Table 3
Distribution of total female population, total female immigrant population, recent immigrant women, and visible minority women, by census metropolitan area, Canada, 2006

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Table 3
Distribution of total female population, total female immigrant population, recent immigrant women, and visible minority women, by census metropolitan area, Canada, 2006
Census metropolitan area Total
female population		 Total
immigrant women		 Recent immigrant women Recent immigrant women / Total female population Visible
minority
women		 Visible minority women / Total female population
percentage ratio percentage ratio
Canada 100.0 100.0 100.0 … 100.0 …
St. John's 0.6 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1
Halifax 1.2 0.4 0.5 0.4 0.5 0.5
Moncton 0.4 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.0 0.1
Saint John 0.4 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.2
Saguenay 0.5 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.1
Québec 2.3 0.4 0.8 0.3 0.3 0.1
Sherbrooke 0.6 0.2 0.3 0.6 0.1 0.2
Trois-Rivières 0.5 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.0 0.1
Montréal 11.6 11.7 14.4 1.2 11.5 1.0
Ottawa-Gatineau 3.6 3.3 3.2 0.9 3.5 1.0
Kingston 0.5 0.3 0.2 0.4 0.2 0.4
Peterborough 0.4 0.2 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.2
Oshawa 1.0 0.9 0.4 0.4 0.6 0.6
Toronto 16.4 37.8 40.6 2.5 43.2 2.6
Hamilton 2.2 2.7 1.9 0.9 1.6 0.7
St.Catharines-Niagara 1.2 1.2 0.7 0.5 0.5 0.4
Kitchener 1.4 1.6 1.5 1.0 1.2 0.8
Brantford 0.4 0.3 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.3
Guelph 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.9 0.3 0.8
London 1.5 1.4 1.2 0.8 1.0 0.7
Windsor 1.0 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.0 1.0
Barrie 0.6 0.4 0.2 0.4 0.2 0.4
Grand Sudbury 0.5 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1
Thunder Bay 0.4 0.2 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.1
Winnipeg 2.2 2.0 2.1 1.0 2.0 0.9
Regina 0.6 0.2 0.2 0.4 0.2 0.4
Saskatoon 0.7 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.3 0.4
Calgary 3.4 4.0 5.2 1.5 4.6 1.4
Edmonton 3.2 3.0 2.9 0.9 3.4 1.1
Kelowna 0.5 0.4 0.2 0.4 0.2 0.3
Abbotsford 0.5 0.6 0.5 1.0 0.7 1.4
Vancouver 6.7 13.6 13.9 2.1 17.5 2.6
Victoria 1.1 1.0 0.6 0.6 0.7 0.6
… not applicable
Source: Statistics Canada, Census of Population, 2006.
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