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 Shawinigan
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}	52,180	42,600	9,580
North American Aboriginal origins	1,895	605	1,290
First Nations (North American Indian)	1,615	540	1,070
Inuit	15	10	10
Métis	350	50	295
Other North American origins	42,895	35,215	7,685
Acadian	115	35	90
American	215	15	195
Canadian	41,600	34,175	7,425
New Brunswicker	0	0	0
Newfoundlander	0	0	0
Nova Scotian	0	0	0
Ontarian	30	10	25
Québécois	1,330	980	350
Other North American origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 6}	0	0	0
European origins	14,905	6,255	8,650
British Isles origins	2,740	790	1,950
Channel Islander	0	0	0
Cornish	0	0	0
English	510	95	415
Irish	1,850	510	1,335
Manx	0	0	0
Scottish	620	175	445
Welsh	15	10	10
British Isles origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 7}	0	10	0
French origins	12,230	4,950	7,280
Alsatian	10	10	0
Breton	75	25	55
Corsican	0	0	0
French	12,155	4,925	7,230
Western European origins (except French origins)	640	220	420
Austrian	30	0	20
Bavarian	0	0	0
Belgian	150	80	70
Dutch	70	30	40
Flemish	0	0	10
Frisian	0	0	0
German	340	80	255
Luxembourger	0	0	0
Swiss	80	20	55
Western European origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 8}	0	0	0
Northern European origins (except British Isles origins)	85	30	55
Danish	15	10	10
Finnish	10	0	0
Icelandic	0	0	0
Norwegian	50	15	35
Swedish	10	0	15
Northern European origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 9}	10	0	0
Eastern European origins	175	35	140
Bulgarian	40	10	35
Byelorussian	0	0	0
Czech	10	0	0
Czechoslovakian, n.o.s.^{Footnote 10}	0	0	0
Estonian	0	0	0
Hungarian	30	10	25
Latvian	0	0	0
Lithuanian	10	0	10
Moldovan	0	0	0
Polish	35	10	30
Romanian	10	10	10
Russian	25	10	20
Slovak	0	10	0
Ukrainian	25	0	30
Eastern European origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 11}	0	0	0
Southern European origins	725	220	510
Albanian	0	0	10
Bosnian	0	0	0
Catalan	0	0	0
Croatian	0	0	0
Cypriot	0	0	0
Greek	105	55	45
Italian	495	150	355
Kosovar	0	0	0
Macedonian	0	0	0
Maltese	0	0	0
Montenegrin	0	0	0
Portuguese	65	15	50
Serbian	0	0	0
Sicilian	0	0	0
Slovenian	0	0	0
Spanish	55	0	50
Yugoslavian, n.o.s.^{Footnote 12}	0	0	0
Southern European origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 13}	0	0	0
Other European origins	35	10	25
Basque	10	0	10
Jewish	10	0	10
Roma (Gypsy)	0	0	10
Slavic, n.o.s.^{Footnote 14}	0	0	0
Other European origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 15}	15	10	0
Caribbean origins	160	70	90
Antiguan	0	0	0
Bahamian	10	0	10
Barbadian	0	0	0
Bermudan	0	0	0
Carib	0	0	0
Cuban	10	10	0
Dominican	0	0	0
Grenadian	0	0	0
Guadeloupean	0	0	0
Haitian	90	50	40
Jamaican	0	0	10
Kittitian/Nevisian	0	0	0
Martinican	15	0	20
Montserratan	0	0	0
Puerto Rican	0	0	0
St. Lucian	0	0	0
Trinidadian/Tobagonian	10	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	105	80	30
Aboriginal from Central/South America (except Arawak and Maya)	10	0	10
Arawak	0	0	0
Argentinian	0	0	0
Belizean	0	0	0
Bolivian	0	0	0
Brazilian	10	10	0
Chilean	10	10	0
Colombian	0	0	0
Costa Rican	10	10	10
Ecuadorian	0	0	10
Guatemalan	0	0	0
Guyanese	0	0	0
Hispanic	0	0	0
Honduran	0	10	0
Maya	0	0	0
Mexican	50	45	10
Nicaraguan	0	0	0
Panamanian	0	0	0
Paraguayan	0	0	0
Peruvian	20	10	15
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	285	140	140
Central and West African origins	115	60	55
Akan	0	0	0
Angolan	0	0	0
Ashanti	0	0	0
Beninese	0	0	0
Burkinabe	0	0	0
Cameroonian	35	35	0
Chadian	0	0	0
Congolese	20	0	15
Edo	0	0	0
Ewe	0	0	0
Gabonese	25	10	20
Gambian	0	0	0
Ghanaian	0	0	0
Guinean	0	0	0
Ibo	0	0	0
Ivorian	15	10	10
Liberian	0	0	0
Malian	0	0	0
Malinké	0	0	0
Nigerian	0	0	0
Peulh	0	0	0
Senegalese	10	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}	15	0	10
North African origins	105	65	35
Algerian	35	30	0
Berber	20	0	15
Coptic	0	0	0
Dinka	0	0	0
Egyptian	20	10	10
Libyan	0	0	0
Maure	0	0	0
Moroccan	25	10	15
Sudanese	0	0	0
Tunisian	10	10	0
North African origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 20}	0	0	0
Southern and East African origins	15	10	10
Afrikaner	0	0	0
Amhara	0	0	0
Bantu, n.o.s.^{Footnote 21}	0	0	0
Burundian	10	0	0
Djiboutian	0	0	0
Eritrean	0	0	0
Ethiopian	0	0	0
Harari	0	0	0
Kenyan	0	0	0
Malagasy	15	0	15
Mauritian	0	0	0
Oromo	0	0	0
Rwandan	0	0	0
Seychellois	0	0	0
Somali	0	0	0
South African	0	0	0
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	50	10	40
Black, n.o.s.^{Footnote 23}	15	0	20
Other African origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 24}	30	10	25
Asian origins	415	240	175
West Central Asian and Middle Eastern origins	155	60	95
Afghan	0	0	0
Arab, n.o.s.^{Footnote 25}	35	20	15
Armenian	0	0	0
Assyrian	0	0	0
Azerbaijani	0	0	0
Georgian	0	0	0
Hazara	0	0	0
Iranian	0	0	0
Iraqi	20	0	25
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	95	35	55
Palestinian	0	0	10
Pashtun	0	0	0
Saudi Arabian	0	0	0
Syrian	30	0	25
Tajik	0	0	0
Tatar	0	0	0
Turk	10	0	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	35	10	25
Bangladeshi	0	0	0
Bengali	0	0	0
Bhutanese	0	0	0
East Indian	30	0	25
Goan	0	0	0
Gujarati	0	0	0
Kashmiri	0	0	0
Nepali	0	0	0
Pakistani	0	10	10
Punjabi	0	0	0
Sinhalese	0	0	0
Sri Lankan	0	0	0
Tamil	0	0	0
South Asian origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 27}	0	0	0
East and Southeast Asian origins	230	170	60
Burmese	0	0	0
Cambodian (Khmer)	0	0	0
Chinese	145	125	20
Filipino	15	0	10
Hmong	0	0	0
Indonesian	0	0	0
Japanese	0	0	0
Karen	0	0	0
Korean	10	10	0
Laotian	0	0	0
Malaysian	0	0	0
Mongolian	0	0	0
Singaporean	0	0	0
Taiwanese	0	0	0
Thai	0	0	0
Tibetan	0	0	0
Vietnamese	50	15	40
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	0	0	0
Australian	0	0	0
New Zealander	0	0	0
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	0
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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