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2011 Census of Canada: Topic-based tabulations

Selected Demographic and Language Characteristics (375), First Official Language Spoken (4A), Age Groups (8B) and Sex (3) for the population excluding institutional residents of Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Divisions and Census Subdivisions, 2011 Census

About this variable: Selected Demographic and Language Characteristics (375)

Definition

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Values

  1. Age groups - Total population excluding institutional residents
  2. 0 to 4 years
  3. 5 to 9 years
  4. 10 to 14 years
  5. 15 to 19 years
  6. 20 to 24 years
  7. 25 to 29 years
  8. 30 to 34 years
  9. 35 to 39 years
  10. 40 to 44 years
  11. 45 to 49 years
  12. 50 to 54 years
  13. 55 to 59 years
  14. 60 to 64 years
  15. 65 to 69 years
  16. 70 to 74 years
  17. 75 to 79 years
  18. 80 to 84 years
  19. 85 years and over
  20. Median age Footnote 20
  21. Total population 15 years and over by marital status Footnote 21
  22. Married or living with a common-law partner
  23. Married (and not separated)
  24. Living common law
  25. Not married and not living with a common-law partner
  26. Single (never legally married)
  27. Separated
  28. Divorced
  29. Widowed
  30. Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residents Footnote 30
  31. English only
  32. French only
  33. English and French
  34. Neither English nor French
  35. Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents
  36. Single responses
  37. English
  38. French
  39. Non-official languages
  40. Selected Aboriginal languages Footnote 40
  41. Atikamekw
  42. Cree, n.o.s.
  43. Dene
  44. Innu/Montagnais
  45. Inuktitut
  46. Mi'kmaq
  47. Ojibway
  48. Oji-Cree
  49. Stoney
  50. Selected non-Aboriginal languages Footnote 50
  51. African languages, n.i.e.
  52. Afrikaans
  53. Akan (Twi)
  54. Albanian
  55. Amharic
  56. Arabic
  57. Armenian
  58. Bantu languages, n.i.e.
  59. Bengali
  60. Berber languages (Kabyle)
  61. Bisayan languages
  62. Bosnian
  63. Bulgarian
  64. Burmese
  65. Cantonese
  66. Chinese, n.o.s.
  67. Creoles
  68. Croatian
  69. Czech
  70. Danish
  71. Dutch
  72. Estonian
  73. Finnish
  74. Flemish
  75. Fukien
  76. German
  77. Greek
  78. Gujarati
  79. Hakka
  80. Hebrew
  81. Hindi
  82. Hungarian
  83. Ilocano
  84. Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.
  85. Italian
  86. Japanese
  87. Khmer (Cambodian)
  88. Korean
  89. Kurdish
  90. Lao
  91. Latvian
  92. Lingala
  93. Lithuanian
  94. Macedonian
  95. Malay
  96. Malayalam
  97. Maltese
  98. Mandarin
  99. Marathi
  100. Nepali
  101. Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e.
  102. Norwegian
  103. Oromo
  104. Panjabi (Punjabi)
  105. Pashto
  106. Persian (Farsi)
  107. Polish
  108. Portuguese
  109. Romanian
  110. Rundi (Kirundi)
  111. Russian
  112. Rwanda (Kinyarwanda)
  113. Semitic languages, n.i.e.
  114. Serbian
  115. Serbo-Croatian
  116. Shanghainese
  117. Sign languages, n.i.e.
  118. Sindhi
  119. Sinhala (Sinhalese)
  120. Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e.
  121. Slavic languages, n.i.e.
  122. Slovak
  123. Slovenian
  124. Somali
  125. Spanish
  126. Swahili
  127. Swedish
  128. Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino)
  129. Taiwanese
  130. Tamil
  131. Telugu
  132. Thai
  133. Tibetan languages
  134. Tigrigna
  135. Turkish
  136. Ukrainian
  137. Urdu
  138. Vietnamese
  139. Yiddish
  140. Other languages Footnote 140
  141. Multiple responses
  142. English and French
  143. English and non-official language
  144. French and non-official language
  145. English, French and non-official language
  146. Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residents Footnote 146
  147. Single responses
  148. English
  149. French
  150. Non-official languages
  151. Selected Aboriginal languages Footnote 151
  152. Atikamekw
  153. Cree, n.o.s.
  154. Dene
  155. Innu/Montagnais
  156. Inuktitut
  157. Mi'kmaq
  158. Ojibway
  159. Oji-Cree
  160. Stoney
  161. Selected non-Aboriginal languages Footnote 161
  162. African languages, n.i.e.
  163. Afrikaans
  164. Akan (Twi)
  165. Albanian
  166. Amharic
  167. Arabic
  168. Armenian
  169. Bantu languages, n.i.e.
  170. Bengali
  171. Berber languages (Kabyle)
