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 Owen Sound
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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}	30,770	13,150	17,625
North American Aboriginal origins	1,615	180	1,430
First Nations (North American Indian)	1,020	145	875
Inuit	55	10	45
Métis	570	25	540
Other North American origins	11,265	5,715	5,545
Acadian	20	0	15
American	320	20	300
Canadian	11,030	5,685	5,345
New Brunswicker	0	0	10
Newfoundlander	35	0	30
Nova Scotian	10	0	10
Ontarian	10	10	0
Québécois	10	0	10
Other North American origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 6}	0	0	0
European origins	23,920	6,625	17,290
British Isles origins	20,000	4,405	15,590
Channel Islander	0	0	0
Cornish	10	0	0
English	12,350	2,405	9,950
Irish	8,660	750	7,910
Manx	10	0	10
Scottish	10,185	1,105	9,080
Welsh	645	25	625
British Isles origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 7}	710	115	600
French origins	2,655	165	2,485
Alsatian	0	0	0
Breton	0	0	0
Corsican	0	0	0
French	2,650	165	2,485
Western European origins (except French origins)	7,375	1,445	5,925
Austrian	140	15	120
Bavarian	0	0	0
Belgian	95	15	80
Dutch	2,045	665	1,375
Flemish	10	0	15
Frisian	15	0	20
German	5,480	735	4,750
Luxembourger	0	0	0
Swiss	150	20	130
Western European origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 8}	0	0	0
Northern European origins (except British Isles origins)	605	50	555
Danish	155	20	135
Finnish	130	25	100
Icelandic	25	10	25
Norwegian	165	0	155
Swedish	190	0	190
Northern European origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 9}	10	0	0
Eastern European origins	1,905	270	1,635
Bulgarian	0	0	0
Byelorussian	0	0	0
Czech	90	10	80
Czechoslovakian, n.o.s.^{Footnote 10}	25	0	20
Estonian	25	15	15
Hungarian	285	45	240
Latvian	55	25	35
Lithuanian	20	0	10
Moldovan	0	0	0
Polish	735	85	645
Romanian	85	0	85
Russian	295	10	285
Slovak	40	0	35
Ukrainian	535	60	475
Eastern European origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 11}	10	0	10
Southern European origins	1,145	270	880
Albanian	45	45	0
Bosnian	15	0	0
Catalan	0	0	0
Croatian	55	0	50
Cypriot	0	0	0
Greek	90	50	40
Italian	645	130	510
Kosovar	0	0	0
Macedonian	25	10	15
Maltese	20	0	25
Montenegrin	0	0	0
Portuguese	110	20	85
Serbian	10	10	0
Sicilian	0	0	10
Slovenian	0	0	0
Spanish	165	0	155
Yugoslavian, n.o.s.^{Footnote 12}	15	0	15
Southern European origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 13}	0	0	0
Other European origins	160	30	130
Basque	0	0	0
Jewish	105	10	90
Roma (Gypsy)	25	0	30
Slavic, n.o.s.^{Footnote 14}	10	10	0
Other European origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 15}	40	15	25
Caribbean origins	205	30	175
Antiguan	0	0	0
Bahamian	0	0	0
Barbadian	10	0	0
Bermudan	0	0	0
Carib	0	0	0
Cuban	0	0	0
Dominican	10	0	0
Grenadian	10	0	0
Guadeloupean	0	0	0
Haitian	0	0	0
Jamaican	120	20	105
Kittitian/Nevisian	0	0	0
Martinican	0	0	0
Montserratan	0	0	0
Puerto Rican	20	0	20
St. Lucian	0	0	0
Trinidadian/Tobagonian	20	0	20
Vincentian/Grenadinian	0	0	0
West Indian, n.o.s.^{Footnote 16}	25	0	20
Caribbean origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 17}	0	0	10
Latin, Central and South American origins	125	20	100
Aboriginal from Central/South America (except Arawak and Maya)	0	0	0
Arawak	0	0	0
Argentinian	10	0	0
Belizean	0	0	0
Bolivian	0	0	0
Brazilian	15	0	10
Chilean	0	0	0
