Table 6 
Overrepresentation index of Black adults when compared with white adults in custody, by gender, select provinces, 2023/2024 

The overrepresentation index calculates the relative difference between the rates of various populations, such as Indigenous and non-Indigenous adults, Indigenous and white adults, and Black and white adults, by controlling for age and gender differences between populations. It indexes both populations to an age and gender profile identical to the national population distribution of the 2021 Census of Population. These adjusted rates address the impact of demographic differences the underlying population may have on measuring overrepresentation.