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 Yukon
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}	35,110	14,355	20,755
North American Aboriginal origins	8,320	3,215	5,110
First Nations (North American Indian)	7,260	2,965	4,290
Inuit	395	95	295
Métis	1,020	155	865
Other North American origins	9,340	3,235	6,100
Acadian	160	25	135
American	675	50	630
Canadian	8,640	3,125	5,515
New Brunswicker	0	0	0
Newfoundlander	65	20	45
Nova Scotian	10	0	0
Ontarian	0	0	0
Québécois	90	15	70
Other North American origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 6}	10	10	10
European origins	24,990	5,595	19,395
British Isles origins	17,520	2,450	15,070
Channel Islander	0	0	0
Cornish	10	0	10
English	9,680	1,200	8,480
Irish	6,930	410	6,515
Manx	15	10	0
Scottish	8,295	575	7,720
Welsh	905	45	860
British Isles origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 7}	1,235	210	1,025
French origins	5,060	510	4,550
Alsatian	0	0	10
Breton	10	0	15
Corsican	0	0	0
French	5,035	505	4,530
Western European origins (except French origins)	7,690	1,420	6,275
Austrian	365	45	325
Bavarian	10	0	10
Belgian	175	20	155
Dutch	1,760	295	1,470
Flemish	10	0	10
Frisian	15	0	15
German	5,575	940	4,635
Luxembourger	10	10	0
Swiss	435	115	320
Western European origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 8}	30	0	25
Northern European origins (except British Isles origins)	3,335	270	3,065
Danish	550	25	530
Finnish	275	60	215
Icelandic	215	20	190
Norwegian	1,380	95	1,285
Swedish	1,095	65	1,035
Northern European origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 9}	205	15	190
Eastern European origins	4,495	590	3,905
Bulgarian	40	0	45
Byelorussian	20	0	20
Czech	180	55	120
Czechoslovakian, n.o.s.^{Footnote 10}	45	10	40
Estonian	15	10	10
Hungarian	490	100	385
Latvian	50	10	40
Lithuanian	40	0	35
Moldovan	0	0	0
Polish	1,140	105	1,030
Romanian	130	10	125
Russian	825	90	735
Slovak	110	15	95
Ukrainian	2,200	200	2,000
Eastern European origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 11}	35	0	30
Southern European origins	1,490	245	1,240
Albanian	10	10	0
Bosnian	20	0	20
Catalan	0	0	0
Croatian	60	25	30
Cypriot	0	0	0
Greek	90	15	70
Italian	915	85	830
Kosovar	0	0	0
Macedonian	15	10	10
Maltese	10	0	0
Montenegrin	0	10	0
Portuguese	70	20	45
Serbian	10	0	10
Sicilian	10	0	10
Slovenian	45	45	10
Spanish	270	30	235
Yugoslavian, n.o.s.^{Footnote 12}	30	10	25
Southern European origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 13}	0	0	0
Other European origins	455	110	345
Basque	15	0	20
Jewish	150	10	150
Roma (Gypsy)	10	0	10
Slavic, n.o.s.^{Footnote 14}	35	10	30
Other European origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 15}	250	100	150
Caribbean origins	165	40	125
Antiguan	0	0	0
Bahamian	0	0	10
Barbadian	10	0	0
Bermudan	0	0	0
Carib	0	0	0
Cuban	15	10	10
Dominican	0	0	0
Grenadian	0	0	0
Guadeloupean	0	0	0
Haitian	0	0	0
Jamaican	90	25	70
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	20
Vincentian/Grenadinian	0	0	0
West Indian, n.o.s.^{Footnote 16}	20	0	20
Caribbean origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 17}	0	0	0
Latin, Central and South American origins	215	75	135
Aboriginal from Central/South America (except Arawak and Maya)	0	0	0
Arawak	0	0	0
Argentinian	35	0	30
Belizean	0	0	0
Bolivian	0	0	0
Brazilian	20	15	10
