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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 QuébecFootnote 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 544,495 8,920 530,090 4,025
0 to 4 years 26,285 255 25,470 155
5 to 9 years 22,905 265 22,465 105
10 to 14 years 24,305 300 23,735 210
15 to 19 years 30,980 410 30,185 345
20 to 24 years 39,135 635 38,085 360
25 to 29 years 39,495 730 38,275 420
30 to 34 years 37,965 705 36,610 570
35 to 39 years 31,740 670 30,460 530
40 to 44 years 32,385 630 31,280 395
45 to 49 years 40,940 745 39,825 285
50 to 54 years 44,770 730 43,775 190
55 to 59 years 41,950 670 41,065 145
60 to 64 years 37,860 640 37,070 100
65 to 69 years 30,675 485 30,055 75
70 to 74 years 21,815 345 21,365 50
75 to 79 years 17,515 275 17,160 35
80 to 84 years 13,060 230 12,765 30
85 years and over 10,705 195 10,440 30
Median ageFootnote 3 43.1 43.9 43.2 33.6
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 470,990 8,105 458,415 3,555
Married or living with a common-law partner 256,140 4,595 248,815 2,200
Married (and not separated) 142,055 3,130 136,495 1,940
Living common law 114,085 1,465 112,325 260
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 214,850 3,510 209,600 1,355
Single (never legally married) 147,180 2,330 143,575 1,105
Separated 7,145 145 6,915 60
Divorced 34,010 590 33,235 145
Widowed 26,515 445 25,885 50
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 544,490 8,925 530,090 4,025
English only 1,170 1,170 0 0
French only 337,375 0 337,375 0
English and French 204,395 7,735 192,635 4,025
Neither English nor French 1,545 15 75 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 544,495 8,920 530,090 4,025
Single responses 539,930 8,525 526,550 3,395
English 7,845 7,430 415 0
French 511,815 35 511,775 0
Non-official languages 20,275 1,060 14,360 3,395
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 300 5 275 15
Atikamekw 35 0 30 0
Cree, n.o.s. 10 0 5 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 250 0 235 15
Inuktitut 10 0 10 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 7 19,335 1,030 13,605 3,300
African languages, n.i.e. 55 5 50 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 195 5 155 15
Amharic 10 0 10 0
Arabic 3,040 55 2,405 475
Armenian 40 0 25 15
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 100 0 95 5
Bengali 65 15 25 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 135 0 115 15
Bisayan languages 10 5 5 0
Bosnian 635 10 470 105
Bulgarian 190 0 125 55
Burmese 5 0 5 0
Cantonese 115 15 55 25
Chinese, n.o.s. 610 115 245 165
Creoles 315 5 285 25
Croatian 95 0 75 20
Czech 45 5 35 5
Danish 5 5 0 0
Dutch 120 15 80 20
Estonian 5 5 0 5
Finnish 10 0 5 0
Flemish 25 0 20 5
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 405 60 275 60
Greek 105 20 70 15
Gujarati 20 5 5 10
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 10 0 10 0
Hindi 35 20 10 5
Hungarian 115 15 75 20
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 80 0 45 10
Italian 515 45 425 50
Japanese 110 40 50 20
Khmer (Cambodian) 330 10 260 25
Korean 25 15 5 0
Kurdish 30 0 25 5
Lao 100 5 85 5
Latvian 0 5 5 0
Lingala 80 0 75 5
Lithuanian 5 0 5 0
Macedonian 5 0 0 5
Malay 10 5 5 5
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 235 55 95 60
Marathi 5 0 0 0
Nepali 530 50 80 105
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 280 5 255 10
Norwegian 10 0 5 0
Oromo 220 5 185 25
Panjabi (Punjabi) 10 5 5 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 360 60 160 110
Polish 270 25 180 60
Portuguese 1,015 25 725 230
Romanian 630 15 380 215
Rundi (Kirundi) 300 0 280 15
Russian 420 25 260 105
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 220 10 185 20
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 0
Serbian 165 5 110 55
Serbo-Croatian 210 5 150 50
Shanghainese 5 0 5 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 35 0 15 0
Sindhi 5 0 0 5
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 20 0 15 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Slovak 15 5 15 0
Slovenian 5 0 0 0
Somali 15 0 10 0
Spanish 5,195 125 3,860 855
Swahili 375 10 330 20
Swedish 15 5 5 5
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 55 35 15 5
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 15 10 0 5
Telugu 5 0 0 0
Thai 35 10 25 0
Tibetan languages 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 0 5 0
Turkish 50 10 35 5
Ukrainian 45 10 25 10
Urdu 20 10 5 5
Vietnamese 725 25 475 120
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 635 30 480 70
Multiple responses 4,565 395 3,535 630
English and French 2,450 215 1,670 565
English and non-official language 185 165 20 0
French and non-official language 1,760 5 1,760 0
English, French and non-official language 170 15 85 70
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 544,495 8,925 530,085 4,025
Single responses 538,495 8,335 525,525 3,180
English 5,515 4,335 1,175 0
French 522,255 3,585 518,670 0
Non-official languages 10,730 415 5,675 3,180
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 135 0 115 20
Atikamekw 10 0 10 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 120 0 100 15
Inuktitut 5 0 5 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 10,325 410 5,415 3,105
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 5 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 130 0 90 15
Amharic 0 0 5 0
Arabic 1,150 20 580 450
Armenian 30 5 10 20
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 20 0 10 5
Bengali 65 10 25 15
Berber languages (Kabyle) 35 0 20 10
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 460 5 300 100
Bulgarian 130 0 65 60
Burmese 5 0 5 0
Cantonese 55 5 10 20
Chinese, n.o.s. 475 80 150 155
Creoles 75 0 50 20
Croatian 45 0 25 15
Czech 10 0 5 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 20 5 0 15
