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Table 5
Perceived reason for discrimination experienced, by visible minority status, Canada, 2014

Table 5
Perceived reason for discrimination experienced, by visible minority status, Canada, 2014
Table summary
This table displays the results of Perceived reason for discrimination experienced. The information is grouped by Perceived reason for discrimination (appearing as row headers), Visible minority, Non-visible minority, Women, Men, Total and Men , calculated using percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Perceived reason for discrimination^{Table 5 Note 1}	Visible minority			Non-visible minority^{Table 5 Note †}
	Women	Men	Total	Women	Men	Total
	percent
Experienced discrimination in the past five years	21^Note *	19^Note *	20^Note *	13	11	12
Sex	28^Note *	14	22^Note *	39	15	28
Ethnicity or culture	62^Note *	64^Note *	63^Note *	19	29	24
Race or skin colour	61^Note *	65^Note *	63^Note *	17	28	22
Physical appearance	24	20	22	26	21	24
Religion	20^Note *	24^Note *	22^Note *	12	14	13
Sexual orientation	Note F: too unreliable to be published	3^{Note E: Use with caution}^Note *	4^Note *	7	6	6
Age	14^Note *	11^{Note E: Use with caution}^Note *	13^Note *	25	20	23
Physical or mental disability	Note F: too unreliable to be published	3^{Note E: Use with caution}^Note *	3^{Note E: Use with caution}^Note *	14	14	14
Language	28^Note *	26	27^Note *	14	22	17
Other	4^{Note E: Use with caution}	5^{Note E: Use with caution}	5^{Note E: Use with caution}	4	5^{Note E: Use with caution}	4
Did not experience discrimination in the past five years	79^Note *	81^Note *	80^Note *	87	89	88
^E use with caution F too unreliable to be published Note * significantly different from reference category (p < 0.05) Return to note * referrer Note † reference category Return to note † referrer Note 1 Respondents were able to report more than one perceived reason for discrimination. As such, totals do not equal the sum of the sub-categories. Return to note 1 referrer Note: The visible minority category includes "persons, other than Aboriginal persons, who are not white in race or colour." Percentages are based on the number of respondents who had experienced discrimination in the five years preceding the survey. Source: Statistics Canada, General Social Survey.

Date modified:: 2018-04-12