Table 6
Population belonging to visible minority groups, Canada, 2006

Table 6
Population belonging to visible minority groups, Canada, 2006
Table summary
This table displays the results of Population belonging to visible minority groups. The information is grouped by Visible minority group appearing as row headers and is grouped by Females, Males appearing as column headers, calculated using thousands, as a % of all females, as a % of all females who belong to a visible minority group, as a % of visible minority group, as a % of all males, as a % of all males who belong to a visible minority group as a unit of measure.
Visible minority group	Females				Males
Visible minority group	thousands	as a % of all females	as a % of all females who belong to a visible minority group	as a % of visible minority group	thousands	as a % of all males	as a % of all males who belong to a visible minority group
Chinese	632.3	4.0	24.3	52.0	584.3	3.8	23.7
South Asian	625.7	3.9	24.0	49.5	637.2	4.2	25.9
Black	408.1	2.6	15.7	52.1	375.7	2.5	15.2
Filipino	235.1	1.5	9.0	57.2	175.6	1.1	7.1
Latin American	156.3	1.0	6.0	51.4	147.9	1.0	6.0
Southeast Asian	123.5	0.8	4.7	51.5	116.4	0.8	4.7
Arab and West Asian	199.0	1.3	7.6	47.1	223.3	1.5	9.1
Korean	73.3	0.5	2.8	51.7	68.6	0.4	2.8
Japanese	45.1	0.3	1.7	55.5	36.2	0.2	1.5
Other visible minority	37.6	0.2	1.4	52.6	33.8	0.2	1.4
Multiple visible minority groups	68.1	0.4	2.6	51.1	65.1	0.4	2.6
Total visible minority population	2,604.1	16.4	100.0	51.4	2,464.0	16.1	100.0
Total non-visible minority population	13,310.7	83.6	…	…	12,862.2	83.9	…
Total population	15,914.8	100.0	…	…	15,326.3	100.0	…
… not applicable Source: Statistics Canada, Census of Population, 2006.

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