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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 Cariboo
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 61,950 61,045 625 85
0 to 4 years 3,220 3,195 5 0
5 to 9 years 3,250 3,235 10 5
10 to 14 years 3,765 3,745 5 10
15 to 19 years 4,120 4,100 5 5
20 to 24 years 3,140 3,125 10 5
25 to 29 years 2,955 2,935 15 0
30 to 34 years 3,135 3,100 20 10
35 to 39 years 3,425 3,385 25 10
40 to 44 years 4,055 4,000 35 10
45 to 49 years 5,000 4,935 45 5
50 to 54 years 5,555 5,485 55 5
55 to 59 years 5,510 5,415 80 5
60 to 64 years 5,100 5,000 85 5
65 to 69 years 3,630 3,550 60 10
70 to 74 years 2,535 2,460 55 0
75 to 79 years 1,780 1,710 55 0
80 to 84 years 1,095 1,025 35 0
85 years and over 680 645 15 0
Median ageFootnote 2 44.9 44.6 59.7 41.0
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 51,715 50,875 605 65
Married or living with a common-law partner 32,320 31,775 410 45
Married (and not separated) 25,630 25,175 330 35
Living common law 6,685 6,595 80 5
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 19,400 19,105 190 20
Single (never legally married) 11,870 11,780 60 15
Separated 1,620 1,595 15 0
Divorced 3,270 3,205 55 0
Widowed 2,635 2,520 60 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 61,950 61,050 625 85
English only 59,315 59,315 0 0
French only 15 0 15 0
English and French 2,410 1,715 610 80
Neither English nor French 210 15 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 61,950 61,045 625 85
Single responses 61,325 60,440 615 65
English 55,210 55,210 5 0
French 845 230 615 0
Non-official languages 5,265 5,010 0 65
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 35 35 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 30 30 0 0
Dene 0 5 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 6 4,095 3,860 0 65
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 70 65 0 5
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 10 10 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 0 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 10 10 0 0
Bosnian 10 10 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 45 40 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 85 80 0 0
Creoles 0 5 0 0
Croatian 30 30 0 0
Czech 65 65 0 0
Danish 55 55 0 0
Dutch 260 255 0 5
Estonian 10 5 0 0
Finnish 70 70 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 1,540 1,495 0 35
Greek 5 5 0 0
Gujarati 10 10 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 20 20 0 0
Hungarian 60 55 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 105 105 0 5
Japanese 40 35 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0
Korean 45 45 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0
Malay 10 5 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 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 50 50 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 760 645 0 10
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 0 0
Polish 55 55 0 0
Portuguese 105 100 0 0
Romanian 15 15 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 50 45 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Serbian 5 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 10 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. 10 5 0 0
Slovak 10 10 0 0
Slovenian 20 15 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 90 85 0 5
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 45 45 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 110 105 0 5
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 5 5 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 110 110 0 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 10 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 1,140 1,115 0 0
Multiple responses 625 600 5 15
English and French 85 70 0 15
English and non-official language 485 485 0 0
French and non-official language 50 40 10 0
English, French and non-official language 5 5 0 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 61,950 61,050 625 80
Single responses 61,210 60,350 610 65
English 59,125 58,600 530 0
French 130 55 75 0
Non-official languages 1,955 1,690 5 65
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 9 10 5 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 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 1,480 1,250 0 60
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 60 55 0 5
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 20 15 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 40 30 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 5 5 0 0
Czech 20 15 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 15 15 0 5
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 15 10 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 420 370 0 35
Greek 0 5 0 0
Gujarati 10 10 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 10 10 0 0
Hungarian 10 5 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 25 25 0 0
Japanese 10 10 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 5 0 0
Korean 35 30 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 15 15 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 10 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 585 470 0 5
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 0 0
Polish 15 15 0 0
Portuguese 15 10 0 0
Romanian 10 5 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 10 15 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 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 35 25 0 5
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 5 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 0 0 0
Ukrainian 10 5 0 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 5 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 465 435 0 0
Multiple responses 735 705 15 20
English and French 45 15 15 15
English and non-official language 680 675 0 0
French and non-official language 5 5 0 0
English, French and non-official language 10 0 0 5
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 61,950 61,045 625 85
None 58,635 57,945 460 45
Single responses 3,245 3,040 160 35
English 880 800 35 30
French 355 235 115 0
Non-official languages 2,005 2,000 0 0
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 20 20 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 20 20 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 1,205 1,195 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 5 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 5 5 0 0
Bosnian 10 5 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 15 10 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 20 20 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 15 15 0 0
Czech 15 15 0 0
Danish 10 10 0 0
Dutch 65 65 0 0
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 15 15 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 435 435 0 0
Greek 5 5 0 0
Gujarati 0 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 10 10 0 0
Hungarian 25 25 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 35 40 0 0
Japanese 25 20 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 10 10 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. 5 5 0 0
Norwegian 10 10 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 160 160 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 0 0
Polish 20 15 0 0
Portuguese 40 40 0 0
Romanian 5 5 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 15 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. 15 15 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 5 5 0 0
Slovenian 5 10 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 85 85 5 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 10 15 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 55 55 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 5 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 20 20 0 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 5 5 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 785 780 0 0
Multiple responses 70 60 10 0
English and French 0 0 0 5
English and non-official language 5 0 0 0
French and non-official language 65 60 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 61,950 61,045 625 85
English 61,050 61,045 0 0
French 625 0 625 0
English and French 85 0 0 80
Neither English nor French 195 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 665 0 625 40
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 1.1 0.0 100.0 47.1

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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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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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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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