Colombian	10	0	0
Costa Rican	0	0	0
Ecuadorian	0	0	0
Guatemalan	0	0	0
Guyanese	15	0	0
Hispanic	0	0	0
Honduran	0	0	0
Maya	0	0	0
Mexican	40	0	40
Nicaraguan	0	0	0
Panamanian	0	0	0
Paraguayan	15	0	10
Peruvian	0	0	10
Salvadorean	0	0	0
Uruguayan	0	0	0
Venezuelan	0	0	0
Latin, Central and South American origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 18}	20	10	15
African origins	300	55	240
Central and West African origins	15	10	10
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	0	0	10
Guinean	0	0	0
Ibo	0	0	0
Ivorian	0	0	0
Liberian	0	0	0
Malian	0	0	0
Malinké	0	0	0
Nigerian	10	10	0
Peulh	0	0	0
Senegalese	0	0	0
Sierra Leonean	0	0	0
Togolese	0	0	0
Wolof	0	0	0
Yoruba	0	0	0
Central and West African origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 19}	0	0	0
North African origins	70	15	55
Algerian	0	0	0
Berber	10	0	10
Coptic	0	0	0
Dinka	0	0	0
Egyptian	25	0	20
Libyan	40	0	40
Maure	0	0	0
Moroccan	10	10	0
Sudanese	0	0	0
Tunisian	0	0	0
North African origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 20}	0	0	0
Southern and East African origins	25	0	20
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	0	0	0
Harari	0	0	0
Kenyan	10	10	0
Malagasy	0	0	0
Mauritian	0	0	0
Oromo	0	0	0
Rwandan	0	0	0
Seychellois	0	0	0
Somali	0	0	0
South African	20	0	25
Tanzanian	0	0	0
Tigrian	0	0	0
Ugandan	0	0	0
Zambian	0	0	0
Zimbabwean	0	0	0
Zulu	0	0	0
Southern and East African origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 22}	0	0	0
Other African origins	185	30	160
Black, n.o.s.^{Footnote 23}	40	10	35
Other African origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 24}	145	20	120
Asian origins	775	520	255
West Central Asian and Middle Eastern origins	155	85	70
Afghan	0	0	0
Arab, n.o.s.^{Footnote 25}	70	35	35
Armenian	15	0	10
Assyrian	0	0	0
Azerbaijani	0	0	0
Georgian	0	0	0
Hazara	0	0	0
Iranian	15	20	0
Iraqi	25	20	0
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	0	0	0
Palestinian	15	0	0
Pashtun	0	0	0
Saudi Arabian	0	0	0
Syrian	0	0	0
Tajik	0	0	0
Tatar	0	0	0
Turk	10	0	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}	0	0	0
South Asian origins	205	145	55
Bangladeshi	0	0	0
Bengali	0	0	0
Bhutanese	0	0	0
East Indian	195	140	55
Goan	0	0	0
Gujarati	0	0	0
Kashmiri	0	0	0
Nepali	10	10	0
Pakistani	0	0	0
Punjabi	10	0	15
Sinhalese	0	0	0
Sri Lankan	0	0	0
Tamil	0	0	0
South Asian origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 27}	0	0	0
East and Southeast Asian origins	410	280	130
Burmese	0	0	0
Cambodian (Khmer)	0	0	0
Chinese	180	140	45
Filipino	65	25	40
Hmong	0	0	0
Indonesian	0	0	0
Japanese	30	10	20
Karen	0	0	0
Korean	85	80	10
Laotian	30	0	35
Malaysian	10	0	0
Mongolian	0	0	0
Singaporean	0	0	0
Taiwanese	0	0	0
Thai	10	0	10
Tibetan	0	0	0
Vietnamese	40	30	10
East and Southeast Asian origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 28}	0	0	0
Other Asian origins	20	0	15
Other Asian origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 29}	15	10	10
Oceania origins	60	0	60
Australian	25	0	25
New Zealander	0	0	0
Pacific Islands origins	30	0	30
Fijian	0	0	0
Hawaiian	0	0	0
Maori	30	0	30
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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not applicable

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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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