Data tables, 2016 Census

Mother Tongue (187), Generation Status (4), Number of Languages known (11), Age (12) and Sex (3) for the Population in Private Households of Canada, Provinces and Territories, Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, 2016 Census - 25% Sample Data

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Number of languages known (11)^{Footnote 1}

Age (12)

Sex (3)

This table details mother tongue , generation status , number of languages known , age and sex for the population in private households in Pembroke
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Mother tongue (187)	Generation status (4)
Mother tongue (187)	Total - Generation status^Footnote 2	First generation^Footnote 3	Second generation^Footnote 4	Third generation or more^Footnote 5
Total - Mother tongue^{Footnote 6}	22,435	1,225	1,815	19,390
Single responses	22,205	1,190	1,795	19,225
Official languages	21,465	605	1,705	19,155
English	19,935	555	1,635	17,745
French	1,530	45	65	1,420
Non-official languages	745	585	95	65
Aboriginal languages	0	0	0	10
Non-Aboriginal languages	740	590	90	60
Afro-Asiatic languages	0	0	0	0
Berber languages	0	0	0	0
Kabyle	0	0	0	0
Berber languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Cushitic languages	0	0	0	0
Bilen	0	0	0	0
Oromo	0	0	0	0
Somali	0	0	0	0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Semitic languages	0	0	0	0
Amharic	0	0	0	0
Arabic	0	0	0	0
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic	0	0	0	0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic	0	0	0	0
Harari	0	0	0	0
Hebrew	0	0	0	0
Maltese	0	0	0	0
Tigrigna	0	0	0	0
Semitic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Austro-Asiatic languages	15	15	0	0
Khmer (Cambodian)	0	0	0	0
Vietnamese	15	15	0	0
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e	0	0	0	0
Austronesian languages	35	35	0	0
Bikol	0	0	0	0
Cebuano	0	0	0	0
Fijian	0	0	0	0
Hiligaynon	0	0	0	0
Ilocano	0	0	0	0
Malagasy	0	0	0	0
Malay	0	0	0	0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango)	0	0	0	0
Pangasinan	0	0	0	0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)	35	35	0	0
Waray-Waray	0	0	0	0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Creole languages	0	0	0	0
Haitian Creole	0	0	0	0
Creole, n.o.s.	0	0	0	0
Creole languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Dravidian languages	0	0	0	0
Kannada	0	0	0	0
Malayalam	0	0	0	0
Tamil	0	0	0	0
Telugu	0	0	0	0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Hmong-Mien languages	0	0	0	0
Indo-European languages	540	410	70	60
Albanian	0	0	0	0
Armenian	0	0	0	0
Balto-Slavic languages	95	55	20	20
Baltic languages	10	10	0	0
Latvian	0	0	0	0
Lithuanian	0	10	0	0
Slavic languages	85	50	20	20
Belarusan	0	0	0	0
Bosnian	0	0	0	0
Bulgarian	0	0	0	0
Croatian	0	0	0	0
Czech	0	0	0	0
Macedonian	0	0	0	0
Polish	70	30	15	20
Russian	10	10	0	0
Serbian	0	0	0	0
Serbo-Croatian	0	0	0	0
Slovak	0	0	0	0
Slovene (Slovenian)	0	0	0	0
Ukrainian	0	0	0	0
Slavic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Celtic languages	0	0	0	0
Scottish Gaelic	0	0	0	0
Welsh	0	0	0	0
Celtic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Germanic languages	275	200	35	40
Afrikaans	0	0	0	0
Danish	0	0	0	0
Dutch	65	55	15	0
Frisian	0	10	0	0
German	205	140	25	40
Icelandic	0	0	0	0
Norwegian	0	0	0	0
Swedish	0	0	0	0
Vlaams (Flemish)	0	0	0	0
Yiddish	0	0	0	0
Germanic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Greek	25	20	0	0
Indo-Iranian languages	65	65	0	0
Indo-Aryan languages	65	60	10	0
Bengali	10	10	0	0
Gujarati	40	30	0	0
Hindi	15	20	0	0
Kashmiri	0	0	0	0
Konkani	0	0	0	0
Marathi	0	0	0	0
Nepali	0	0	0	0
Oriya (Odia)	0	0	0	0
Punjabi (Panjabi)	0	0	0	0
Sindhi	0	0	0	0
Sinhala (Sinhalese)	0	0	0	0
Urdu	0	0	0	0
Iranian languages	0	0	0	0
Kurdish	0	0	0	0
Pashto	0	0	0	0
Persian (Farsi)	0	0	0	0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Italic (Romance) languages	75	70	10	0
Catalan	0	0	0	0
