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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 SaskatchewanFootnote 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 1,018,310 998,295 13,705 1,165
0 to 4 years 68,675 66,855 275 65
5 to 9 years 63,295 62,585 250 175
10 to 14 years 65,540 64,930 325 160
15 to 19 years 71,440 70,830 410 105
20 to 24 years 72,100 71,480 430 75
25 to 29 years 69,895 69,080 565 100
30 to 34 years 64,970 64,080 600 70
35 to 39 years 60,740 59,785 580 65
40 to 44 years 61,005 59,905 715 60
45 to 49 years 74,085 72,650 1,055 85
50 to 54 years 76,960 75,340 1,315 45
55 to 59 years 69,585 67,850 1,440 35
60 to 64 years 56,460 54,815 1,350 35
65 to 69 years 41,065 39,760 1,080 25
70 to 74 years 33,230 31,990 1,015 25
75 to 79 years 27,890 26,745 915 10
80 to 84 years 22,035 21,120 730 5
85 years and over 19,325 18,515 650 10
Median ageFootnote 3 37.7 37.4 56.2 24.9
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 820,800 803,935 12,855 765
Married or living with a common-law partner 485,840 474,485 8,765 410
Married (and not separated) 414,215 403,830 7,895 380
Living common law 71,630 70,655 870 35
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 334,960 329,450 4,095 360
Single (never legally married) 227,120 224,545 1,870 285
Separated 17,890 17,575 240 15
Divorced 42,795 41,980 695 30
Widowed 47,150 45,355 1,290 30
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 1,018,310 998,300 13,705 1,160
English only 965,920 965,920 0 0
French only 430 0 430 0
English and French 46,570 32,145 13,260 1,160
Neither English nor French 5,390 230 15 5
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 1,018,310 998,295 13,705 1,160
Single responses 1,005,810 986,335 13,440 890
English 860,500 860,465 35 0
French 16,280 3,065 13,215 0
Non-official languages 129,030 122,805 190 895
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 30,890 30,300 15 25
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 21,945 21,780 15 20
Dene 7,955 7,535 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 20 15 0 0
Mi'kmaq 10 10 0 0
Ojibway 950 940 0 0
Oji-Cree 10 10 0 0
Stoney 10 5 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 96,540 91,015 160 855
African languages, n.i.e. 420 405 5 0
Afrikaans 735 720 0 5
Akan (Twi) 105 100 0 0
Albanian 180 160 0 0
Amharic 220 205 0 5
Arabic 2,045 1,675 20 95
Armenian 10 10 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 180 165 5 5
Bengali 1,310 1,200 0 45
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 620 605 0 0
Bosnian 235 230 0 0
Bulgarian 50 45 0 5
Burmese 160 140 0 5
Cantonese 1,725 1,420 0 10
Chinese, n.o.s. 5,380 4,590 10 40
Creoles 85 70 5 10
Croatian 315 305 0 5
Czech 270 265 0 0
Danish 310 315 0 0
Dutch 1,545 1,535 0 15
Estonian 20 20 0 0
Finnish 205 200 0 5
Flemish 70 75 0 0
Fukien 15 15 0 0
German 25,415 24,840 10 70
Greek 835 820 0 5
Gujarati 700 655 0 0
Hakka 5 5 0 0
Hebrew 50 45 0 0
Hindi 840 805 0 5
Hungarian 1,665 1,625 0 10
Ilocano 345 335 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 155 140 0 5
Italian 730 715 0 5
Japanese 280 270 0 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 120 115 0 0
Korean 1,230 1,080 0 10
Kurdish 100 95 0 0
Lao 325 300 0 10
Latvian 60 55 0 0
Lingala 20 5 10 5
Lithuanian 20 25 0 0
Macedonian 20 25 0 0
Malay 75 75 0 0
Malayalam 200 190 0 0
Maltese 10 10 0 0
Mandarin 1,425 1,225 0 10
Marathi 75 70 0 0
Nepali 330 240 0 5
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 300 270 15 10
Norwegian 545 540 0 0
Oromo 160 125 0 5
Panjabi (Punjabi) 2,110 1,915 0 10
Pashto 275 245 0 5
Persian (Farsi) 1,015 910 0 30
Polish 1,910 1,860 5 10
Portuguese 480 440 5 15
Romanian 855 785 5 35
Rundi (Kirundi) 55 30 5 10
Russian 2,355 2,175 0 30
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 40 25 5 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 475 365 0 10
Serbian 440 410 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 135 125 0 5
Shanghainese 20 10 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 120 70 0 0
