Abstract:
:Persistent language barriers are associated with poor health outcomes. The agreement between reporting a language barrier at time of immigration and in the 2007-2008 Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) was calculated using kappa scores among foreign-born individuals who arrived to Ontario, Canada between 1985 and 2005. A total of 2323 immigrants were included, with a mean (± SD) time of 10.2 ± 6.4 years between immigration and completing the CCHS. Only 6 % of immigrants reported a persistent language barrier, resulting in a low agreement between the two sources (kappa = 0.06, 95 % CI 0.042-0.086). Though immigrants were less likely to report a persistent language barrier the longer they had been in Canada, only 13 % of immigrants who had arrived <2 years ago reported one. Self-reported language barriers at time of immigration are poor indicators of persistent language barriers. There is a need for a better measure of language barriers among Canadian immigrants.
journal_name
J Immigr Minor Healthjournal_title
Journal of immigrant and minority healthauthors
Okrainec K,Booth GL,Hollands S,Bell CMdoi
10.1007/s10903-015-0279-9subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2017-02-01 00:00:00pages
50-56issue
1eissn
1557-1912issn
1557-1920pii
10.1007/s10903-015-0279-9journal_volume
19pub_type
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