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Sample sizes and proportions by regions of origin classified according to linguistic distance from English and French, men and women

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Sample sizes and proportions by regions of origin classified according to linguistic distance from English and French, men and women


Table summary
This table displays the results of sample sizes and proportions by regions of origin classified according to linguistic distance from english and french men, women and unweighted sample size, calculated using unweighted sample size, proportion, number and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
  Men Women
Unweighted sample size Proportion Unweighted sample size Proportion
  number percent number percent
English  
Rest of world 5,131 10.2 5,946 11.5
United Kingdom 10,693 21.3 10,916 21.1
United States 3,899 7.8 4,510 8.7
French 1,285 2.6 1,477 2.9
High similarity to English  
Italy 5,687 11.3 5,518 10.7
Portugal 3,803 7.6 3,866 7.5
Rest of world 7,039 14.0 6,957 13.5
Low similarity to English  
Hong Kong 1,786 3.6 1,774 3.4
India 2,004 4.0 1,973 3.8
Rest of world 4,841 9.6 4,510 8.7
Medium similarity to English 4,085 8.1 4,184 8.1
Total 50,253 100.0 51,631 100.0
Note(s): Percentages may not add up to 100% because of rounding.        
         
Note(s):
Percentages may not add up to 100% because of rounding.
Source(s):
Author's calculations using Statistics Canada, 2006 Census according to the selection rules described in the text.
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