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2011 Census of Canada: Topic-based tabulations

Topic-based tabulation: Selected Demographic and Language Characteristics (375), First Official Language Spoken (4A), Mother Tongue (4A), Age Groups (8B) and Sex (3) for the population excluding institutional residents of Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, 2011 Census

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This table details selected demographic and language characteristics , first official language spoken , mother tongue , age groups and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in New Brunswick / Nouveau-Brunswick
Selected Demographic and Language Characteristics (375) First official language spoken (4A)
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 2 English French English and French
Age groups - Total population excluding institutional residents 739,895 502,045 234,410 2,580
0 to 4 years 36,510 26,350 9,635 365
5 to 9 years 36,650 26,765 9,610 230
10 to 14 years 40,335 29,615 10,415 275
15 to 19 years 45,710 33,150 12,265 280
20 to 24 years 44,300 31,555 12,535 180
25 to 29 years 41,425 28,470 12,765 160
30 to 34 years 43,365 29,220 13,970 130
35 to 39 years 47,785 32,765 14,810 150
40 to 44 years 50,895 34,695 15,955 140
45 to 49 years 61,385 40,855 20,275 150
50 to 54 years 62,230 40,120 21,925 130
55 to 59 years 58,735 37,455 21,150 100
60 to 64 years 54,030 34,870 19,060 90
65 to 69 years 38,630 24,720 13,805 70
70 to 74 years 28,650 18,780 9,785 45
75 to 79 years 21,565 13,935 7,555 40
80 to 84 years 14,920 9,970 4,900 20
85 years and over 12,770 8,740 3,990 10
Median ageFootnote 3 43.4 41.9 46.4 23.4
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 626,400 419,310 204,745 1,705
Married or living with a common-law partner 380,545 252,065 127,220 830
Married (and not separated) 308,545 211,380 96,065 675
Living common law 72,000 40,680 31,150 155
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 245,855 167,250 77,525 875
Single (never legally married) 155,465 105,800 48,865 700
Separated 20,630 13,300 7,265 50
Divorced 32,300 23,355 8,860 70
Widowed 37,460 24,790 12,540 60
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 739,900 502,040 234,410 2,575
English only 426,670 426,675 0 0
French only 66,380 0 66,375 0
English and French 245,890 75,300 168,010 2,580
Neither English nor French 960 70 20 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 739,895 502,040 234,410 2,575
Single responses 731,860 497,710 232,410 865
English 479,930 479,760 175 0
French 233,530 2,130 231,400 0
Non-official languages 18,395 15,825 835 865
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 2,140 2,115 0 10
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 10 10 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 5 0 0
Mi'kmaq 2,115 2,090 5 10
Ojibway 5 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 5 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 15,515 13,085 775 830
African languages, n.i.e. 30 15 10 5
Afrikaans 70 65 0 0
Akan (Twi) 15 15 0 0
Albanian 15 15 0 0
Amharic 45 35 5 0
Arabic 1,330 875 225 175
Armenian 10 10 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 65 25 35 0
Bengali 180 170 0 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 5 0 5 0
Bisayan languages 65 65 0 0
Bosnian 40 40 0 0
Bulgarian 20 15 0 5
Burmese 10 5 0 0
Cantonese 220 175 5 10
Chinese, n.o.s. 1,185 1,000 15 25
Creoles 70 30 35 5
Croatian 75 70 0 0
Czech 50 40 0 5
Danish 150 145 5 0
Dutch 925 880 10 35
Estonian 25 20 0 5
Finnish 50 45 0 5
Flemish 30 25 0 5
Fukien 0 5 0 0
German 1,800 1,680 30 75
Greek 140 135 0 0
Gujarati 50 45 0 0
Hakka 5 5 0 0
Hebrew 25 30 0 0
Hindi 250 230 0 5
Hungarian 155 145 0 5
Ilocano 20 15 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 35 30 0 0
Italian 440 370 30 20
Japanese 115 105 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 10 0 0
Korean 1,810 1,605 0 65
Kurdish 15 5 0 0
Lao 5 0 0 5
Latvian 20 20 0 0
Lingala 10 0 10 0
Lithuanian 15 10 0 0
Macedonian 15 15 0 0
Malay 45 40 5 0
Malayalam 40 35 0 0
Maltese 0 5 0 0
Mandarin 405 325 0 10
Marathi 30 30 0 5
Nepali 100 60 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 135 55 75 5
Norwegian 40 40 0 0
Oromo 30 5 20 5
Panjabi (Punjabi) 95 85 0 5
Pashto 10 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 450 420 0 10
Polish 255 225 5 15
Portuguese 220 185 15 10
Romanian 425 325 20 30
Rundi (Kirundi) 40 15 5 10
Russian 355 305 10 20
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 35 5 25 10
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Serbian 120 105 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 45 40 0 5
Shanghainese 5 5 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 95 45 5 0
Sindhi 15 10 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 15 20 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 30 20 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Slovak 25 20 0 0
Slovenian 10 10 0 0
Somali 10 10 0 0
Spanish 1,135 860 85 130
Swahili 140 50 45 30
Swedish 45 45 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 585 575 0 0
Taiwanese 5 0 0 0
Tamil 95 90 5 0
Telugu 45 45 0 0
Thai 65 65 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 10 0 0
Turkish 65 60 5 5
Ukrainian 135 120 0 10
Urdu 205 185 0 5
Vietnamese 285 230 20 15
Yiddish 25 5 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 740 625 60 20
Multiple responses 8,040 4,325 2,005 1,710
English and French 6,585 3,130 1,775 1,680
English and non-official language 1,115 1,115 0 0
French and non-official language 250 35 215 0
English, French and non-official language 95 45 15 35
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 739,895 502,040 234,405 2,575
Single responses 731,310 498,905 230,765 765
English 512,115 486,990 25,120 0
French 209,885 4,450 205,435 0
Non-official languages 9,310 7,465 210 770
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 1,030 1,005 5 15
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 1,025 1,000 5 15
Ojibway 0 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 11 8,000 6,240 190 740
African languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 5
Afrikaans 50 45 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 5
Albanian 5 5 0 0
Amharic 20 10 0 0
Arabic 725 485 40 145
Armenian 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 20 0 15 0
Bengali 105 95 0 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 20 20 0 0
Bosnian 15 15 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 5
Burmese 10 10 0 0
Cantonese 130 95 0 10
Chinese, n.o.s. 850 685 5 15
Creoles 35 15 10 10
Croatian 25 20 0 5
Czech 10 5 0 5
Danish 15 10 0 0
Dutch 185 145 0 30
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 15 10 0 5
Flemish 10 0 0 5
Fukien 5 10 0 0
German 490 395 5 75
Greek 30 25 0 5
Gujarati 20 20 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 15 15 0 0
Hindi 125 105 0 5
Hungarian 25 15 0 10
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Italian 95 55 0 15
Japanese 35 25 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 1,580 1,380 0 60
Kurdish 5 5 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 5 5 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 25 20 0 0
Malayalam 10 15 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 325 255 0 10
Marathi 10 10 0 0
Nepali 90 50 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 5 0 5
Norwegian 10 10 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 45 40 0 5
Pashto 5 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 320 290 0 5
Polish 60 40 0 15
Portuguese 75 55 5 5
Romanian 270 190 5 30
Rundi (Kirundi) 20 5 0 10
Russian 220 175 5 15
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 10 5 0 10
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 90 80 0 10
Serbo-Croatian 15 10 0 5
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 160 80 30 0
Sindhi 0 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 10 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 0 5 0 0
Slovenian 0 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 595 385 35 115
Swahili 65 25 5 30
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 280 275 0 5
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 35 35 0 0
Telugu 20 20 0 0
Thai 15 15 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 30 20 5 5
Ukrainian 35 25 0 5
Urdu 125 105 0 10
Vietnamese 235 190 5 15
Yiddish 20 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 280 220 15 15
Multiple responses 8,585 3,135 3,645 1,805
English and French 6,235 1,090 3,430 1,720
English and non-official language 2,020 2,005 15 0
French and non-official language 180 10 165 0
English, French and non-official language 155 35 30 90
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 739,900 502,040 234,405 2,580
None 656,325 474,695 178,835 2,040
Single responses 82,780 26,925 55,325 435
English 47,560 6,115 41,105 260
French 28,410 14,840 13,465 105
Non-official languages 6,810 5,970 755 65
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 845 825 20 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 5 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 10 10 0 0
Mi'kmaq 825 810 15 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 5 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 15 5,280 4,515 675 65
African languages, n.i.e. 25 15 15 0
Afrikaans 15 15 0 0
Akan (Twi) 10 15 0 0
Albanian 10 10 0 0
Amharic 15 10 0 0
Arabic 455 305 140 5
Armenian 5 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 50 15 30 0
Bengali 50 50 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 5 0 5 0
Bisayan languages 15 15 0 0
Bosnian 15 15 0 0
Bulgarian 10 5 0 0
Burmese 5 0 0 0
Cantonese 65 55 5 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 245 240 5 0
Creoles 65 25 40 5
Croatian 25 25 0 0
Czech 20 10 5 0
Danish 55 55 0 0
Dutch 310 305 0 5
Estonian 10 10 0 0
Finnish 25 25 5 5
Flemish 5 5 5 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 680 635 35 10
Greek 65 60 0 0
Gujarati 15 20 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 35 30 0 0
Hindi 130 125 0 5
Hungarian 50 45 0 0
Ilocano 0 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Italian 190 165 20 0
Japanese 110 100 5 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 150 150 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 30 5 25 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0
Malay 20 15 0 0
Malayalam 15 15 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0
Mandarin 95 90 0 0
Marathi 15 15 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 95 35 60 0
Norwegian 15 15 0 0
Oromo 20 0 10 5
Panjabi (Punjabi) 40 40 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 90 85 5 5
Polish 80 75 5 0
Portuguese 80 65 10 5
Romanian 100 90 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 10 0 5 0
Russian 105 95 5 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 30 0 20 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 15 15 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 20 20 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 120 105 10 0
Sindhi 0 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 5 5 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 5 5 0 0
Spanish 705 560 130 15
Swahili 85 45 30 5
Swedish 30 30 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 215 215 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0
Tamil 45 45 0 0
Telugu 20 20 0 0
Thai 30 30 5 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 5 0 0
Turkish 20 15 0 0
Ukrainian 35 30 0 0
Urdu 65 60 0 0
Vietnamese 50 35 10 0
Yiddish 5 10 5 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 695 630 60 0
Multiple responses 790 425 255 105
English and French 125 15 15 95
English and non-official language 255 55 195 0
French and non-official language 405 360 45 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 5
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 739,900 502,040 234,405 2,575
English 502,040 502,040 0 0
French 234,410 0 234,410 0
English and French 2,575 0 0 2,580
Neither English nor French 865 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 235,695 0 234,410 1,290
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 31.9 0.0 100.0 50.1

