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Canadian Visible Minority Data 2006
Description
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.
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.
Author(s)
R.W. Oldford