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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), Mother Tongue (4A), Age Groups (8B) and Sex (3) for the population excluding institutional residents of Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, 2011 Census

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This table details selected demographic and language characteristics , first official language spoken , mother tongue , age groups and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Lethbridge
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 105,115 103,290 905 165
0 to 4 years 7,135 6,865 20 5
5 to 9 years 6,040 5,945 30 20
10 to 14 years 6,080 6,010 30 15
15 to 19 years 7,075 7,015 30 15
20 to 24 years 9,130 9,050 50 15
25 to 29 years 8,290 8,225 35 10
30 to 34 years 6,985 6,865 70 20
35 to 39 years 6,220 6,085 75 15
40 to 44 years 6,110 6,000 65 5
45 to 49 years 7,090 6,975 70 10
50 to 54 years 7,535 7,395 90 10
55 to 59 years 6,785 6,670 80 5
60 to 64 years 5,770 5,640 95 5
65 to 69 years 4,295 4,220 55 0
70 to 74 years 3,360 3,300 35 5
75 to 79 years 2,865 2,785 35 5
80 to 84 years 2,375 2,325 15 5
85 years and over 1,980 1,925 15 5
Median ageFootnote 3 36.4 36.3 48.5 30.2
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 85,860 84,475 825 120
Married or living with a common-law partner 50,565 49,635 560 75
Married (and not separated) 43,445 42,625 470 70
Living common law 7,120 7,010 95 10
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 35,295 34,845 270 45
Single (never legally married) 23,250 23,025 145 35
Separated 1,740 1,700 25 5
Divorced 5,705 5,635 55 0
Widowed 4,600 4,485 45 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 105,115 103,295 905 160
English only 99,645 99,645 0 0
French only 45 0 45 0
English and French 4,645 3,615 860 165
Neither English nor French 785 30 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 105,115 103,290 905 165
Single responses 103,980 102,215 875 140
English 88,745 88,740 5 0
French 965 125 845 0
Non-official languages 14,275 13,355 30 140
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 35 40 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 25 25 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 5 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 7 13,875 12,960 30 135
African languages, n.i.e. 65 60 0 0
Afrikaans 50 45 0 0
Akan (Twi) 15 15 0 0
Albanian 55 55 0 0
Amharic 65 60 0 0
Arabic 160 145 0 5
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 30 25 0 0
Bengali 60 55 0 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 40 40 0 0
Bosnian 20 25 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0
Cantonese 255 210 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 510 430 0 5
Creoles 15 10 5 0
Croatian 185 170 0 0
Czech 90 95 0 0
Danish 70 70 0 0
Dutch 2,130 2,110 0 5
Estonian 10 10 0 0
Finnish 25 25 0 0
Flemish 15 15 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 4,325 4,070 5 10
Greek 35 35 0 0
Gujarati 100 95 0 0
Hakka 5 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 80 75 0 5
Hungarian 465 455 0 5
Ilocano 10 10 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Italian 305 290 0 10
Japanese 380 360 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 10 15 0 0
Korean 140 130 0 0
Kurdish 15 10 5 0
Lao 15 15 0 5
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 15 15 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 10 5 0 0
Malayalam 5 10 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0
Mandarin 85 80 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0
Nepali 270 150 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 25 25 0 0
Norwegian 30 30 0 0
Oromo 15 15 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 85 80 0 0
Pashto 25 20 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 160 155 0 0
Polish 470 460 0 0
Portuguese 35 35 0 0
Romanian 95 70 5 15
Rundi (Kirundi) 10 5 0 5
Russian 120 110 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Serbian 40 35 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 0 0 0
Sindhi 10 10 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 30 30 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 25 25 0 0
Slovak 90 85 0 5
Slovenian 60 60 0 0
Somali 5 10 0 0
Spanish 1,100 965 10 50
Swahili 40 40 5 0
Swedish 15 15 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 480 480 0 0
Taiwanese 10 5 0 0
Tamil 10 10 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0
Thai 40 35 0 0
Tibetan languages 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 20 15 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0
Ukrainian 320 320 0 0
Urdu 80 75 0 0
Vietnamese 185 165 0 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 360 355 0 0
Multiple responses 1,130 1,080 30 25
English and French 150 120 0 25
English and non-official language 925 925 5 0
French and non-official language 45 20 25 0
English, French and non-official language 10 10 0 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 105,115 103,295 905 165
Single responses 103,625 101,905 850 120
English 97,280 96,725 555 0
French 330 50 275 0
Non-official languages 6,015 5,125 15 125
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 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 11 5,915 5,030 15 125
African languages, n.i.e. 35 35 0 0
Afrikaans 35 30 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 0 0 5
Albanian 40 40 0 0
Amharic 45 35 0 0
Arabic 80 70 5 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0
Bengali 45 35 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 30 35 0 0
Bosnian 15 10 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 5 0 0 0
Cantonese 160 110 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 320 240 0 0
Creoles 5 0 0 0
Croatian 80 70 0 5
Czech 5 10 0 0
Danish 10 5 0 0
Dutch 330 315 5 5
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 5 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 5
