Table 7
Population by visible minority status and sex, Canada, 2011

Table 7
Population by visible minority status and sex, Canada, 2011
Table summary
This table displays the results of Population belonging to visible minority groups by sex. The information is grouped by Visible minority group (appearing as row headers), Females and Males (appearing as column headers).
Visible minority group Females Males
thousands as a
percentage
of all females		 as a percentage of females who belong to a visible minority group as a percentage of visible
minority group		 thousands as a
percentage
of all males		 as a percentage of males who belong to a visible minority group
South Asian 776.7 4.7 24.1 49.6 790.8 4.9 26.0
Chinese 692.4 4.1 21.5 52.3 632.3 3.9 20.8
Black 492.7 3.0 15.3 52.1 453.0 2.8 14.9
Filipino 350.4 2.1 10.9 56.6 268.9 1.7 8.8
Latin American 194.9 1.2 6.1 51.1 186.4 1.2 6.1
Arab 177.1 1.1 5.5 46.5 203.5 1.3 6.7
Southeast Asian 158.0 0.9 4.9 50.6 154.0 1.0 5.1
West Asian 101.2 0.6 3.1 48.9 105.6 0.7 3.5
Korean 84.0 0.5 2.6 52.1 77.2 0.5 2.5
Japanese 49.0 0.3 1.5 56.1 38.3 0.2 1.3
Visible minority, n.i.e.Note 1 56.7 0.3 1.8 53.3 49.8 0.3 1.6
Multiple visible minorities 88.6 0.5 2.8 50.8 83.3 0.5 2.7
Total visible minority population 3,221.7 19.3 100.0 51.4 3,043.0 18.8 100.0
Total non-visible minority 13,467.5 80.7 ... ... 13,120.1 81.2 ...
Total population 16,689.2 100.0 ... ... 16,163.1 100.0 ...
Note 1.

The abbreviation 'n.i.e.' means 'not included elsewhere.' Includes respondents who reported a write-in response such as 'Guyanese,' 'West Indian,' 'Tibetan,' 'Polynesian,' 'Pacific Islander,' etc.

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Source: Statistics Canada, National Household Survey, 2011.
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