  172. Bisayan languages
  173. Bosnian
  174. Bulgarian
  175. Burmese
  176. Cantonese
  177. Chinese, n.o.s.
  178. Creoles
  179. Croatian
  180. Czech
  181. Danish
  182. Dutch
  183. Estonian
  184. Finnish
  185. Flemish
  186. Fukien
  187. German
  188. Greek
  189. Gujarati
  190. Hakka
  191. Hebrew
  192. Hindi
  193. Hungarian
  194. Ilocano
  195. Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.
  196. Italian
  197. Japanese
  198. Khmer (Cambodian)
  199. Korean
  200. Kurdish
  201. Lao
  202. Latvian
  203. Lingala
  204. Lithuanian
  205. Macedonian
  206. Malay
  207. Malayalam
  208. Maltese
  209. Mandarin
  210. Marathi
  211. Nepali
  212. Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e.
  213. Norwegian
  214. Oromo
  215. Panjabi (Punjabi)
  216. Pashto
  217. Persian (Farsi)
  218. Polish
  219. Portuguese
  220. Romanian
  221. Rundi (Kirundi)
  222. Russian
  223. Rwanda (Kinyarwanda)
  224. Semitic languages, n.i.e.
  225. Serbian
  226. Serbo-Croatian
  227. Shanghainese
  228. Sign languages, n.i.e.
  229. Sindhi
  230. Sinhala (Sinhalese)
  231. Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e.
  232. Slavic languages, n.i.e.
  233. Slovak
  234. Slovenian
  235. Somali
  236. Spanish
  237. Swahili
  238. Swedish
  239. Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)
  240. Taiwanese
  241. Tamil
  242. Telugu
  243. Thai
  244. Tibetan languages
  245. Tigrigna
  246. Turkish
  247. Ukrainian
  248. Urdu
  249. Vietnamese
  250. Yiddish
  251. Other languages Footnote 251
  252. Multiple responses
  253. English and French
  254. English and non-official language
  255. French and non-official language
  256. English, French and non-official language
  257. Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residents Footnote 257
  258. None
  259. Single responses
  260. English
  261. French
  262. Non-official languages
  263. Selected Aboriginal languages Footnote 263
  264. Atikamekw
  265. Cree, n.o.s.
  266. Dene
  267. Innu/Montagnais
  268. Inuktitut
  269. Mi'kmaq
  270. Ojibway
  271. Oji-Cree
  272. Stoney
  273. Selected non-Aboriginal languages Footnote 273
  274. African languages, n.i.e.
  275. Afrikaans
  276. Akan (Twi)
  277. Albanian
  278. Amharic
  279. Arabic
  280. Armenian
  281. Bantu languages, n.i.e.
  282. Bengali
  283. Berber languages (Kabyle)
  284. Bisayan languages
  285. Bosnian
  286. Bulgarian
  287. Burmese
  288. Cantonese
  289. Chinese, n.o.s.
  290. Creoles
  291. Croatian
  292. Czech
  293. Danish
  294. Dutch
  295. Estonian
  296. Finnish
  297. Flemish
  298. Fukien
  299. German
  300. Greek
  301. Gujarati
  302. Hakka
  303. Hebrew
  304. Hindi
  305. Hungarian
  306. Ilocano
  307. Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.
  308. Italian
  309. Japanese
  310. Khmer (Cambodian)
  311. Korean
  312. Kurdish
  313. Lao
  314. Latvian
  315. Lingala
  316. Lithuanian
  317. Macedonian
  318. Malay
  319. Malayalam
  320. Maltese
  321. Mandarin
  322. Marathi
  323. Nepali
  324. Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e.
  325. Norwegian
  326. Oromo
  327. Panjabi (Punjabi)
  328. Pashto
  329. Persian (Farsi)
  330. Polish
  331. Portuguese
  332. Romanian
  333. Rundi (Kirundi)
  334. Russian
  335. Rwanda (Kinyarwanda)
  336. Semitic languages, n.i.e.
  337. Serbian
  338. Serbo-Croatian
  339. Shanghainese
  340. Sign languages, n.i.e.
  341. Sindhi
  342. Sinhala (Sinhalese)
  343. Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e.
  344. Slavic languages, n.i.e.
  345. Slovak
  346. Slovenian
  347. Somali
  348. Spanish
  349. Swahili
  350. Swedish
  351. Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)
  352. Taiwanese
  353. Tamil
  354. Telugu
  355. Thai
  356. Tibetan languages
  357. Tigrigna
  358. Turkish
  359. Ukrainian
  360. Urdu
  361. Vietnamese
  362. Yiddish
  363. Other languages Footnote 363
  364. Multiple responses
  365. English and French
  366. English and non-official language
  367. French and non-official language
  368. English, French and non-official language
  369. First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residents Footnote 369
  370. English
  371. French
  372. English and French
  373. Neither English nor French
  374. Official language minority (number) Footnote 374
  375. Official language minority (percentage) Footnote 375

