Characteristics of official language minority businesses and owners – Prairies

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Businesses where at least 50% of owners have French as their first official language spoken (2017)


Table 1
Table summary
This table displays the results of Table 1 Number of OLM businesses and Percentage of businesses (appearing as column headers).
Number of OLM businesses Percentage of businesses
Manitoba 2,060 4.1
Saskatchewan 1,070 1.8
Alberta 6,880 2.3
Prairies (total) 10,005 2.4

Characteristics of official language minority business owners

Compared with other owners, owners of official language minority (OLM) businesses are slightly older and less likely to be immigrants.


Table 2
Table summary
This table displays the results of Table 2 OLM business owners and Other business owners (appearing as column headers).
OLM business owners Other business owners
Under 50 years 43.2 46.9
Women 39.6 40.0
Immigrants 13.5 16.6

Characteristics of official language minority businesses

Compared to other businesses, official language minority (OLM) businesses are somewhat less likely than other businesses to have an annual net income that is over $500,000.


Table 3
Table summary
This table displays the results of Table 3 OLM businesses and Other businesses (appearing as column headers).
OLM businesses Other businesses
Annual net income
Negative 32.4 33.0
$0 to $50,000 35.9 33.8
$50,000 to $500,000 28.3 28.8
Over $500,000 3.4 4.4
Number of employees
None 61.3 59.9
1 to 4 30.4 29.2
5 or more 8.3 10.9

Compared to other businesses, OLM businesses more often have no employee and less often have 5 or more.

Compared with other businesses, OLM businesses are more concentrated in certain industries and less concentrated in others.


Table 4
Table summary
This table displays the results of Table 4 OLM businesses and Other businesses (appearing as column headers).
OLM businesses Other businesses
More concentrated
Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting 8.9 7.0
Mining, utilities and construction 22.5 18.3
Less concentrated
Real estate, rental and leasing 8.5 9.5
Retail trade 5.1 5.9
Accommodation, food services, arts, entertainment and recreation 3.2 4.4

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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