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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 Alberni-ClayoquotFootnote 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 30,835 30,285 465 15
0 to 4 years 1,640 1,630 5 0
5 to 9 years 1,550 1,545 0 0
10 to 14 years 1,675 1,665 5 5
15 to 19 years 1,965 1,955 10 0
20 to 24 years 1,575 1,555 15 0
25 to 29 years 1,660 1,640 15 0
30 to 34 years 1,790 1,770 25 0
35 to 39 years 1,755 1,740 15 0
40 to 44 years 1,870 1,845 20 5
45 to 49 years 2,250 2,220 30 0
50 to 54 years 2,625 2,585 35 0
55 to 59 years 2,710 2,660 40 5
60 to 64 years 2,380 2,325 50 0
65 to 69 years 1,870 1,810 55 0
70 to 74 years 1,340 1,285 50 0
75 to 79 years 1,000 955 40 5
80 to 84 years 675 625 30 0
85 years and over 510 485 20 0
Median ageFootnote 3 44.8 44.5 61.1 57.5
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 25,975 25,450 450 15
Married or living with a common-law partner 14,945 14,620 275 5
Married (and not separated) 11,870 11,590 230 5
Living common law 3,075 3,035 45 0
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 11,025 10,825 175 5
Single (never legally married) 6,650 6,570 70 0
Separated 815 800 15 0
Divorced 2,000 1,960 40 0
Widowed 1,560 1,500 45 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 30,840 30,290 465 20
English only 28,990 28,990 0 0
French only 10 0 5 0
English and French 1,765 1,290 455 15
Neither English nor French 75 0 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 30,840 30,285 465 15
Single responses 30,580 30,040 465 10
English 27,405 27,405 0 0
French 575 120 455 0
Non-official languages 2,600 2,515 5 10
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 0 5 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 5 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 2,325 2,240 5 10
African languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Afrikaans 25 25 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 5 0 0 0
Armenian 0 5 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 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 35 30 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 70 65 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 80 85 0 0
Czech 20 20 0 0
Danish 55 55 0 0
Dutch 325 325 0 0
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 50 50 0 0
Flemish 10 10 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 475 470 0 5
Greek 10 10 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 0 0 0
Hindi 15 15 0 0
Hungarian 60 60 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 205 200 0 0
Japanese 15 15 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 25 20 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 10 10 0 0
Marathi 5 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 40 40 0 0
Oromo 5 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 315 280 0 5
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 5 0 0
Polish 55 50 0 0
Portuguese 10 10 0 0
Romanian 10 5 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 30 25 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 20 15 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 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 5 0 0
Slovak 10 5 0 0
Slovenian 35 35 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 75 75 5 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 20 25 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 75 75 0 0
Taiwanese 5 0 0 0
Tamil 0 5 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 60 60 0 0
Urdu 5 5 0 0
Vietnamese 15 15 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 270 270 0 0
Multiple responses 260 250 5 5
English and French 75 70 5 5
English and non-official language 165 160 0 0
French and non-official language 15 15 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 30,840 30,285 465 20
Single responses 30,510 29,975 445 10
English 29,765 29,430 340 0
French 130 25 105 0
Non-official languages 610 525 0 10
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 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 11 585 505 5 5
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 25 20 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 0 0 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 0 5 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 25 15 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 35 30 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 25 20 0 0
Czech 10 5 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 0
Dutch 0 5 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 10 5 0 0
Flemish 0 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 55 50 0 5
Greek 5 5 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 10 10 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 80 70 0 0
Japanese 5 5 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 20 15 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 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 5 5 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 185 150 0 5
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 5 0 0
Polish 5 5 0 0
Portuguese 0 0 0 0
Romanian 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 5 5 0 0
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 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 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 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 20 15 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 15 15 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 5 0 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 10 10 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 25 25 0 0
Multiple responses 330 310 20 10
English and French 30 10 15 5
English and non-official language 295 295 0 0
French and non-official language 5 5 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 5 0 0
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 30,835 30,285 465 20
None 29,070 28,695 305 10
Single responses 1,725 1,555 155 10
English 355 280 60 5
French 260 170 90 0
Non-official languages 1,115 1,105 10 0
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 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 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 15 830 820 5 0
African languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 0 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 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 10 15 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 10 10 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 30 30 0 0
Czech 5 5 0 0
Danish 15 10 0 0
Dutch 105 105 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 20 20 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 170 175 0 0
Greek 5 0 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 10 10 0 0
Hungarian 10 15 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 65 65 0 0
Japanese 15 10 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 0 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 10 10 0 0
Marathi 5 0 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Norwegian 10 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 95 95 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 5 0 0
Polish 15 15 0 0
Portuguese 5 5 0 0
Romanian 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 10 10 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 5 5 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 20 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 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 20 15 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 65 60 5 0
Swahili 5 5 0 0
Swedish 10 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 25 25 0 0
Taiwanese 5 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 10 10 0 0
Urdu 10 5 0 0
Vietnamese 10 10 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 280 275 0 0
Multiple responses 45 35 5 0
English and French 5 5 0 0
English and non-official language 5 5 0 0
French and non-official language 35 30 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 30,835 30,285 465 20
English 30,285 30,285 0 0
French 460 0 465 0
English and French 15 0 0 15
Neither English nor French 70 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 475 0 465 10
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 1.5 0.0 100.0 50.0

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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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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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