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 Yellowknife
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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}	19,285	8,515	10,765
North American Aboriginal origins	4,520	1,425	3,090
First Nations (North American Indian)	3,200	1,040	2,165
Inuit	620	190	430
Métis	1,285	200	1,085
Other North American origins	6,165	2,350	3,820
Acadian	205	15	190
American	250	15	235
Canadian	5,900	2,305	3,595
New Brunswicker	0	0	0
Newfoundlander	40	10	35
Nova Scotian	15	0	15
Ontarian	0	0	0
Québécois	20	0	20
Other North American origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 6}	0	0	0
European origins	11,955	2,250	9,705
British Isles origins	8,985	1,185	7,795
Channel Islander	0	0	0
Cornish	0	0	0
English	5,075	530	4,545
Irish	3,545	255	3,290
Manx	10	0	10
Scottish	4,280	350	3,935
Welsh	415	10	405
British Isles origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 7}	525	40	480
French origins	2,660	210	2,450
Alsatian	0	0	10
Breton	0	0	0
Corsican	0	0	0
French	2,655	210	2,445
Western European origins (except French origins)	3,190	395	2,795
Austrian	130	15	120
Bavarian	0	0	0
Belgian	110	10	100
Dutch	765	105	655
Flemish	0	0	0
Frisian	0	0	0
German	2,415	270	2,150
Luxembourger	10	0	0
Swiss	110	10	110
Western European origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 8}	0	0	0
Northern European origins (except British Isles origins)	1,195	90	1,105
Danish	205	15	190
Finnish	45	20	25
Icelandic	145	25	120
Norwegian	535	25	515
Swedish	245	10	235
Northern European origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 9}	90	0	95
Eastern European origins	1,985	195	1,785
Bulgarian	0	0	0
Byelorussian	0	0	10
Czech	65	10	55
Czechoslovakian, n.o.s.^{Footnote 10}	15	0	15
Estonian	0	0	0
Hungarian	185	25	165
Latvian	40	0	45
Lithuanian	25	0	25
Moldovan	0	0	0
Polish	655	35	620
Romanian	90	15	75
Russian	325	20	305
Slovak	50	25	20
Ukrainian	900	70	830
Eastern European origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 11}	0	0	10
Southern European origins	875	145	730
Albanian	0	0	0
Bosnian	0	0	0
Catalan	0	0	10
Croatian	15	0	0
Cypriot	0	0	0
Greek	30	0	25
Italian	355	70	290
Kosovar	0	0	0
Macedonian	35	20	10
Maltese	10	0	10
Montenegrin	0	0	0
Portuguese	140	10	130
Serbian	10	10	0
Sicilian	10	0	0
Slovenian	10	0	15
Spanish	270	30	245
Yugoslavian, n.o.s.^{Footnote 12}	10	0	10
Southern European origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 13}	10	0	10
Other European origins	130	25	110
Basque	0	0	0
Jewish	85	0	80
Roma (Gypsy)	0	0	0
Slavic, n.o.s.^{Footnote 14}	0	0	0
Other European origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 15}	50	20	30
Caribbean origins	170	90	85
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	40	30	15
Grenadian	10	0	0
Guadeloupean	0	0	0
Haitian	0	10	0
Jamaican	90	45	50
Kittitian/Nevisian	0	0	0
Martinican	0	0	0
Montserratan	0	0	0
Puerto Rican	0	10	0
St. Lucian	10	0	10
Trinidadian/Tobagonian	25	0	20
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	155	50	110
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	10	10	0
Brazilian	10	0	10
Chilean	0	10	0
Colombian	20	10	10
Costa Rican	0	0	0
Ecuadorian	0	0	0
Guatemalan	10	0	0
Guyanese	0	0	0
Hispanic	10	0	10
Honduran	0	0	0
Maya	10	0	10
Mexican	45	15	25
Nicaraguan	10	10	0
Panamanian	0	0	10
Paraguayan	0	0	0
Peruvian	0	0	0
Salvadorean	25	0	30
Uruguayan	0	0	0
Venezuelan	15	0	15
Latin, Central and South American origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 18}	10	0	10
African origins	625	400	225
Central and West African origins	80	35	50
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	20	15	0
Guinean	0	0	0
Ibo	25	0	30
Ivorian	0	0	0
Liberian	0	0	0
Malian	0	0	0
Malinké	0	0	0
Nigerian	45	10	40
Peulh	0	0	0
Senegalese	0	0	0
Sierra Leonean	0	0	0
Togolese	0	0	0
Wolof	0	0	0
Yoruba	15	0	10
Central and West African origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 19}	10	0	10
North African origins	150	105	50
Algerian	35	25	15
Berber	10	0	10
Coptic	10	0	10
Dinka	0	0	0
Egyptian	10	0	0
Libyan	0	0	0
Maure	0	0	0
Moroccan	25	10	20
Sudanese	75	65	10
Tunisian	0	0	0
North African origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 20}	0	0	0
Southern and East African origins	250	205	45
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	30	30	0
Ethiopian	20	15	0
Harari	0	0	0
Kenyan	0	0	0
Malagasy	0	0	0
Mauritian	10	10	0
Oromo	0	0	0
Rwandan	0	0	0
Seychellois	0	0	0
Somali	65	45	20
South African	15	0	15
Tanzanian	0	0	0
Tigrian	0	0	0
Ugandan	30	30	0
Zambian	0	0	0
Zimbabwean	70	65	0
Zulu	0	0	0
Southern and East African origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 22}	0	0	10
Other African origins	155	60	95
Black, n.o.s.^{Footnote 23}	35	0	35
Other African origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 24}	130	60	70
Asian origins	2,525	1,955	565
West Central Asian and Middle Eastern origins	140	85	60
Afghan	10	10	0
Arab, n.o.s.^{Footnote 25}	10	15	0
Armenian	25	15	10
Assyrian	0	0	0
Azerbaijani	10	0	0
Georgian	0	0	0
Hazara	0	0	0
Iranian	45	30	10
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	15	0	10
Palestinian	0	0	0
Pashtun	0	0	0
Saudi Arabian	0	0	10
Syrian	15	0	10
Tajik	0	0	0
Tatar	0	0	0
Turk	10	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	490	415	85
Bangladeshi	55	60	0
Bengali	40	30	10
Bhutanese	0	0	0
East Indian	290	235	60
Goan	0	0	0
Gujarati	0	0	0
Kashmiri	0	0	0
Nepali	10	0	0
Pakistani	70	75	0
Punjabi	10	0	10
Sinhalese	0	0	0
Sri Lankan	20	10	15
Tamil	0	0	0
South Asian origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 27}	0	0	10
East and Southeast Asian origins	1,905	1,460	450
Burmese	0	0	0
Cambodian (Khmer)	0	0	0
Chinese	285	160	125
Filipino	1,175	915	255
Hmong	0	0	0
Indonesian	10	0	0
Japanese	155	60	95
Karen	0	0	0
Korean	85	80	0
Laotian	0	0	0
Malaysian	0	0	0
Mongolian	10	0	10
Singaporean	0	0	0
Taiwanese	20	15	0
Thai	0	0	0
Tibetan	0	0	0
Vietnamese	240	215	15
East and Southeast Asian origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 28}	0	0	0
Other Asian origins	10	0	0
Other Asian origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 29}	0	0	10
Oceania origins	60	10	55
Australian	20	0	25
New Zealander	35	10	30
Pacific Islands origins	0	0	0
Fijian	0	0	0
Hawaiian	0	0	0
Maori	0	0	0
Samoan	0	0	0
Polynesian, n.o.s.^{Footnote 30}	0	0	10
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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