Data tables, 2016 Census

Language Used at Work (263), Single and multiple responses of language used at work (3), Mother Tongue (8), Industry - North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) 2012 (21) and Age (10) for the Population Aged 15 Years and Over Who Worked Since 2015, in Private Households of Canada, Provinces and Territories, Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, 2016 Census - 25% Sample Data

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This table details language used at work , single and multiple responses of language used at work , mother tongue , industry - north american industry classification system 2012 and age for the population aged 15 years and over who worked since 2015, in private households in Nova Scotia / Nouvelle-Écosse
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Language used at work (263) Single and multiple responses of language used at work (3)
Total - Single and multiple responses of language used at workFootnote 2 Single responses of language used at workFootnote 3 Multiple responses of language used at workFootnote 4
Total - Language used at workFootnote 5 514,075 488,685 25,390
Official languages 513,315 487,945 25,370
English 511,355 486,000 25,355
French 22,130 1,945 20,185
Non-official languages 6,295 735 5,555
Aboriginal languages 1,670 135 1,530
Algonquian languages 1,635 135 1,500
Blackfoot 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 10 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0
Montagnais (Innu) 0 0 0
Moose Cree 0 0 0
Naskapi 0 0 0
Northern East Cree 0 0 0
Plains Cree 0 0 0
Southern East Cree 0 0 0
Swampy Cree 0 0 0
Woods Cree 10 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 10 0 0
Eastern Algonquian languages 1,625 135 1,495
Malecite 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 1,630 135 1,490
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 10 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0
Ottawa (Odawa) 0 0 0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Athabaskan languages 0 0 0
Northern Athabaskan languages 0 0 0
Babine (Wetsuwet'en) 0 0 0
Beaver 0 0 0
Carrier 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 0 0
Dene 0 0 0
Dogrib (Tlicho) 0 0 0
Gwich'in 0 0 0
Sarsi (Sarcee) 0 0 0
Sekani 0 0 0
Slavey-Hare languages 0 0 0
North Slavey (Hare) 0 0 0
South Slavey 0 0 0
Slavey, n.o.s. 0 0 0
Tahltan languages 0 0 0
Kaska (Nahani) 0 0 0
Tahltan 0 0 0
Tutchone languages 0 0 0
Northern Tutchone 0 0 0
Southern Tutchone 0 0 0
Athabaskan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Haida 0 0 0
Inuit languages 25 0 25
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0
Inuktitut 25 0 20
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages 0 0 0
Cayuga 0 0 0
Mohawk 0 0 0
Oneida 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Kutenai 0 0 0
Michif 0 0 0
Salish languages 0 0 0
Comox 0 0 0
Halkomelem 0 0 0
Lillooet 0 0 0
Okanagan 0 0 0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 0 0 0
Squamish 0 0 0
Straits 0 0 0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 0 0 0
Salish languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Siouan languages 0 0 0
Dakota 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0
Siouan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Tlingit 0 0 0
Tsimshian languages 0 0 0
Gitxsan (Gitksan) 0 0 0
Nisga'a 0 0 0
Tsimshian 0 0 0
Wakashan languages 0 0 0
Haisla 0 0 0
Heiltsuk 0 0 0
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala) 0 0 0
Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka) 0 0 0
Wakashan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.o.s. 10 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 4,625 600 4,020
Afro-Asiatic languages 700 115 585
Berber languages 0 0 0
Kabyle 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 10 0 10
Bilen 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 10
Somali 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Semitic languages 695 120 575
Amharic 15 10 0
Arabic 645 95 545
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0
Hebrew 40 10 30
Maltese 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 55 10 50
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0
Vietnamese 60 10 50
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 235 0 235
Bikol 0 0 0
Cebuano 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0
Malay 10 0 10
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 220 0 215
Waray-Waray 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 10 0 10
Creole languages 15 0 20
Haitian Creole 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 0 0 10
Creole languages, n.i.e. 15 0 15
Dravidian languages 10 0 10
Kannada 0 0 0
Malayalam 15 0 10
Tamil 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 1,785 205 1,575
Albanian 15 0 15
Armenian 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 170 10 165
Baltic languages 10 0 0
Latvian 10 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0
Slavic languages 165 10 160
Belarusan 0 0 0
Bosnian 10 0 10
Bulgarian 10 0 0
Croatian 0 0 10
Czech 10 0 10
Macedonian 0 0 0
Polish 20 0 20
Russian 120 10 110
Serbian 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 0 0 0
Ukrainian 10 0 10
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Celtic languages 105 0 100
Scottish Gaelic 95 0 95
Welsh 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Germanic languages 610 105 500
Afrikaans 0 0 0
Danish 20 0 15
Dutch 30 0 30
Frisian 0 0 0
German 515 95 425
Icelandic 10 0 10
Norwegian 10 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 10 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 20 10 20
Greek 65 0 65
Indo-Iranian languages 175 45 130
Indo-Aryan languages 110 20 90
Bengali 10 0 10
Gujarati 0 0 0
Hindi 35 0 40
Kashmiri 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0
Nepali 30 15 20
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 10 0 10
Sindhi 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0
Urdu 20 0 20
Iranian languages 60 25 40
Kurdish 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 60 25 35
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 0 10
Italic (Romance) languages 660 50 605
Catalan 0 0 0
Italian 70 0 70
Portuguese 60 25 40
Romanian 0 0 0
Spanish 520 30 490
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 10 0 0
Japanese 95 10 80
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0
Korean 200 30 165
Mongolic languages 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 10
Niger-Congo languages 35 0 35
Akan (Twi) 10 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0
Ewe 0 0 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0
Igbo 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 0 0 0
Shona 0 0 0
Swahili 15 0 15
Wolof 0 0 0
Yoruba 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 0 10
Nilo-Saharan languages 0 0 0
Dinka 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Sign languages 435 25 410
American Sign Language 185 15 170
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 255 15 245
Sino-Tibetan languages 990 195 790
Chinese languages 985 195 790
Cantonese 180 45 130
Hakka 0 0 0
Mandarin 735 140 595
Min Dong 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 10 0 10
Wu (Shanghainese) 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 80 0 70
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0
Karenic languages 0 0 0
Tibetan 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 55 0 50
Lao 0 0 0
Thai 50 10 50
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0
Turkic languages 25 0 20
Azerbaijani 0 0 0
Turkish 25 0 20
Uyghur 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Uralic languages 10 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0
Hungarian 0 0 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

Refers to the general nature of the business carried out in the establishment where the person worked.

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Footnote 2

The category 'Total - Single and multiple responses of language used at work' indicates the number of respondents who reported each language, either as their only response, or in combination with another language. Total responses represent the sum of single and multiple responses of the language used at work received in the census.

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Footnote 3

A single response to the language used at work occurs when a respondent provides one language only.

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Footnote 4

A multiple response to the language used at work occurs when a respondent provides two or more languages.

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Footnote 5

This is a total population count. The sum of the languages in this table is greater than the total population count because a person may report more than one language in the census.

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n.i.e. = not included elsewhere
n.o.s. = not otherwise specified

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Refers to the language used at work, as reported on May 10, 2016 by the individuals aged 15 years and over who worked since January 1, 2015.

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Data quality note(s) – Nova Scotia / Nouvelle-Écosse

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Long-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), long-form census questionnaire: 5.5%.
  • Long-form income data quality flag
    Default. Data quality index showing a long-form income non-response rate lower than 10%.

Source: Statistics Canada, 2016 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-400-X2016094.

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