Survey on the Official Language Minority Population: User guide, 2022 (2025 revisions)

Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 89-657-X2025002

Description: The Survey on the Official Language Minority Population (SOLMP) user guide contains a description of the survey, along with survey concepts and definitions and an overview of the content development. The target and survey populations, the sample design and sample size are described in the Methodology section, while the Data Collection module provides the collection period and instrument, modes of collection, collection and communications strategies and response rates.

Updates to the guide include descriptions of the survey data processing, survey error and weighting, and guidelines for tabulations and analysis. Appendices will provide a listing of questions and variables which changed between the current and previous occasions of the survey, as well as various primers on the survey methodology.

Issue Number: 2025002

Frequency: Occasional

Author(s): Pépin-Filion, Dominique; Pereira, Daniel; Girard, Claude; Dufour, Catherine

Main Product: Ethnicity, Language and Immigration Thematic Series