title: Age at immigration and education:  further explorations.
abstract: Trends in the relationship between age at immigration and educational attainment are examined using age- and sex-specific data for Canada, 1881-1973.  "Although initial analyses of data, collected for the [1973] Canadian Mobility Study, reveal a weak relationship between age at immigration and educational attainment, inclusion of a measure of periodicity in educational attainment models reveals age at immigration to have an effect comparable to that of family size on educational attainment.  Given the strong periodicity effect, when age at immigration is excluded from the analysis, it is argued that the status attainment model, which best accounts for the educational attainment of native-born Canadians, also accounts best for the educational attainment of the foreign-born."
authors.forename: F E
authors.initials: FE
authors.lastname: Jones
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000569:Americas; D002170:Canada; D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D003906:Developing Countries; D004467:Economics; D004522:Educational Status; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005191:Family Characteristics; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009656:North America; D011153:Population; D011154:Population Characteristics; D011157:Population Dynamics; D012106:Research; D012737:Sex Factors; D012923:Social Class; D012942:Social Sciences; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D014171:Transients and Migrants
keywords: Age Factors; Americas; Canada; Data Analysis; Demographic Factors; Demography; Developed Countries; Developing Countries; Economic Factors; Educational Status; Estimation Technics; Evaluation; Family And Household; Family Characteristics; Family Size; Historical Demography; Historical Survey; International Migration; Migrants; Migration; Models, Theoretical; North America; Northern America; Population; Population Characteristics; Population Dynamics; Research Methodology; Sex Factors; Social Sciences; Socioeconomic Factors; Socioeconomic Status