Canada: refugee income in the first year of permanent resident status 2016, by class

Published by Statista Research Department, Jul 31, 2024

This statistic shows the the income from employment of refugees in Canada within their first year of receiving permanent resident status in 2016. Government-assisted refugees earned an average of 4,200 Canadian dollars within their first year of receiving permanent resident status in Canada in 2016.

Average earned income of refugees in Canada within the first year of receiving permanent resident status in 2016, by admission class

Characteristic	Earned income since landing
Protected persons in Canada	21,100
Dependents abroad of a protected person in Canada	10,900
Privately sponsored refugees	9,400
Government-assisted refugees	4,200

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March 2019

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Region

Canada

Survey time period

2016

Supplementary notes

Government-assisted refugees are people living outside their home country and outside Canada who are unwilling to return to their home country for well founded fear of persecution and who are supported by the Canadian government for one year after their arrival to Canada.
Privately sponsored refugees are people living outside their home country and outside Canada who are unwilling to return to their home country for well founded fear of persecution and who are supported by a private sponsor for one year after their arrival to Canada.
Admission appiles to refugees who have applied for and received permanent resident status after their refugee claim was accepted.

To access the data, select Government-assisted refugees, Privately sponsored refugees, Protected person in Canada, and Dependent abroad of a protected person in Canada under Immigrant admission category. Adapted from Statistics Canada, statcan.gc.ca, 2016. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.

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