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Topic-based tabulation: Detailed Language Spoken Most Often at Home (186), Other Language Spoken Regularly at Home (9), Generation Status (4) and Sex (3) for the Population 15 Years and Over of Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, 2006 Census - 20% Sample Data

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Catalogue number :	97-555-XCB2006039
Release date :	December 4, 2007
Topic :	Language
Data dimensions :	Geography (Geographic Index) Generation status (4) Sex (3) Detailed language spoken most often at home (186) Other language spoken regularly at home (9)

Note

Note: Data quality - Siouan languages (Dakota/Sioux)

When comparing the census results to those of the 2001 Census, it appears that there is some overestimation of persons reporting Siouan languages (Dakota/Sioux) in British Columbia and, as a result, also at the Canada level. Although it affects a relatively small population, it is best to apply caution when analysing the census data for Siouan languages (Dakota/Sioux) in these geographies.

For more information on factors that may explain such variances in census data, such as response errors and processing errors, please refer to the 2006 Census Dictionary, Appendix B Data quality, sampling and weighting, confidentiality and random rounding.

Note: Population universe

The population universe of the 2006 Census includes the following groups:
- Canadian citizens (by birth or by naturalization) and landed immigrants with a usual place of residence in Canada;
- Canadian citizens (by birth or by naturalization) and landed immigrants who are abroad, either on a military base or attached to a diplomatic mission;
- Canadian citizens (by birth or by naturalization) and landed immigrants at sea or in port aboard merchant vessels under Canadian registry;
- persons with a usual place of residence in Canada who are claiming refugee status and members of their families living with them;
- persons with a usual place of residence in Canada who hold Study Permits and members of their families living with them;
- persons with a usual place of residence in Canada who hold Work Permits and members of their families living with them.

For census purposes, the last three groups in this list are referred to as 'non-permanent residents'. For further information, refer to the variable Immigration: Non-permanent resident found in the 2006 Census Dictionary, catalogue number 92-566-XWE or 92-566-XPE.

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Sex (3)