Footnotes

Footnote 20

The median age is an age 'x', such that exactly one half of the population is older than 'x' and the other half is younger than 'x'.

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Footnote 21

Marital status
Part A - Short definition
Refers to the marital status of the person, taking into account his/her common-law status.
Part B - Detailed definition
Refers to the marital status of the person, taking into account his/her common-law status. Persons who are married or living common law may be of opposite sex or of the same sex. The classification is as follows:
Married (and not separated): A person who is married and has not separated or obtained a divorce, and whose spouse is living.
Common-law: A person who is living with another person as a couple but who is not legally married to that person.
Separated: A person who is married but who no longer lives with his/her spouse (for any reason other than illness, work or school) and who has not obtained a divorce. Persons living common law are not included in this category.
Divorced: A person who has obtained a legal divorce and who has not remarried. Persons living common law are not included in this category.
Widowed: A person who has lost his/her spouse through death and who has not remarried. Persons living common law are not included in this category.
Single (never legally married): A person who has never married or a person whose marriage has been annulled and who has not remarried. Persons living common law are not included in this category.

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Footnote 30

Total population excluding institutional residents. The population excluding institutional residents includes Canadian citizens (by birth or by naturalization) and landed immigrants (permanent residents) excluding those who live in institutions (institutional collective dwellings). Canadian citizens and landed immigrants either: (1) have a usual place of residence in Canada; (2) are abroad either on a military base or attached to a diplomatic mission; or (3) are at sea or in port aboard merchant vessels under Canadian registry or Canadian government vessels. Since 1991, the target population also includes persons with a usual place of residence in Canada who are claiming refugee status, who hold study permits, or who hold work permits, as well as family members living with them; for census purposes, this group is referred to as non-permanent residents. The population universe does not include foreign residents.

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Footnote 40

Selected Aboriginal languages
The languages shown were selected based on the Aboriginal mother tongues most often reported as single responses in Canada in the 2011 Census of Population.

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Footnote 50

Selected non-Aboriginal languages
The languages shown were selected based on the non-Aboriginal mother tongues (other than English or French) most often reported as single responses in Canada in the 2011 Census of Population.

