Demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of Canadian medical students: a cross-sectional study

BMC Medical Education

Table 2 Self-identified ethnic background of respondents and Canadians aged 15–34 ^a

Self-identified ethnic background	No. (%) of students ^b (Total: 1388)	No. (%) of Canadians (Total: 8,808,300)
Aboriginal	49 (3.5)	653,055 (7.4)
Black	23 (1.7)	561,865 (6.4)
Chinese	156 (11.2)	541,475 (6.1)
South Asian	122 (8.8)	613,805 (7.0)
White	1008 (72.6)	7,762,260 (88.2)
Other visible minority	130 (9.4)	959,630 (10.9)

^a Based on 2016 Canadian Census data. For the purposes of comparison, we have characterized White as the following responses: non-Aboriginal North America, Europe, and Oceania
^b Respondents to both our survey and the census were able to select more than one self-identified ethnic background. The sum of all ethnic origin responses is greater than the total population of respondents due to the reporting of multiple self-identified ethnic backgrounds

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