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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 East KootenayFootnote 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 56,200 55,275 830 40
0 to 4 years 3,040 3,015 15 5
5 to 9 years 2,910 2,895 10 0
10 to 14 years 2,980 2,975 10 0
15 to 19 years 3,400 3,385 15 5
20 to 24 years 2,860 2,840 20 5
25 to 29 years 3,170 3,115 50 0
30 to 34 years 3,275 3,220 50 0
35 to 39 years 3,355 3,285 70 5
40 to 44 years 3,620 3,550 55 5
45 to 49 years 4,395 4,315 75 0
50 to 54 years 4,960 4,865 90 0
55 to 59 years 4,860 4,750 105 5
60 to 64 years 4,300 4,210 85 5
65 to 69 years 3,065 2,985 70 5
70 to 74 years 2,270 2,225 45 0
75 to 79 years 1,630 1,590 35 0
80 to 84 years 1,205 1,180 25 5
85 years and over 905 885 10 0
Median ageFootnote 3 44.3 44.1 52.6 55.0
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 47,265 46,390 795 40
Married or living with a common-law partner 30,555 29,950 565 30
Married (and not separated) 25,020 24,555 420 25
Living common law 5,540 5,395 140 0
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 16,715 16,440 235 15
Single (never legally married) 9,935 9,800 115 5
Separated 1,310 1,290 15 0
Divorced 2,805 2,760 45 5
Widowed 2,665 2,595 55 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 56,200 55,270 835 45
English only 53,230 53,230 0 0
French only 15 0 15 0
English and French 2,895 2,040 810 45
Neither English nor French 55 0 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 56,200 55,270 830 45
Single responses 55,825 54,915 820 40
English 51,285 51,285 0 0
French 940 130 810 0
Non-official languages 3,600 3,500 5 40
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 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 5 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 3,475 3,375 10 40
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Afrikaans 70 70 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 20 20 0 0
Armenian 5 0 0 5
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 5 10 0 0
Cantonese 30 30 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 95 85 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 25 25 0 0
Czech 60 65 0 0
Danish 45 45 0 0
Dutch 245 235 0 5
Estonian 5 10 0 0
Finnish 20 20 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 0 5 0 0
German 1,125 1,095 5 15
Greek 10 10 0 0
Gujarati 40 35 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 10 5 0 0
Hindi 40 40 0 0
Hungarian 75 70 0 0
Ilocano 0 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 390 375 0 5
Japanese 45 45 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 0 0 0
Korean 90 85 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 10 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 10 10 0 0
Malayalam 15 10 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 25 25 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 25 25 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 75 70 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 5 0 0
Polish 90 85 0 0
Portuguese 25 25 0 0
Romanian 20 20 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 130 135 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. 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. 10 5 0 0
Slovak 35 35 0 0
Slovenian 30 25 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 110 100 0 0
Swahili 5 5 0 0
Swedish 40 35 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 145 140 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 10 10 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 135 130 0 0
Urdu 15 15 0 0
Vietnamese 5 5 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 115 110 0 0
Multiple responses 375 360 10 5
English and French 100 95 5 5
English and non-official language 255 255 0 0
French and non-official language 20 10 10 0
English, French and non-official language 0 5 0 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 56,200 55,275 835 45
Single responses 55,790 54,900 800 35
English 54,655 54,095 565 0
French 270 35 235 0
Non-official languages 860 770 5 40
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 5 0 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 11 835 750 5 40
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 45 50 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 10 10 0 0
Armenian 5 0 0 5
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 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 10 10 0 0
Cantonese 10 5 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 50 45 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 15 20 0 0
Danish 5 0 0 0
Dutch 35 25 0 5
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 190 170 0 10
Greek 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 15 15 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 15 15 0 0
Hungarian 5 5 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 110 95 0 5
Japanese 10 10 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 60 50 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 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 10 10 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 35 30 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 0 0 0
Polish 20 20 0 0
Portuguese 5 5 0 5
Romanian 10 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 20 15 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. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 5 5 0 0
Slovenian 10 15 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 30 20 0 5
Swahili 5 0 0 0
Swedish 10 10 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 50 45 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 0 0 0 0
Urdu 5 5 0 0
Vietnamese 5 5 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 25 25 0 0
Multiple responses 410 375 30 5
English and French 35 10 20 5
English and non-official language 365 365 0 0
French and non-official language 0 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 56,200 55,275 830 45
None 53,820 53,295 460 20
Single responses 2,325 1,930 365 25
English 535 375 140 15
French 495 270 215 5
Non-official languages 1,295 1,285 10 0
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 10 10 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 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 5 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 15 1,205 1,190 5 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 10 10 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 10 5 0 0
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 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 15 10 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 25 25 0 0
Creoles 0 5 0 0
Croatian 10 10 0 0
Czech 15 15 0 0
Danish 15 15 0 0
Dutch 50 50 0 0
Estonian 0 5 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 5 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 380 375 5 5
Greek 5 5 0 0
Gujarati 15 10 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 10 5 0 0
Hindi 15 15 0 0
Hungarian 25 25 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 125 125 0 0
Japanese 25 25 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 15 15 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 10 10 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 20 15 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Norwegian 0 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 40 40 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 0 0
Polish 25 25 0 0
Portuguese 10 10 0 0
Romanian 10 10 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 45 40 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. 15 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 5 0 0
Slovak 15 10 0 0
Slovenian 5 10 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 100 100 0 0
Swahili 5 5 0 0
Swedish 15 15 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 65 65 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 10 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 25 20 0 0
Urdu 5 10 0 0
Vietnamese 5 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 80 80 0 0
Multiple responses 65 50 10 0
English and French 5 0 0 5
English and non-official language 5 0 5 0
French and non-official language 55 50 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 56,200 55,275 830 45
English 55,275 55,275 0 0
French 830 0 835 0
English and French 45 0 0 45
Neither English nor French 50 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 855 0 830 20
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 1.5 0.0 100.0 44.4

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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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