Today, Statistics Canada is releasing the first results from the 2022 Survey on the Official Language Minority Population. A report presenting the main findings from the survey is now available online, as well as two infographics and a methodological guide.
This survey was conducted in 2022 to shed light on different aspects of the situation of English-speaking populations in Quebec and French-speaking populations in Canada's other provinces and territory capitals. The previous survey on these populations was conducted in 2006.
The 20 topics covered in the survey include, among others, the education continuum; early childhood services; access to health care and government services in the minority official language; attendance at performances or arts events in the minority official language; the languages used to consult media and used in other cultural activities; the perceived vitality of the official minority language in communities; language practices at home, at work and in the public sphere; and linguistic insecurity and discrimination.
These results will be used to develop official languages policies, programs and services in Canada and to support the Official Languages Act and the implementation of the Action Plan for Official Languages 2023–2028: Protection-Promotion-Collaboration. The data will also be useful to official language minority communities and various stakeholders in this area.
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