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 Prince Albert
Data quality
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}	42,380	18,775	23,605
North American Aboriginal origins	15,255	6,440	8,815
First Nations (North American Indian)	9,920	4,910	5,010
Inuit	95	0	90
Métis	6,555	1,525	5,035
Other North American origins	10,310	3,885	6,420
Acadian	0	0	0
American	525	30	500
Canadian	9,945	3,850	6,095
New Brunswicker	0	0	0
Newfoundlander	0	0	0
Nova Scotian	0	0	0
Ontarian	0	0	0
Québécois	10	0	10
Other North American origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 6}	10	10	0
European origins	27,255	5,920	21,330
British Isles origins	15,175	1,705	13,470
Channel Islander	0	0	0
Cornish	0	0	0
English	9,085	1,090	7,995
Irish	4,970	220	4,750
Manx	10	0	10
Scottish	6,820	325	6,495
Welsh	455	0	450
British Isles origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 7}	400	60	345
French origins	7,365	725	6,635
Alsatian	0	0	0
Breton	0	0	0
Corsican	0	0	0
French	7,365	725	6,635
Western European origins (except French origins)	8,540	1,120	7,420
Austrian	365	0	360
Bavarian	0	0	0
Belgian	245	0	245
Dutch	1,160	95	1,060
Flemish	30	0	30
Frisian	0	0	0
German	7,200	1,010	6,190
Luxembourger	0	0	10
Swiss	155	10	150
Western European origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 8}	0	0	0
Northern European origins (except British Isles origins)	4,310	320	3,990
Danish	395	15	380
Finnish	75	10	60
Icelandic	175	15	165
Norwegian	2,805	215	2,590
Swedish	1,270	55	1,210
Northern European origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 9}	90	0	85
Eastern European origins	9,030	1,930	7,105
Bulgarian	0	0	0
Byelorussian	10	10	0
Czech	145	25	120
Czechoslovakian, n.o.s.^{Footnote 10}	80	20	60
Estonian	10	10	0
Hungarian	805	110	700
Latvian	25	0	25
Lithuanian	20	0	20
Moldovan	0	0	0
Polish	2,765	290	2,475
Romanian	265	40	225
Russian	910	55	855
Slovak	30	0	25
Ukrainian	6,215	1,375	4,845
Eastern European origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 11}	15	0	10
Southern European origins	635	95	540
Albanian	15	10	0
Bosnian	0	0	0
Catalan	0	0	0
Croatian	25	10	25
Cypriot	0	0	0
Greek	55	15	40
Italian	270	25	250
Kosovar	0	0	0
Macedonian	0	0	0
Maltese	10	0	0
Montenegrin	0	0	0
Portuguese	60	20	40
Serbian	0	0	0
Sicilian	0	0	0
Slovenian	10	0	10
Spanish	150	15	135
Yugoslavian, n.o.s.^{Footnote 12}	60	0	55
Southern European origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 13}	0	0	0
Other European origins	155	25	130
Basque	15	0	10
Jewish	50	0	50
Roma (Gypsy)	15	0	10
Slavic, n.o.s.^{Footnote 14}	10	0	10
Other European origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 15}	75	25	45
Caribbean origins	35	15	25
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	0	0	0
Grenadian	0	0	0
Guadeloupean	0	0	0
Haitian	0	0	0
Jamaican	20	10	10
Kittitian/Nevisian	0	0	0
Martinican	0	0	0
Montserratan	0	0	0
Puerto Rican	0	0	0
St. Lucian	0	0	0
Trinidadian/Tobagonian	10	0	10
Vincentian/Grenadinian	0	0	0
West Indian, n.o.s.^{Footnote 16}	10	0	10
Caribbean origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 17}	0	0	0
Latin, Central and South American origins	170	95	70
Aboriginal from Central/South America (except Arawak and Maya)	0	0	10
Arawak	0	0	0
Argentinian	0	0	0
Belizean	10	0	0
