Characteristics of official language minority businesses and owners – Quebec
Description: Characteristics of official language minority businesses and owners – Quebec
Businesses where at least 50% of owners have English as their first official language spoken (2017)
| Number of OLM businesses | Percentage of businesses | |
|---|---|---|
| Montérégie | 9,170 | 12.1 |
| Montréal | 47,015 | 43.4 |
| Laval | 6,270 | 28.7 |
| Outaouais | 1,705 | 15.1 |
| Rest of Quebec | 6,580 | 3.7 |
| Quebec (total) | 70,740 | 17.8 |
Characteristics of official language minority business owners
Compared with other owners, owners of official language minority (OLM) businesses are slightly younger, and much more likely to be immigrants.
| OLM business owners | Other business owners | |
|---|---|---|
| Under 50 years | 47.7 | 46.4 |
| Women | 30.4 | 29.8 |
| Immigrants | 32.3 | 7.4 |
Characteristics of official language minority businesses
Compared to other businesses, official language minority (OLM) businesses are more likely to have an annual net income that is negative or under $50,000, but are as likely to have a net income of over $500,000.
| OLM businesses | Other businesses | |
|---|---|---|
| Annual net income | ||
| Negative | 34.3 | 30.6 |
| $0 to $50,000 | 38.2 | 36.2 |
| $50,000 to $500,000 | 22.6 | 28.2 |
| Over $500,000 | 5.0 | 4.9 |
| Number of employees | ||
| None | 63.7 | 58.9 |
| 1 to 4 | 23.9 | 26.4 |
| 5 or more | 12.5 | 14.8 |
OLM businesses are more likely than other businesses to have no employee.
Compared with other businesses, OLM businesses are more concentrated in certain industries and less concentrated in others.
| OLM businesses | Other businesses | |
|---|---|---|
| More concentrated | ||
| Wholesale trade | 7.1 | 4.1 |
| Accommodation, food services, arts, entertainment and recreation | 8.8 | 5.6 |
| Transportation and warehousing | 7.6 | 5.1 |
| Management of companies and enterprises, information and cultural industries | 4.2 | 3.2 |
| Less concentrated | ||
| Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services | 4.4 | 5.9 |
| Mining, utilities and construction | 7.4 | 14.5 |
| Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting | 0.9 | 5.3 |
Notes:
- Official language minorities (OLMs) are English-language communities in Quebec and French-language communities in Canada outside Quebec.
- OLM businesses are defined as businesses where at least 50% of property is held by a person or persons whose first official language spoken is that of the official language minority of the province where the business is located (including persons who have both English and French as their first official language spoken).
- A business’s geographic location corresponds to the location of its head office.
- All data in this infographic are for 2017.
Source: Statistics Canada, 2016 Census and Canadian Employer-Employee Database linkage.
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