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Table 4
Perceptions of discrimination, by visible minority status, Canada, 2014

Table 4
Perceptions of discrimination, by visible minority status, Canada, 2014
Table summary
This table displays the results of Perceptions of discrimination. The information is grouped by Visible minority status (appearing as row headers), Race or skin colour, Ethnicity or culture, Religion and Any discrimination, calculated using percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Visible minority status	Race or skin colour	Ethnicity or culture	Religion	Any discrimination^{Table 4 Note 1}
Visible minority status	percent
Visible minority^{Table 4 Note †}	13^Note *	13^Note *	4^Note *	20^Note *
Black	23^Note ***	20^Note ***	2^{Note E: Use with caution}^Note **	27^Note ***
Filipino	10^{Note E: Use with caution}^Note *	9^{Note E: Use with caution}^Note *	Note F: too unreliable to be published	15^Note *
Latin American	12^{Note E: Use with caution}^Note *	15^{Note E: Use with caution}^Note *	Note F: too unreliable to be published	26^Note *
Chinese	7^Note ***	8^Note ***	Note F: too unreliable to be published	15^Note ***
South Asian^{Table 4 Note 2}	13^Note *	12^Note *	6^{Note E: Use with caution}^Note *	20^Note *
Arab	15^{Note E: Use with caution}^Note *	19^{Note E: Use with caution}^Note ***	19^Note ***	29^Note ***
Southeast Asian^{Table 4 Note 3}	9^{Note E: Use with caution}^Note *	10^{Note E: Use with caution}^Note *	5^{Note E: Use with caution}^Note *	14
West Asian^{Table 4 Note 4}	8^{Note E: Use with caution}^Note ***	10^{Note E: Use with caution}^Note *	Note F: too unreliable to be published	15^{Note E: Use with caution}
Korean	12^{Note E: Use with caution}^Note *	Note F: too unreliable to be published	Note F: too unreliable to be published	18^{Note E: Use with caution}
Japanese	Note F: too unreliable to be published	Note F: too unreliable to be published	Note F: too unreliable to be published	Note F: too unreliable to be published
Visible minority, n.i.e.^{Table 4 Note 5}	Note F: too unreliable to be published	Note F: too unreliable to be published	Note F: too unreliable to be published	Note F: too unreliable to be published
Not a visible minority	3^Note **	3^Note **	2^Note **	12^Note **
Aboriginal person^{Table 4 Note 6}	13^Note *	13^Note *	2^{Note E: Use with caution}^Note **	23^Note *
Non-Aboriginal person	2^Note ***	2^Note ***	2^Note ***	12^Note ***
Total^{Table 4 Note 7}	4	5	2	13
^E use with caution F too unreliable to be published Note * significantly different from non-visible minorities (p < 0.05) Return to note * referrer Note significantly different from visible minorities (p < 0.05) Return to note referrer Note * significantly different from both visible minorities and non-visible minorities (p < 0.05) Return to note * referrer Note † reference category Return to note † referrer Note 1 Includes discrimination on the basis of race or skin colour, ethnicity or culture, sex, age, physical appearance, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, language, or any other reason. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2 For example, 'East Indian,' 'Pakistani,' 'Sri Lankan,' etc. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3 For example, 'Vietnamese,' 'Cambodian,' 'Laotian,' 'Thai,' etc. Return to note 3 referrer Note 4 For example, 'Afghan,' 'Iranian,' etc. Return to note 4 referrer Note 5 The abbreviation 'n.i.e.' means 'not included elsewhere.' Includes persons with a write-in response such as 'Guyanese,' 'West Indian', 'Tibetan' etc. Also includes persons who gave more than one visible minority group by checking two or more mark-in responses, e.g., 'Black' and 'South Asian.' Return to note 5 referrer Note 6 It should be noted that Aboriginal experiences of discrimination, victimization and perceptions of the criminal justice system are similar to those of visible minorities. For further analysis on this population group see Boyce 2016. Return to note 6 referrer Note 7 Includes respondents for whom visible minority status was unknown or not stated. Return to note 7 referrer Note: The visible minority category includes “persons, other than Aboriginal persons, who are not white in race or colour.” Visible minority groups are delineated according to the Employment Equity Act. Source: Statistics Canada, General Social Survey.

Date modified:: 2018-04-12