Data tables, 2016 Census

Ethnic Origin (279), Single and Multiple Ethnic Origin Responses (3), Generation Status (4), Age (12) and Sex (3) for the Population in Private Households of Canada, Provinces and Territories, Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, 2016 Census - 25% Sample Data

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This table details ethnic origin , single and multiple ethnic origin responses , generation status , age and sex for the population in private households in Northwest Territories / Territoires du Nord-Ouest
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Ethnic origin (279)	Single and multiple ethnic origin responses (3)
Ethnic origin (279)	Total - Single and multiple ethnic origin responses^Footnote 2	Single ethnic origin responses^Footnote 3	Multiple ethnic origin responses^Footnote 4
Total - Ethnic origin^{Footnote 5}	41,135	23,945	17,190
North American Aboriginal origins	20,715	13,460	7,260
First Nations (North American Indian)	15,150	9,585	5,575
Inuit	4,510	2,955	1,555
Métis	2,920	915	2,005
Other North American origins	8,215	3,620	4,600
Acadian	245	30	220
American	495	65	430
Canadian	7,650	3,510	4,145
New Brunswicker	0	0	0
Newfoundlander	70	20	55
Nova Scotian	20	0	20
Ontarian	0	0	0
Québécois	30	10	30
Other North American origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 6}	0	0	0
European origins	18,115	3,795	14,320
British Isles origins	12,815	2,005	10,810
Channel Islander	0	0	0
Cornish	0	0	0
English	6,560	830	5,725
Irish	5,060	450	4,615
Manx	10	0	15
Scottish	6,090	580	5,510
Welsh	555	35	525
British Isles origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 7}	760	120	640
French origins	4,235	385	3,845
Alsatian	0	0	10
Breton	0	0	0
Corsican	0	0	0
French	4,225	385	3,845
Western European origins (except French origins)	4,480	600	3,885
Austrian	185	15	165
Bavarian	0	0	0
Belgian	150	10	140
Dutch	1,020	150	865
Flemish	0	0	0
Frisian	0	0	0
German	3,410	410	3,000
Luxembourger	10	0	10
Swiss	135	0	130
Western European origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 8}	0	0	0
Northern European origins (except British Isles origins)	1,720	165	1,555
Danish	350	35	315
Finnish	75	25	50
Icelandic	200	30	165
Norwegian	710	50	660
Swedish	370	25	345
Northern European origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 9}	125	0	115
Eastern European origins	2,865	350	2,510
Bulgarian	0	0	10
Byelorussian	10	0	10
Czech	85	15	75
Czechoslovakian, n.o.s.^{Footnote 10}	30	0	25
Estonian	0	0	0
Hungarian	260	45	220
Latvian	50	0	50
Lithuanian	25	10	25
Moldovan	0	0	0
Polish	860	70	790
Romanian	120	15	100
Russian	515	35	480
Slovak	65	30	35
Ukrainian	1,290	135	1,155
Eastern European origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 11}	10	10	10
Southern European origins	1,215	200	1,010
Albanian	0	0	0
Bosnian	0	0	0
Catalan	0	0	10
Croatian	30	10	20
Cypriot	0	0	0
Greek	50	0	45
Italian	500	95	410
Kosovar	0	0	0
Macedonian	45	25	15
Maltese	15	0	10
Montenegrin	0	0	0
Portuguese	205	20	190
Serbian	10	10	0
Sicilian	10	0	0
Slovenian	20	10	15
Spanish	315	35	275
Yugoslavian, n.o.s.^{Footnote 12}	35	0	30
Southern European origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 13}	0	0	0
Other European origins	255	85	165
Basque	0	0	0
Jewish	95	10	90
Roma (Gypsy)	10	0	0
Slavic, n.o.s.^{Footnote 14}	10	0	10
Other European origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 15}	145	75	70
Caribbean origins	215	115	100
Antiguan	0	0	0
Bahamian	0	0	0
Barbadian	0	0	0
Bermudan	0	0	0
Carib	0	0	0
Cuban	0	0	0
Dominican	40	30	15
Grenadian	10	0	10
Guadeloupean	0	0	0
Haitian	0	10	0
Jamaican	120	65	60
Kittitian/Nevisian	0	0	0
Martinican	0	0	0
Montserratan	0	0	0
Puerto Rican	0	0	0
St. Lucian	10	0	10
Trinidadian/Tobagonian	25	0	25
Vincentian/Grenadinian	0	0	0
West Indian, n.o.s.^{Footnote 16}	10	10	10
Caribbean origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 17}	10	0	0
Latin, Central and South American origins	200	65	140
Aboriginal from Central/South America (except Arawak and Maya)	10	0	10
Arawak	0	0	0
Argentinian	0	0	0
Belizean	0	0	0
Bolivian	0	0	0
Brazilian	15	0	10
Chilean	15	10	0
Colombian	25	15	10
Costa Rican	0	0	0