Chilean	30	0	20
Colombian	25	10	10
Costa Rican	0	0	0
Ecuadorian	0	0	0
Guatemalan	0	0	10
Guyanese	0	0	10
Hispanic	0	0	0
Honduran	10	0	10
Maya	0	0	0
Mexican	90	30	55
Nicaraguan	0	0	0
Panamanian	0	0	0
Paraguayan	0	0	0
Peruvian	0	0	10
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	350	100	250
Central and West African origins	55	25	30
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	10	0	10
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	15	0	10
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}	25	10	20
North African origins	35	10	25
Algerian	0	0	0
Berber	0	0	10
Coptic	0	0	0
Dinka	0	0	0
Egyptian	10	0	0
Libyan	0	0	0
Maure	15	0	15
Moroccan	0	0	0
Sudanese	0	0	10
Tunisian	0	0	0
North African origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 20}	0	0	0
Southern and East African origins	125	20	110
Afrikaner	0	0	10
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	10	0
Harari	0	0	0
Kenyan	15	0	15
Malagasy	0	0	0
Mauritian	10	0	0
Oromo	0	0	0
Rwandan	10	10	0
Seychellois	15	0	15
Somali	15	15	0
South African	55	0	60
Tanzanian	0	0	0
Tigrian	0	0	0
Ugandan	0	0	0
Zambian	10	0	0
Zimbabwean	0	0	10
Zulu	0	0	0
Southern and East African origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 22}	10	0	10
Other African origins	135	50	85
Black, n.o.s.^{Footnote 23}	10	0	10
Other African origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 24}	130	55	80
Asian origins	2,855	2,090	770
West Central Asian and Middle Eastern origins	195	50	140
Afghan	10	0	0
Arab, n.o.s.^{Footnote 25}	15	0	10
Armenian	25	0	15
Assyrian	0	10	0
Azerbaijani	0	0	0
Georgian	0	0	0
Hazara	0	0	0
Iranian	15	15	0
Iraqi	10	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	60	10	45
Palestinian	10	0	10
Pashtun	0	0	0
Saudi Arabian	0	0	0
Syrian	10	0	10
Tajik	0	0	0
Tatar	10	0	10
Turk	30	0	30
Turkmen	0	0	0
Uighur	0	0	0
Uzbek	15	0	15
Yemeni	0	0	0
West Central Asian and Middle Eastern origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 26}	10	10	0
South Asian origins	465	370	95
Bangladeshi	25	20	10
Bengali	0	0	0
Bhutanese	0	0	0
East Indian	320	250	75
Goan	0	0	0
Gujarati	40	40	0
Kashmiri	0	0	0
Nepali	0	0	0
Pakistani	60	50	10
Punjabi	0	0	0
Sinhalese	0	0	0
Sri Lankan	25	0	20
Tamil	0	0	0
South Asian origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 27}	10	10	0
East and Southeast Asian origins	2,180	1,655	525
Burmese	0	0	0
Cambodian (Khmer)	0	0	0
Chinese	625	350	270
Filipino	1,335	1,095	240
Hmong	0	0	0
Indonesian	20	0	20
Japanese	95	60	35
Karen	0	0	0
Korean	80	65	15
Laotian	10	0	0
Malaysian	45	20	30
Mongolian	15	0	10
Singaporean	0	0	0
Taiwanese	0	0	0
Thai	25	10	15
Tibetan	0	0	0
Vietnamese	85	40	45
East and Southeast Asian origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 28}	10	0	0
Other Asian origins	25	10	15
Other Asian origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 29}	25	10	15
Oceania origins	170	10	160
Australian	85	0	85
New Zealander	60	0	60
Pacific Islands origins	35	10	30
Fijian	10	0	0
Hawaiian	0	0	0
Maori	20	0	20
Samoan	0	0	0
Polynesian, n.o.s.^{Footnote 30}	10	0	0
Pacific Islands origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 31}	10	0	10

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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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