Table 1
Percentage distribution of co-ethnic concentration at the workplace among workers aged 25 to 64, by immigration status, in Canada's eight largest metropolitan areas

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  Most co-workers have the same ethnic ancestry About half co-workers have the same ethnic ancestry Few or none of co-workers have the same ethnic ancestry Ethnic ancestry not important Sample size
percent  
Immigrants
All groups 10.1 6.1 54.4 29.4 3,309
Chinese 19.9 6.3 44.8 29.1 556
South Asian 9.3 7.9 56.2 26.6 529
Black 4.9 6.7 71.4 17.0 283
Filipino 12.8 5.7 54.2 27.3 224
Other visible minorities 10.1 5.4 55.6 29.0 477
German 1.1 0.6 47.0 51.4 78
Italian 10.0 10.0 61.2 18.8 200
Portuguese 17.6 11.7 40.4 30.3 166
Other European minority groups 3.7 3.0 53.8 39.5 796
Canadian born of immigrant parents
All groups 4.5 5.8 48.6 41.2 2,298
Chinese 4.0 5.8 53.9 36.3 257
South Asian 1.4 3.9 54.3 40.4 120
Black 4.9 5.2 63.0 26.9 162
Filipino 4.8 2.8 59.9 32.5 55
Other visible minorities 3.5 2.3 54.2 40.0 166
German 1.2 4.5 35.8 58.5 209
Italian 8.3 13.6 59.6 18.5 373
Portuguese 7.8 9.5 64.9 17.8 60
Other European minority groups 3.1 2.0 40.3 54.6 896

Note: To save space, statistical significance of differences for pair-wise comparisons is not presented. As a rule of thumb, for two independent samples each with 200 observations, a 6-percentage-point difference would be statistically significant when both percentages are either close to 100 or to zero; a 10-percentage-point difference would be statistically significant when both percentages are close to 50.

Source: Statistics Canada, Ethnic Diversity Survey.