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 Charlottetown
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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}	67,820	31,005	36,815
North American Aboriginal origins	2,520	380	2,135
First Nations (North American Indian)	2,055	335	1,720
Inuit	85	20	65
Métis	430	25	405
Other North American origins	26,330	12,435	13,895
Acadian	1,585	155	1,430
American	635	65	565
Canadian	24,860	12,205	12,655
New Brunswicker	0	0	0
Newfoundlander	20	0	25
Nova Scotian	0	0	0
Ontarian	10	0	10
Québécois	0	0	0
Other North American origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 6}	10	0	0
European origins	49,285	13,390	35,895
British Isles origins	43,325	10,330	32,990
Channel Islander	0	0	0
Cornish	0	0	10
English	20,195	3,015	17,180
Irish	20,200	2,895	17,310
Manx	10	0	10
Scottish	26,500	4,055	22,450
Welsh	1,455	85	1,370
British Isles origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 7}	990	285	710
French origins	11,590	1,220	10,375
Alsatian	0	0	0
Breton	10	0	10
Corsican	0	0	0
French	11,585	1,215	10,365
Western European origins (except French origins)	6,315	975	5,335
Austrian	130	20	115
Bavarian	0	0	0
Belgian	205	50	155
Dutch	2,290	605	1,685
Flemish	10	0	10
Frisian	0	0	10
German	3,895	305	3,595
Luxembourger	0	0	0
Swiss	95	0	90
Western European origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 8}	10	0	0
Northern European origins (except British Isles origins)	1,025	110	910
Danish	355	70	285
Finnish	105	10	100
Icelandic	65	0	55
Norwegian	195	15	175
Swedish	300	10	285
Northern European origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 9}	65	0	65
Eastern European origins	1,785	360	1,425
Bulgarian	30	10	25
Byelorussian	15	0	15
Czech	60	10	50
Czechoslovakian, n.o.s.^{Footnote 10}	40	10	30
Estonian	45	0	45
Hungarian	195	65	125
Latvian	30	0	30
Lithuanian	80	0	75
Moldovan	10	10	0
Polish	595	80	515
Romanian	85	10	80
Russian	325	45	280
Slovak	40	15	25
Ukrainian	530	125	410
Eastern European origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 11}	10	0	15
Southern European origins	1,560	330	1,230
Albanian	75	75	0
Bosnian	20	10	15
Catalan	10	0	0
Croatian	125	0	115
Cypriot	0	0	0
Greek	120	25	95
Italian	665	85	580
Kosovar	10	10	0
Macedonian	10	0	0
Maltese	20	0	20
Montenegrin	0	0	0
Portuguese	190	60	125
Serbian	70	30	45
Sicilian	10	0	10
Slovenian	15	10	10
Spanish	320	15	310
Yugoslavian, n.o.s.^{Footnote 12}	10	10	10
Southern European origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 13}	0	0	0
Other European origins	265	70	200
Basque	10	0	10
Jewish	155	20	135
Roma (Gypsy)	0	0	10
Slavic, n.o.s.^{Footnote 14}	0	0	0
Other European origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 15}	95	50	50
Caribbean origins	225	115	110
Antiguan	0	0	0
Bahamian	25	20	0
Barbadian	10	0	10
Bermudan	15	10	0
Carib	0	0	0
Cuban	0	0	0
Dominican	10	0	10
Grenadian	0	0	0
Guadeloupean	0	0	0
Haitian	25	20	10
Jamaican	105	55	55
Kittitian/Nevisian	0	0	0
Martinican	0	0	0
Montserratan	0	0	0
Puerto Rican	0	0	10
St. Lucian	0	0	0
Trinidadian/Tobagonian	0	0	0
Vincentian/Grenadinian	0	0	0
West Indian, n.o.s.^{Footnote 16}	25	0	15
Caribbean origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 17}	10	0	10
Latin, Central and South American origins	315	145	175
Aboriginal from Central/South America (except Arawak and Maya)	0	0	0
Arawak	0	0	0
Argentinian	15	0	20
Belizean	15	0	15
Bolivian	0	0	10
Brazilian	50	40	10
Chilean	20	0	20
Colombian	50	35	15
Costa Rican	0	0	0