This table details detailed language spoken most often at home , other language spoken regularly at home , generation status and sex for the population 15 years and over in Prince Rupert^{Footnote 1}
Detailed language spoken most often at home (186)	Other language spoken regularly at home (9)
Detailed language spoken most often at home (186)	Total - Other language spoken regularly at home	None	English	French	Non-official language	English and French	English and non-official language	French and non-official language	English, French and non-official language
Total - Detailed language spoken most often at home	10,610	9,815	335	20	440	0	0	0	0
Single responses	10,510	9,725	335	15	435	0	0	0	0
English	9,745	9,290	0	15	435	0	0	0	0
French	30	10	15	0	0	0	0	0	0
Non-official languages	740	420	320	0	0	0	0	0	0
Aboriginal languages	25	25	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Algonquian languages	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Algonquin	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Atikamekw	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Blackfoot	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Cree	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Malecite	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mi'kmaq	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Montagnais-Naskapi	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ojibway	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Oji-Cree	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Athapaskan languages	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Carrier	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Chilcotin	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Chipewyan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dene	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dogrib	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kutchin-Gwich'in (Loucheux)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
North Slave (Hare)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
South Slave	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Athapaskan languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Haida	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Iroquoian languages	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mohawk	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kutenai	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Salish languages	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Shuswap	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Salish languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Siouan languages (Dakota/Sioux)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tlingit	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tsimshian languages	25	25	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Gitksan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Nisga'a	15	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tsimshian	10	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Wakashan languages	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Nootka	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Wakashan languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Inuktitut	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Inuinnaqtun	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Inuktitut, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Romance languages	85	60	30	0	0	0	0	0	0
Italian	55	30	25	0	0	0	0	0	0
Portuguese	20	20	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Romanian	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Spanish	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Romance languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Germanic languages	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dutch	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Flemish	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Frisian	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
German	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Yiddish	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Scandinavian languages	0	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Danish	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Icelandic	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Norwegian	0	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Swedish	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Germanic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Celtic languages	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Gaelic languages	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Welsh	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Celtic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Slavic languages	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Belarusian (Byelorussian)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bosnian	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bulgarian	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Croatian	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Czech	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Macedonian	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Polish	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Russian	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Serbian	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Serbo-Croatian	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Slovak	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Slovenian	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ukrainian	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Slavic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Baltic languages	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Latvian	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Lithuanian	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Finno-Ugric languages	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Estonian	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Finnish	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hungarian	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Greek	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Armenian	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Turkic languages	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Azerbaijani	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Turkish	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Turkic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Afro-Asiatic languages	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Berber languages (Kabyle)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Cushitic languages	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Oromo	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Somali	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Semitic languages	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Amharic	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Arabic	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hebrew	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Maltese	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tigrigna	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Semitic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Indo-Iranian languages	270	105	165	0	0	0	0	0	0
Indo-Aryan languages	270	105	165	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bengali	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Gujarati	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hindi	10	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Konkani	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Marathi	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Panjabi (Punjabi)	265	100	160	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sindhi	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sinhala (Sinhalese)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Urdu	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Iranian languages	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kurdish	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Pashto	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Persian (Farsi)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dravidian languages	20	0	20	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kannada	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Malayalam	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tamil	20	0	25	0	0	0	0	0	0
Telugu	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Japanese	50	45	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Korean	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sino-Tibetan languages	165	115	45	0	0	0	0	0	0
Chinese languages	165	115	50	0	0	0	0	0	0
Cantonese	135	90	40	0	0	0	0	0	0
Chaochow (Teochow)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Fukien	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hakka	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mandarin	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Shanghainese	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Taiwanese	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Chinese, n.o.s.^{Footnote 2}	30	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tibetan languages	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tai languages	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Lao	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Thai	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Austro-Asiatic languages	90	55	35	0	0	0	0	0	0
Khmer (Cambodian)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Vietnamese	95	55	35	0	0	0	0	0	0
Malayo-Polynesian languages	25	10	15	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bisayan languages	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ilocano	10	0	10	0	0	0	0	0	0
Malay	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Pampango	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)	15	10	10	0	0	0	0	0	0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Niger-Congo languages	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Akan (Twi)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bantu languages	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Lingala	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Rundi (Kirundi)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Shona	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Swahili	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bantu languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Edo	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Igbo	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Wolof	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
African languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Creoles	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Non-verbal languages	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
American Sign Language	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Quebec Sign Language	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sign languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Other languages	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Multiple responses	100	95	0	0	10	0	0	0	0
English and French	10	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
English and non-official language	85	85	0	0	10	0	0	0	0
French and non-official language	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
English, French and non-official language	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Footnotes

Footnote 1

Data quality index showing, for the short census questionnaire (100% data), a global non response rate higher than or equal to 5% but lower than 10%.

Data quality index showing, for the long census questionnaire (20% sample data), a global non response rate higher than or equal to 10% but lower than 25%.

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Footnote 2

The 2006 category 'Chinese, n.o.s.' includes responses of 'Chinese' as well as all Chinese languages other than Cantonese, Mandarin, Taiwanese, Chaochow (Teochow), Fukien, Hakka and Shanghainese. Data for the 'Chinese, n.o.s.' category in 2001 and 2006 are not directly comparable. The 2001 category 'Chinese, n.o.s.' is equivalent to the sum of the 2006 categories 'Chinese, n.o.s.' and 'Chaochow (Teochow),' 'Fukien,' 'Shanghainese' and Taiwanese.'

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2006 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 97-555-XCB2006039.

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2006 Census analysis series:
2006 Census: The Evolving Linguistic Portrait, 2006 Census: Findings
2006 Census reference guides and technical reports:
Languages Reference Guide, 2006 Census