Statistical Portrait of the French Speaking Immigrant Population Outside Quebec (1991-2011)
This report examines French-language immigration outside Quebec and its recent evolution, focusing on its numbers, its geographic distribution and its demographic and socioeconomic characteristics. This is an update of the analytical report published by Statistics Canada in 2010, with the financial support of Citizenship and Immigration Canada. This new version uses the most recent statistics on the subject, drawn from the 2011 National Household Survey. As in the 2010 version, this statistical portrait of French-language immigration is primarily based on the concept of first official language spoken (FOLS), which has been increasingly used in recent years as a criterion of linguistic definition in studies on official-language minorities. The francophone immigrant population outside Quebec comprises two groups: those with only French as their first official language spoken (French FOLS immigrants) and those whose first official language spoken is both French and English (French-English FOLS immigrants).
