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 Ottawa - Gatineau (partie du Québec / Quebec part)
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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 5 190,565 74,780 115,785
Official languages 190,325 74,555 115,775
English 137,845 22,555 115,295
French 166,640 52,000 114,640
Non-official languages 3,145 230 2,925
Aboriginal languages 120 15 100
Algonquian languages 95 20 80
Blackfoot 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 90 15 75
Atikamekw 0 0 0
Montagnais (Innu) 0 0 0
Moose Cree 0 0 0
Naskapi 0 0 0
Northern East Cree 15 15 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. 75 0 75
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 25 0 25
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0
Inuktitut 25 0 20
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 0 10
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 3,030 210 2,820
Afro-Asiatic languages 635 15 620
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 0
Somali 0 0 10
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Semitic languages 630 15 610
Amharic 10 0 10
Arabic 620 15 605
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 100 15 85
Khmer (Cambodian) 10 0 10
Vietnamese 95 15 85
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 45 0 50
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) 45 0 50
Waray-Waray 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Creole languages 70 0 70
Haitian Creole 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 65 0 60
Creole languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0
Malayalam 10 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 1,760 130 1,625
Albanian 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 155 15 145
Baltic languages 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0
Slavic languages 155 10 145
Belarusan 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0
Bulgarian 10 0 15
Croatian 0 0 0
Czech 10 0 10
Macedonian 0 0 0
Polish 15 0 15
Russian 70 10 65
Serbian 15 0 15
Serbo-Croatian 25 0 20
Slovak 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 0 0 0
Ukrainian 10 0 10
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 70 0 70
Afrikaans 0 0 0
Danish 10 10 0
Dutch 20 0 15
Frisian 0 0 0
German 35 0 40
Icelandic 0 0 0
Norwegian 10 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 0
Indo-Iranian languages 90 10 85
Indo-Aryan languages 10 0 10
Bengali 10 0 10
Gujarati 0 0 0
Hindi 0 0 0
Kashmiri 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0
Urdu 10 0 0
Iranian languages 80 0 75
Kurdish 0 0 10
Pashto 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 70 0 70
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 1,445 115 1,335
Catalan 0 0 0
Italian 80 0 80
Portuguese 280 35 250
Romanian 25 0 25
Spanish 1,065 75 985
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 10 0 10
Japanese 0 0 0
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0
Korean 25 10 15
Mongolic languages 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 95 0 95
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0
Ewe 0 0 10
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 10
Igbo 0 0 0
Lingala 15 0 15
Rundi (Kirundi) 10 0 10
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 15 0 15
Shona 0 0 0
Swahili 25 0 25
Wolof 0 0 0
Yoruba 10 0 10
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 20 0 10
Nilo-Saharan languages 0 0 0
Dinka 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Sign languages 75 0 70
American Sign Language 35 0 35
Quebec Sign Language 40 0 40
Sign languages, n.i.e 10 10 10
Sino-Tibetan languages 185 30 155
Chinese languages 180 25 155
Cantonese 15 10 10
Hakka 0 0 0
Mandarin 165 25 145
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 30 0 25
Lao 0 0 10
Thai 25 0 20
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0
Turkic languages 10 0 10
Azerbaijani 0 0 0
Turkish 10 10 10
Uyghur 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Uralic languages 10 0 10
Estonian 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 10
Hungarian 0 0 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 10 0 10

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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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