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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Sex (3)

This table details ethnic origin , single and multiple ethnic origin responses , generation status , age and sex for the population in private households in Collingwood
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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}	21,145	9,155	11,990
North American Aboriginal origins	735	75	655
First Nations (North American Indian)	515	50	465
Inuit	0	0	0
Métis	250	20	225
Other North American origins	7,105	2,975	4,135
Acadian	25	0	20
American	340	10	335
Canadian	6,870	2,935	3,935
New Brunswicker	0	0	0
Newfoundlander	10	0	10
Nova Scotian	0	0	0
Ontarian	15	15	0
Québécois	0	0	0
Other North American origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 6}	0	0	0
European origins	17,250	5,480	11,770
British Isles origins	13,845	3,625	10,215
Channel Islander	0	0	0
Cornish	10	0	10
English	8,530	1,975	6,560
Irish	5,565	570	5,000
Manx	0	0	0
Scottish	6,350	835	5,510
Welsh	590	10	575
British Isles origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 7}	790	235	555
French origins	2,180	145	2,030
Alsatian	0	0	0
Breton	0	0	0
Corsican	0	0	0
French	2,180	145	2,030
Western European origins (except French origins)	4,035	660	3,380
Austrian	180	20	160
Bavarian	0	0	0
Belgian	75	15	60
Dutch	1,170	230	940
Flemish	10	0	0
Frisian	0	0	0
German	2,760	360	2,405
Luxembourger	0	0	0
Swiss	130	25	105
Western European origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 8}	0	0	0
Northern European origins (except British Isles origins)	675	60	615
Danish	205	25	180
Finnish	125	25	105
Icelandic	15	0	10
Norwegian	195	10	185
Swedish	155	10	145
Northern European origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 9}	25	0	25
Eastern European origins	1,870	415	1,455
Bulgarian	10	0	0
Byelorussian	0	0	0
Czech	70	25	50
Czechoslovakian, n.o.s.^{Footnote 10}	60	0	55
Estonian	35	10	20
Hungarian	260	40	215
Latvian	30	0	30
Lithuanian	70	10	65
Moldovan	0	0	0
Polish	710	155	555
Romanian	40	10	30
Russian	205	25	175
Slovak	15	10	10
Ukrainian	650	120	530
Eastern European origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 11}	0	0	0
Southern European origins	1,655	540	1,120
Albanian	10	0	0
Bosnian	30	0	25
Catalan	0	0	0
Croatian	90	35	55
Cypriot	0	0	0
Greek	90	55	40
Italian	990	285	705
Kosovar	0	0	0
Macedonian	25	10	15
Maltese	60	20	40
Montenegrin	0	0	0
Portuguese	120	50	65
Serbian	45	15	30
Sicilian	10	0	0
Slovenian	50	25	25
Spanish	200	30	170
Yugoslavian, n.o.s.^{Footnote 12}	70	15	60
Southern European origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 13}	0	0	0
Other European origins	85	30	50
Basque	0	0	0
Jewish	25	10	20
Roma (Gypsy)	0	0	0
Slavic, n.o.s.^{Footnote 14}	10	10	10
Other European origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 15}	40	20	20
Caribbean origins	165	30	135
Antiguan	0	0	0
Bahamian	0	0	0
Barbadian	15	0	15
Bermudan	10	0	10
Carib	0	0	0
Cuban	10	0	10
Dominican	0	0	0
Grenadian	0	0	0
Guadeloupean	0	0	0
Haitian	10	0	10
Jamaican	80	20	60
Kittitian/Nevisian	0	0	0
Martinican	0	0	0
Montserratan	0	0	0
Puerto Rican	15	0	15
St. Lucian	0	0	0
Trinidadian/Tobagonian	25	0	25
Vincentian/Grenadinian	0	0	0
West Indian, n.o.s.^{Footnote 16}	0	0	10
Caribbean origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 17}	10	0	0
Latin, Central and South American origins	185	55	130
Aboriginal from Central/South America (except Arawak and Maya)	0	0	0
Arawak	0	0	0
Argentinian	0	0	0
Belizean	0	0	0
Bolivian	0	0	0
Brazilian	15	0	15
Chilean	15	0	15
Colombian	0	0	0
Costa Rican	0	0	0
Ecuadorian	20	0	10
Guatemalan	0	0	0
Guyanese	15	0	20
Hispanic	0	0	0
Honduran	0	0	0
Maya	0	0	0
Mexican	50	15	30
Nicaraguan	15	0	10
Panamanian	0	10	0
Paraguayan	0	0	0
Peruvian	50	20	30
Salvadorean	10	10	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	105	10	90
Central and West African origins	0	0	0
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	0
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	0	0	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	20	10	10
Algerian	0	0	0
Berber	0	0	0
Coptic	0	0	0
Dinka	0	0	0
Egyptian	0	0	0
Libyan	0	0	0
Maure	0	0	0
Moroccan	20	10	10
Sudanese	0	0	0
Tunisian	0	0	0
North African origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 20}	0	0	0
Southern and East African origins	35	0	35
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	0	0	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	25	0	30
Tanzanian	0	0	0
Tigrian	0	0	0
Ugandan	0	0	0
Zambian	0	0	0
Zimbabwean	10	10	10
Zulu	0	0	0
Southern and East African origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 22}	0	0	0
Other African origins	50	0	50
Black, n.o.s.^{Footnote 23}	25	0	25
Other African origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 24}	25	0	20
Asian origins	765	525	240
West Central Asian and Middle Eastern origins	65	15	45
Afghan	0	0	0
Arab, n.o.s.^{Footnote 25}	15	10	10
Armenian	0	0	0
Assyrian	0	0	0
Azerbaijani	10	0	0
Georgian	0	0	0
Hazara	0	0	0
Iranian	10	0	10
Iraqi	0	0	0
Israeli	10	0	10
Jordanian	0	0	0
Kazakh	0	0	0
Kurd	0	0	0
Kuwaiti	0	0	0
Kyrgyz	0	0	0
Lebanese	25	0	25
Palestinian	0	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	165	120	50
Bangladeshi	0	0	0
Bengali	0	0	0
Bhutanese	0	0	0
East Indian	160	110	50
Goan	0	0	0
Gujarati	0	0	0
Kashmiri	0	0	0
Nepali	0	0	0
Pakistani	0	0	0
Punjabi	0	0	0
Sinhalese	0	0	0
Sri Lankan	0	0	0
Tamil	0	0	0
South Asian origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 27}	10	15	0
East and Southeast Asian origins	540	390	155
Burmese	20	0	20
Cambodian (Khmer)	0	0	0
Chinese	305	255	50
Filipino	145	75	70
Hmong	0	10	0
Indonesian	10	0	10
Japanese	10	0	0
Karen	0	0	0
Korean	25	25	0
Laotian	0	0	0
Malaysian	0	0	0
Mongolian	0	0	0
Singaporean	0	0	0
Taiwanese	0	0	0
Thai	0	0	0
Tibetan	0	0	0
Vietnamese	45	35	10
East and Southeast Asian origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 28}	0	0	0
Other Asian origins	0	0	0
Other Asian origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 29}	0	0	0
Oceania origins	55	0	55
Australian	20	0	20
New Zealander	30	0	25
Pacific Islands origins	0	0	10
Fijian	0	0	0
Hawaiian	0	0	0
Maori	10	0	10
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 available for a specific reference period

Symbol ...

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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