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 Squamish
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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}	19,495	7,670	11,820
North American Aboriginal origins	1,555	410	1,145
First Nations (North American Indian)	1,165	370	795
Inuit	20	0	15
Métis	410	40	370
Other North American origins	5,070	1,515	3,555
Acadian	0	0	0
American	325	30	300
Canadian	4,830	1,480	3,355
New Brunswicker	0	0	0
Newfoundlander	30	10	25
Nova Scotian	0	0	0
Ontarian	0	0	0
Québécois	10	0	10
Other North American origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 6}	0	0	0
European origins	15,045	3,545	11,500
British Isles origins	11,145	1,900	9,240
Channel Islander	0	0	10
Cornish	10	0	0
English	6,515	1,025	5,495
Irish	3,885	240	3,640
Manx	15	0	15
Scottish	5,130	430	4,700
Welsh	635	30	605
British Isles origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 7}	955	175	785
French origins	2,280	165	2,115
Alsatian	10	0	0
Breton	0	0	0
Corsican	0	0	0
French	2,280	165	2,115
Western European origins (except French origins)	4,225	580	3,640
Austrian	280	25	250
Bavarian	0	0	0
Belgian	110	15	95
Dutch	985	135	845
Flemish	10	0	10
Frisian	0	0	0
German	2,950	380	2,565
Luxembourger	0	0	0
Swiss	230	15	215
Western European origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 8}	10	0	10
Northern European origins (except British Isles origins)	1,975	165	1,810
Danish	365	65	305
Finnish	175	0	165
Icelandic	200	0	200
Norwegian	635	40	595
Swedish	720	40	675
Northern European origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 9}	70	10	60
Eastern European origins	2,755	445	2,315
Bulgarian	0	0	10
Byelorussian	10	0	10
Czech	210	65	150
Czechoslovakian, n.o.s.^{Footnote 10}	20	0	25
Estonian	25	10	20
Hungarian	320	60	255
Latvian	45	10	35
Lithuanian	50	10	40
Moldovan	0	0	0
Polish	820	110	710
Romanian	85	10	80
Russian	510	20	495
Slovak	80	15	65
Ukrainian	1,035	130	900
Eastern European origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 11}	0	0	0
Southern European origins	1,705	225	1,485
Albanian	0	0	0
Bosnian	0	0	0
Catalan	0	10	0
Croatian	95	15	75
Cypriot	0	0	0
Greek	95	10	85
Italian	945	90	855
Kosovar	0	0	0
Macedonian	10	0	10
Maltese	15	0	15
Montenegrin	0	0	0
Portuguese	170	40	130
Serbian	20	0	15
Sicilian	0	0	0
Slovenian	20	0	25
Spanish	410	55	350
Yugoslavian, n.o.s.^{Footnote 12}	40	10	35
Southern European origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 13}	0	0	0
Other European origins	200	70	135
Basque	15	0	15
Jewish	70	10	65
Roma (Gypsy)	0	0	0
Slavic, n.o.s.^{Footnote 14}	0	0	0
Other European origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 15}	110	55	60
Caribbean origins	85	25	60
Antiguan	0	0	0
Bahamian	0	0	0
Barbadian	10	0	10
Bermudan	0	0	0
Carib	0	0	0
Cuban	10	0	0
Dominican	0	0	0
Grenadian	0	0	0
Guadeloupean	0	0	0
Haitian	0	0	0
Jamaican	30	10	20
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	20	0	15
Vincentian/Grenadinian	0	0	0
West Indian, n.o.s.^{Footnote 16}	0	0	0
Caribbean origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 17}	10	10	0
Latin, Central and South American origins	280	60	220
Aboriginal from Central/South America (except Arawak and Maya)	0	0	0
Arawak	10	0	10
Argentinian	40	0	40
Belizean	0	0	0
Bolivian	10	0	10
Brazilian	10	15	0
Chilean	55	10	45
Colombian	10	10	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	0
Mexican	110	20	90
Nicaraguan	0	0	0
Panamanian	0	0	0
Paraguayan	0	0	0
Peruvian	0	0	10
Salvadorean	10	0	10
Uruguayan	0	0	0
Venezuelan	10	0	10
Latin, Central and South American origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 18}	10	0	0
African origins	230	30	200
Central and West African origins	10	0	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	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	10
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	50	0	45
Algerian	0	0	0
Berber	0	0	0
Coptic	0	0	0
Dinka	0	0	0
Egyptian	40	0	40
Libyan	0	0	0
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	105	20	80
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	15	0	10
Oromo	0	0	0
Rwandan	0	0	0
Seychellois	0	0	0
Somali	10	10	0
South African	80	10	65
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	70	0	65
Black, n.o.s.^{Footnote 23}	20	0	25
Other African origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 24}	45	10	45
Asian origins	2,775	2,050	730
West Central Asian and Middle Eastern origins	160	40	110
Afghan	0	0	0
Arab, n.o.s.^{Footnote 25}	0	0	0
Armenian	15	0	20
Assyrian	0	0	0
Azerbaijani	0	0	0
Georgian	0	0	0
Hazara	0	0	0
Iranian	40	25	20
Iraqi	10	0	10
Israeli	15	0	15
Jordanian	0	0	0
Kazakh	0	0	0
Kurd	0	0	0
Kuwaiti	0	0	0
Kyrgyz	0	0	0
Lebanese	50	10	40
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	15	10	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	1,320	1,165	155
Bangladeshi	0	0	0
Bengali	0	0	0
Bhutanese	0	0	0
East Indian	1,150	1,025	120
Goan	0	0	0
Gujarati	0	0	0
Kashmiri	0	0	0
Nepali	0	0	0
Pakistani	0	0	0
Punjabi	140	105	35
Sinhalese	0	0	0
Sri Lankan	10	0	10
Tamil	0	0	0
South Asian origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 27}	45	30	15
East and Southeast Asian origins	1,325	835	495
Burmese	15	0	10
Cambodian (Khmer)	0	0	0
Chinese	285	150	135
Filipino	615	450	170
Hmong	0	0	0
Indonesian	35	0	30
Japanese	305	145	160
Karen	0	0	0
Korean	95	60	35
Laotian	10	0	10
Malaysian	10	0	0
Mongolian	0	0	0
Singaporean	0	0	0
Taiwanese	20	0	15
Thai	40	20	25
Tibetan	0	0	0
Vietnamese	10	10	10
East and Southeast Asian origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 28}	0	0	0
Other Asian origins	0	10	0
Other Asian origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 29}	10	0	0
Oceania origins	260	40	220
Australian	145	20	130
New Zealander	65	15	50
Pacific Islands origins	50	10	45
Fijian	25	10	15
Hawaiian	0	0	10
Maori	15	0	15
Samoan	0	0	0
Polynesian, n.o.s.^{Footnote 30}	15	0	15
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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