Listed here are the ethnic groups of Canadian residents (citizens, landed immigrants and non-citizen temporary residents) as self-identified in the 2016 census  in which approximately 35,151,000 census forms were completed).
The relevant census question asked for "the ethnic or cultural origins" of the respondent's ancestors and not the respondents themselves.
As data were collected by self-declaration, ethnic groups may not necessarily correspond to the true ancestry of respondents.Source:  Additional data:  Many respondents acknowledged multiple ancestries.
These people were added to the "multiple origin" total for each origin listed.
These include responses as varied as a respondent who listed eight different origins and a respondent who answered "French Canadian" (leading to him/her being counted once for "French" and once for "Canadian").
As with all self-reported data, understanding of the question may have varied from respondent to respondent.
Larger ethnic origins (200,000 or more individuals per group; 2016 census)
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Smaller ethnic origins (2016 census)
Evolution from 1996 to 2016
As regards combined responses, Canadian is the most common ethnic origin (11,113,965) in the 2016 Census (see above).
This was also the case in the 2011 NHS (10,563,805), 2006 Census (10,066,290), 2001 Census (11,682,680), and the 1996 Census (8,806,975).
Canadian was also the most common single ethnic origin in the 1996 (5,326,995), 2001 (6,748,135), 2006 (5,748,725), 2011 (5,834,535), and 2016 (6,436,940).
Ethnic Origin (Single Responses), 1996-2016
Ethnic Origin (Single and Multiple Responses), 1996-2016
See also
1666 census of New France
Canada 1911 Census
Canada 1996 Census
Canada 2001 Census
Canada 2006 Census
Canada 2011 Census
Canada 2016 Census
Demographics of Canada
Immigration to Canada
Multiculturalism in Canada
Population of Canada by years
Notes
References
Further reading
External links
Canada Year Book 2010 – Statistics Canada
Category:Lists of Canadian people by ethnic or national origin Category:Demographics of Canada