Ecuadorian	0	0	0
Guatemalan	10	0	0
Guyanese	0	0	0
Hispanic	10	0	10
Honduran	0	0	0
Maya	10	10	10
Mexican	50	20	30
Nicaraguan	10	10	0
Panamanian	0	0	0
Paraguayan	0	0	0
Peruvian	0	0	0
Salvadorean	30	0	30
Uruguayan	0	0	0
Venezuelan	15	0	20
Latin, Central and South American origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 18}	15	10	15
African origins	785	490	300
Central and West African origins	110	55	50
Akan	0	0	0
Angolan	0	0	0
Ashanti	0	0	0
Beninese	0	0	0
Burkinabe	0	0	0
Cameroonian	0	0	0
Chadian	0	0	0
Congolese	0	0	0
Edo	0	0	0
Ewe	0	0	0
Gabonese	0	0	0
Gambian	0	0	0
Ghanaian	30	25	0
Guinean	0	0	0
Ibo	30	0	30
Ivorian	0	0	0
Liberian	0	0	0
Malian	0	0	0
Malinké	0	0	0
Nigerian	55	15	40
Peulh	0	0	0
Senegalese	0	0	0
Sierra Leonean	0	0	0
Togolese	0	0	0
Wolof	0	0	0
Yoruba	15	0	10
Central and West African origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 19}	10	0	0
North African origins	175	115	55
Algerian	35	25	15
Berber	15	0	15
Coptic	10	0	10
Dinka	0	0	0
Egyptian	0	10	10
Libyan	0	0	0
Maure	0	0	0
Moroccan	30	15	15
Sudanese	90	80	10
Tunisian	0	0	0
North African origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 20}	0	0	0
Southern and East African origins	275	220	55
Afrikaner	10	0	10
Amhara	0	0	0
Bantu, n.o.s.^{Footnote 21}	0	0	0
Burundian	0	0	0
Djiboutian	0	0	0
Eritrean	35	30	0
Ethiopian	20	15	0
Harari	0	0	0
Kenyan	0	0	0
Malagasy	0	0	0
Mauritian	10	15	0
Oromo	0	0	0
Rwandan	0	10	0
Seychellois	0	0	0
Somali	75	50	25
South African	25	0	25
Tanzanian	0	0	0
Tigrian	0	0	0
Ugandan	35	35	0
Zambian	0	0	0
Zimbabwean	70	60	10
Zulu	0	0	0
Southern and East African origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 22}	10	10	0
Other African origins	245	90	150
Black, n.o.s.^{Footnote 23}	50	0	50
Other African origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 24}	200	90	110
Asian origins	3,125	2,395	730
West Central Asian and Middle Eastern origins	215	130	85
Afghan	10	10	0
Arab, n.o.s.^{Footnote 25}	40	35	0
Armenian	25	20	10
Assyrian	0	0	0
Azerbaijani	0	0	10
Georgian	0	0	0
Hazara	0	0	0
Iranian	60	35	25
Iraqi	10	0	10
Israeli	0	0	0
Jordanian	0	0	0
Kazakh	0	0	0
Kurd	0	0	0
Kuwaiti	0	0	0
Kyrgyz	0	0	0
Lebanese	25	10	10
Palestinian	10	0	0
Pashtun	0	0	0
Saudi Arabian	0	0	0
Syrian	25	10	20
Tajik	0	0	0
Tatar	0	0	0
Turk	15	10	10
Turkmen	0	0	0
Uighur	0	0	0
Uzbek	0	10	0
Yemeni	0	0	0
West Central Asian and Middle Eastern origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 26}	0	0	0
South Asian origins	615	510	110
Bangladeshi	70	65	0
Bengali	50	45	10
Bhutanese	0	0	0
East Indian	355	280	75
Goan	0	0	0
Gujarati	0	0	0
Kashmiri	0	0	0
Nepali	20	20	0
Pakistani	85	85	0
Punjabi	15	0	10
Sinhalese	0	0	0
Sri Lankan	25	10	10
Tamil	0	0	10
South Asian origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 27}	10	0	10
East and Southeast Asian origins	2,315	1,755	555
Burmese	0	0	0
Cambodian (Khmer)	0	0	0
Chinese	380	225	150
Filipino	1,410	1,110	300
Hmong	0	0	0
Indonesian	10	0	10
Japanese	200	75	130
Karen	0	0	0
Korean	105	95	0
Laotian	0	0	0
Malaysian	0	0	0
Mongolian	10	0	0
Singaporean	0	0	0
Taiwanese	20	15	0
Thai	10	0	0
Tibetan	0	0	0
Vietnamese	240	225	20
East and Southeast Asian origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 28}	0	0	0
Other Asian origins	10	10	10
Other Asian origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 29}	15	0	10
Oceania origins	85	15	70
Australian	35	0	30
New Zealander	40	10	35
Pacific Islands origins	10	0	0
Fijian	0	0	0
Hawaiian	0	0	0
Maori	0	0	0
Samoan	0	0	0
Polynesian, n.o.s.^{Footnote 30}	0	0	0
Pacific Islands origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 31}	0	0	0

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Symbol x

suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act

Symbol F

too unreliable to be published

Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

For more information on generation status variables, including information on their classifications, the questions from which they are derived, data quality and their comparability with other sources of data, please refer to the Place of Birth, Generation Status, Citizenship and Immigration Reference Guide, Census of Population, 2016.

