Data tables, 2016 Census

Mother Tongue (269), Knowledge of Official Languages (5), Age (15A) and Sex (3) for the Population Excluding Institutional Residents of Canada, Provinces and Territories, Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, 2016 Census - 100% Data The letter C inside a yellow triangle - correction

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This table details mother tongue , knowledge of official languages , age and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Québec
Data quality
Mother tongue (269) Knowledge of official languages (5)
Total - Knowledge of official languages English only French only English and French Neither English nor French
Total - Mother tongueFootnote 1 789,360 1,890 478,090 307,385 1,995
Single responses 781,875 1,815 475,590 302,510 1,960
Official languages 751,975 1,000 461,075 289,835 60
English 10,965 945 385 9,635 0
French 741,010 60 460,690 280,205 60
Non-official languages 29,900 815 14,510 12,670 1,900
Aboriginal languages 605 15 460 110 15
Algonquian languages 590 10 460 105 10
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 575 10 455 95 10
Atikamekw 40 0 35 10 5
Montagnais (Innu) 520 5 420 85 10
Moose Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Naskapi 5 0 0 5 0
Northern East Cree 5 0 0 0 0
Plains Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Southern East Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Swampy Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Woods Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 0 0 0 0
Eastern Algonquian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 15 0 10 5 0
Algonquin 15 0 10 5 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Ottawa (Odawa) 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Athabaskan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Northern Athabaskan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Babine (Wetsuwet'en) 0 0 0 0 0
Beaver 0 0 0 0 0
Carrier 0 0 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0 0
Dogrib (Tlicho) 0 0 0 0 0
Gwich'in 0 0 0 0 0
Sarsi (Sarcee) 0 0 0 0 0
Sekani 0 0 0 0 0
Slavey-Hare languages 0 0 0 0 0
North Slavey (Hare) 0 0 0 0 0
South Slavey 0 0 0 0 0
Slavey, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0
Tahltan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Kaska (Nahani) 0 0 0 0 0
Tahltan 0 0 0 0 0
Tutchone languages 0 0 0 0 0
Northern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0
Southern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0
Athabaskan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Haida 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages 15 5 0 5 5
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 10 0 0 5 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Cayuga 0 0 0 0 0
Mohawk 0 0 0 0 0
Oneida 0 0 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Kutenai 0 0 0 0 0
Michif 0 0 0 0 0
Salish languages 0 0 0 0 0
Comox 0 0 0 0 0
Halkomelem 0 0 0 0 0
Lillooet 0 0 0 0 0
Okanagan 0 0 0 0 0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 0 0 0 0 0
Squamish 0 0 0 0 0
Straits 0 0 0 0 0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 0 0 0 0 0
Salish languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Siouan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Dakota 0 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0 0
Siouan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tlingit 0 0 0 0 0
Tsimshian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Gitxsan (Gitksan) 0 0 0 0 0
Nisga'a 0 0 0 0 0
Tsimshian 0 0 0 0 0
Wakashan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Haisla 0 0 0 0 0
Heiltsuk 0 0 0 0 0
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala) 0 0 0 0 0
Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka) 0 0 0 0 0
Wakashan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 29,300 800 14,050 12,565 1,885
Afro-Asiatic languages 6,040 60 2,960 2,630 390
Berber languages 750 0 450 280 20
Kabyle 390 5 255 120 10
Berber languages, n.i.e. 355 0 190 160 5
Cushitic languages 45 0 20 25 5
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 45 0 20 25 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Semitic languages 5,220 60 2,475 2,320 370
Amharic 0 0 5 0 0
Arabic 5,195 60 2,460 2,305 370
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 5 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 10 0 0 5 0
Maltese 5 0 0 5 0
Tigrigna 10 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 25 0 20 5 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 1,280 25 590 540 120
Khmer (Cambodian) 400 5 225 145 35
Vietnamese 870 20 365 405 80
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 5 0 5 0 0
Austronesian languages 400 50 120 220 10
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 25 5 0 20 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 0 0 0 5 5
Ilocano 5 0 0 5 0
Malagasy 220 0 110 105 5
Malay 25 5 5 15 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 100 35 0 65 0
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 25 0 5 10 0
Creole languages 575 0 355 210 15
Haitian Creole 50 0 25 25 0
Creole, n.o.s. 520 0 330 180 15