Sindhi 60 50 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 175 175 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 595 380 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 330 310 0 5
Slovak 140 135 0 5
Slovenian 75 75 0 0
Somali 435 370 5 15
Spanish 3,235 2,945 10 100
Swahili 225 185 20 15
Swedish 245 240 0 5
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 9,260 9,110 0 35
Taiwanese 40 35 0 0
Tamil 275 275 0 0
Telugu 160 155 0 5
Thai 115 105 0 5
Tibetan languages 10 10 0 0
Tigrigna 350 325 0 0
Turkish 175 165 0 5
Ukrainian 13,145 12,955 5 15
Urdu 3,215 2,955 5 55
Vietnamese 1,750 1,520 5 30
Yiddish 10 10 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 1,600 1,490 15 10
Multiple responses 12,500 11,960 270 270
English and French 1,730 1,435 70 220
English and non-official language 9,845 9,840 5 0
French and non-official language 750 565 190 0
English, French and non-official language 175 120 5 50
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 1,018,315 998,300 13,710 1,160
Single responses 1,001,705 982,450 13,285 820
English 938,170 928,635 9,535 0
French 4,295 650 3,645 0
Non-official languages 59,235 53,170 100 820
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 17,355 16,775 5 25
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 10,970 10,815 5 20
Dene 6,205 5,785 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 5 0 0
Mi'kmaq 5 0 0 5
Ojibway 175 165 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 11 41,330 35,930 95 790
African languages, n.i.e. 180 175 0 5
Afrikaans 470 455 0 10
Akan (Twi) 30 25 0 0
Albanian 130 110 0 0
Amharic 110 100 0 5
Arabic 1,375 1,030 10 70
Armenian 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 35 30 0 5
Bengali 1,000 895 5 45
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 270 265 0 0
Bosnian 115 105 0 5
Bulgarian 20 15 0 0
Burmese 125 95 0 5
Cantonese 1,065 750 0 15
Chinese, n.o.s. 3,685 2,920 10 35
Creoles 35 15 5 15
Croatian 80 70 0 5
Czech 30 30 0 0
Danish 20 15 0 0
Dutch 155 135 0 15
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 20 20 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 10 5 0 0
German 7,925 7,340 10 60
Greek 295 280 0 0
Gujarati 385 345 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 30 20 0 5
Hindi 470 440 0 5
Hungarian 210 170 0 10
Ilocano 110 105 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 85 70 0 10
Italian 145 130 0 5
Japanese 110 100 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 50 40 0 0
Korean 955 805 0 5
Kurdish 40 30 0 0
Lao 155 135 0 5
Latvian 35 35 0 0
Lingala 15 5 5 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 5
Macedonian 10 10 0 0
Malay 15 15 0 0
Malayalam 105 95 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 1,100 895 0 10
Marathi 30 25 0 0
Nepali 250 160 5 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 60 55 0 5
Norwegian 10 10 0 0
Oromo 100 65 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 1,300 1,130 0 15
Pashto 145 120 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 655 555 0 25
Polish 325 280 0 10
Portuguese 150 120 0 15
Romanian 310 245 5 35
Rundi (Kirundi) 30 5 0 10
Russian 1,290 1,140 5 30
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 375 265 0 10
Serbian 300 275 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 60 55 0 5
Shanghainese 5 5 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 190 135 0 0
Sindhi 40 35 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 90 90 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 535 315 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 235 210 0 5
Slovak 20 20 0 5
Slovenian 10 10 0 0
Somali 315 255 0 15
Spanish 1,590 1,310 15 100
Swahili 125 80 15 15
Swedish 15 10 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 5,650 5,500 5 25
Taiwanese 15 15 0 0
Tamil 115 115 0 0
Telugu 90 85 0 5
Thai 55 40 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 185 165 0 0
Turkish 120 110 0 0
Ukrainian 1,635 1,435 0 20
Urdu 2,405 2,130 5 60
Vietnamese 1,270 1,035 0 30
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 550 460 0 10
Multiple responses 16,605 15,845 425 340
English and French 855 305 315 235
English and non-official language 15,360 15,340 15 0
French and non-official language 210 135 70 0
