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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 Thompson-Nicola
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 126,950 125,060 1,395 90
0 to 4 years 6,275 6,190 20 5
5 to 9 years 6,340 6,320 15 5
10 to 14 years 7,030 6,995 30 10
15 to 19 years 8,155 8,115 30 5
20 to 24 years 8,150 8,105 30 5
25 to 29 years 7,550 7,500 30 5
30 to 34 years 6,750 6,690 50 0
35 to 39 years 7,040 6,950 75 5
40 to 44 years 8,250 8,140 90 10
45 to 49 years 9,875 9,730 115 10
50 to 54 years 11,015 10,820 160 5
55 to 59 years 10,270 10,075 155 5
60 to 64 years 9,325 9,145 155 0
65 to 69 years 6,990 6,805 135 5
70 to 74 years 5,410 5,235 130 5
75 to 79 years 4,010 3,875 90 5
80 to 84 years 2,660 2,560 50 5
85 years and over 1,865 1,795 35 5
Median ageFootnote 2 43.7 43.4 57.0 43.2
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 107,300 105,555 1,330 75
Married or living with a common-law partner 64,035 62,875 895 50
Married (and not separated) 51,805 50,845 710 40
Living common law 12,225 12,030 185 5
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 43,265 42,680 435 30
Single (never legally married) 26,445 26,245 160 15
Separated 3,350 3,315 30 0
Divorced 7,710 7,565 135 0
Widowed 5,770 5,560 110 5
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 126,950 125,060 1,390 90
English only 120,175 120,175 0 0
French only 30 0 30 0
English and French 6,305 4,855 1,360 90
Neither English nor French 435 30 5 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 126,945 125,060 1,390 85
Single responses 125,815 123,960 1,380 75
English 113,315 113,310 5 0
French 1,685 330 1,360 0
Non-official languages 10,820 10,320 15 75
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 45 45 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 35 35 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 5 0 0
Ojibway 5 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 9,930 9,440 10 75
African languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Afrikaans 95 90 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 5 0 0 0
Arabic 370 335 0 0
Armenian 15 10 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Bengali 25 25 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 25 25 0 0
Bosnian 10 5 0 0
Bulgarian 15 15 0 5
Burmese 0 5 0 0
Cantonese 210 195 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 445 410 0 0
Creoles 5 5 0 0
Croatian 115 115 0 0
Czech 60 60 0 0
Danish 110 110 0 0
Dutch 510 505 0 5
Estonian 15 15 0 0
Finnish 85 85 0 0
Flemish 15 15 0 5
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 1,860 1,825 0 20
Greek 90 85 0 0
Gujarati 40 35 0 0
Hakka 0 5 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 105 100 0 0
Hungarian 185 180 0 0
Ilocano 20 25 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Italian 1,075 1,040 0 5
Japanese 250 245 5 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 10 10 0 0
Korean 210 185 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 5 0 0
Latvian 10 15 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 10 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 25 20 0 0
Malayalam 15 15 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 210 195 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 15 10 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Norwegian 55 55 0 0
Oromo 0 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 1,470 1,280 5 5
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 40 35 0 0
Polish 230 220 0 0
Portuguese 135 130 0 0
Romanian 35 35 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 185 175 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 40 35 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 15 15 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 10 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0
Slovak 45 45 0 0
Slovenian 25 25 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 305 295 0 10
Swahili 10 5 0 0
Swedish 55 55 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 350 350 0 0
Taiwanese 10 10 0 0
Tamil 15 15 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0
Thai 35 40 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 20 15 0 0
Ukrainian 370 370 0 0
Urdu 65 60 0 0
Vietnamese 85 85 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 840 835 0 0
Multiple responses 1,130 1,105 15 15
English and French 190 180 0 10
English and non-official language 860 860 0 0
French and non-official language 60 50 10 0
English, French and non-official language 15 15 0 5
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 126,950 125,060 1,395 90
Single responses 125,495 123,680 1,340 65
English 121,680 120,600 1,075 0
French 330 65 260 0
Non-official languages 3,490 3,010 5 65
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 9 5 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 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 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 3,385 2,915 0 70
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 65 60 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 260 230 0 5
Armenian 5 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Bengali 15 10 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 10 10 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 110 95 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 300 265 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 20 15 0 0
Czech 15 10 0 5
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 50 40 0 5
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 20 20 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 5
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 230 205 0 15
Greek 25 25 0 0
Gujarati 15 10 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 0 0 0
Hindi 30 25 0 0
Hungarian 25 25 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 290 265 0 0
Japanese 65 60 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 10 0 0
Korean 140 120 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 10 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 155 140 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 10 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) 960 770 0 5
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 10 0 0
Polish 55 50 0 5
Portuguese 30 25 0 0
Romanian 5 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 30 25 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 20 15 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 40 40 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 15 15 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 110 100 0 5
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 85 85 0 0
Taiwanese 0 5 0 0
Tamil 5 10 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 20 10 0 0
Urdu 30 20 0 0
Vietnamese 45 45 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 95 90 5 0
Multiple responses 1,450 1,380 55 20
English and French 80 30 45 15
English and non-official language 1,335 1,335 5 0
French and non-official language 5 5 5 0
English, French and non-official language 20 15 0 5
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 126,950 125,060 1,390 90
None 120,275 118,940 905 55
Single responses 6,540 6,000 480 30
English 1,580 1,390 145 30
French 910 585 325 0
Non-official languages 4,045 4,025 10 0
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 50 55 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 35 40 0 0
Dene 5 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 5 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 5 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 3,180 3,165 10 0
African languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Afrikaans 35 35 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 65 65 0 0
Armenian 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 5 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 70 75 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 85 85 0 0
Creoles 10 10 0 0
Croatian 55 55 0 0
Czech 20 20 0 0
Danish 25 25 0 0
Dutch 115 115 0 0
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 15 15 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 0 5 0 0
German 555 555 0 0
Greek 30 30 0 0
Gujarati 10 10 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 40 40 0 0
Hungarian 50 50 5 0
Ilocano 10 10 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Italian 420 415 0 0
Japanese 130 130 5 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 50 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 15 15 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 55 55 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Norwegian 15 15 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 350 345 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 20 20 0 0
Polish 75 75 0 0
Portuguese 45 45 0 0
Romanian 10 15 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 75 70 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 15 15 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 25 25 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 5 0 0
Slovak 15 15 0 0
Slovenian 10 10 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 270 265 5 5
Swahili 5 5 0 0
Swedish 20 20 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 150 155 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0
Thai 15 15 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0
Ukrainian 65 60 0 0
Urdu 30 30 0 0
Vietnamese 20 20 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 815 815 5 0
Multiple responses 135 115 10 10
English and French 10 0 0 10
English and non-official language 20 10 5 0
French and non-official language 105 100 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 5
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 126,950 125,060 1,395 85
English 125,060 125,060 0 0
French 1,395 0 1,395 0
English and French 90 0 0 85
Neither English nor French 410 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 1,440 0 1,390 45
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 1.1 0.0 99.6 52.9

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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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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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