Creole languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Dravidian languages 30 15 0 15 5
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 0 0 5 5
Tamil 20 5 0 15 0
Telugu 10 10 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 15,935 375 7,665 6,975 915
Albanian 205 0 135 50 20
Armenian 70 0 15 50 5
Balto-Slavic languages 2,625 60 1,240 1,205 115
Baltic languages 25 10 5 10 5
Latvian 15 5 0 10 0
Lithuanian 10 5 0 5 0
Slavic languages 2,600 55 1,235 1,195 115
Belarusan 5 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 635 10 385 195 50
Bulgarian 235 0 115 110 5
Croatian 100 0 40 50 10
Czech 45 5 10 25 0
Macedonian 5 0 5 10 0
Polish 310 10 105 190 0
Russian 675 20 290 325 30
Serbian 160 5 75 80 5
Serbo-Croatian 280 5 140 125 15
Slovak 25 0 15 15 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 5 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 125 5 50 60 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 5 0
Celtic languages 0 5 0 5 0
Scottish Gaelic 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 5 0
Germanic languages 795 40 75 665 15
Afrikaans 10 5 0 10 0
Danish 5 0 0 10 0
Dutch 135 5 10 120 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 555 25 50 465 10
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 5 0
Swedish 40 5 0 30 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 25 0 10 20 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 15 0 5 10 0
Greek 105 5 25 75 0
Indo-Iranian languages 1,655 175 565 575 335
Indo-Aryan languages 1,030 85 400 265 275
Bengali 70 20 10 20 10
Gujarati 20 0 5 10 0
Hindi 40 15 0 20 0
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 5 0 0 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0 0
Nepali 850 35 380 170 260
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 10 5 0 5 0
Sindhi 5 0 0 5 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 0 0 5 0
Urdu 35 10 0 20 0
Iranian languages 530 80 125 295 35
Kurdish 50 5 20 10 15
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 485 70 105 285 20
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 95 5 35 25 30
Italic (Romance) languages 10,475 95 5,620 4,340 420
Catalan 20 0 0 15 0
Italian 615 5 270 345 0
Portuguese 1,670 25 845 730 70
Romanian 845 5 340 485 20
Spanish 7,310 65 4,160 2,760 325
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 10 0 0 5 0
Japanese 165 35 30 95 10
Kartvelian languages 5 0 0 0 0
Georgian 5 0 0 5 0
Korean 45 10 0 25 5
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 5 0 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 2,800 25 1,670 995 115
Akan (Twi) 5 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 70 0 40 30 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 45 0 35 15 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 160 0 105 45 5
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Ganda 5 0 0 0 0
Igbo 0 0 0 0 0
Lingala 115 0 80 40 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 480 0 290 160 30
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 305 5 145 140 10
Shona 0 0 0 0 0
Swahili 505 5 325 155 20
Wolof 310 5 140 160 5
Yoruba 10 0 5 10 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 790 5 505 240 35
Nilo-Saharan languages 35 0 15 10 5
Dinka 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 35 0 15 10 5
Sign languages 120 0 55 15 45
American Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 65 0 25 15 25
Sign languages, n.i.e 50 0 30 5 20
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,380 180 400 570 225
Chinese languages 1,280 180 370 560 175
Cantonese 270 35 65 125 45
Hakka 5 0 0 5 0
Mandarin 875 125 275 360 110
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 30 5 5 20 5
Wu (Shanghainese) 15 0 0 10 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 80 10 15 40 15
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 100 5 25 10 50
Burmese 10 0 5 5 10
Karenic languages 70 0 20 5 40
Tibetan 5 0 0 5 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 15 0 5 0 5
Tai-Kadai languages 200 5 80 100 15
Lao 125 0 65 50 5
Thai 70 5 15 45 5
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 5 0
Turkic languages 90 10 25 50 5
Azerbaijani 15 0 0 10 5
Turkish 65 5 25 35 0
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Uralic languages 145 15 45 85 5
Estonian 5 0 0 5 0
Finnish 10 5 0 5 0
Hungarian 130 10 45 80 5
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 60 5 25 20 10
Multiple responses 7,485 75 2,500 4,875 35
English and French 3,775 15 400 3,360 5
English and non-official language 240 55 15 165 0
French and non-official language 3,175 5 2,060 1,085 30
English, French and non-official language 295 0 25 260 5

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

n.i.e. = not included elsewhere
n.o.s. = not otherwise specified

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Data quality note(s) – Québec

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 4.0%.
  • Short-form income data quality flag
    Default. Data quality index showing a short-form income non-response rate lower than 10%.

Source: Statistics Canada, 2016 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-400-X2016056.

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