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 Saskatchewan
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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 5 633,325 611,140 22,180
Official languages 631,550 609,395 22,155
English 630,940 608,790 22,145
French 6,630 610 6,025
Non-official languages 18,120 1,740 16,375
Aboriginal languages 6,695 285 6,405
Algonquian languages 4,665 200 4,465
Blackfoot 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 4,555 195 4,360
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 525 10 515
Southern East Cree 0 0 0
Swampy Cree 60 0 60
Woods Cree 210 10 205
Cree, n.o.s. 3,770 180 3,590
Eastern Algonquian languages 0 0 0
Malecite 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 110 0 110
Algonquin 0 0 0
Ojibway 110 0 110
Oji-Cree 0 0 0
Ottawa (Odawa) 0 0 0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Athabaskan languages 1,915 90 1,825
Northern Athabaskan languages 1,915 85 1,825
Babine (Wetsuwet'en) 0 0 0
Beaver 0 0 0
Carrier 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 0 0
Dene 1,915 90 1,825
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 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0
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 75 0 75
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 40 0 40
Dakota 40 0 40
Stoney 0 0 0
Siouan languages, n.i.e. 10 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. 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 11,430 1,460 9,970
Afro-Asiatic languages 505 110 395
Berber languages 0 0 0
Kabyle 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 25 10 15
Bilen 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 10
Somali 25 10 10
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Semitic languages 475 100 375
Amharic 15 0 20
Arabic 365 75 295
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 20 20 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 10 0 10
Harari 0 0 0
Hebrew 10 0 10
Maltese 0 0 0
Tigrigna 20 0 10
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 40 0 35
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 520 160 360
Khmer (Cambodian) 10 0 0
Vietnamese 510 160 350
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 2,960 80 2,880
Bikol 0 0 0
Cebuano 50 10 45
Fijian 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 0 0 0
Ilocano 10 10 10
Malagasy 0 0 0
Malay 10 0 10
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 2,890 70 2,825
Waray-Waray 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 10
Creole languages 0 0 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 0 0 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 45 0 45
Kannada 10 0 15
Malayalam 10 0 15
Tamil 15 0 15
Telugu 10 0 10
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 4,180 280 3,895
Albanian 10 0 10
Armenian 15 0 15
Balto-Slavic languages 1,135 60 1,080
Baltic languages 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0
Slavic languages 1,135 55 1,080
Belarusan 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0
Bulgarian 10 0 10
Croatian 15 0 10
Czech 10 0 10
Macedonian 0 0 0
Polish 85 0 85
Russian 285 20 265
Serbian 15 0 15
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 0 0 0
Ukrainian 720 35 685
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 0 0
Celtic languages 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Germanic languages 830 65 765
Afrikaans 50 15 35
Danish 0 0 10
Dutch 75 20 60
Frisian 0 0 0
German 645 30 620
Icelandic 0 0 0
Norwegian 10 0 10
Swedish 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 0 0 0
Yiddish 10 0 10
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 40 0 35
Greek 90 0 85
Indo-Iranian languages 1,210 100 1,115
Indo-Aryan languages 1,120 80 1,035
Bengali 50 20 30
Gujarati 50 0 45
Hindi 200 10 200
Kashmiri 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0
Nepali 20 0 25
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 455 25 430
Sindhi 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 0 10
Urdu 335 20 315
Iranian languages 90 20 75
Kurdish 25 0 25
Pashto 10 0 10
Persian (Farsi) 55 15 35
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 0 10
Italic (Romance) languages 885 60 825
Catalan 0 0 0
Italian 20 0 20
Portuguese 15 0 10
Romanian 20 0 15
Spanish 815 50 765
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 20 0 20
Japanese 60 10 55
Kartvelian languages 0 0 10
Georgian 0 0 10
Korean 255 35 215
Mongolic languages 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 55 0 50
Akan (Twi) 0 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 30 0 30
Lingala 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 0 0 0
Shona 0 0 0
Swahili 20 0 10
Wolof 0 0 0
Yoruba 0 0 10
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 0 0 0
Dinka 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Sign languages 325 40 285
American Sign Language 135 0 140
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 185 40 145
Sino-Tibetan languages 2,350 730 1,620
Chinese languages 2,260 700 1,560
Cantonese 595 200 395
Hakka 0 0 0
Mandarin 1,380 400 980
Min Dong 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 290 100 195
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 95 30 60
Burmese 20 10 15
Karenic languages 65 25 45
Tibetan 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 70 0 70
Lao 50 0 45
Thai 20 0 20
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0
Turkic languages 70 0 65
Azerbaijani 0 0 0
Turkish 65 0 60
Uyghur 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Uralic languages 35 0 30
Estonian 0 0 0
Finnish 15 0 15
Hungarian 20 0 15
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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Source: Statistics Canada, 2016 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-400-X2016094.

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