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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 Greater Vancouver A, RDA
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 12,820 11,545 170 175
0 to 4 years 770 595 15 0
5 to 9 years 655 600 15 5
10 to 14 years 760 705 5 25
15 to 19 years 1,120 1,075 5 40
20 to 24 years 1,700 1,670 10 15
25 to 29 years 1,035 1,000 20 10
30 to 34 years 890 835 25 15
35 to 39 years 880 780 15 10
40 to 44 years 1,180 980 15 10
45 to 49 years 1,135 895 10 15
50 to 54 years 675 565 0 5
55 to 59 years 545 485 5 5
60 to 64 years 475 445 10 5
65 to 69 years 285 265 0 0
70 to 74 years 245 220 5 0
75 to 79 years 190 175 5 0
80 to 84 years 130 120 0 0
85 years and over 140 135 5 5
Median ageFootnote 2 32.0 30.7 33.9 24.5
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 10,635 9,645 145 140
Married or living with a common-law partner 6,020 5,220 95 70
Married (and not separated) 5,540 4,780 70 65
Living common law 475 435 25 5
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 4,615 4,425 50 70
Single (never legally married) 3,830 3,715 35 60
Separated 170 150 0 0
Divorced 390 360 5 5
Widowed 230 200 0 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 12,820 11,545 170 175
English only 10,605 10,610 0 0
French only 10 0 10 0
English and French 1,255 915 160 175
Neither English nor French 950 20 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 12,820 11,545 170 170
Single responses 12,480 11,225 160 170
English 4,680 4,680 0 0
French 160 5 150 0
Non-official languages 7,650 6,535 10 170
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 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 5 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 7,585 6,480 10 170
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 5 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 210 190 0 5
Armenian 5 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Bengali 35 35 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 15 10 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 410 365 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 1,735 1,435 0 20
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 10 10 0 0
Czech 10 5 0 0
Danish 15 15 0 5
Dutch 45 45 0 5
Estonian 5 0 0 0
Finnish 15 15 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 10 10 0 0
German 165 150 5 10
Greek 25 25 0 0
Gujarati 10 10 0 5
Hakka 10 5 0 0
Hebrew 90 90 0 0
Hindi 65 65 0 0
Hungarian 20 20 0 5
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Italian 25 20 0 0
Japanese 145 120 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 1,065 950 0 25
Kurdish 5 5 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 10 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 5 0 0
Malay 40 40 0 0
Malayalam 10 10 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 1,985 1,540 0 35
Marathi 5 0 0 0
Nepali 15 15 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 55 55 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 375 360 5 10
Polish 45 40 0 5
Portuguese 65 55 0 0
Romanian 25 25 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 120 100 0 10
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 20 20 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 5 5 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 15 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 10 10 0 5
Slovenian 10 10 0 0
Somali 0 5 0 0
Spanish 280 235 0 30
Swahili 5 0 0 0
Swedish 10 10 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 55 55 0 0
Taiwanese 35 30 0 0
Tamil 35 35 0 0
Telugu 10 10 0 0
Thai 30 35 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 35 40 0 5
Ukrainian 15 15 0 0
Urdu 35 30 0 0
Vietnamese 20 20 0 0
Yiddish 5 5 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 60 55 0 0
Multiple responses 335 320 15 5
English and French 30 30 0 0
English and non-official language 285 285 0 0
French and non-official language 15 5 15 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 12,820 11,545 170 170
Single responses 12,065 10,815 160 165
English 6,640 6,570 70 0
French 85 0 85 0
Non-official languages 5,340 4,245 5 165
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 9 0 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 10 5,315 4,220 0 165
African languages, n.i.e. 0 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 125 105 0 5
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Bengali 25 20 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 265 215 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 1,280 1,010 0 20
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 5 0 0 0
Czech 10 5 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 5
Dutch 10 5 0 5
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 10 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 70 50 0 15
Greek 5 5 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 65 65 0 0
Hindi 10 15 0 0
Hungarian 5 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Italian 10 0 0 0
Japanese 90 70 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 800 690 0 25
Kurdish 5 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 5
Malay 10 15 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 1,750 1,285 0 35
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 5 10 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 20 20 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 235 220 0 5
Polish 10 10 0 5
Portuguese 55 45 0 0
Romanian 10 5 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 80 65 0 10
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 5 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 5 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 10 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 175 130 0 30
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 10 15 0 0
Taiwanese 20 15 0 0
Tamil 15 15 0 0
Telugu 5 0 0 0
Thai 20 20 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 10 10 0 0
Ukrainian 0 5 0 0
Urdu 15 15 0 0
Vietnamese 5 10 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 25 25 0 0
Multiple responses 755 730 15 10
English and French 15 5 10 5
English and non-official language 725 720 0 0
French and non-official language 10 5 5 0
English, French and non-official language 10 5 0 5
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 12,820 11,545 170 175
None 8,745 7,715 95 75
Single responses 3,990 3,755 75 85
English 2,125 1,960 35 75
French 105 75 25 0
Non-official languages 1,760 1,725 10 5
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 5 5 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 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 14 1,745 1,705 10 5
African languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0
Afrikaans 5 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 5 0 0 0
Arabic 70 70 0 0
Armenian 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Bengali 5 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 150 150 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 265 260 5 0
Creoles 5 5 0 0
Croatian 0 5 0 0
Czech 0 5 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 0
Dutch 10 10 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 5 0 0 0
German 65 60 0 5
Greek 20 15 0 0
Gujarati 0 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 20 15 5 0
Hindi 45 40 0 0
Hungarian 5 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 10 5 0 0
Japanese 55 55 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 200 195 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 25 25 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 260 250 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 40 40 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 100 100 0 0
Polish 20 20 0 0
Portuguese 5 10 0 0
Romanian 10 10 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 20 20 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 5 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 0
Shanghainese 15 10 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Sindhi 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 5 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 0 5 0 0
Slovenian 5 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 120 110 0 5
Swahili 5 5 0 0
Swedish 5 10 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 40 40 0 0
Taiwanese 10 5 0 0
Tamil 20 20 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 15 10 0 0
Ukrainian 5 5 0 0
Urdu 10 10 0 0
Vietnamese 5 5 5 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 10 10 0 0
Multiple responses 85 70 0 10
English and French 15 5 0 5
English and non-official language 30 25 0 5
French and non-official language 40 40 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 12,820 11,550 170 175
English 11,545 11,545 0 0
French 170 0 170 0
English and French 175 0 0 170
Neither English nor French 930 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 255 0 170 90
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 2.0 0.0 100.0 51.4

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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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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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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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