Italian	15	10	10	0
Portuguese	25	20	0	0
Romanian	15	15	0	0
Spanish	25	25	0	0
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Japanese	0	0	0	0
Kartvelian languages	0	0	0	0
Georgian	0	0	0	0
Korean	30	30	0	0
Mongolic languages	0	0	0	0
Mongolian	0	0	0	0
Niger-Congo languages	0	10	0	0
Akan (Twi)	0	0	0	0
Bamanankan	0	0	0	0
Edo	0	0	0	0
Ewe	0	0	0	0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde)	0	0	0	0
Ga	0	0	0	0
Ganda	0	0	0	0
Igbo	0	10	0	0
Lingala	0	0	0	0
Rundi (Kirundi)	0	0	0	0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda)	0	0	0	0
Shona	0	0	0	0
Swahili	0	0	0	0
Wolof	0	0	0	0
Yoruba	0	0	0	0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Nilo-Saharan languages	0	0	0	0
Dinka	0	0	0	0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Sign languages	0	0	0	0
American Sign Language	0	0	0	0
Quebec Sign Language	0	0	0	0
Sign languages, n.i.e	0	0	0	0
Sino-Tibetan languages	80	75	0	0
Chinese languages	80	75	10	0
Cantonese	50	50	0	0
Hakka	10	10	0	0
Mandarin	0	0	0	0
Min Dong	0	0	0	0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese)	0	0	0	0
Wu (Shanghainese)	0	0	0	0
Chinese, n.o.s.	20	20	0	0
Chinese languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Tibeto-Burman languages	0	0	0	0
Burmese	0	0	0	0
Karenic languages	0	0	0	0
Tibetan	0	0	0	0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Tai-Kadai languages	0	0	0	0
Lao	0	0	0	0
Thai	0	0	0	0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e	0	0	0	0
Turkic languages	0	10	0	0
Azerbaijani	0	0	0	0
Turkish	0	0	0	0
Uyghur	0	0	0	0
Uzbek	0	0	0	0
Turkic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Uralic languages	40	20	20	0
Estonian	10	10	0	0
Finnish	10	0	0	0
Hungarian	20	10	15	0
Uralic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Other languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Multiple responses	225	30	25	170
English and French	165	0	0	155
English and non-official language	55	20	20	10
French and non-official language	10	10	0	0
English, French and non-official language	0	0	0	0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

'Knowledge of official languages' refers to whether the person can conduct a conversation in English only, French only, in both or in neither language. For a child who has not yet learned to speak, this includes languages that the child is learning to speak at home.

'Knowledge of non-official languages' refers to whether the person can conduct a conversation in a language other than English or French. For a child who has not yet learned to speak, this includes languages that the child is learning to speak at home. The number of languages that can be reported may vary between surveys, depending on the objectives of the survey.

For more information on language variables, including information on their classifications, the questions from which they are derived, data quality and their comparability with other sources of data, please refer to the Languages Reference Guide, Census of Population, 2016.

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Footnote 2

For more information on generation status variables, including information on their classifications, the questions from which they are derived, data quality and their comparability with other sources of data, please refer to the Place of Birth, Generation Status, Citizenship and Immigration Reference Guide, Census of Population, 2016.

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Footnote 3

'First generation' includes persons who were born outside Canada. For the most part, these are people who are now, or once were, immigrants to Canada.

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Footnote 4

'Second generation' includes persons who were born in Canada and had at least one parent born outside Canada. For the most part, these are the children of immigrants.

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