Table 2.2
Immigrant population according to first official language spoken and visible minority group, Canada less Quebec
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| Visible minority group | Immigrants of first official language spoken | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| French | French and English | Other | French | French and English | Other | |
| thousands | percent | |||||
| East Asian1 | 2.8 | 10.4 | 916.6 | 4.6 | 13.6 | 17.6 |
| South Asian | 1.9 | 7.0 | 810.8 | 3.1 | 9.1 | 15.6 |
| Southeast Asian | 1.3 | 3.4 | 395.1 | 2.1 | 4.5 | 7.6 |
| West Asian | 0.4 | 3.3 | 112.8 | 0.6 | 4.4 | 2.2 |
| Arab | 3.8 | 6.2 | 94.2 | 6.2 | 8.1 | 1.8 |
| Black | 15.6 | 3.9 | 287.3 | 25.7 | 5.1 | 5.5 |
| Latin American | 1.1 | 4.8 | 147.3 | 1.7 | 6.3 | 2.8 |
| Other visible minority | 0.7 | 0.6 | 109.1 | 1.1 | 0.9 | 2.1 |
| Not a visible minority | 33.5 | 36.5 | 2,325.2 | 55.0 | 48.0 | 44.7 |
| Total | 60.9 | 76.1 | 5,198.4 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 |
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1. East Asian: Chinese, Japanese, Korean. Southeast Asian includes the Filipinos. Note(s): The category FOLS other includes FOLS groups "English" and "neither English nor French". Source(s): Statistics Canada, Census of 2006. |
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