ETHNIC DIVERSITY SURVEY

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ETHNIC DIVERSITY SURVEY
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Survey Objectives

• to provide information on ethnic diversity in
  Canada
• to provide information to better understand how
  Canadians of different ethnic backgrounds
  interpret and report their ethnicity
• to explore various ways to measure ethnicity in
  order to inform future data collection.

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Milestones

• Advisory Committee, chaired by Dr. Raymond Breton
• Qualitative Testing (n 215)
• Finalized questionnaire for test
• Pilot test
• Collection for main survey
• Data available for release

• Meets regularly
• January - June 2001
• March 2001
• September 2001
• April - June 2002
• Summer 2003

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Planning Assumptions

• 2001 Census will provide frame for the sample
  selection
• Sampling unit to be individual
• Persons aged 15 and over
• Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI)
• Achieved sample size of 40,000 individuals
• 35 minute interviews conducted in 9 languages

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Survey Design

• Select the sample based on answers to the 2001
  Census ethnic origin and place of birth questions
• Start with broad categories of ethnic responses
• Use the place of birth variables to further
  stratify by generational status in Canada (1st,
  2nd 3)

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Content Modules Themes

• Ethnic Self-Definition
• Respondent Family Background
• Knowledge Use of Languages
• Family Interaction
• Social Networks

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Content Modules Themes - continued

• Civic Participation
• Frequency of participation in organizations
• Type of organization
• Volunteer to help with activities of organization
• Voting in last election federal, provincial and
  municipal

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Content Modules Themes - continued

• Interaction with Society
• Trust and Satisfaction
• Socio-economic Activities
• Who completed your 2001 Census form

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Potential Research Areas
Unpacking Ethnicity
Socio-economic Inequality
Prejudice Discrimination
EDS
Social Capital
Social Networks
Involvement with Society Civic Participation
Ethnic Mobility
Transmission of Culture