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- From: CZ94 <CZ94@MUSICA.MCGILL.CA>
- Subject: Re: Ethnic origin of Canadians (was Re: Misleading stats)
- Message-ID: <21JAN93.18453436.0153@VM1.MCGILL.CA>
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- References: <20JAN93.10616941.0076@VM1.MCGILL.CA> <1993Jan21.100357.18418@spxtech.qc.ca>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 22:05:11 GMT
-
- In article <1993Jan21.100357.18418@spxtech.qc.ca> steven@spxtech.qc.ca (Steve Potter) writes:
- >From article <20JAN93.10616941.0076@VM1.MCGILL.CA>, by CZ94000 <CZ94@MUSICA.MCGILL.CA>:
- >> In article <1993Jan19.213722.19738@spxtech.qc.ca> steven@spxtech.qc.ca (Steve Potter) writes:
- >>>From article <C1484H.7o2@ecf.toronto.edu>, by pelton@ecf.toronto.edu (PELTON MATTHEW ALAN):
- >>>> In article <1993Jan19.063014.8618@csi.uottawa.ca> cbbrowne@csi.uottawa.ca (Christopher Browne) writes:
- >>>>
- >>>>>>
- >>>>>>Not exactly, but I have some numbers that should be close enough, from
- >>>>>>the 1993 Canadian Global Almanac.
- >>>>>>
- >>>>>>Of Canadian residents, 40% are of British, 27% French, and 20% other
- >>>>>>European ethnic origin. (No date is given for this statistic; I would
- >>>>>>suspect it comes from the 1986 census.) Depending on who is doing the
- >>>
- >>>40% of Canadian residents are of British origin !????
- >>>
- >>>My first reaction was "Rubbish!"
- >>>
- >>>My second reaction was "Cod's Wallop!" (Or is it 'Wallap'?)
- >>
- >> Why? Are you suggesting the real figure is far higher or far lower?
- >> Either way, what is the basis for your assertion?
- >
- >Gut reactions.
- >
- >Annunciated disbelief.
- >
- >Can someone supply figures on percentage of population of British
- >origin by province?
- >
- >Could someone also provide the definition of "British Origin" used
- >by the source to be quoted?
- >
- Here are figures from the 1986 census. In that census, 20 % of
- households received a "long form". One of the questions asked
- on that form was (roughly) "What is your ethnic origin?" Multiple
- responses were allowed. The following are the percentages who
- gave a "British" response to this question, either as a single
- response or part of a multiple response.
-
- BTW, British includes Irish, as well as English, Scottish, Welsh,
- and "Other British", whatever that is (Manx?). Irish nationalists,
- flame StatsCan, not me.
-
- Nfld 95.3 %
- PEI 86.5
- NS 83.4
- NB 62.3
- Que 9.9
- Ont 62.0
- Man 47.8
- Sask 51.9
- Alta 58.0
- BC 63.0
- Yukon 61.7
- NWT 32.0
- -----------
- Canada 48.8
-
-
- Numbers from the 1991 census will presumably be slightly lower,
- given recent immigration patterns.
-
- Tom Box
- CZ94@MUSICA.MCGILL.CA
-
-