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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 Salmon Arm, 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 17,185 16,980 165 10
0 to 4 years 770 770 5 0
5 to 9 years 860 865 0 0
10 to 14 years 960 945 0 5
15 to 19 years 1,140 1,140 0 0
20 to 24 years 845 840 5 0
25 to 29 years 770 770 0 0
30 to 34 years 745 740 10 0
35 to 39 years 800 795 5 0
40 to 44 years 1,015 1,005 5 0
45 to 49 years 1,250 1,235 15 0
50 to 54 years 1,425 1,405 15 5
55 to 59 years 1,305 1,285 15 0
60 to 64 years 1,315 1,295 15 0
65 to 69 years 1,060 1,040 15 0
70 to 74 years 905 885 15 0
75 to 79 years 830 805 20 0
80 to 84 years 605 595 10 0
85 years and over 580 570 10 0
Median ageFootnote 2 47.8 47.7 61.0 29.0
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 14,590 14,405 160 5
Married or living with a common-law partner 8,875 8,750 100 5
Married (and not separated) 7,750 7,640 90 5
Living common law 1,125 1,110 10 0
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 5,710 5,650 60 0
Single (never legally married) 3,070 3,055 15 0
Separated 420 410 5 0
Divorced 1,080 1,070 10 0
Widowed 1,145 1,120 20 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 17,185 16,980 165 10
English only 16,025 16,020 0 0
French only 0 0 0 0
English and French 1,130 960 160 10
Neither English nor French 30 0 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 17,180 16,980 160 10
Single responses 17,050 16,855 165 10
English 15,635 15,630 5 0
French 190 30 160 0
Non-official languages 1,225 1,190 0 10
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 5 5 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 6 1,200 1,165 0 10
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 20 15 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 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 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 20 20 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 25 20 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 5 10 0 0
Czech 10 10 0 0
Danish 35 30 0 0
Dutch 150 150 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 25 25 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 480 480 0 0
Greek 0 5 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 5 0 0 0
Hungarian 35 35 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 25 25 0 0
Japanese 30 30 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 25 20 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 5 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 5 5 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 20 15 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 30 30 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 0 0
Polish 30 30 0 0
Portuguese 5 5 0 0
Romanian 0 5 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 30 30 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. 0 0 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 10 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 30 25 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 15 10 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 30 30 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 5 0 0
Ukrainian 75 75 0 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 20 20 0 0
Multiple responses 135 125 0 5
English and French 35 30 0 5
English and non-official language 95 95 0 0
French and non-official language 5 0 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 17,180 16,980 165 10
Single responses 17,075 16,885 155 10
English 16,805 16,680 130 0
French 35 10 25 0
Non-official languages 230 200 0 5
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 10 230 200 0 5
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 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 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 10 5 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 20 15 0 5
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 5 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 5 10 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 10 10 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 80 70 0 0
Greek 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 5 5 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 0 0 0 0
Japanese 10 10 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 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 0 0 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) 25 20 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 0 0
Polish 5 5 0 0
Portuguese 0 0 0 0
Romanian 5 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 5 0 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. 0 0 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 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 5 0 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 5 10 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 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 5 0 0 5
Multiple responses 105 100 5 5
English and French 10 5 5 0
English and non-official language 95 95 0 0
French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 17,180 16,980 160 10
None 16,465 16,325 105 5
Single responses 705 645 55 5
English 130 105 15 5
French 170 140 30 0
Non-official languages 400 400 0 0
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 14 380 380 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 15 15 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 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 5 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 0 5 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 5 5 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 10 10 0 0
Dutch 40 40 0 0
Estonian 0 5 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 140 140 0 0
Greek 0 0 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 10 10 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 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 5 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 5 5 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 0 0
Polish 10 10 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 5 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 5 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 40 40 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 20 25 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 10 0 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 0 5 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 15 15 0 0
Multiple responses 10 10 5 0
English and French 0 0 0 0
English and non-official language 0 0 0 0
French and non-official language 10 10 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 17,180 16,980 165 10
English 16,980 16,980 0 0
French 165 0 160 0
English and French 10 0 0 10
Neither English nor French 30 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 165 0 160 5
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 1.0 0.0 97.0 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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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 7

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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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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