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 Prince Rupert
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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}	12,515	6,330	6,180
North American Aboriginal origins	4,440	2,175	2,260
First Nations (North American Indian)	4,065	2,125	1,940
Inuit	20	0	20
Métis	405	50	350
Other North American origins	3,055	1,235	1,825
Acadian	10	0	10
American	130	15	115
Canadian	2,940	1,210	1,730
New Brunswicker	0	0	0
Newfoundlander	0	0	0
Nova Scotian	20	10	10
Ontarian	0	0	0
Québécois	0	0	0
Other North American origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 6}	0	0	0
European origins	6,980	1,720	5,265
British Isles origins	4,530	730	3,805
Channel Islander	0	0	0
Cornish	0	0	0
English	2,720	410	2,310
Irish	1,480	55	1,425
Manx	0	0	0
Scottish	1,910	165	1,745
Welsh	270	25	245
British Isles origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 7}	275	70	205
French origins	1,190	65	1,120
Alsatian	0	0	0
Breton	0	0	0
Corsican	0	0	0
French	1,190	65	1,125
Western European origins (except French origins)	1,810	265	1,550
Austrian	60	15	40
Bavarian	0	0	0
Belgian	40	10	25
Dutch	435	70	365
Flemish	0	0	0
Frisian	0	0	0
German	1,350	155	1,195
Luxembourger	0	0	0
Swiss	60	0	60
Western European origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 8}	0	0	0
Northern European origins (except British Isles origins)	1,290	165	1,125
Danish	125	10	110
Finnish	190	25	165
Icelandic	110	15	100
Norwegian	705	100	610
Swedish	280	15	265
Northern European origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 9}	25	0	25
Eastern European origins	1,120	100	1,020
Bulgarian	0	0	0
Byelorussian	0	0	0
Czech	65	15	50
Czechoslovakian, n.o.s.^{Footnote 10}	30	0	35
Estonian	0	0	0
Hungarian	90	10	80
Latvian	20	0	20
Lithuanian	10	0	0
Moldovan	0	0	0
Polish	270	10	260
Romanian	35	0	30
Russian	120	15	105
Slovak	20	0	10
Ukrainian	595	40	555
Eastern European origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 11}	10	0	10
Southern European origins	1,355	395	960
Albanian	0	0	0
Bosnian	0	0	0
Catalan	0	0	0
Croatian	35	10	25
Cypriot	0	0	0
Greek	75	10	70
Italian	800	215	580
Kosovar	0	0	0
Macedonian	0	0	0
Maltese	0	0	0
Montenegrin	0	0	0
Portuguese	320	145	175
Serbian	10	0	10
Sicilian	0	0	0
Slovenian	15	0	10
Spanish	95	0	85
Yugoslavian, n.o.s.^{Footnote 12}	50	10	40
Southern European origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 13}	0	0	0
Other European origins	60	0	60
Basque	0	0	0
Jewish	10	0	10
Roma (Gypsy)	0	0	0
Slavic, n.o.s.^{Footnote 14}	0	0	0
Other European origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 15}	55	0	50
Caribbean origins	70	45	20
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	55	50	15
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	0	0	0
Vincentian/Grenadinian	0	0	0
West Indian, n.o.s.^{Footnote 16}	0	0	0
Caribbean origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 17}	0	0	0
Latin, Central and South American origins	50	10	45
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	0	0	0
Chilean	10	0	10
Colombian	0	0	0
Costa Rican	0	0	0
Ecuadorian	0	0	0
Guatemalan	0	0	0
Guyanese	0	0	0
Hispanic	0	0	0
Honduran	0	0	0
Maya	0	0	10
Mexican	40	0	35
Nicaraguan	0	0	0
Panamanian	0	0	0
Paraguayan	0	0	0
Peruvian	0	0	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	55	0	55
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	0	0	0
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	0	0	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	20	0	20
Afrikaner	10	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	15	0	15
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	35	0	30
Black, n.o.s.^{Footnote 23}	20	0	20
Other African origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 24}	15	0	15
Asian origins	1,520	1,140	380
West Central Asian and Middle Eastern origins	55	15	45
Afghan	0	0	10
Arab, n.o.s.^{Footnote 25}	0	0	0
Armenian	10	0	10
Assyrian	0	0	0
Azerbaijani	0	0	0
Georgian	0	0	0
Hazara	0	0	0
Iranian	45	15	30
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	0	0	0
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	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}	0	0	0
South Asian origins	400	350	50
Bangladeshi	0	0	0
Bengali	0	0	0
Bhutanese	0	0	0
East Indian	340	295	50
Goan	0	0	0
Gujarati	0	0	0
Kashmiri	0	0	0
Nepali	0	0	0
Pakistani	20	20	0
Punjabi	35	35	0
Sinhalese	0	0	0
Sri Lankan	0	0	0
Tamil	0	10	0
South Asian origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 27}	0	0	0
East and Southeast Asian origins	1,065	770	290
Burmese	0	0	0
Cambodian (Khmer)	35	0	35
Chinese	345	190	155
Filipino	215	165	55
Hmong	0	0	0
Indonesian	10	10	0
Japanese	85	35	40
Karen	0	0	0
Korean	10	10	10
Laotian	0	0	0
Malaysian	0	0	0
Mongolian	0	0	0
Singaporean	0	0	0
Taiwanese	0	0	0
Thai	10	10	0
Tibetan	0	0	0
Vietnamese	465	370	95
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	70	10	55
Australian	10	10	10
New Zealander	15	10	10
Pacific Islands origins	45	0	45
Fijian	10	0	0
Hawaiian	30	0	35
Maori	0	0	0
Samoan	10	0	10
Polynesian, n.o.s.^{Footnote 30}	10	0	10
Pacific Islands origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 31}	0	0	0

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Symbol x

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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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