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 Edmonton
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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 5 809,170 769,275 39,890
Official languages 805,640 765,900 39,740
English 804,830 765,140 39,690
French 13,765 760 13,010
Non-official languages 30,975 3,380 27,600
Aboriginal languages 460 15 440
Algonquian languages 395 10 390
Blackfoot 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 395 10 390
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 70 0 70
Southern East Cree 0 0 0
Swampy Cree 0 0 0
Woods Cree 50 0 45
Cree, n.o.s. 280 10 265
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 15 0 15
Northern Athabaskan languages 15 0 20
Babine (Wetsuwet'en) 0 0 0
Beaver 0 0 0
Carrier 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 0 0
Dene 10 0 10
Dogrib (Tlicho) 0 0 10
Gwich'in 0 0 0
Sarsi (Sarcee) 0 0 0
Sekani 0 0 0
Slavey-Hare languages 10 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 20 0 25
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 10 0 0
Inuktitut 20 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 20 10 15
Dakota 0 0 10
Stoney 15 10 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 30,520 3,360 27,160
Afro-Asiatic languages 2,425 270 2,155
Berber languages 0 0 0
Kabyle 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 270 35 235
Bilen 0 0 0
Oromo 30 0 30
Somali 240 30 210
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Semitic languages 2,165 240 1,920
Amharic 200 10 190
Arabic 1,720 170 1,550
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 15 0 15
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0
Hebrew 105 0 95
Maltese 0 0 0
Tigrigna 80 10 70
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 50 50 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 1,500 215 1,285
Khmer (Cambodian) 40 0 35
Vietnamese 1,465 220 1,245
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 4,105 115 3,990
Bikol 0 0 0
Cebuano 30 0 30
Fijian 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 10 0 0
Ilocano 35 0 35
Malagasy 0 0 0
Malay 25 0 25
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 10
Pangasinan 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 4,015 115 3,900
Waray-Waray 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 10 0 0
Creole languages 25 0 20
Haitian Creole 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 20 0 15
Creole languages, n.i.e. 10 0 0
Dravidian languages 145 10 140
Kannada 0 0 0
Malayalam 90 10 80
Tamil 35 10 30
Telugu 25 0 25
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 13,380 1,165 12,215
Albanian 35 0 35
Armenian 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 2,155 130 2,035
Baltic languages 10 0 10
Latvian 0 0 0
Lithuanian 10 0 0
Slavic languages 2,145 125 2,020
Belarusan 0 0 0
Bosnian 55 0 50
Bulgarian 0 0 0
Croatian 115 10 110
Czech 10 0 10
Macedonian 0 0 0
Polish 685 45 640
Russian 500 20 480
Serbian 110 10 105
Serbo-Croatian 10 0 15
Slovak 30 10 20
Slovene (Slovenian) 0 0 0
Ukrainian 635 40 595
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 0 0
Celtic languages 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 10
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Germanic languages 845 40 815
Afrikaans 15 0 15
Danish 10 10 10
Dutch 145 0 150
Frisian 0 0 0
German 660 30 630
Icelandic 0 0 0
Norwegian 10 0 10
Swedish 15 0 20
Vlaams (Flemish) 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Greek 60 0 60
Indo-Iranian languages 6,540 780 5,760
Indo-Aryan languages 6,215 735 5,475
Bengali 80 0 75
Gujarati 185 50 135
Hindi 1,060 40 1,020
Kashmiri 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0
Nepali 30 0 30
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 4,535 620 3,915
Sindhi 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 30 0 30
Urdu 350 20 325
Iranian languages 305 45 265
Kurdish 50 10 40
Pashto 15 0 15
Persian (Farsi) 245 30 210
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 25 0 20
Italic (Romance) languages 3,740 220 3,520
Catalan 0 0 0
Italian 210 0 205
Portuguese 275 15 255
Romanian 100 0 100
Spanish 3,155 195 2,965
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 20 0 20
Japanese 200 10 195
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0
Korean 780 130 650
Mongolic languages 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 130 0 125
Akan (Twi) 10 0 10
Bamanankan 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0
Ewe 0 0 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 10 0 0
Ga 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0
Igbo 10 0 0
Lingala 10 0 10
Rundi (Kirundi) 10 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 0 0 0
Shona 10 0 10
Swahili 30 0 30
Wolof 10 10 0
Yoruba 15 0 10
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 35 0 35
Nilo-Saharan languages 10 0 10
Dinka 0 0 10
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Sign languages 635 40 590
American Sign Language 375 20 360
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 260 25 235
Sino-Tibetan languages 6,815 1,330 5,480
Chinese languages 6,760 1,330 5,430
Cantonese 3,760 895 2,865
Hakka 10 0 0
Mandarin 2,710 345 2,360
Min Dong 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 30 10 20
Wu (Shanghainese) 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 385 60 325
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 60 10 50
Burmese 10 0 10
Karenic languages 45 10 40
Tibetan 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 10 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 140 10 125
Lao 20 0 20
Thai 125 10 110
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0
Turkic languages 225 25 200
Azerbaijani 10 0 10
Turkish 205 20 185
Uyghur 0 0 0
Uzbek 10 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Uralic languages 70 10 65
Estonian 0 0 0
Finnish 10 0 10
Hungarian 65 10 55
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 30 0 30

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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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