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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 Le Saguenay-et-son-Fjord
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 164,010 1,275 162,490 195
0 to 4 years 8,115 55 8,030 15
5 to 9 years 7,555 40 7,505 5
10 to 14 years 7,975 50 7,920 10
15 to 19 years 10,110 60 10,045 15
20 to 24 years 10,005 110 9,875 20
25 to 29 years 9,605 115 9,460 30
30 to 34 years 10,325 120 10,185 20
35 to 39 years 8,850 70 8,755 20
40 to 44 years 8,905 85 8,810 10
45 to 49 years 12,930 95 12,810 20
50 to 54 years 15,485 110 15,360 10
55 to 59 years 14,160 85 14,065 5
60 to 64 years 12,070 95 11,970 5
65 to 69 years 9,350 50 9,300 5
70 to 74 years 6,610 45 6,565 5
75 to 79 years 5,330 45 5,280 5
80 to 84 years 3,825 40 3,785 0
85 years and over 2,785 15 2,765 0
Median ageFootnote 2 45.2 41.2 45.3 31.3
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 140,360 1,130 139,035 170
Married or living with a common-law partner 84,820 755 83,950 105
Married (and not separated) 51,160 495 50,565 90
Living common law 33,665 255 33,390 20
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 55,535 380 55,085 65
Single (never legally married) 35,920 245 35,610 50
Separated 1,800 10 1,785 0
Divorced 9,115 65 9,040 5
Widowed 8,705 50 8,645 5
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 164,005 1,275 162,490 195
English only 165 160 0 0
French only 131,920 0 131,920 0
English and French 31,875 1,115 30,565 195
Neither English nor French 50 0 5 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 164,005 1,275 162,490 200
Single responses 163,490 1,225 162,085 130
English 1,260 1,135 120 0
French 161,215 10 161,200 0
Non-official languages 1,010 80 760 130
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 80 0 75 5
Atikamekw 50 0 45 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 35 0 30 5
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 6 885 80 645 130
African languages, n.i.e. 10 0 5 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 120 5 100 15
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 0
Bengali 5 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 5 0 5 5
Bisayan languages 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 45 10 15 10
Creoles 15 0 15 0
Croatian 5 0 5 0
Czech 5 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 5 0 0 5
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 0 5 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 45 10 35 0
Greek 5 0 5 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 15 5 10 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 40 5 35 5
Japanese 5 5 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 5 0
Korean 0 5 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 5 0 5 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 0 10 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 20 0 20 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 10 0 15 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 5 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 40 5 15 20
Polish 25 5 20 5
Portuguese 40 0 35 5
Romanian 10 0 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 15 5 10 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 5 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 10 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 5 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 0 5 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. 5 0 0 0
Slovak 5 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 240 5 200 20
Swahili 15 0 15 5
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 5 5 0 5
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 10 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 30 5 15 5
Ukrainian 5 5 0 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 15 5 10 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 40 0 40 5
Multiple responses 515 50 405 65
English and French 385 30 295 60
English and non-official language 25 20 5 0
French and non-official language 100 0 100 0
English, French and non-official language 10 0 5 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 164,010 1,275 162,490 200
Single responses 163,460 1,205 162,100 120
English 795 585 210 0
French 162,260 595 161,660 0
Non-official languages 405 25 225 115
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 9 55 0 45 5
Atikamekw 40 0 35 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 15 0 10 5
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 10 345 20 175 110
African languages, n.i.e. 5 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 40 5 15 10
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 5
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 30 5 10 15
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 5 0 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 5 0 0 5
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 5 0 5 5
Greek 5 0 0 5
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 5 0 5 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 10 0 10 5
Japanese 5 5 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 0 0 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 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 0 0 0 5
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 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 5 0 0 5
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 20 5 5 15
Polish 0 0 0 0
Portuguese 10 0 5 5
Romanian 5 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 5 0
Russian 10 5 5 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 5 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 0 5 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 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 125 0 95 20
Swahili 5 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 0 0 0 5
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 20 0 5 10
Ukrainian 5 0 0 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 5 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 10 0 10 5
Multiple responses 545 70 390 85
English and French 325 60 205 65
English and non-official language 10 5 5 0
French and non-official language 180 5 180 0
English, French and non-official language 30 0 10 20
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 164,005 1,275 162,490 195
None 159,355 620 158,585 110
Single responses 4,530 640 3,825 65
English 3,465 315 3,145 5
French 600 295 250 50
Non-official languages 465 30 430 5
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 30 0 30 0
Atikamekw 10 0 10 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 20 0 20 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 14 410 25 375 5
African languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 45 0 45 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 5 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 5 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 10 5 5 0
Creoles 5 0 0 0
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 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 20 0 20 0
Greek 0 0 5 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 0 0 5 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 25 0 25 0
Japanese 0 0 5 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 0 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 10 0 5 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 5 0 5 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 0 5 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 5 0 5 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 0 5 0
Polish 10 0 5 5
Portuguese 25 0 20 0
Romanian 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 0 0 0 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. 5 0 5 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 0 0 0 5
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 205 5 200 0
Swahili 0 0 5 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 5 5 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 5 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 0 0 0 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 5 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 20 0 20 0
Multiple responses 120 15 80 25
English and French 30 0 0 25
English and non-official language 80 5 75 0
French and non-official language 15 10 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 164,005 1,275 162,490 200
English 1,275 1,275 0 0
French 162,490 0 162,490 0
English and French 195 0 0 200
Neither English nor French 40 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 1,375 1,275 0 100
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 0.8 100.0 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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