An estimate. http://theconversation.com/quebecs-n…xtremism-86055
Even in Ontario, having been at Muslim events quite a lot, I would guess that you have 1 niqabi for every 500-1000 hijabis. They are rare.
No offence Femme, but both the article and your estimates have a couple problems going for them.
The article has 3 keys figures: 114000 muslim women, 0.7% wear niqabs, 90 women.
Problem is… 0.7% of 114000 isn't 90... it's more like 800. So I'm a little confused by that. I'm also struggling to find their source :/ (NVM, found it, go to my EDIT)
As for your estimates, those would put the numbers at 100-200 people. But my guess is that the women who are emancipated enough to go Muslim events, even accompanied... probably aren't the same women whom are forced to wear Niqabs when they do go out, and most other times will stay at home in all but exceptional circumstances.
Also I don't really trust your ability to discern that it's actually 1/500-1000 (0.1 or 0.2%) without conducting a proper study. It just sounds like a questionable guesstimate, even if you're immersed in muslim events all the time. It's just too small a fraction for an accurate guess.
EDIT2: Again I have to re-edit this. So it turns out that 'experts put the number of niqab wearing women in Quebec at about 100'… but The Conversation is a really really dishonest with its statistics, which is why they mashed all the figures together in their article. 0.7% (of Quebecans) reflects the number of women wearing veils, 100 is the experts estimate of niqabs being worn. No idea how the article Femme linked to got to 90, but either way, they tried to make 0.7% = 90. Which is stunning. Just stunning.
Original Article with the correct stats: https://globalnews.ca/news/3811998/commentary-nobody-surprised-quebec-going-after-niqab-again/
nb. this article gives no source for its 'experts', so I'd say its as good a guess as Femme's. Especially since the journalist who wrote that article appears to be pretty awful at numbers.
This is why I f*cking hate journalists. Surely it can't be hard to portray the statistics correctly, instead of mashing together two completely unrelated numbers and making the original publication look bad.