Table 7
Population by visible minority status and sex, Canada, 2011

Table 7
Population by visible minority status and sex, Canada, 2011
Table summary
This table displays the results of Population belonging to visible minority groups by sex. The information is grouped by Visible minority group (appearing as row headers), Females and Males (appearing as column headers).
Visible minority group	Females				Males
Visible minority group	thousands	as a percentage of all females	as a percentage of females who belong to a visible minority group	as a percentage of visible minority group	thousands	as a percentage of all males	as a percentage of males who belong to a visible minority group
South Asian	776.7	4.7	24.1	49.6	790.8	4.9	26.0
Chinese	692.4	4.1	21.5	52.3	632.3	3.9	20.8
Black	492.7	3.0	15.3	52.1	453.0	2.8	14.9
Filipino	350.4	2.1	10.9	56.6	268.9	1.7	8.8
Latin American	194.9	1.2	6.1	51.1	186.4	1.2	6.1
Arab	177.1	1.1	5.5	46.5	203.5	1.3	6.7
Southeast Asian	158.0	0.9	4.9	50.6	154.0	1.0	5.1
West Asian	101.2	0.6	3.1	48.9	105.6	0.7	3.5
Korean	84.0	0.5	2.6	52.1	77.2	0.5	2.5
Japanese	49.0	0.3	1.5	56.1	38.3	0.2	1.3
Visible minority, n.i.e.^Note 1	56.7	0.3	1.8	53.3	49.8	0.3	1.6
Multiple visible minorities	88.6	0.5	2.8	50.8	83.3	0.5	2.7
Total visible minority population	3,221.7	19.3	100.0	51.4	3,043.0	18.8	100.0
Total non-visible minority	13,467.5	80.7	...	...	13,120.1	81.2	...
Total population	16,689.2	100.0	...	...	16,163.1	100.0	...
Note 1. The abbreviation 'n.i.e.' means 'not included elsewhere.' Includes respondents who reported a write-in response such as 'Guyanese,' 'West Indian,' 'Tibetan,' 'Polynesian,' 'Pacific Islander,' etc. Return to note 1 referrer Source: Statistics Canada, National Household Survey, 2011.

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