Ecuadorian	0	0	0
Guatemalan	30	15	10
Guyanese	10	10	10
Hispanic	10	0	10
Honduran	0	0	0
Maya	45	20	20
Mexican	45	15	30
Nicaraguan	0	0	0
Panamanian	0	0	0
Paraguayan	0	0	0
Peruvian	25	15	0
Salvadorean	0	0	0
Uruguayan	0	0	0
Venezuelan	0	0	0
Latin, Central and South American origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 18}	0	0	0
African origins	780	380	400
Central and West African origins	175	130	40
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	10	0	0
Edo	0	0	0
Ewe	0	0	0
Gabonese	0	0	0
Gambian	0	0	0
Ghanaian	15	20	0
Guinean	0	0	0
Ibo	10	0	10
Ivorian	0	0	0
Liberian	0	0	0
Malian	0	0	0
Malinké	0	0	0
Nigerian	130	90	40
Peulh	0	0	0
Senegalese	0	0	0
Sierra Leonean	0	0	0
Togolese	0	0	0
Wolof	0	0	0
Yoruba	20	15	10
Central and West African origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 19}	0	0	0
North African origins	155	130	25
Algerian	0	0	0
Berber	0	0	0
Coptic	0	0	0
Dinka	0	0	0
Egyptian	75	65	10
Libyan	40	35	0
Maure	0	0	0
Moroccan	30	15	10
Sudanese	0	0	0
Tunisian	0	0	0
North African origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 20}	10	0	10
Southern and East African origins	100	30	70
Afrikaner	0	0	0
Amhara	0	0	0
Bantu, n.o.s.^{Footnote 21}	0	0	0
Burundian	0	0	0
Djiboutian	0	0	0
Eritrean	0	0	0
Ethiopian	10	0	0
Harari	0	0	0
Kenyan	10	0	0
Malagasy	0	0	0
Mauritian	10	0	0
Oromo	0	0	0
Rwandan	0	0	0
Seychellois	0	0	0
Somali	20	20	0
South African	40	0	35
Tanzanian	0	0	0
Tigrian	0	0	0
Ugandan	20	0	15
Zambian	0	0	0
Zimbabwean	0	0	0
Zulu	0	0	0
Southern and East African origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 22}	10	0	10
Other African origins	390	85	305
Black, n.o.s.^{Footnote 23}	30	0	25
Other African origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 24}	365	90	280
Asian origins	5,475	4,155	1,320
West Central Asian and Middle Eastern origins	1,400	765	635
Afghan	10	0	10
Arab, n.o.s.^{Footnote 25}	150	110	40
Armenian	10	0	10
Assyrian	0	0	0
Azerbaijani	10	0	15
Georgian	10	0	10
Hazara	0	0	0
Iranian	270	195	75
Iraqi	15	15	10
Israeli	30	10	25
Jordanian	0	0	0
Kazakh	0	0	0
Kurd	0	0	0
Kuwaiti	0	0	0
Kyrgyz	0	0	0
Lebanese	615	190	425
Palestinian	65	15	45
Pashtun	0	0	0
Saudi Arabian	10	10	0
Syrian	210	195	15
Tajik	0	0	0
Tatar	15	0	15
Turk	30	20	10
Turkmen	0	0	0
Uighur	0	0	0
Uzbek	0	0	0
Yemeni	0	0	0
West Central Asian and Middle Eastern origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 26}	20	10	0
South Asian origins	845	630	215
Bangladeshi	10	10	0
Bengali	10	0	0
Bhutanese	135	65	75
East Indian	485	355	130
Goan	0	0	0
Gujarati	0	0	0
Kashmiri	0	0	0
Nepali	185	105	80
Pakistani	75	30	50
Punjabi	10	0	15
Sinhalese	0	10	0
Sri Lankan	45	50	0
Tamil	10	0	10
South Asian origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 27}	0	0	0
East and Southeast Asian origins	3,245	2,765	475
Burmese	10	10	0
Cambodian (Khmer)	0	0	0
Chinese	2,510	2,265	245
Filipino	350	235	120
Hmong	0	0	0
Indonesian	10	0	10
Japanese	100	50	50
Karen	0	0	0
Korean	175	130	40
Laotian	0	0	0
Malaysian	10	0	10
Mongolian	20	0	20
Singaporean	0	0	0
Taiwanese	20	15	0
Thai	40	25	10
Tibetan	0	0	0
Vietnamese	60	30	35
East and Southeast Asian origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 28}	0	0	0
Other Asian origins	10	0	15
Other Asian origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 29}	15	0	10
Oceania origins	35	0	30
Australian	30	0	30
New Zealander	0	0	0
Pacific Islands origins	0	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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