Bolivian	0	0	0
Brazilian	10	0	10
Chilean	40	20	25
Colombian	35	30	10
Costa Rican	0	0	0
Ecuadorian	0	0	0
Guatemalan	0	0	0
Guyanese	0	0	10
Hispanic	0	0	0
Honduran	0	0	0
Maya	0	0	0
Mexican	40	25	15
Nicaraguan	0	0	0
Panamanian	0	0	0
Paraguayan	10	0	10
Peruvian	0	0	0
Salvadorean	25	0	15
Uruguayan	0	0	0
Venezuelan	0	0	0
Latin, Central and South American origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 18}	10	0	0
African origins	630	405	225
Central and West African origins	140	100	40
Akan	10	10	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	65	55	10
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	45	20	25
Peulh	0	0	0
Senegalese	0	0	0
Sierra Leonean	0	0	0
Togolese	0	0	0
Wolof	0	0	0
Yoruba	30	0	25
Central and West African origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 19}	20	20	0
North African origins	85	90	0
Algerian	0	0	0
Berber	0	0	0
Coptic	0	0	0
Dinka	0	0	0
Egyptian	50	50	0
Libyan	0	0	0
Maure	0	0	0
Moroccan	0	0	0
Sudanese	40	35	0
Tunisian	0	0	0
North African origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 20}	0	0	0
Southern and East African origins	225	130	95
Afrikaner	0	0	0
Amhara	10	0	10
Bantu, n.o.s.^{Footnote 21}	10	15	0
Burundian	15	0	10
Djiboutian	10	0	0
Eritrean	40	40	0
Ethiopian	25	0	15
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	45	35	15
South African	55	25	30
Tanzanian	15	0	15
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}	10	10	10
Other African origins	190	90	100
Black, n.o.s.^{Footnote 23}	15	0	20
Other African origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 24}	170	85	85
Asian origins	2,500	2,010	490
West Central Asian and Middle Eastern origins	135	100	35
Afghan	0	0	0
Arab, n.o.s.^{Footnote 25}	10	10	0
Armenian	0	0	0
Assyrian	0	0	0
Azerbaijani	0	0	0
Georgian	0	0	0
Hazara	0	0	0
Iranian	0	10	0
Iraqi	0	0	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	10	0	10
Palestinian	0	0	0
Pashtun	15	0	10
Saudi Arabian	0	0	0
Syrian	40	45	0
Tajik	0	0	0
Tatar	0	0	0
Turk	0	0	0
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}	45	45	0
South Asian origins	765	640	130
Bangladeshi	0	0	0
Bengali	0	0	0
Bhutanese	0	0	0
East Indian	620	510	115
Goan	20	0	20
Gujarati	0	0	0
Kashmiri	0	0	0
Nepali	10	10	0
Pakistani	115	95	15
Punjabi	20	0	20
Sinhalese	0	0	0
Sri Lankan	0	0	0
Tamil	0	0	0
South Asian origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 27}	20	20	0
East and Southeast Asian origins	1,595	1,265	330
Burmese	50	40	10
Cambodian (Khmer)	10	0	0
Chinese	205	95	110
Filipino	1,055	875	180
Hmong	0	0	0
Indonesian	0	0	0
Japanese	45	10	30
Karen	75	75	0
Korean	40	40	0
Laotian	10	10	0
Malaysian	0	0	0
Mongolian	20	0	20
Singaporean	0	0	0
Taiwanese	0	0	0
Thai	0	0	0
Tibetan	0	0	0
Vietnamese	145	125	15
East and Southeast Asian origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 28}	0	0	0
Other Asian origins	20	10	10
Other Asian origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 29}	20	10	15
Oceania origins	60	0	55
Australian	35	0	40
New Zealander	0	0	0
Pacific Islands origins	25	10	15
Fijian	10	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}	10	0	15

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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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