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Footnote 2

Total ethnic origin responses are the sum of single and multiple responses for each ethnic origin. Total response counts indicate the number of persons who reported a specified ethnic origin, either as their only origin or in addition to one or more other ethnic origins. The sum of all ethnic origin responses is greater than the total population estimate due to the reporting of multiple origins.

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Footnote 3

A single ethnic origin response occurs when a person provides one ethnic origin only.

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Footnote 4

A multiple ethnic origin response occurs when a person provides two or more ethnic origins.

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Footnote 5

This is a total population estimate. The sum of the ethnic groups in this table is greater than the total population estimate because a person may report more than one ethnic origin in the census.

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Footnote 6

Includes general responses indicating North American origins (e.g., 'North American') as well as more specific responses indicating North American origins that have not been included elsewhere (e.g., 'Maritimer').

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Footnote 7

Includes general responses indicating British Isles origins (e.g., 'British,' 'United Kingdom') as well as more specific responses indicating British Isles origins that have not been included elsewhere (e.g., 'Celtic').

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Footnote 8

Includes general responses indicating Western European origins (e.g., 'Western European') as well as more specific responses indicating Western European origins that have not been included elsewhere (e.g., 'Liechtensteiner').

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Footnote 9

Includes general responses indicating Northern European origins (e.g., 'Northern European') as well as more specific responses indicating Northern European origins that have not been included elsewhere (e.g., 'Faroese,' 'Scandinavian').

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Footnote 10

Includes responses of 'Czechoslovakian,' not otherwise specified.

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Footnote 11

Includes general responses indicating Eastern European origins (e.g., 'Eastern European') as well as more specific responses indicating Eastern European origins that have not been included elsewhere (e.g., 'Baltic').

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Footnote 12

Includes responses of 'Yugoslavian,' not otherwise specified.

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Footnote 13

Includes general responses indicating Southern European origins (e.g., 'Southern European') as well as more specific responses indicating Southern European origins that have not been included elsewhere (e.g., 'Gibraltarian').

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Footnote 14

Includes responses of 'Slavic,' not otherwise specified.

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Footnote 15

Includes general responses indicating Other European origins (e.g., 'European') as well as more specific responses indicating European origins that have not been included elsewhere (e.g., 'Central European').

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Footnote 16

Includes responses of 'West Indian,' not otherwise specified.

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Footnote 17

Includes general responses indicating Caribbean origins (e.g., 'Antilles,' 'Caribbean') as well as more specific responses indicating Caribbean origins that have not been included elsewhere (e.g., 'Aruban').

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Footnote 18

Includes general responses indicating Latin, Central or South American origins (e.g., 'South American') as well as more specific responses indicating Latin, Central or South American origins that have not been included elsewhere (e.g., 'Surinamese').

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Footnote 19

Includes general responses indicating Central or West African origins (e.g., 'West African') as well as more specific responses indicating Central or West African origins that have not been included elsewhere (e.g., 'Luba,' 'Mossi').

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Footnote 20

Includes general responses indicating North African origins (e.g., 'North African') as well as more specific responses indicating North African origins that have not been included elsewhere (e.g., 'Maghreb').

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Footnote 21

Includes responses of 'Bantu,' not otherwise specified.

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Footnote 22

Includes general responses indicating Southern or East African origins (e.g., 'East African') as well as more specific responses indicating Southern or East African origins that have not been included elsewhere (e.g., 'Hutu,' 'Shona').

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Footnote 23

Includes responses of 'Black,' not otherwise specified.

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Footnote 24

Includes general responses indicating Other African origins (e.g., 'African') as well as more specific responses indicating Other African origins that have not been included elsewhere (e.g., 'Saharan').

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Footnote 25

Includes responses of 'Arab,' not otherwise specified.

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Footnote 26

Includes general responses indicating West Asian, Central Asian and Middle Eastern origins (e.g., 'West Asian,' 'Middle Eastern') as well as more specific responses indicating West Asian, Central Asian and Middle Eastern origins that have not been included elsewhere (e.g., 'Baloch,' 'Circassian').

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Footnote 27

Includes general responses indicating South Asian origins (e.g., 'South Asian') as well as more specific responses indicating South Asian origins that have not been included elsewhere (e.g., 'Telugu').

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Footnote 28

Includes general responses indicating East and Southeast Asian origins (e.g., 'Southeast Asian') as well as more specific responses indicating East and Southeast Asian origins that have not been included elsewhere (e.g., 'Bruneian').

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Footnote 29

Includes general responses indicating Other Asian origins (e.g., 'Asian') as well as more specific responses indicating Other Asian origins that have not been included elsewhere (e.g., 'Eurasian').

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Footnote 30

Includes responses of 'Polynesian,' not otherwise specified.

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Footnote 31

Includes general responses indicating Pacific Islands origins (e.g., 'Pacific Islander') as well as more specific responses indicating Pacific Islands origins that have not been included elsewhere (e.g., 'Tahitian').

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2016 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-400-X2016187.

Date modified:: 2019-06-17

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