Factors influencing the fertility choices of child immigrants in Canada

Alicia Adsera, Ana Ferrer

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Abstract

We analysed the fertility of women who migrated to Canada before reaching age 19, using the 20 per cent sample of the Canadian censuses from 1991 to 2006. Fertility increases with age at immigration, and is particularly high for those immigrating in late adolescence. This pattern prevails regardless of the country of origin, and of whether the mother tongue of the migrants was an official language in Canada. The fertility of those for whom it was an official language is always lower on average than of those for whom it was not, but there does not seem to be a critical age at which the fertility of the former and the latter starts to diverge. Formal education has an effect: the fertility of immigrants who arrived in Canada at any age before adulthood and who were or became college graduates is similar to that of their native peers.An appendix to this paper is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00324728.2013.802007.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)65-79
Number of pages15
JournalPopulation Studies
Volume68
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 2014

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Demography
  • History

Keywords

  • adaptation
  • adoption
  • age at migration
  • assimilation
  • Canada
  • education
  • fertility
  • language
  • migration

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