We managed for the first time to measure the parent rights holders phenomenon accurately in the Survey on the Vitality of Official-Language Minorities in 2006.
In the past, we had essentially used estimates based on census data on mother tongue, since that is one of the three important criteria. However, in the Survey on the Vitality of Official-Language Minorities, we asked questions on the three factors set out in section 23 of the charter.
We determined from those data, which date back to fall 2006, that 53% of parent rights holders outside Quebec chose to send their children to a minority school, that 15% decided to enrol their children in an immersion program and that the others chose to send their children to an English-language school. We took the survey a little further and asked those parents whether they would have sent their children to a minority school if they had had the choice. Forty percent of those parents said they would have done it had that been possible. Among the reasons given—