.
Female refugees fare the worst among immigrant classes, with low percentages of recognition at every level of education.
Adapted from TIEDI Analytical Report #10, Table 5 using data from the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada (LSIC).

18. Relevant for this series (Figures 3A-C):
Principal applicants under the skilled immigrant class, both men and women, have higher proportions of credential recognition than other groups.
Refugees and business immigrants have among the lowest levels of credential recognition of all groups, with slightly more than a quarter of business immigrants and a third of refugees having their highest level of education recognized.
Female refugees fare the worst among immigrant classes, with low percentages of recognition at every level of education.
Adapted from TIEDI Analytical Report #10, Table 5 using data from the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada (LSIC).

19. Relevant for this series (Figures 3A-C):
Principal applicants under the skilled immigrant class, both men and women, have higher proportions of credential recognition than other groups.
Refugees and business immigrants have among the lowest levels of credential recognition of all groups, with slightly more than a quarter of business immigrants and a third of refugees having their highest level of education recognized.
Female refugees fare the worst among immigrant classes, with low percentages of recognition at every level of education.
Adapted from TIEDI Analytical Report #10, Table 5 using data from the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada (LSIC).