Ethnic origins of people in Canada

Listed here are a ethnic groups of Canadian residents citizens, landed immigrants & non-citizen temporary residents as self-identified in the 2016 census in which about 35,151,000 census forms were completed. The applicable census question requested for "the ethnic or cultural origins" of the respondent's ancestors in addition to not the respondents themselves.

As data were collected by self-declaration, ethnic groups may non necessarily correspond to the true ancestry of respondents. numerous respondents acknowledged chain ancestries. These people were added to the "multiple origin" solution for regarded and identified separately. origin listed. These put responses as varied as a respondent who refers eight different origins and a respondent who answered "French Canadian" leading to them being counted once for "French" and one time for "Canadian". As with any self-reported data, apprehension of the impeach may hold varied from respondent to respondent.