Estonian 5 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 60 5 10 50
Greek 25 0 5 15
Gujarati 15 5 0 5
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 0 5 0
Hindi 20 5 5 10
Hungarian 30 5 10 15
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 40 0 20 5
Italian 100 0 55 35
Japanese 50 10 15 20
Khmer (Cambodian) 170 0 105 25
Korean 10 5 0 5
Kurdish 15 0 10 5
Lao 35 0 30 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 25 0 20 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 165 30 50 55
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 505 50 65 100
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 35 0 25 5
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 65 0 40 10
Panjabi (Punjabi) 5 0 0 5
Pashto 0 0 5 0
Persian (Farsi) 260 40 75 115
Polish 90 0 35 50
Portuguese 565 10 300 220
Romanian 405 5 155 215
Rundi (Kirundi) 85 0 70 10
Russian 265 0 130 100
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 40 0 20 10
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 130 0 75 55
Serbo-Croatian 145 5 80 55
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 50 0 40 5
Sindhi 5 0 0 5
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 15 0 10 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 5 0 5 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 5 0 10 0
Spanish 3,445 45 2,215 835
Swahili 180 10 135 20
Swedish 5 0 5 5
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 5 5 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 10 0 0 5
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 10 0 10 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 10 0 5 0
Ukrainian 25 0 10 10
Urdu 5 5 0 0
Vietnamese 470 30 215 115
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 270 5 150 55
Multiple responses 5,995 585 4,565 845
English and French 2,115 395 1,095 630
English and non-official language 155 150 10 0
French and non-official language 3,340 20 3,320 0
English, French and non-official language 385 25 140 215
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 544,490 8,925 530,090 4,025
None 507,475 4,160 499,980 2,005
Single responses 35,450 4,560 29,125 1,645
English 20,435 1,950 18,375 95
French 7,755 2,245 3,945 1,465
Non-official languages 7,265 365 6,800 80
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 115 0 115 5
Atikamekw 10 0 5 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 95 0 95 0
Inuktitut 10 0 10 5
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 15 6,820 360 6,370 80
African languages, n.i.e. 40 0 35 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 35 0 35 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 1,310 15 1,285 5
Armenian 10 0 10 5
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 55 0 55 0
Bengali 10 5 5 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 65 0 60 0
Bisayan languages 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 105 0 105 0
Bulgarian 25 5 25 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 25 0 25 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 80 25 55 0
Creoles 225 0 220 5
Croatian 25 0 20 0
Czech 10 5 10 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 45 5 35 5
Estonian 0 5 0 0
Finnish 5 0 5 0
Flemish 10 5 10 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 195 25 165 5
Greek 35 15 20 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 5 0
Hebrew 5 0 0 0
Hindi 35 25 10 0
Hungarian 35 5 30 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 0 10 0
Italian 240 20 225 0
Japanese 80 20 50 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 125 5 120 0
Korean 10 5 5 0
Kurdish 5 0 5 0
Lao 30 0 30 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 70 0 70 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 35 5 30 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0
Nepali 10 0 0 5
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 130 0 135 0
Norwegian 0 0 5 0
Oromo 70 5 65 5
Panjabi (Punjabi) 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 55 15 35 0
Polish 80 10 70 0
Portuguese 275 10 270 0
Romanian 135 5 130 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 135 0 135 0
Russian 120 10 100 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 100 0 95 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 0
Serbian 30 0 35 0
Serbo-Croatian 55 0 60 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 50 5 50 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 5 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 5 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 2,120 70 2,030 15
Swahili 170 5 165 0
Swedish 5 5 5 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 20 10 5 5
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 5 0 0
Telugu 0 5 0 0
Thai 20 5 15 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 0 0 0
Turkish 5 0 5 0
Ukrainian 10 0 10 0
Urdu 10 5 0 0
Vietnamese 180 10 175 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 330 5 315 5
Multiple responses 1,570 200 985 380
English and French 405 25 40 335
English and non-official language 945 35 915 0
French and non-official language 185 140 30 15
English, French and non-official language 35 0 5 25
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 544,490 8,920 530,085 4,025
English 8,925 8,925 0 0
French 530,090 0 530,085 0
English and French 4,025 0 0 4,025
Neither English nor French 1,455 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 10,935 8,925 0 2,010
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 2.0 100.0 0.0 49.9

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

Excludes census data for one or more incompletely enumerated Indian reserves or Indian settlements.

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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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