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2011 Census of Canada: Topic-based tabulations

Topic-based tabulation: 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

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This table details selected demographic and language characteristics , first official language spoken , age groups and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Candiac, V
Selected Demographic and Language Characteristics (375) First official language spoken (4A)
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 1 English French English and French
Age groups - Total population excluding institutional residents 19,875 2,565 16,690 550
0 to 4 years 1,470 160 1,220 50
5 to 9 years 1,480 185 1,270 25
10 to 14 years 1,425 135 1,245 40
15 to 19 years 1,485 170 1,260 45
20 to 24 years 1,010 165 805 35
25 to 29 years 950 120 795 30
30 to 34 years 1,370 165 1,165 45
35 to 39 years 1,635 225 1,340 65
40 to 44 years 1,795 240 1,485 65
45 to 49 years 1,760 245 1,455 55
50 to 54 years 1,525 200 1,295 30
55 to 59 years 1,150 130 1,005 15
60 to 64 years 1,000 135 845 10
65 to 69 years 820 105 700 10
70 to 74 years 470 75 380 10
75 to 79 years 310 50 250 5
80 to 84 years 155 35 120 0
85 years and over 75 20 50 0
Median ageFootnote 2 37.3 39.2 37.1 34.4
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 15,500 2,080 12,955 430
Married or living with a common-law partner 10,260 1,420 8,525 295
Married (and not separated) 6,490 1,170 5,045 250
Living common law 3,770 245 3,480 45
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 5,240 665 4,430 135
Single (never legally married) 3,800 470 3,215 120
Separated 220 25 195 0
Divorced 840 105 725 10
Widowed 375 65 300 5
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 19,875 2,560 16,690 545
English only 530 535 0 0
French only 6,380 0 6,380 0
English and French 12,885 2,030 10,305 545
Neither English nor French 75 0 0 5
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 19,875 2,560 16,690 545
Single responses 19,400 2,415 16,485 420
English 1,910 1,910 5 0
French 15,830 0 15,830 0
Non-official languages 1,655 505 655 420
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 1,645 500 645 420
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 10 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 190 40 115 30
Armenian 10 5 5 5
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 10 0 10 0
Bisayan languages 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 25 0 15 5
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 20 10 0 10
Chinese, n.o.s. 65 30 20 10
Creoles 20 5 10 5
Croatian 5 5 5 0
Czech 10 0 5 0
Danish 0 5 0 0
Dutch 5 5 5 0
Estonian 5 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 5 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 35 20 10 0
Greek 75 65 5 5
Gujarati 5 0 0 5
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 5 0 0 5
Hungarian 15 10 5 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 170 120 40 15
Japanese 5 5 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 0 5 0
Korean 15 5 0 5
Kurdish 10 5 0 5
Lao 5 0 5 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 20 10 10 5
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 5 0 5 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 5 5 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 60 15 15 25
Polish 45 20 5 15
Portuguese 115 30 65 20
Romanian 145 15 50 70
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 45 5 25 10
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 10 0 0 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 5 5 5 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 390 55 170 145
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 10 10 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 15 5 5 0
Ukrainian 5 5 0 0
Urdu 0 5 0 0
Vietnamese 30 0 25 10
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 10 0 5 0
Multiple responses 475 145 205 125
English and French 305 80 120 110
English and non-official language 65 60 0 0
French and non-official language 80 0 80 0
English, French and non-official language 25 10 5 15
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 19,875 2,565 16,690 545
Single responses 19,315 2,455 16,410 380
English 2,460 2,155 300 0
French 16,125 195 15,925 0
Non-official languages 735 105 185 375
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 9 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 735 100 180 375
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 50 10 5 30
Armenian 5 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 15 0 10 5
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 15 0 0 15
Chinese, n.o.s. 45 20 10 10
Creoles 5 0 0 5
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 5 0 5 5
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 0 0 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 0 0 0 0
Greek 20 10 0 5
Gujarati 5 0 0 5
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 5 0 0 0
Hungarian 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 20 5 5 10
Japanese 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 10 5 0 5
Kurdish 5 0 0 5
Lao 5 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 10 5 0 5
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 45 10 5 25
Polish 20 0 5 10
Portuguese 35 5 15 15
Romanian 110 10 25 70
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 30 5 20 10
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 10 0 0 10
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 5 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 235 10 70 125
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 10 0 5 5
Ukrainian 0 0 0 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 10 0 0 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 560 110 285 175
English and French 305 50 135 125
English and non-official language 50 50 0 0
French and non-official language 135 0 135 0
English, French and non-official language 65 5 15 50
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 19,875 2,560 16,690 550
None 16,065 1,455 14,215 325
Single responses 3,615 1,035 2,395 175
English 1,995 155 1,785 55
French 1,070 680 290 100
Non-official languages 550 205 320 20
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 540 200 315 25
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 5 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 95 10 85 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 5 0 5 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 0 5 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 10 5 5 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 15 10 5 0
Creoles 25 0 20 0
Croatian 5 5 0 0
Czech 5 0 5 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 0 0 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 10 10 0 0
Greek 35 25 5 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 0 5 0 0
Hungarian 5 0 0 5
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 75 55 20 0
Japanese 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 0 0 0
Korean 0 0 0 0
Kurdish 5 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 10 5 5 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 0 5 0
Polish 0 5 0 0
Portuguese 55 15 35 0
Romanian 15 0 10 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 5 0 5 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 5 0 5 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 105 40 65 5
Swahili 0 0 5 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 0 5 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 0 5 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 0 0 0 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 15 0 15 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 10 5 5 0
Multiple responses 195 75 80 45
English and French 45 0 0 45
English and non-official language 75 0 70 0
French and non-official language 80 70 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 19,875 2,565 16,690 550
English 2,560 2,565 0 0
French 16,690 0 16,690 0
English and French 550 0 0 545
Neither English nor French 75 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 2,840 2,565 0 275
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 14.3 100.0 0.0 50.0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

Those classified in the category 'Neither English nor French' appear only in the 'Total' category in this table.

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Footnote 2

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 3

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 4

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 5

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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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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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 8

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 9

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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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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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 12

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 13

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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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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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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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 17

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 18

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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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-314-XCB2011053.

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