Table 6
Knowledge of official languages, by visible minority group, Canada, 2006

Table 6
Knowledge of official languages, by visible minority group, Canada, 2006
 Table summary
 This table displays the results of Knowledge of official languages. The information is grouped by Visible minority groups, Visible minority women, Non-visible minority women, Non-visible minority men appearing as row headers and is grouped by Total, At least one official language, English only, French only, Both English and French, Neither English nor French appearing as column headers, calculated using percentage as a unit of measure.
Visible minority groups Total At least one official language English only French only Both English and French Neither English
nor
French
percentage
Visible minority women 100.0 91.2 75.7 4.5 10.9 8.8
Chinese 100.0 82.8 74.4 1.5 6.9 17.2
South Asian 100.0 90.4 82.6 0.3 7.4 9.6
Black 100.0 98.8 68.9 11.9 18.0 1.2
Filipino 100.0 99.0 93.7 0.1 5.2 1.0
Latin American 100.0 92.1 60.1 14.4 17.6 7.9
Southeast Asian 100.0 88.3 67.8 7.0 13.6 11.7
Arab 100.0 94.1 48.1 17.1 28.9 5.9
West Asian 100.0 90.4 76.9 2.2 11.3 9.6
Korean 100.0 88.5 81.8 0.5 6.2 11.5
Japanese 100.0 96.6 87.6 0.7 8.3 3.4
Other visible minority 100.0 98.4 88.7 1.6 8.1 1.7
Multiple visible minority 100.0 96.3 81.7 2.3 12.4 3.7
Non-visible minority women 100.0 99.4 65.0 15.8 18.5 0.6
Visible minority men 100.0 94.1 78.9 3.8 11.4 5.9
Non-visible minority men 100.0 99.5 66.6 14.2 18.8 0.5
Source: Statistics Canada, Census of Population, 2006.
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