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

Language groups are defined as follows: 'English' includes respondents who reported English only or English and one non-official language; 'French' includes respondents who reported French only or French and one non-official language; 'English and French' includes respondents who reported English and French, with or without one non-official language.

'Total' category includes all groups mentioned as well as respondents who reported a non-official language as their only mother tongue.

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Footnote 2

Those classified in the category 'Neither English nor French' appear only in the 'Total' category in this table.

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Footnote 3

The median age is an age 'x', such that exactly one half of the population is older than 'x' and the other half is younger than 'x'.

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Footnote 4

Marital status
Part A - Short definition
Refers to the marital status of the person, taking into account his/her common-law status.
Part B - Detailed definition
Refers to the marital status of the person, taking into account his/her common-law status. Persons who are married or living common law may be of opposite sex or of the same sex. The classification is as follows:
Married (and not separated): A person who is married and has not separated or obtained a divorce, and whose spouse is living.
Common-law: A person who is living with another person as a couple but who is not legally married to that person.
Separated: A person who is married but who no longer lives with his/her spouse (for any reason other than illness, work or school) and who has not obtained a divorce. Persons living common law are not included in this category.
Divorced: A person who has obtained a legal divorce and who has not remarried. Persons living common law are not included in this category.
Widowed: A person who has lost his/her spouse through death and who has not remarried. Persons living common law are not included in this category.
Single (never legally married): A person who has never married or a person whose marriage has been annulled and who has not remarried. Persons living common law are not included in this category.

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Footnote 5

Total population excluding institutional residents. The population excluding institutional residents includes Canadian citizens (by birth or by naturalization) and landed immigrants (permanent residents) excluding those who live in institutions (institutional collective dwellings). Canadian citizens and landed immigrants either: (1) have a usual place of residence in Canada; (2) are abroad either on a military base or attached to a diplomatic mission; or (3) are at sea or in port aboard merchant vessels under Canadian registry or Canadian government vessels. Since 1991, the target population also includes persons with a usual place of residence in Canada who are claiming refugee status, who hold study permits, or who hold work permits, as well as family members living with them; for census purposes, this group is referred to as non-permanent residents. The population universe does not include foreign residents.

