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- In Canada, since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, more than one in two people from a visible minority group reported having experienced discrimination in a store, bank, or restaurant. This proportion was five percentage points higher among women.
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Aug 29, 2024 · In 2020, more than 38 percent of women and nearly 32 percent of men from visible minorities reported having experienced discrimination based on their race, color, ethnicity, or culture in...
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Canada: total income distribution 2020, by income level ;...
- Women Were Inferior to Men
Feb 16, 2022 · Data from the General Social Survey on Victimization show that, relative to the non-Indigenous, non-visible minority population, Black and Indigenous people in Canada are more likely to face discrimination.
Aug 6, 2024 · Share of visible minorities who experienced discrimination since the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada in 2020, by age and context.
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- Collection and Processing Methods
- Data Quality
- Data Quality Indicators
- Certification of Final Counts
- Data Quality For Population Group
- Comparability Over Time
The 2021 Census of Population question on population group is used to produce two main variables: the visible minority variable and the population groupvariable. The primary purpose of the population group question on the census is to derive counts for the visible minority population.Note 1 Visible minority refers to whether a person is a visible m...
The 2021 Census of Population data on visible minority and population group were obtained primarily from Question 25 on form 2A-L and form 2A-R. For the 2021 Census, the 2Ashort-form questionnaire was used to enumerate all usual residents of 75% of private dwellings. The 2A-L long-form questionnaire, which also includes the questions from the 2A sh...
As indicated above, the visible minorityvariable provides data on the visible minority population as defined for federal employment equity purposes, whereas the population group variable does not. As a result, similarly named categories in each of the variables have been derived in slightly different ways.
Since the 1996 Census, the population group question has been used to measure the visible minority population more directly. Over time, there have been differences in the question wording, format, examples and instructions for the population group question used in the census. The historical comparability of visible minority data has been affected b...
The COVID-19 pandemic emerged in Canada in early 2020 and affected all steps of the 2021 Census process, from data collection to dissemination. Please refer to the Guide to the Census of Population, 2021, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-304-X, for more detailed information on this topic.
The 2021 Census of Population underwent a thorough data quality assessment. The different certification activities conducted to evaluate the quality of the 2021 Census data are described in Chapter 9 of the Guide to the Census of Population, 2021, Statistics Canada Catalogue no.98-304-X. The data quality assessment was conducted in addition to the ...
A number of quality indicators were produced and analyzed during the 2021 Census of Population data quality assessment. Four indicators are available to data users for long-form content: the total non-response (TNR) rate; the confidence interval; as well as the non-response rate and the imputation rate per question. The total non-response (TNR) rat...
Once data editing and imputation were completed, the data were weighted to ensure that estimates represent the total Canadian population living in private dwellings. Certification of the final weighted estimates was the last step in the validation process, which led to the recommendation to release the data for each level of geography and domain of...
The non-response and imputation rates for the population group question in the 2021 Census are shown in Table 1. At the national level, the non-response rate for the population group question was 1.2% and the imputation rate was 1.6%. Across the provinces, the imputation rate ranged from 1.0% in Newfoundland and Labrador to 1.9% in Alberta. It was ...
Counts of the visible minority population in Canada were first produced using 1981 Census data. Data on the visible minority population in 1981, 1986 and 1991 were derived primarily from responses to the ethnic origin question, in conjunction with responses to the place of birth and mother tongue questions. Since the 1996 Census, the population gro...
Aug 6, 2024 · Visible minorities discriminated against in Canada 2020, by context and gender. In Canada, since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, more than one in two people from a visible...
Aug 23, 2023 · The concept of “racialized people” is based on the visible minority variable in the Canadian census (Statistics Canada, 2023). The Employment Equity Act defines visible minorities as “persons, other than Aboriginal peoples, who are non-Caucasian in race or non-white in colour.”
Mar 29, 2023 · The Employment Equity Act defines visible minorities as "persons, other than Aboriginal peoples, who are non-Caucasian in race or non-white in colour." The visible minority population consists mainly of the following groups: South Asian, Chinese, Black, Filipino, Arab, Latin American, Southeast Asian, West Asian, Korean and Japanese.
