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2011 National Household Survey: Data tables

Tabulation: Detailed Mother Tongue (158), Immigrant Status and Period of Immigration (11), Knowledge of Official Languages (5), Number of Non-Official Languages Spoken (5), Age Groups (10) and Sex (3) for the Population in Private Households of Canada, Provinces and Territories, 2011 National Household Survey

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This table details detailed mother tongue , immigrant status and period of immigration , knowledge of official languages , number of non-official languages spoken , age groups and sex for the population in private households in Northwest Territories / Territoires du Nord-Ouest
Global non-response rate (GNR)Footnote 1 = 16.1 %
Detailed mother tongue (158) Immigrant status and period of immigration (11)
Total - Immigrant status and period of immigration Non-immigrantsFootnote 2 ImmigrantsFootnote 3 Before 1971 1971 to 1980 1981 to 1990 1991 to 2000 2001 to 2011Footnote 4 2001 to 2005 2006 to 2011 Non-permanent residentsFootnote 5
Total - Detailed mother tongue 40,800 37,585 2,880 320 375 325 590 1,265 480 785 335
Single responses 40,470 37,335 2,810 320 375 320 560 1,225 465 760 335
English 31,255 30,405 780 185 185 100 110 200 85 115 70
French 1,115 1,055 60 0 20 0 0 40 10 25 0
Non-official languages 8,095 5,875 1,965 130 170 225 450 985 370 620 260
Aboriginal languages 5,410 5,405 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 200 35 150 25 10 15 40 60 10 50 15
Italian 35 10 25 25 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Portuguese 20 0 15 0 0 0 0 10 0 10 0
Romanian 25 0 25 0 0 0 0 15 0 15 0
Spanish 120 25 80 0 10 15 30 30 0 25 15
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 245 95 135 50 15 30 20 20 0 10 10
Dutch 45 15 20 10 0 10 0 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
German 180 80 90 30 10 20 20 15 0 15 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 25 0 20 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Danish 20 0 15 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 15 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 290 115 155 15 30 20 45 45 10 35 20
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Croatian 35 20 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Czech 15 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 55 25 25 0 10 0 15 0 0 0 0
Russian 50 0 45 0 0 0 10 30 0 30 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Slovak 25 0 15 0 0 15 0 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 55 50 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 20 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Armenian 95 0 70 0 0 0 0 75 10 65 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 20 0 20 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 20 0 20 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 15 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 15 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 265 50 190 0 10 45 35 100 45 55 25
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 15 0 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 10 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 250 50 175 0 0 40 35 105 50 55 25
Amharic 60 30 20 0 0 0 0 20 0 0 0
Arabic 160 25 130 0 0 30 30 65 25 40 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 25 0 25 0 0 0 0 15 10 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 105 10 90 0 10 10 15 50 25 25 0
Indo-Aryan languages 75 10 65 0 0 0 10 35 15 25 0
Bengali 20 0 15 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 0 10 0
Hindi 30 0 20 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 0
Nepali 10 0 10 0 0 0 0 10 0 10 0
Iranian languages 20 0 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 20 0 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 0 10 0 0 0 0 10 10 0 0
Dravidian languages 35 0 25 0 0 0 0 25 0 20 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 30 0 25 0 0 0 0 20 0 25 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 30 0 20 0 0 0 0 15 0 15 0
Korean 25 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 270 70 195 0 40 30 20 100 45 55 0
Chinese languages 270 70 190 0 40 30 20 100 45 50 10
Cantonese 130 45 85 0 30 0 10 30 20 15 0
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 40 0 30 0 0 0 0 25 20 0 10
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 95 25 75 0 15 10 0 40 0 35 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 100 10 95 0 20 20 35 15 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 100 10 90 0 15 20 35 20 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 690 30 545 0 15 45 200 280 115 170 110
Bisayan languages 90 0 80 0 0 0 20 55 35 20 10
Ilocano 45 0 40 0 0 0 20 25 0 20 0
Malay 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 530 35 420 0 15 40 165 195 70 130 85
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 200 0 155 0 0 0 15 145 75 70 35
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 185 0 145 0 0 0 0 130 75 60 30
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 125 0 110 0 0 0 0 110 65 40 15
Swahili 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 35 0 20 0 0 0 0 15 10 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Creoles 65 0 60 0 0 0 15 45 15 30 0
Non-verbal languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
American Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 325 255 70 0 0 0 30 40 15 25 0
English and French 20 25 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
English and non-official language 300 230 70 0 0 0 30 35 15 20 0
French and non-official language 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

For the 2011 National Household Survey (NHS) estimates, the global non-response rate (GNR) is used as an indicator of data quality. This indicator combines complete non-response (household) and partial non-response (question) into a single rate. The value of the GNR is presented to users. A smaller GNR indicates a lower risk of non-response bias and as a result, lower risk of inaccuracy. The threshold used for estimates' suppression is a GNR of 50% or more. For more information, please refer to the National Household Survey User Guide, 2011.

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Footnote 2

Non-immigrant refers to a person who is a Canadian citizen by birth.

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Footnote 3

Immigrant refers to a person who is or has ever been a landed immigrant/permanent resident. This person has been granted the right to live in Canada permanently by immigration authorities. Some immigrants have resided in Canada for a number of years, while others have arrived recently. Some immigrants are Canadian citizens, while others are not. Most immigrants are born outside Canada, but a small number are born in Canada. In the 2011 National Household Survey, 'Immigrants' includes immigrants who landed in Canada prior to May 10, 2011.

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Footnote 4

Includes immigrants who landed in Canada prior to May 10, 2011.

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Footnote 5

Non-permanent resident refers to a person from another country who has a work or study permit, or who is a refugee claimant, and any non-Canadian-born family member living in Canada with them.

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 National Household Survey, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 99-010-X2011033.

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