Table 2.
Distribution of recruited and included participants by parental self-reported race, a demographic collected in the preoperative surveys onlya. Metro Vancouver census data are provided for reference.
| Self-reported race | Total recruited (N=500), n (%) | Included for qualitative analysis (n=242), n (%) | 2021 census for Metro Vancouver [24] (n=2,607,015), % |
| Black | 5 (1) | 1 (0.4) | 1.26 |
| East Asian | 46 (9.2) | 16 (6.6) | 22.03 |
| Indigenous | 21 (4.2) | 10 (4.1) | 2.39 |
| Latin American | 9 (1.8) | 5 (2.1) | 1.97 |
| Middle Eastern | 8 (1.6) | 3 (1.2) | 3.32 |
| South Asian | 40 (8) | 23 (9.5) | 13.81 |
| Southeast Asian | 21 (4.2) | 12 (5) | 7.15 |
| White | 239 (47.8) | 139 (57.4) | 42.01 |
| Another race category | 14 (2.8) | 8 (3.3) | 0.63 |
| Multiple race categories | 31 (6.2) | 17 (7) | 5.44 |
| No answer | 66 (13.2) | 8 (3.3) | —b |
aSurvey responses were grouped into categories using the Guidance on the Use of Standards for Race-Based and Indigenous Identity Data Collection and Health Reporting in Canada [25].
bNot applicable.