The visible minority status is self-reported and refers to the visible minority group to which the respondent belongs. The Employment Equity Act defines visible minorities as persons other than aboriginal people who are non-Caucasian in race, or non-white in colour. The census respondents are asked if this person is White, Chinese, South Asian, Black, Filipino, Latin American, Southeast Asian, Arab, West Asian, Japanese, Korean, or other, in which case they specify.
We built this analysis on that the question in the census.