Canadian Studies

Jews comprise 1.3% of the total population of Canada.

The national reports on the Jewish Community of Canada include:

• (1) Basic Demographics focuses on Jewish numbers, population trends, demographic characteristics, and places Canadian Jews in the context of Canadian ethnicity.

• (2) Jewish Populations in Geographic Areas focuses on geographic distribution patterns and comparisons

• (3) The Jewish Elderly report summarizes data on the number of Jewish seniors, Jewish seniors in poverty, Jewish survivors of the Nazi Holocaust living in Canada.

• (4) The Jewish Poor focuses on Jewish poverty in Canada: poverty rate approximately 13%, and the working poor among Canada's Jews.

• (5) Immigration and Language report notes that Jewish immigration to Canada is much higher than national average.

• (6) Issues in Jewish Identity summarizes data on intermarriage (22% intermarriage rate, almost doubling since 1981), raising children as Jews (including in intermarried households), and Jewish education.

• (7) Report # 7 focuses on the Jewish Family in Canada, and has additional intermarriage-related analyses. Only a national report was issued on this topic, which includes data comparisons among the most populous Jewish communities; data tables are available for each of the largest Jewish cities in Canada within each community's downloadable reports.

Definitions of Jewish persons based on combination of census questions on religion of respondent and ethnicity. See Appendix 1 in Basic Demographics for discussion of the