Study: Use of official languages at home: An analysis based on the academic path of graduates in Canada, 2021

In 2021, the vast majority of postsecondary graduates aged 18 to 30—graduates in Quebec with an English mother tongue (95%) and graduates in Canada outside Quebec with a French mother tongue (93%)—had attended a school during their studies where the minority official language (English in Quebec and French in Canada outside Quebec) was a language of instruction.

After graduation, graduates who did postsecondary studies at a minority official language or bilingual institution were more likely to have a spouse or partner whose mother tongue was a minority official language, as well as to speak the minority official language most often at home.