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Footnote 140

Other languages
This is a subtotal of all languages collected by the census that are not displayed separately here. For a full list of languages collected in the census, please refer to Appendix D in the 2011 Census Dictionary.

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Footnote 146

Total population excluding institutional residents
The population excluding institutional residents includes Canadian citizens (by birth or by naturalization) and landed immigrants (permanent residents) excluding those who live in institutions (institutional collective dwellings). Canadian citizens and landed immigrants either: (1) have a usual place of residence in Canada; (2) are abroad either on a military base or attached to a diplomatic mission; or (3) are at sea or in port aboard merchant vessels under Canadian registry or Canadian government vessels. Since 1991, the target population also includes persons with a usual place of residence in Canada who are claiming refugee status, who hold study permits, or who hold work permits, as well as family members living with them; for census purposes, this group is referred to as non-permanent residents. The population universe does not include foreign residents.

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Footnote 151

Selected Aboriginal languages
The languages shown were selected based on the Aboriginal mother tongues most often reported as single responses in Canada in the 2011 Census of Population.

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Footnote 161

Selected non-Aboriginal languages
The languages shown were selected based on the non-Aboriginal mother tongues (other than English or French) most often reported as single responses in Canada in the 2011 Census of Population.

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Footnote 251

Other languages
This is a subtotal of all languages collected by the census that are not displayed separately here. For a full list of languages collected in the census, please refer to Appendix D in the 2011 Census Dictionary.

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Footnote 257

Total population excluding institutional residents
The population excluding institutional residents includes Canadian citizens (by birth or by naturalization) and landed immigrants (permanent residents) excluding those who live in institutions (institutional collective dwellings). Canadian citizens and landed immigrants either: (1) have a usual place of residence in Canada; (2) are abroad either on a military base or attached to a diplomatic mission; or (3) are at sea or in port aboard merchant vessels under Canadian registry or Canadian government vessels. Since 1991, the target population also includes persons with a usual place of residence in Canada who are claiming refugee status, who hold study permits, or who hold work permits, as well as family members living with them; for census purposes, this group is referred to as non-permanent residents. The population universe does not include foreign residents.

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Footnote 263

Selected Aboriginal languages
The languages shown were selected based on the Aboriginal mother tongues most often reported as single responses in Canada in the 2011 Census of Population.

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Footnote 273

Selected non-Aboriginal languages
The languages shown were selected based on the non-Aboriginal mother tongues (other than English or French) most often reported as single responses in Canada in the 2011 Census of Population.

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Footnote 363

Other languages
This is a subtotal of all languages collected by the census that are not displayed separately here. For a full list of languages collected in the census, please refer to Appendix D in the 2011 Census Dictionary.

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Footnote 369

Total population excluding institutional residents
The population excluding institutional residents includes Canadian citizens (by birth or by naturalization) and landed immigrants (permanent residents) excluding those who live in institutions (institutional collective dwellings). Canadian citizens and landed immigrants either: (1) have a usual place of residence in Canada; (2) are abroad either on a military base or attached to a diplomatic mission; or (3) are at sea or in port aboard merchant vessels under Canadian registry or Canadian government vessels. Since 1991, the target population also includes persons with a usual place of residence in Canada who are claiming refugee status, who hold study permits, or who hold work permits, as well as family members living with them; for census purposes, this group is referred to as non-permanent residents. The population universe does not include foreign residents.

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Footnote 374

English is the first official language spoken by Quebec's official language minority, which consists of all individuals with English as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French. French is the first official language spoken by the official language minority in the country overall and in every province and territory outside Quebec, which consists of all individuals with French as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French.

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Footnote 375

English is the first official language spoken by Quebec's official language minority, which consists of all individuals with English as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French. French is the first official language spoken by the official language minority in the country overall and in every province and territory outside Quebec, which consists of all individuals with French as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French.

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