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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 Moose Jaw, CY
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 32,460 31,845 505 30
0 to 4 years 1,970 1,945 15 5
5 to 9 years 1,800 1,780 10 5
10 to 14 years 1,865 1,850 10 0
15 to 19 years 2,075 2,060 5 5
20 to 24 years 2,190 2,170 10 5
25 to 29 years 2,115 2,090 25 5
30 to 34 years 1,965 1,935 20 0
35 to 39 years 1,875 1,845 25 0
40 to 44 years 1,845 1,800 30 5
45 to 49 years 2,340 2,275 50 0
50 to 54 years 2,520 2,485 30 5
55 to 59 years 2,230 2,185 45 0
60 to 64 years 1,920 1,860 50 5
65 to 69 years 1,390 1,355 35 0
70 to 74 years 1,185 1,135 45 0
75 to 79 years 1,155 1,100 40 0
80 to 84 years 1,010 970 30 0
85 years and over 1,020 1,000 25 0
Median ageFootnote 2 40.9 40.6 57.1 19.5
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 26,835 26,275 470 20
Married or living with a common-law partner 15,205 14,840 325 5
Married (and not separated) 12,855 12,550 260 5
Living common law 2,355 2,295 65 0
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 11,620 11,430 150 15
Single (never legally married) 6,710 6,645 50 15
Separated 700 685 10 0
Divorced 2,045 2,010 35 5
Widowed 2,165 2,090 60 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 32,460 31,845 505 30
English only 30,595 30,595 0 0
French only 10 0 10 0
English and French 1,765 1,240 495 30
Neither English nor French 90 10 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 32,460 31,850 505 30
Single responses 32,195 31,600 495 15
English 29,810 29,810 0 0
French 610 115 495 0
Non-official languages 1,775 1,680 5 15
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 15 15 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 10 10 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 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 1,740 1,645 0 15
African languages, n.i.e. 35 35 0 0
Afrikaans 35 40 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 50 45 0 0
Amharic 10 0 0 0
Arabic 40 40 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Bengali 10 10 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 10 5 0 0
Bosnian 10 10 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 45 40 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 150 120 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 20 15 0 5
Czech 0 5 0 0
Danish 10 10 0 0
Dutch 35 35 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 335 335 0 0
Greek 10 10 0 0
Gujarati 5 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 10 5 0 0
Hungarian 35 35 0 0
Ilocano 10 10 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 25 20 0 0
Japanese 10 10 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 10 10 0 0
Korean 15 15 0 0
Kurdish 5 5 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 20 20 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 25 15 0 0
Norwegian 15 15 0 0
Oromo 15 15 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 20 20 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 25 25 0 0
Polish 45 45 0 5
Portuguese 5 5 0 0
Romanian 40 45 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 35 35 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 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. 15 15 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Slovak 5 5 0 0
Slovenian 0 5 0 0
Somali 30 30 0 0
Spanish 75 75 0 0
Swahili 15 15 0 5
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 125 125 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 5 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 180 175 0 0
Urdu 45 45 0 0
Vietnamese 25 20 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 20 15 0 0
Multiple responses 270 245 5 10
English and French 90 70 5 10
English and non-official language 160 160 0 0
French and non-official language 10 5 0 0
English, French and non-official language 5 5 0 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 32,460 31,845 505 30
Single responses 32,170 31,575 495 15
English 31,345 30,975 365 0
French 135 10 125 0
Non-official languages 690 590 5 20
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 9 0 5 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 10 685 585 5 15
African languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Afrikaans 30 30 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 40 40 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 40 40 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 5 10 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 30 20 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 105 70 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 5 5 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 5 5 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 10 10 0 0
Greek 5 5 0 0
Gujarati 5 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 0 0 0
Hindi 0 5 0 0
Hungarian 10 5 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 5 5 0 0
Japanese 0 5 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 0 0 0
Korean 10 5 0 0
Kurdish 5 5 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 15 15 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 5
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 10 10 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 15 10 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 15 10 0 0
Polish 10 5 0 0
Portuguese 0 0 0 0
Romanian 5 5 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 15 10 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. 10 5 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 20 15 0 0
Spanish 35 35 0 0
Swahili 15 10 0 5
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 65 65 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 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 5 5 0 0
Urdu 35 40 0 0
Vietnamese 10 10 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 5 5 0 0
Multiple responses 290 270 10 15
English and French 25 5 10 10
English and non-official language 260 265 0 0
French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 5 0 5
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 32,460 31,845 505 30
None 31,185 30,800 285 25
Single responses 1,235 1,015 210 5
English 395 315 75 0
French 370 240 130 0
Non-official languages 475 460 10 0
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 10 5 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 0 0 0
Dene 5 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 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 14 455 440 5 5
African languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Afrikaans 10 10 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 5 10 0 0
Amharic 0 5 0 0
Arabic 25 25 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 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 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 15 15 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 35 30 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 10 10 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 5 5 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 55 55 0 0
Greek 5 5 0 0
Gujarati 0 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 5 5 0 0
Hungarian 5 5 0 0
Ilocano 5 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 15 15 0 0
Japanese 5 10 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0
Korean 5 5 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 5 5 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 0 5 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 15 10 0 0
Polish 15 15 0 0
Portuguese 5 5 0 0
Romanian 5 10 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 5 5 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 10 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. 5 0 0 0
Slovak 5 5 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 10 10 0 0
Spanish 50 50 5 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 35 35 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 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 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 30 35 0 0
Urdu 5 10 0 0
Vietnamese 5 5 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 10 10 0 0
Multiple responses 40 35 5 0
English and French 5 5 0 0
English and non-official language 20 15 10 0
French and non-official language 20 15 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 32,460 31,845 505 30
English 31,845 31,845 0 0
French 505 0 505 0
English and French 30 0 0 30
Neither English nor French 80 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 515 0 505 15
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 1.6 0.0 100.0 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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Footnote 6

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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Footnote 10

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 11

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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Footnote 14

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 15

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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