Table 1
Selected characteristics of visible minority groups, population aged 15 years and over, 2001

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  Non-visible minorities All visible minority groups Chinese South Asians Blacks Other visible minorities
Total population aged 15 and over 20,859,710 3,041,650 834,145 688,735 467,090 1,051,690
Percentage of population aged 15 and over 87.3 12.7 3.5 2.9 2.0 4.4
Percentage of population aged 15 and over by sex
Males 48.7 48.2 48.1 50.3 46.6 47.5
Females 51.3 51.8 51.9 49.7 53.4 52.5
Percentage of population by age group
15 to 24 16.1 20.9 18.9 20.3 23.7 21.5
25 to 34 15.9 21.4 17.8 23.5 22.7 22.3
35 to 44 21.0 23.0 23.3 21.6 21.8 24.3
45 to 54 18.6 17.0 19.0 16.1 15.2 16.8
55 to 64 12.3 9.1 8.8 10.4 9.7 8.3
65 and over 16.1 8.6 12.2 8.1 7.0 6.8
Percentage of population by marital status
Single (never married) 33.3 35.1 32.5 27.0 46.8 37.1
Legally married and not separated 49.4 54.1 58.5 64.4 35.5 52.2
Separated, but still legally married 3.1 2.8 1.5 1.9 6.1 3.0
Divorced 8.2 4.2 3.0 2.5 8.6 4.3
Widowed 6.0 3.8 4.4 4.1 2.9 3.4
Percentage of population that are immigrants, by year of immigration
Percentage of population that are immigrants 12.8 80.8 83.5 84.3 67.6 82.3
Before 1961 4.1 1.0 2.0 0.4 0.9 0.5
1961 to 1970 2.9 4.7 4.4 4.8 7.8 3.4
1971 to 1980 2.2 15.9 14.2 17.8 17.7 15.2
1981 to 1990 1.7 21.8 21.4 19.7 16.8 25.8
1991 to 2001 1.9 37.5 41.5 41.6 24.3 37.4
Percentage of population by place of residence (largest CMAS)1
Toronto 11.6 43.0 40.2 51.1 47.4 38.1
Montreal 11.6 11.3 4.8 6.3 21.6 15.1
Vancouver 5.0 19.0 33.9 18.0 2.8 14.9
Ottawa-Gatineau 3.5 3.6 2.7 2.6 5.4 4.2
Calgary 3.0 4.2 5.0 4.1 2.1 4.5
Percentage of population by knowledge of official languages
English only 65.3 78.0 77.7 85.6 72.1 75.7
French only 13.5 3.0 0.4 0.2 8.6 4.4
English and French 20.7 10.9 5.4 7.0 18.6 14.6
Neither English nor French 0.5 8.1 16.5 7.2 0.7 5.3
Percentage of population by level of schooling completed
Less than postsecondary certificate 31.8 28.0 30.2 29.5 28.2 25.2
Postsecondary certificate only 14.3 12.5 11.6 13.5 13.1 12.2
Some postsecondary education 10.5 13.1 12.2 12.3 14.1 14.0
Trades certificate or diploma 11.5 6.6 4.2 6.0 10.7 7.1
College certificate or diploma 15.4 12.3 10.6 10.0 18.2 12.5
University certificate or diploma below bachelor's degree 2.3 3.9 3.9 3.0 2.9 4.8
University degree 14.2 23.6 27.3 25.6 12.7 24.1
Unemployment rate
Males 7.4 9.0 8.2 8.3 11.3 9.0
Females 6.8 10.0 8.6 11.3 11.7 9.4
Total 7.1 9.5 8.4 9.6 11.5 9.2
Employment rate 61.7 59.7 54.3 61.6 62.4 61.5
Average income in dollars
Male 37,956 28,929 29,146 31,174 26,586 29,301
Female 23,283 20,043 20,764 19,329 20,929 19,371
Total 30,516 24,385 24,845 25,447 23,560 24,272
Percentage of low-income families 10.6 26.0 24.6 22.0 32.5 27.2
1. Census metropolitan area.
Data source: Statistics Canada, 2001 Census.
Table source: Statistics Canada, 2008, Visible Minorities and Victimization, no. 15 in Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics Profile Series, catalogue number 85F0033MIE.