Data tables, 2016 Census

Language Used at Work (263), Single and multiple responses of language used at work (3), Mother Tongue (8) and Age (10) for the Population Aged 15 Years and Over Who Worked Since 2015, in Private Households of Canada, Provinces and Territories, Census Divisions and Census Subdivisions, 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 and age for the population aged 15 years and over who worked since 2015, in private households in Hamilton
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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 1 Single responses of language used at workFootnote 2 Multiple responses of language used at workFootnote 3
Total - Language used at workFootnote 4 295,380 281,940 13,440
Official languages 294,535 281,115 13,420
English 294,145 280,725 13,415
French 5,035 385 4,645
Non-official languages 9,890 820 9,065
Aboriginal languages 20 0 20
Algonquian languages 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 10 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. 10 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 0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages 15 0 20
Cayuga 10 0 0
Mohawk 10 0 10
Oneida 10 0 10
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 9,870 825 9,045
Afro-Asiatic languages 870 70 805
Berber languages 0 0 0
Kabyle 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 10 0 10
Cushitic languages 30 0 30
Bilen 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0
Somali 30 0 30
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Semitic languages 835 70 765
Amharic 0 10 0
Arabic 650 60 585
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 125 0 120
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 10 0 0
Harari 0 0 0
Hebrew 50 0 50
Maltese 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 10
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 470 65 405
Khmer (Cambodian) 50 0 50
Vietnamese 420 70 355
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 355 10 345
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) 350 0 350
Waray-Waray 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Creole languages 35 0 35
Haitian Creole 10 0 10
Creole, n.o.s. 10 0 10
Creole languages, n.i.e. 20 0 15
Dravidian languages 35 0 35
Kannada 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 10
Tamil 35 0 35
Telugu 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 6,300 410 5,890
Albanian 90 0 90
Armenian 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 1,675 145 1,525
Baltic languages 20 0 25
Latvian 15 0 20
Lithuanian 0 0 0
Slavic languages 1,650 145 1,505
Belarusan 0 0 0
Bosnian 100 20 75
Bulgarian 15 10 10
Croatian 290 15 270
Czech 10 0 0
Macedonian 10 0 0
Polish 520 25 495
Russian 100 15 80
Serbian 500 45 455
Serbo-Croatian 30 0 30
Slovak 20 0 20
Slovene (Slovenian) 0 0 10
Ukrainian 60 15 50
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 230 0 225
Afrikaans 0 0 0
Danish 15 0 15
Dutch 40 0 45
Frisian 0 0 0
German 150 0 150
Icelandic 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0
Swedish 15 0 15
Vlaams (Flemish) 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Greek 40 0 40
Indo-Iranian languages 1,170 100 1,065
Indo-Aryan languages 990 85 900
Bengali 30 0 30
Gujarati 40 0 35
Hindi 130 0 135
Kashmiri 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0
Nepali 20 0 20
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 450 55 395
Sindhi 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0
Urdu 315 20 290
Iranian languages 170 15 160
Kurdish 65 0 65
Pashto 0 0 10
Persian (Farsi) 100 15 85
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 10
Italic (Romance) languages 3,100 155 2,945
Catalan 0 0 0
Italian 815 10 805
Portuguese 990 80 915
Romanian 65 0 60
Spanish 1,235 70 1,170
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 10 0 10
Japanese 60 15 50
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0
Korean 170 30 145
Mongolic languages 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 60 0 55
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0
Ewe 15 0 15
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0
Igbo 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 0 0 0
Shona 20 0 20
Swahili 15 0 15
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 175 10 165
American Sign Language 75 0 70
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 105 0 100
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,185 225 960
Chinese languages 1,140 205 930
Cantonese 425 105 320
Hakka 0 0 0
Mandarin 700 95 610
Min Dong 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 35 10 25
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 50 15 30
Burmese 0 0 0
Karenic languages 50 20 30
Tibetan 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 90 0 90
Lao 25 0 30
Thai 65 0 65
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0
Turkic languages 15 0 10
Azerbaijani 0 0 0
Turkish 15 0 10
Uyghur 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Uralic languages 60 0 60
Estonian 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0
Hungarian 60 10 55
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 0 0 10

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

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 2

A single response to the language used at work occurs when a respondent provides one language only.

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Footnote 3

A multiple response to the language used at work occurs when a respondent provides two or more languages.

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Footnote 4

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) – Hamilton

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Long-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), long-form census questionnaire: 4.9%.
  • 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-X2016095.

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