English, French and non-official language 185 60 25 105
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 1,018,310 998,300 13,705 1,160
None 939,390 925,785 8,500 605
Single responses 77,380 71,200 5,110 455
English 29,695 27,070 1,945 360
French 8,320 5,325 2,965 25
Non-official languages 39,370 38,805 200 65
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 12,375 12,350 15 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 10,020 10,005 15 5
Dene 1,870 1,870 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 15 15 0 0
Mi'kmaq 5 0 0 0
Ojibway 455 455 5 0
Oji-Cree 5 5 0 0
Stoney 5 5 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 15 26,085 25,575 165 60
African languages, n.i.e. 150 145 0 0
Afrikaans 270 265 0 0
Akan (Twi) 55 50 0 0
Albanian 30 30 0 0
Amharic 60 60 0 0
Arabic 755 685 15 5
Armenian 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 125 115 10 5
Bengali 200 195 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 150 150 0 0
Bosnian 80 80 0 0
Bulgarian 15 20 0 0
Burmese 45 40 0 0
Cantonese 545 530 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 1,115 1,100 0 0
Creoles 75 70 5 0
Croatian 105 100 0 0
Czech 60 60 0 0
Danish 80 80 0 0
Dutch 440 440 0 0
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 65 60 0 0
Flemish 10 15 0 0
Fukien 5 0 0 0
German 4,645 4,640 5 0
Greek 510 510 0 0
Gujarati 165 170 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 70 65 0 0
Hindi 540 530 0 0
Hungarian 395 395 0 0
Ilocano 90 90 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 45 50 0 0
Italian 270 270 0 0
Japanese 200 195 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 55 50 0 0
Korean 210 210 0 0
Kurdish 40 40 0 0
Lao 85 85 0 0
Latvian 10 10 0 0
Lingala 30 5 25 0
Lithuanian 5 10 0 0
Macedonian 10 5 0 0
Malay 50 50 0 0
Malayalam 55 60 0 0
Maltese 0 5 0 0
Mandarin 320 310 5 0
Marathi 25 25 0 0
Nepali 30 30 0 5
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 315 290 25 0
Norwegian 90 90 0 5
Oromo 20 20 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 625 600 0 5
Pashto 60 50 0 5
Persian (Farsi) 240 225 5 0
Polish 470 465 0 0
Portuguese 215 215 0 0
Romanian 200 190 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 35 15 10 5
Russian 665 615 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 20 15 5 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 115 100 0 0
Serbian 105 95 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 35 35 0 0
Shanghainese 5 5 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 185 185 0 0
Sindhi 10 10 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 60 60 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 45 35 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 35 35 0 0
Slovak 30 35 0 0
Slovenian 15 15 0 0
Somali 70 60 0 0
Spanish 1,865 1,835 25 5
Swahili 120 110 10 0
Swedish 65 65 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 2,325 2,320 0 0
Taiwanese 15 15 0 0
Tamil 110 115 0 0
Telugu 70 70 0 0
Thai 65 60 0 5
Tibetan languages 5 5 0 0
Tigrigna 105 100 0 0
Turkish 50 50 0 5
Ukrainian 4,225 4,210 5 5
Urdu 705 685 5 5
Vietnamese 395 375 5 0
Yiddish 5 5 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 915 880 15 5
Multiple responses 1,540 1,315 105 110
English and French 115 30 5 80
English and non-official language 495 420 45 15
French and non-official language 920 870 55 0
English, French and non-official language 10 0 0 10
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 1,018,310 998,300 13,710 1,160
English 998,300 998,295 0 0
French 13,710 0 13,710 0
English and French 1,160 0 0 1,160
Neither English nor French 5,140 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 14,290 0 13,705 580
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 1.4 0.0 100.0 50.0

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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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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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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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