Characteristics of official language minority businesses and owners – Territories

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Infographic: Characteristics of official language minority businesses and owners – Territories
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Businesses where at least 50% of owners have French as their first official language spoken (2017)


Table 1
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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
Territories 140 4.5

Characteristics of official language minority business owners

Compared with other owners, owners of official language minority (OLM) businesses are younger, are slightly less often women, and are more often immigrants.


Table 2
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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 50.3 37.4
Women 37.0 39.0
Immigrants 13.5 9.5

Characteristics of official language minority businesses

Compared to other businesses, official language minority (OLM) businesses less often have an annual net income of over $50,000.


Table 3
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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 35.8 29.8
$0 to $50,000 32.1 29.9
Over $50,000 32.1 40.2
Number of employees
None 56.9 51.4
1 to 4 26.3 27.3
5 or more 16.8 21.2

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.


Table 4
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This table displays the results of Table 4 OLM businesses and Other businesses (appearing as column headers).
OLM businesses Other businesses
More concentrated
Health care, social assistance and educational services 10.7 6.2
Professional, scientific and technical services 13.4 11.0
Less concentrated
Accommodation, food services, arts, entertainment and recreation, and other services 9.8 13.0
Wholesale and retail trade, and transportation and warehousing 11.6 17.4

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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