Table 3
Distribution of total female population, total female immigrant population, recent immigrant women, and visible minority women, by census metropolitan area, Canada, 2006
Census metropolitan area | Total female population |
Total immigrant women |
Recent immigrant women | Recent immigrant women / Total female population | Visible minority women |
Visible minority women / Total female population |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
percentage | ratio | percentage | ratio | |||
Canada | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | … | 100.0 | … |
St. John's | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
Halifax | 1.2 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.5 |
Moncton | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.1 |
Saint John | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 |
Saguenay | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 |
Québec | 2.3 | 0.4 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.1 |
Sherbrooke | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.2 |
Trois-Rivières | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.1 |
Montréal | 11.6 | 11.7 | 14.4 | 1.2 | 11.5 | 1.0 |
Ottawa-Gatineau | 3.6 | 3.3 | 3.2 | 0.9 | 3.5 | 1.0 |
Kingston | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.4 |
Peterborough | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 |
Oshawa | 1.0 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.6 |
Toronto | 16.4 | 37.8 | 40.6 | 2.5 | 43.2 | 2.6 |
Hamilton | 2.2 | 2.7 | 1.9 | 0.9 | 1.6 | 0.7 |
St.Catharines-Niagara | 1.2 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.4 |
Kitchener | 1.4 | 1.6 | 1.5 | 1.0 | 1.2 | 0.8 |
Brantford | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.3 |
Guelph | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.8 |
London | 1.5 | 1.4 | 1.2 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 0.7 |
Windsor | 1.0 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.0 | 1.0 |
Barrie | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.4 |
Grand Sudbury | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
Thunder Bay | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
Winnipeg | 2.2 | 2.0 | 2.1 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 0.9 |
Regina | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.4 |
Saskatoon | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.4 |
Calgary | 3.4 | 4.0 | 5.2 | 1.5 | 4.6 | 1.4 |
Edmonton | 3.2 | 3.0 | 2.9 | 0.9 | 3.4 | 1.1 |
Kelowna | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.3 |
Abbotsford | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 1.4 |
Vancouver | 6.7 | 13.6 | 13.9 | 2.1 | 17.5 | 2.6 |
Victoria | 1.1 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.6 |
… not applicable Source: Statistics Canada, Census of Population, 2006. |
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