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 Sherbrooke
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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 5 115,875 78,450 37,420
Official languages 115,740 78,335 37,410
English 39,090 2,155 36,935
French 113,470 76,180 37,290
Non-official languages 1,225 120 1,105
Aboriginal languages 0 0 10
Algonquian languages 10 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0
Montagnais (Innu) 0 0 10
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 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0
Eastern Algonquian languages 0 0 0
Malecite 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 0 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 0 0 10
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0
Inuktitut 10 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 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. 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 1,220 120 1,100
Afro-Asiatic languages 115 10 105
Berber languages 0 0 0
Kabyle 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 0 0 0
Bilen 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Semitic languages 110 10 100
Amharic 0 0 0
Arabic 110 15 100
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0
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 20 10 15
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0
Vietnamese 20 0 15
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 0 0 0
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 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 0 0 0
Waray-Waray 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 10 0 0
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 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0
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 930 85 840
Albanian 10 10 10
Armenian 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 45 0 45
Baltic languages 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0
Slavic languages 45 0 45
Belarusan 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0
Croatian 0 0 0
Czech 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0
Polish 10 0 10
Russian 15 0 15
Serbian 10 0 10
Serbo-Croatian 15 0 15
Slovak 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 0 0 0
Ukrainian 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 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 40 0 45
Afrikaans 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0
Dutch 10 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0
German 30 0 30
Icelandic 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Greek 10 0 10
Indo-Iranian languages 130 65 65
Indo-Aryan languages 25 15 0
Bengali 0 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0
Hindi 0 0 0
Kashmiri 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 10
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 10 0 10
Sindhi 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0
Urdu 15 15 0
Iranian languages 105 50 55
Kurdish 0 0 0
Pashto 15 0 10
Persian (Farsi) 105 50 50
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 0 10
Italic (Romance) languages 705 10 695
Catalan 0 0 0
Italian 30 0 25
Portuguese 15 0 15
Romanian 0 0 0
Spanish 670 15 655
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Japanese 20 0 25
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0
Korean 0 0 0
Mongolic languages 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 35 10 30
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 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 10
Rundi (Kirundi) 10 0 10
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 10 0 10
Shona 0 0 0
Swahili 15 10 10
Wolof 10 0 0
Yoruba 0 0 0
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 65 0 65
American Sign Language 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 30 0 30
Sign languages, n.i.e 30 0 30
Sino-Tibetan languages 25 15 15
Chinese languages 25 15 10
Cantonese 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0
Mandarin 25 10 10
Min Dong 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 0 0 0
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 10 0 10
Lao 10 0 10
Thai 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0
Turkic languages 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0
Uyghur 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Uralic languages 0 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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Source: Statistics Canada, 2016 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-400-X2016094.

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