StatsCan: Racialized Persons with Disabilities
2025/12/05 2 Comments
Good infographic highlighting the similarities and differences between visible minorities and not visible minorities.
Findings that I found of interest:
- Racialized minorities more likely to have sensory disabilities and less likely to have mental health-related disabilities than their non-racialized counterparts;
- Racialized persons with disabilities were less likely to live alone than their non-racialized counterparts;
- Racialized persons with disabilities aged 65 years and over were more likely to receive help with daily activities than their non-racialized counterparts;
- Similar proportions of racialized and non-racialized persons with disabilities reported feeling lonely
Infographic like: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/en/pub/11-627-m/11-627-m2025051-eng.pdf?st=-P0yrkeu
About Andrew
Multicultural Meanderings 
AI tells me that: “Racialized” describes the process of classifying individuals or groups into racial categories, often in a way that creates social hierarchies and leads to discrimination.
By contrast, the Statcan infographic says that: In this infographic, the concept of racialized group is measured using the “visible minority” variable, which refers to whether or not a person belongs to one of the visible minority groups defined by the Employment Equity Act. In the Act, visible minorities are defined as “persons, other than Aboriginal peoples, who are non-Caucasian in race or non-white in colour.”
It strikes me the that the definition of visible minority, while still not perfect, is much more precise than that of racialized person. So Statcan will continue using the precise definition, but the imprecise term. Hmmm.
I also prefer the term visible minorities as it is more precise and reflects the data. Conversationally, racialized is used as visible minorities, as StatsCan is doing. Personally, I find many terminology debates tiresome, as they distract from the more fundamental insights regarding outcomes between groups.