From Immigration To Integration

The Canadian Jewish Experience:
A Millennium Edition

James Torczyner

Occupational Structure of Jews and All Canadians, 1991
Occupation	Percentage of Jews	Percentage of All Canadians
Managers & Administrators	17.7	9.8
Architects & Engineers	4.5	4.0
Human Service, Teaching & Artistic	20.9	13.7
Clerical	16.8	19.0
Sales	16.2	9.4
Manual	13.2	41.3
Accountants, Notaries, Lawyers & Judges	6.9	2.2
Doctors, Surgeons & Dentists	3.7	0.5

Poverty Rates, By Age and gender, Canadian Jews and All Canadians, 1991
Age & Gender	Entire Number	% of Jewish Population	% of Age Group	% of Jewish Poor	Entire Number	% of Canadian Population	% of Age Group	% of Entire Poor
	Canadian Jews				All Canadians
0 - 14	74,345	21.0	13.4	17.9	5,615,405	21.0	19.8	22.4
15 - 34	89,040	25.1	15.6	25.0	8,556,365	32.0	19.1	32.9
35 - 54	99,885	28.2	10.7	19.2	7,259,040	27.2	13.1	18.9
55 - 64	29,890	8.4	12.6	6.7	2,364,075	8.9	18.6	8.9
65 - 74	34,075	9.6	22.0	13.5	1,830,805	6.9	23.6	8.7
75+	27,130	7.7	36.3	17.7	1,082,280	4.1	36.6	8.0

Male	175,140	49.4	14.0	43.9	13,160,835	49.3	16.7	44.1
Female	179,225	50.6	17.4	56.1	13,547,135	50.7	20.5	55.9
Males 65+	28,045	7.9	22.1	11.1	1,244,630	4.7	21.4	5.3
Females 65+	33,160	9.4	33.6	20.0	1,668,455	6.2	33.7	11.3