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Table 2 Proportion of ethnicity to birth for groups from the Horn of Africa, 1996–2016 censuses

From: Ethnicity and nationality among Ethiopians in Canada’s census data: a consideration of overlapping and divergent identities

Country of ancestry/birth

Year

N (CSDs or CMAs)

Mean proportion, ethnicity to birth

Median proportion

Ethiopia

1996

25

1.776

1.702

2001

31

1.029

1

2006

43

1.1017

1

2011

21

1.198

1.168

2016

66

1.133

1.119

Eritrea

1996

NA

NA

NA

2001

25

1.314

1.286

2006

25

1.533

1.649

2011

NA

NA

NA

2016

45

1.43

1.5

Kenya

1996

NA

NA

NA

2001

60

0.203

0.079

2006

64

0.222

0.049

2011

26

0.546

0.521

2016

72

0.435

0.327

Somali

1996

26

1.545

1.574

2001

27

1.375

1.409

2006

36

1.628

1.802

2011

NA

NA

NA

2016

39

1.986

2.047