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 Oshawa
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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 5 214,000 206,975 7,020
Official languages 213,550 206,535 7,010
English 213,205 206,195 7,015
French 4,660 340 4,315
Non-official languages 3,230 440 2,785
Aboriginal languages 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 0 0 10
Blackfoot 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 0 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 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 10 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 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 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 3,225 440 2,780
Afro-Asiatic languages 75 0 70
Berber languages 0 0 0
Kabyle 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 10 0 0
Bilen 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0
Somali 10 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Semitic languages 70 10 70
Amharic 0 0 0
Arabic 60 0 55
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0
Hebrew 10 0 10
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 95 10 85
Khmer (Cambodian) 10 0 10
Vietnamese 90 10 85
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 65 0 65
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) 65 0 60
Waray-Waray 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Creole languages 0 0 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 0 0 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 10 0 10
Dravidian languages 130 25 105
Kannada 0 0 0
Malayalam 10 0 10
Tamil 120 25 95
Telugu 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 1,915 225 1,695
Albanian 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 370 40 325
Baltic languages 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0
Slavic languages 365 40 330
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 220 10 215
Russian 55 10 45
Serbian 30 10 30
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 0 0 0
Ukrainian 55 10 45
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Celtic languages 0 0 10
Scottish Gaelic 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 10 0 10
Germanic languages 90 0 90
Afrikaans 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0
Dutch 15 0 15
Frisian 0 0 0
German 65 0 60
Icelandic 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0
Swedish 10 0 10
Vlaams (Flemish) 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Greek 30 0 35
Indo-Iranian languages 460 30 425
Indo-Aryan languages 365 35 335
Bengali 0 0 0
Gujarati 40 10 35
Hindi 45 0 45
Kashmiri 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 90 15 75
Sindhi 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 20 0 20
Urdu 165 10 155
Iranian languages 90 0 90
Kurdish 0 0 0
Pashto 10 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 85 0 90
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 960 150 810
Catalan 0 0 0
Italian 185 0 180
Portuguese 150 0 150
Romanian 0 0 0
Spanish 635 145 490
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Japanese 10 0 0
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0
Korean 35 15 20
Mongolic languages 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 35 0 35
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 10 0 10
Lingala 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 10 0 10
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 0 0 0
Shona 0 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0
Yoruba 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 0 15
Nilo-Saharan languages 0 0 0
Dinka 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Sign languages 130 0 125
American Sign Language 80 0 75
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 50 0 50
Sino-Tibetan languages 685 160 525
Chinese languages 680 160 525
Cantonese 240 40 200
Hakka 0 0 0
Mandarin 435 120 315
Min Dong 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 25 0 25
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 20 10 15
Lao 0 0 0
Thai 10 10 10
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 40 0 35
Estonian 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0
Hungarian 35 0 35
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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Data quality note(s) – Oshawa

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Long-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), long-form census questionnaire: 4.0%.
  • 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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