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 and Federal Electoral Districts (2013 Representation Order), 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 Northwest Territories / Territoires du Nord-Ouest
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 41,380 36,845 65 4,280 195
Single responses 40,560 36,205 60 4,105 190
Official languages 32,935 29,085 55 3,795 5
English 31,765 29,020 0 2,740 5
French 1,175 65 55 1,055 0
Non-official languages 7,625 7,120 5 310 190
Aboriginal languages 4,635 4,475 0 55 110
Algonquian languages 150 145 0 5 0
Blackfoot 5 5 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 130 125 0 5 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Montagnais (Innu) 0 0 0 0 0
Moose Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Naskapi 0 0 0 0 0
Northern East Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Plains Cree 5 5 0 0 0
Southern East Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Swampy Cree 0 5 0 0 0
Woods Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 120 115 0 5 0
Eastern Algonquian languages 0 5 0 0 0
Malecite 5 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 15 15 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 15 15 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 3,880 3,735 0 40 105
Northern Athabaskan languages 3,875 3,730 0 35 105
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 440 425 0 15 5
Dogrib (Tlicho) 1,600 1,545 0 5 55
Gwich'in 145 140 0 0 0
Sarsi (Sarcee) 0 0 0 0 0
Sekani 0 0 0 0 0
Slavey-Hare languages 1,690 1,625 0 15 45
North Slavey (Hare) 745 720 0 10 20
South Slavey 770 740 0 10 20
Slavey, n.o.s. 175 165 0 0 10
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 600 585 0 10 5
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 470 465 0 0 0
Inuktitut 110 105 0 5 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages 5 5 0 5 0
Cayuga 0 0 0 0 0
Mohawk 0 0 0 5 0
Oneida 0 0 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Kutenai 0 0 0 0 0
Michif 5 5 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 5 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. 5 0 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 2,990 2,645 5 255 80
Afro-Asiatic languages 220 175 0 35 0
Berber languages 5 5 0 5 0
Kabyle 0 0 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 50 45 0 5 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 50 45 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 160 130 5 30 5
Amharic 25 20 0 0 0
Arabic 120 90 0 30 0
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 20 20 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 160 135 0 10 15
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 160 135 0 5 20
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 910 890 0 10 5
Bikol 5 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 60 60 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 15 15 0 5 0
Ilocano 70 65 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 5 0 0 0
Pangasinan 5 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 745 735 0 10 5
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Creole languages 40 15 0 25 0
Haitian Creole 5 5 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 25 5 5 20 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 5 0
Dravidian languages 60 55 0 10 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 25 25 0 5 0
Tamil 15 15 0 5 0
Telugu 15 15 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 1,045 900 0 125 20
Albanian 5 5 0 0 0
Armenian 45 45 0 5 0
Balto-Slavic languages 220 190 0 25 5
Baltic languages 0 0 0 5 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 215 190 0 25 10
Belarusan 0 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0 5
Bulgarian 10 5 0 5 0
Croatian 20 15 0 5 0
Czech 15 10 0 5 0
Macedonian 10 10 0 0 0
Polish 45 45 0 0 0
Russian 40 35 0 5 0
Serbian 10 10 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 0 0
Slovak 25 20 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 10 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 35 30 0 5 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages 10 5 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 5 5 0 0 0
Welsh 0 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 270 235 0 35 0
Afrikaans 15 15 0 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 5 0
Dutch 60 50 0 5 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 170 155 0 15 0
Icelandic 10 0 0 5 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0 0
Swedish 10 5 0 5 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 5 5 0 5 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 20 15 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 285 260 0 20 5
Indo-Aryan languages 245 230 0 15 0
Bengali 70 65 0 5 0
Gujarati 15 10 0 0 0
Hindi 45 40 0 0 5
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 5 0 0 0
Nepali 20 15 0 0 5
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 50 45 0 5 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0 0
Urdu 50 45 0 5 0
Iranian languages 35 30 0 5 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 30 25 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 5 0
Italic (Romance) languages 195 145 0 40 5
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 55 35 0 10 0
Portuguese 20 10 0 10 0
Romanian 10 5 0 0 0
Spanish 105 90 0 15 5
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 60 50 0 5 5
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 35 35 0 0 5
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 135 125 0 15 0
Akan (Twi) 20 10 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 0 5 0 0 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Ganda 10 10 0 0 0
Igbo 5 0 0 0 0
Lingala 5 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 5 0 0 5 0
Shona 40 40 0 0 5
Swahili 0 0 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 55 50 0 5 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 5 5 0 0 0
Dinka 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Sign languages 5 0 0 0 0
American Sign Language 0 5 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 5 0 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 250 215 0 15 20
Chinese languages 250 215 0 15 20
Cantonese 110 100 0 5 5
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 60 50 0 5 5
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 5 0 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 75 60 0 5 10
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0
Karenic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Tibetan 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 5 5 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 10 5 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0 0
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 5 5 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Uralic languages 30 25 0 5 0
Estonian 5 0 0 0 0
Finnish 10 5 0 5 0
Hungarian 15 15 0 0 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 815 640 10 170 0
English and French 145 25 5 115 0
English and non-official language 630 595 0 30 5
French and non-official language 35 15 0 20 0
English, French and non-official language 5 5 0 5 0

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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) – Northwest Territories / Territoires du Nord-Ouest

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 7.5%.
  • Short-form income data quality flag
    Data quality index showing a short-form income non-response rate higher than or equal to 10%, but lower than 20%.

Source: Statistics Canada, 2016 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-400-X2016059.

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