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 2,040 1,795 0 10
Greek 5 5 0 5
Gujarati 80 70 0 5
Hakka 5 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 40 30 0 5
Hungarian 50 50 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Italian 65 55 0 5
Japanese 120 100 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 0 0 0
Korean 105 100 0 0
Kurdish 10 0 0 0
Lao 10 5 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 55 50 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 250 130 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0
Oromo 10 10 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 50 45 0 0
Pashto 20 20 0 5
Persian (Farsi) 110 105 0 0
Polish 150 140 0 0
Portuguese 5 10 0 0
Romanian 55 30 0 20
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 0
Russian 45 35 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0
Serbian 25 20 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 30 15 0 0
Sindhi 10 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 20 20 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slovak 10 5 0 5
Slovenian 10 15 0 0
Somali 5 5 0 0
Spanish 680 550 5 45
Swahili 15 15 0 5
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 240 240 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 5
Telugu 5 0 0 0
Thai 25 20 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 5 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 35 30 0 5
Urdu 45 45 0 0
Vietnamese 155 130 0 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 95 90 0 0
Multiple responses 1,490 1,390 55 45
English and French 65 15 25 30
English and non-official language 1,370 1,360 5 0
French and non-official language 25 10 15 0
English, French and non-official language 25 5 10 10
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 105,115 103,290 905 165
None 96,965 95,670 530 90
Single responses 8,000 7,500 365 60
English 2,835 2,555 165 50
French 700 510 185 5
Non-official languages 4,465 4,430 15 10
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 20 20 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 20 15 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 5 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 15 4,060 4,030 15 10
African languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Afrikaans 15 15 0 0
Akan (Twi) 15 15 0 0
Albanian 10 10 0 0
Amharic 25 20 0 0
Arabic 85 80 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Bengali 10 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 15 10 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 50 45 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 125 125 0 0
Creoles 5 5 0 0
Croatian 50 55 0 0
Czech 20 20 0 0
Danish 25 20 0 0
Dutch 880 875 5 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 10 15 0 0
Flemish 10 10 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 880 875 0 5
Greek 20 20 0 0
Gujarati 20 20 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 45 45 0 0
Hungarian 115 115 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Italian 100 100 0 0
Japanese 155 160 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 15 10 0 0
Korean 30 35 0 0
Kurdish 5 5 0 0
Lao 5 5 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 10 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 35 40 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 10 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0
Norwegian 10 10 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 20 20 0 0
Pashto 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 25 30 0 0
Polish 130 130 0 0
Portuguese 15 20 0 0
Romanian 25 20 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 10 5 0 5
Russian 55 50 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 0 5 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Sindhi 5 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 15 15 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slovak 15 15 0 0
Slovenian 20 20 0 0
Somali 5 0 0 0
Spanish 495 490 0 5
Swahili 40 35 0 0
Swedish 10 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 175 170 0 0
Taiwanese 5 0 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 10 15 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 5 0 0
Turkish 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 60 60 0 0
Urdu 10 10 0 0
Vietnamese 35 35 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 380 380 0 0
Multiple responses 155 125 10 15
English and French 15 0 0 15
English and non-official language 45 40 5 0
French and non-official language 90 85 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 105,115 103,295 905 165
English 103,290 103,295 0 0
French 905 0 905 0
English and French 160 0 0 165
Neither English nor French 755 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 985 0 905 85
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 0.9 0.0 100.0 51.5

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

Language groups are defined as follows: 'English' includes respondents who reported English only or English and one non-official language; 'French' includes respondents who reported French only or French and one non-official language; 'English and French' includes respondents who reported English and French, with or without one non-official language.

'Total' category includes all groups mentioned as well as respondents who reported a non-official language as their only mother tongue.

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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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Footnote 10

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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Footnote 14

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 17

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-XCB2011058.

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