Characteristic | No. (%) of respondents (unweighted) n = 2055 |
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Sex | |
Female | 1016 (49.4) |
Male | 1039 (50.6) |
Age group, yr | |
12-14 | 401 (19.5) |
15-17 | 621 (30.2) |
18-20 | 336 (16.4) |
21-24 | 697 (33.9) |
Language | |
English | 1240 (60.3) |
French | 815 (39.6) |
Race/ethnicity* | |
White | 1513 (73.6) |
Chinese | 92 (4.5) |
South Asian | 88 (4.3) |
Black | 65 (3.2) |
Aboriginal | 63 (3.1) |
Other/mixed | 202 (9.8) |
Don't know/refused | 32 (1.6) |
Province | |
British Columbia | 150 (7.3) |
Alberta | 185 (9.0) |
Saskatchewan | 27 (1.3) |
Manitoba | 62 (3.0) |
Ontario | 636 (30.9) |
Quebec | 887 (43.2) |
New Brunswick | 25 (1.2) |
Nova Scotia | 59 (2.9) |
Prince Edward Island | 12 (0.6) |
Newfoundland and Labrador | 12 (0.6) |
*Respondents could select all that applied from a list including the following: white, Chinese, South Asian (e.g., East Indian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan), black, Filipino, Latin American, Southeast Asian (e.g., Cambodian, Indonesian, Laotian, Vietnamese), Arab, West Asian (e.g., Afghan, Iranian), Japanese, Korean, other. A separate question asked about Aboriginal status. Responses were combined and recoded as follows: Aboriginal includes all those who said they were Aboriginal; white, Chinese, South Asian and black are exclusive categories (i.e., only that race/ethnicity selected); and other/mixed includes all other races/ethnicities selected and all those who selected more than 1 category.