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Footnote 6

Selected Aboriginal languages
The languages shown were selected based on the Aboriginal mother tongues most often reported as single responses in Canada in the 2011 Census of Population.

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Selected non-Aboriginal languages
The languages shown were selected based on the non-Aboriginal mother tongues (other than English or French) most often reported as single responses in Canada in the 2011 Census of Population.

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Other languages
This is a subtotal of all languages collected by the census that are not displayed separately here. For a full list of languages collected in the census, please refer to Appendix D in the 2011 Census Dictionary.

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Footnote 9

Total population excluding institutional residents
The population excluding institutional residents includes Canadian citizens (by birth or by naturalization) and landed immigrants (permanent residents) excluding those who live in institutions (institutional collective dwellings). Canadian citizens and landed immigrants either: (1) have a usual place of residence in Canada; (2) are abroad either on a military base or attached to a diplomatic mission; or (3) are at sea or in port aboard merchant vessels under Canadian registry or Canadian government vessels. Since 1991, the target population also includes persons with a usual place of residence in Canada who are claiming refugee status, who hold study permits, or who hold work permits, as well as family members living with them; for census purposes, this group is referred to as non-permanent residents. The population universe does not include foreign residents.

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Footnote 10

Selected Aboriginal languages
The languages shown were selected based on the Aboriginal mother tongues most often reported as single responses in Canada in the 2011 Census of Population.

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Selected non-Aboriginal languages
The languages shown were selected based on the non-Aboriginal mother tongues (other than English or French) most often reported as single responses in Canada in the 2011 Census of Population.

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Other languages
This is a subtotal of all languages collected by the census that are not displayed separately here. For a full list of languages collected in the census, please refer to Appendix D in the 2011 Census Dictionary.

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Footnote 13

Total population excluding institutional residents
The population excluding institutional residents includes Canadian citizens (by birth or by naturalization) and landed immigrants (permanent residents) excluding those who live in institutions (institutional collective dwellings). Canadian citizens and landed immigrants either: (1) have a usual place of residence in Canada; (2) are abroad either on a military base or attached to a diplomatic mission; or (3) are at sea or in port aboard merchant vessels under Canadian registry or Canadian government vessels. Since 1991, the target population also includes persons with a usual place of residence in Canada who are claiming refugee status, who hold study permits, or who hold work permits, as well as family members living with them; for census purposes, this group is referred to as non-permanent residents. The population universe does not include foreign residents.

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Selected Aboriginal languages
The languages shown were selected based on the Aboriginal mother tongues most often reported as single responses in Canada in the 2011 Census of Population.

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Selected non-Aboriginal languages
The languages shown were selected based on the non-Aboriginal mother tongues (other than English or French) most often reported as single responses in Canada in the 2011 Census of Population.

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Other languages
This is a subtotal of all languages collected by the census that are not displayed separately here. For a full list of languages collected in the census, please refer to Appendix D in the 2011 Census Dictionary.

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Total population excluding institutional residents
The population excluding institutional residents includes Canadian citizens (by birth or by naturalization) and landed immigrants (permanent residents) excluding those who live in institutions (institutional collective dwellings). Canadian citizens and landed immigrants either: (1) have a usual place of residence in Canada; (2) are abroad either on a military base or attached to a diplomatic mission; or (3) are at sea or in port aboard merchant vessels under Canadian registry or Canadian government vessels. Since 1991, the target population also includes persons with a usual place of residence in Canada who are claiming refugee status, who hold study permits, or who hold work permits, as well as family members living with them; for census purposes, this group is referred to as non-permanent residents. The population universe does not include foreign residents.

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Footnote 18

English is the first official language spoken by Quebec's official language minority, which consists of all individuals with English as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French. French is the first official language spoken by the official language minority in the country overall and in every province and territory outside Quebec, which consists of all individuals with French as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French.

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Footnote 19

English is the first official language spoken by Quebec's official language minority, which consists of all individuals with English as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French. French is the first official language spoken by the official language minority in the country overall and in every province and territory outside Quebec, which consists of all individuals with French as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French.

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-314-XCB2011058.

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