Table 3: The incidence of over-education among different subgroups of immigrants (% of each relevant group that is over-educated).

Wave 1 Wave 2 Wave 3 Gender        Male 76.27 72.51 70.35  Female 71.76 68.89 64.61 Marital status        Married 77.31 75.89 72.20  Not married 59.35 49.40 48.04 Age        25−34 82.25 81.39 75.01  35−44 81.77 79.57 76.34  45−54 62.05 60.67 64.36  55−64 41.24 47.05 48.21 Highest level of education        Some elementary or elementary 2.51 1.48 1.79  Some high school 7.01 3.73 2.81  High school graduation 20.97 19.66 16.80  Some trade or apprenticeship training 56.08 52.24 51.38  Trade certificate 60.87 54.73 58.47  Some college 66.22 67.77 61.68  College/CEGEP 76.56 77.09 75.25  Some university 85.53 83.03 79.95  Bachelor's degree 90.92 89.62 82.67  Master's degree 94.35 92.90 87.09  Degree in medicine or law 95.72 96.60 89.52  Doctorate 87.30 90.71 86.86

Source: author’s compilation using data from LSIC. All statistics are population weighted using the LSIC sampling weights.