Diversity of the chiropractic profession in Canada: a cross-sectional survey of Canadian Chiropractic Association members

Table 4 Racial distribution of study sample compared with the Canadian population

Race	Study sample; n (%) (n = 3143)	2016 Census; n, (%)^a (n = 34,460,060)	Prevalence ratio [95% CI]^b
Indigenous	5 (0.16)^c	1,673,785 (4.86)^c	0.03 [0.01, 0.08]
Black	16 (0.52)	1,178,540 (3.48)	0.15 [0.09, 0.24]
Filipino	14 (0.46)	780,125 (2.26)	0.20 [0.12, 0.33]
Latin	10 (0.33)	447,325 (1.30)	0.25 [0.13, 0.46]
South East Asian	19 (0.62)	313,260 (0.91)	0.68 [0.43, 1.06]
Arab	33 (1.07)	523,235 (1.52)	0.70 [0.50, 0.99]
Chinese	122 (3.97)	1,577,060 (4.58)	0.86 [0.72, 1.03]
South Asian	157 (5.11)	1,924,635 (5.59)	0.91 [0.78, 1.07]
West Asian	31 (1.01)	264,305 (0.77)	1.32 [0.93, 1.88]
Korean	25 (0.81)	188,710 (0.55)	1.50 [1.00, 2.21]
Japanese	16 (0.52)	92,920 (0.27)	1.94 [1.19, 3.17]
Caucasian	2467 (80.33)	26,785,480 (77.73)	1.17 [1.07, 1.28]
Mixed	125 (4.07)^d	232,375 (0.67)^e	6.25 [5.22, 7.47]
Other	36 (1.17)	132,090 (0.38)	3.08 [2.22, 4.28]

^aBased on Statistics Canada 2016 Census of Population[22]
^bPrevalence ratio of our sample compared to the 2016 Canadian Census
^cSample size for questions on Indigenous status: Study sample: n = 3138; 2016 Census: n = 34,460,065
^dMixed race was defined in the 2016 Census as ‘multiple visible minorities’
^eMixed race was defined in our survey as ‘more than one race’ (including non-visible minority races)

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