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[edit] how many are there?

how many Afghan-Canadians are there in Canada?

On 17 January 2008, AmericanAnthropologist01, a sockpuppet of banned editor Beh-nam, added, and StevenLeClark restored a citation for the 26,000 (25,230) Afghan Canadians population figure to the StatCan site at [1]. The only detailed figures on StatCan for Afghan Canadians, is a 2001 census figure of 235 who marked Afghan as at least one ethnic origin, out of 150,385 total urban respondents in Sherbrooke, Quebec. "Population by selected ethnic origins, by census metropolitan areas (Sherbrooke)" StatCan It is noteworthy that of the metropolitan areas surveyed, only Sherbrooke reported Afghans, or at least only the Sherbrooke page displayed the data. For example, neither Quebec City "Population by selected ethnic origins, by census metropolitan areas (Québec)" StatCan nor Montreal "Population by selected ethnic origins, by census metropolitan areas (Montréal)" StatCan reported (displayed) any Afghan ethnic origin. Neither did Toronto "Population by selected ethnic origins, by census metropolitan areas (Toronto)" StatCan nor Hamilton "Population by selected ethnic origins, by census metropolitan areas (Hamilton)" StatCan. --Bejnar (talk) 20:55, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
However, the site Diverse Hamilton Online says: "The Afghani population in Canada is over 120,000. There are about 3,000 estimated Afghan Canadians in Hamilton." No source for their figure was provided. --Bejnar (talk) 20:55, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
Canadian Foreign Minister Bill Graham was quoted on 5 September 2003 as saying that he learned that morning that there were "some 80,000 Afghan Canadians in Canada". "Canadian FM arrives in Afghanistan to discuss security" Afghanistan News September 5, 2003. No source for Graham's figure was provided. --Bejnar (talk) 20:55, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

26,000 is too little and 120,000 is too much. 80,000 sounds right and its from a reliable source. StevenLeClark (talk) 21:44, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Assessment

I have assessed this as a Stub Class, as it only a few sentences long, and of low importance, as it is a highly specific topic within Canada. Cheers, CP 23:21, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] changing to Afghan Canadian

There are zero google hits for "Afghanistani Canadian" -wikipedia and 11,000 hits for "Afghan Canadian" -wikipedia. Kingturtle (talk) 13:31, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

I fully support the move. Afghan is the proper adjective, not Afghanistani. Wachowich (talk) 03:24, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
Not quite, for more details see Demography of Afghanistan. Dupree3 (talk) 03:30, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
Ignore Dupree3 he was a sock puppet of banned editor Beh-nam. --Bejnar (talk) 07:11, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
Today there were six google hits for "Afghanistani Canadian" -wikipedia and 3600 google hits for "Afghan Canadian" -wikipedia. I am changing the name back to Afghan Canadian. Kingturtle (talk) 12:55, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Afghani Canadaian

On Google there is 860 hits. Some links with the term "Afghani Canadian":

AmericanAnthropologist01 (talk) 18:50, 17 January 2008 (UTC)