National Household Survey

National Household Survey: They're young, they're suburban, and they're mainly from Asia, although Africans are arriving in growing numbers. Follow interactive National Household Survey highlights, according to CBC. The new survey of almost three million people shows that Canada is home to 6.8 million foreign-born residents, or 20.6 per cent of the population, compared with 19.8 per cent in 2006, and the highest in the G8 group of rich countries. HOUSEHOLD SURVEY Highlights from survey administered in 2011 Statistics on immigration, religion, ethnic backgrounds The debut of Canada's controversial census replacement survey shows there are more foreign-born people in the country than ever before, at a proportion not seen in almost a century. But the historical comparisons are few and far between in the National Household Survey, which Statistics Canada designed, at Prime Minister Stephen Harper's behest, to replace the cancelled long-form survey, which was eliminated . (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.