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- From: msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader)
- Subject: Re: Ethnic origin of Canadians (was Re: Misleading stats)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.184740.16858@sq.sq.com>
- Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto, Canada
- References: <20JAN93.10616941.0076@VM1.MCGILL.CA> <1993Jan21.100357.18418@spxtech.qc.ca> <21JAN93.18453436.0153@VM1.MCGILL.CA>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 18:47:40 GMT
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- >>>>>>> ... 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.)
-
- >>>> 40% of Canadian residents are of British origin !????
-
- > 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.
- > ...
- > [breakdown deleted]
- > -----------
- > Canada 48.8%
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- Thanks for posting that, Tom. Note that multiple responses were allowed.
- My conjecture is that the total percentages added up to something like
- 122%; if you scale 48.8% down by that factor, 40% is what you get.
-
- By the way, the recent posting estimating the number of British-origin
- residents in Quebec actually included only those retaining the "English
- mother tongue" -- that's what the unexplained acronym EMT meant. I asked
- the poster in email. Maybe everyone else on the newsgroup is familiar
- with it, but I didn't see the point taken up in any followups.
- --
- Mark Brader "It can be amusing, even if painful, to watch the
- SoftQuad Inc., Toronto ethnocentrism of those who are convinced their
- utzoo!sq!msb, msb@sq.com local standards are universal." -- Tom Chapin
-
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