Percentage of people living in food-insecure households by racial/cultural identity & Indigenous status in the ten provinces, 2025
Canadian Income Survey (CIS) 2024. Data on food insecurity for CIS are collected in the year following the survey reference year. We've chosen to label the data using the year of data collection to better reflect the timing of experiences captured.
The public data tables used for this graph currently does not include the territories.
1Includes anyone not identified as a visible minority or Indigenous. Visible minority status is defined by the Employment Equity Act as "persons, other than Aboriginal peoples, who are non-Caucasian in race or non-white in colour".
2 For example, East Indian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan.
3 For example, Vietnamese, Cambodian, Laotian, Thai.
4 Includes persons who reported having an Indigenous identity, that is, First Nations (North American Indian), Métis or Inuk (Inuit), or those who reported more than one identity. Excluded from the survey’s coverage are persons living on reserves and other Indigenous settlements in the provinces.
5 Includes visible minority groups not included elsewhere. These include West Asian, Korean, Japanese, persons with a write-in response such as Guyanese, West Indian, Tibetan, Polynesian, Pacific Islander, and persons who gave more than one visible minority group by checking two or more mark-in responses, for example, Black and South Asian.
The public data tables used for this graph currently does not include the territories.
1Includes anyone not identified as a visible minority or Indigenous. Visible minority status is defined by the Employment Equity Act as "persons, other than Aboriginal peoples, who are non-Caucasian in race or non-white in colour".
2 For example, East Indian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan.
3 For example, Vietnamese, Cambodian, Laotian, Thai.
4 Includes persons who reported having an Indigenous identity, that is, First Nations (North American Indian), Métis or Inuk (Inuit), or those who reported more than one identity. Excluded from the survey’s coverage are persons living on reserves and other Indigenous settlements in the provinces.
5 Includes visible minority groups not included elsewhere. These include West Asian, Korean, Japanese, persons with a write-in response such as Guyanese, West Indian, Tibetan, Polynesian, Pacific Islander, and persons who gave more than one visible minority group by checking two or more mark-in responses, for example, Black and South Asian.
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