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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 Okanagan-SimilkameenFootnote 1
Selected Demographic and Language Characteristics (375) First official language spoken (4A)
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 2 English French English and French
Age groups - Total population excluding institutional residents 79,775 77,630 1,300 165
0 to 4 years 2,915 2,835 25 0
5 to 9 years 3,160 3,125 20 5
10 to 14 years 3,775 3,725 20 25
15 to 19 years 4,330 4,280 25 25
20 to 24 years 3,480 3,445 20 10
25 to 29 years 3,305 3,225 40 5
30 to 34 years 3,315 3,225 55 5
35 to 39 years 3,595 3,515 45 0
40 to 44 years 4,125 4,035 65 5
45 to 49 years 5,685 5,535 125 10
50 to 54 years 6,760 6,575 135 15
55 to 59 years 6,865 6,660 140 5
60 to 64 years 7,070 6,825 140 20
65 to 69 years 5,850 5,650 110 15
70 to 74 years 5,090 4,865 140 10
75 to 79 years 4,315 4,165 95 5
80 to 84 years 3,320 3,215 55 0
85 years and over 2,830 2,730 55 5
Median ageFootnote 3 51.7 51.5 57.8 49.5
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 69,925 67,945 1,235 135
Married or living with a common-law partner 42,815 41,505 795 75
Married (and not separated) 36,270 35,130 640 65
Living common law 6,545 6,375 155 10
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 27,110 26,440 445 60
Single (never legally married) 13,685 13,410 195 45
Separated 2,035 1,995 35 0
Divorced 5,585 5,470 90 5
Widowed 5,805 5,570 120 10
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 79,780 77,630 1,300 165
English only 74,280 74,280 0 0
French only 35 0 35 0
English and French 4,755 3,325 1,260 165
Neither English nor French 700 20 5 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 79,780 77,630 1,300 170
Single responses 78,910 76,800 1,285 145
English 67,365 67,360 0 0
French 1,515 250 1,265 0
Non-official languages 10,030 9,195 10 145
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 25 25 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 15 15 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 5 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 9,805 8,970 10 145
African languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Afrikaans 55 55 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0
Albanian 15 10 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 25 20 0 0
Armenian 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Bengali 5 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 10 15 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 10 10 0 0
Burmese 0 5 0 0
Cantonese 80 70 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 150 135 0 0
Creoles 5 5 0 0
Croatian 110 110 0 0
Czech 135 135 0 0
Danish 140 145 0 0
Dutch 640 625 0 10
Estonian 15 15 0 0
Finnish 105 105 0 0
Flemish 15 15 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 2,385 2,325 5 45
Greek 75 70 0 0
Gujarati 5 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 10 10 0 0
Hindi 35 35 0 0
Hungarian 330 325 0 0
Ilocano 5 10 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Italian 310 300 0 5
Japanese 80 80 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 60 55 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 10 10 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 10 10 0 0
Malayalam 5 0 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0
Mandarin 45 40 0 5
Marathi 5 0 0 0
Nepali 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 55 55 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 2,280 1,790 0 35
Pashto 0 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 40 35 0 0
Polish 190 180 0 5
Portuguese 845 745 0 15
Romanian 30 25 5 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 180 175 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 20 20 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 25 10 0 0
Sindhi 0 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Slovak 70 65 0 0
Slovenian 55 50 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 330 290 0 10
Swahili 5 5 0 0
Swedish 65 65 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 190 190 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 5 0 0
Thai 40 35 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 5 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 10 0 0
Ukrainian 330 330 0 0
Urdu 0 5 0 0
Vietnamese 70 60 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 205 205 0 0
Multiple responses 870 830 15 20
English and French 170 145 5 20
English and non-official language 635 630 0 0
French and non-official language 55 45 10 0
English, French and non-official language 10 10 0 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 79,780 77,630 1,305 165
Single responses 78,695 76,640 1,250 130
English 74,455 73,535 920 0
French 365 45 325 0
Non-official languages 3,880 3,065 5 135
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 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 11 3,835 3,020 5 130
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 30 35 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 10 5 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 5 0 0 5
Armenian 5 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 5 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 50 35 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 60 45 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 15 15 0 5
Czech 30 30 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 0
Dutch 75 60 0 10
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 20 20 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 405 350 0 40
Greek 20 15 0 5
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 15 10 0 0
Hungarian 60 55 0 0
Ilocano 10 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Italian 60 55 0 0
Japanese 20 20 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 45 40 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 0 0 5
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 30 20 0 0
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) 1,980 1,490 5 35
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 20 15 0 0
Polish 45 45 0 5
Portuguese 380 280 0 20
Romanian 5 5 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 30 25 5 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 10 10 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 25 15 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 15 15 0 0
Slovenian 10 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 165 125 5 10
Swahili 5 0 0 0
Swedish 10 10 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 55 50 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 15 10 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0
Ukrainian 15 10 0 0
Urdu 10 5 0 0
Vietnamese 60 50 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 45 40 0 0
Multiple responses 1,080 990 55 35
English and French 85 15 45 25
English and non-official language 970 965 5 0
French and non-official language 5 10 0 0
English, French and non-official language 20 0 5 15
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 79,775 77,630 1,305 165
None 74,585 73,010 840 85
Single responses 5,065 4,525 440 75
English 1,570 1,320 160 70
French 630 365 265 0
Non-official languages 2,865 2,840 20 5
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 25 25 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 15 15 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 10 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 5 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 15 2,610 2,590 15 5
African languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Afrikaans 20 15 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0
Albanian 5 0 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 5 10 0 0
Armenian 5 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 10 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 5 10 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 15 20 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 40 45 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 35 40 0 0
Czech 40 35 0 0
Danish 40 45 0 0
Dutch 180 175 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 40 40 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 705 695 5 0
Greek 30 35 0 0
Gujarati 5 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 0 0 0
Hindi 25 20 0 0
Hungarian 80 80 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 130 130 0 0
Japanese 45 50 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 10 10 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 10 10 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 10 10 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 10 10 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 230 230 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 10 0 0
Polish 45 45 0 0
Portuguese 250 250 0 0
Romanian 10 10 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 40 40 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 10 10 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 0
Sindhi 5 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Slovak 15 15 0 0
Slovenian 20 20 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 245 235 10 0
Swahili 5 5 0 0
Swedish 20 25 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 60 60 0 0
Taiwanese 0 5 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 5 0 0 0
Thai 20 25 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 5 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0
Ukrainian 40 40 0 0
Urdu 5 0 0 0
Vietnamese 10 10 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 230 225 0 0
Multiple responses 125 100 20 10
English and French 10 0 0 10
English and non-official language 25 15 10 0
French and non-official language 90 85 10 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 79,775 77,630 1,300 165
English 77,630 77,630 0 0
French 1,305 0 1,300 0
English and French 165 0 0 170
Neither English nor French 680 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 1,385 0 1,300 85
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 1.7 0.0 100.0 51.5

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

Data quality index showing a global non response rate higher than or equal to 5% but lower than 10%.

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Footnote 2

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

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Footnote 3

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 4

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 5

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 6

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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Footnote 8

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 9

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 10

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 13

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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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 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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Footnote 19

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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