Canadian Visible Minority Data 2006

Population census count of various named visible minority groups in each of 33 major census metropolitan areas of Canada in 2006.

These data are from the 2006 Canadian census, publicly available from Statistics Canada.

minority

Format

A data frame with 33 rows and 18 variates

Arab: Number identifying as `Arab`.
Black: Number identifying as `Black`.
Chinese: Number identifying as `Chinese`.
Filipino: Number identifying as `Filipino`.
Japanese: Number identifying as `Japanese`.
Korean: Number identifying as `Korean`.
Latin.American: Number identifying as `Latin American`.
Multiple.visible.minority: Number identifying as being a member of more than one visible minority.
South.Asian: Number identifying as `South Asian`.
Southeast.Asian: Number identifying as `Southeast Asian`.
Total.population: Total population of the metropolitan census area.
Visible.minority.not.included.elsewhere: Number identifying as a member of a visible minority that was not included elsewhere.
Visible.minority.population: Total number identifying as a member of some visible minority.
West.Asian: Number identifying as `West Asian`.
lat, long: Latitude and longitude (in degrees) of the metropolitan census area.
googleLat, googleLong: Latitude and longitude in degrees determined using the Google Maps Geocoding API.

rownames(minority) are the names of the metropolitan areas or cities.

Statistics Canada