BY CATHERINE SOLYOM, GAZETTE EDUCATION REPORTER
A report released Tuesday by the Institut de la Statistique du Québec revealed that students born outside of Canada or to parents born abroad were less likely to smoke, drink and have sex. But the longer they lived in Quebec, the more likely they were to adopt these typically Canadian behaviours.
Immigrant students pick up our bad habits: report.
The full report is available here.
Santé physique et habitudes de vie chez les jeunes issus de l’immigration
Un portrait statistique tiré de l’Enquête québécoise sur la santé
des jeunes du secondaire 2010-2011
Francine Bernèche et Virginie Nanhou, Institut de la statistique du Québec
La version PDF de ce bulletin est diffusée sur le site Web de
l’Institut, à l’adresse suivante :
http://www.stat.gouv.qc.ca/statistiques/sante/bulletins/zoom-sante-201401.pdf