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Table 1 Demographic characteristics of long-term residents and immigrants in the study population

From: Incidence of breast and colorectal cancer among immigrants in Ontario, Canada: a retrospective cohort study from 2004-2014

Characteristic

Long-term residents

East Asia and Pacific

Europe and Central Asia

Latin America and the Caribbean

Middle East and North Africa

South Asia

Sub-Saharan Africa

US, New Zealand and Australia

N = 94,136,709

N = 5,235,458

N = 3,789,083

N = 2,718,788

N = 1,844,075

N = 4,613,474

N = 1,141,050

N = 380,564

Sex (%)

 Male

48.8

44.9

49.3

47.8

53.1

50.5

49.9

52.0

Age (years)

 Mean (SD)

47.5 ± 3

44.7 ± 15.8

43.1 ± 15.0

42.1 ± 14.8

40.8 ± 14.8

42.0 ± 15.1

40.2 ± 13.7

42.3 ± 15.1

Neighborhood income quintile (%)

 1 (lowest)

17.9

25.1

22.4

33.5

25.7

31.9

43.2

15.3

 2

19.5

24.9

19.4

24.7

18.7

24.8

19.6

16.8

 3

19.8

19.9

19.5

19.9

19.5

21.5

14.9

18.0

 4

21.1

17.5

21.6

13.7

20.5

14.6

12.8

20.2

 5 (highest)

21.8

12.4

16.9

7.92

15.2

7.0

9.2

29.4

Length of stay (years) (%) Mean (SD)

 

12.2 ± 6.4

13.9 ± 6.6

14.2 ± 6.9

11.5 ± 6.4

10.7 ± 6.0

12.4 ± 6.6

12.6 ± 7.0

 0–5

 

16.3

11.4

12.9

19.4

20.4

17.0

18.3

 6–10

 

60.3

68.9

67.0

55.2

49.9

60.3

59.6

 11+

 

23.4

19.7

17.2

25.4

29.7

22.7

22.1