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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 Ottawa - Gatineau (partie du Québec / Quebec part)Footnote 2
Selected Demographic and Language Characteristics (375) First official language spoken (4A)
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 3 English French English and French
Age groups - Total population excluding institutional residents 312,230 50,145 252,870 7,735
0 to 4 years 19,790 3,000 15,690 565
5 to 9 years 17,645 2,785 14,320 485
10 to 14 years 18,145 2,610 14,910 605
15 to 19 years 21,215 3,050 17,445 705
20 to 24 years 20,630 3,395 16,570 645
25 to 29 years 20,720 3,635 16,405 655
30 to 34 years 21,965 3,995 17,250 680
35 to 39 years 21,925 4,075 17,025 770
40 to 44 years 22,845 4,175 17,850 760
45 to 49 years 26,875 4,295 21,915 615
50 to 54 years 26,410 4,005 21,885 450
55 to 59 years 21,820 3,360 18,085 315
60 to 64 years 17,695 2,745 14,665 195
65 to 69 years 12,630 1,840 10,590 120
70 to 74 years 8,480 1,290 7,000 70
75 to 79 years 6,170 870 5,155 45
80 to 84 years 4,355 595 3,670 35
85 years and over 2,920 415 2,445 20
Median ageFootnote 4 38.7 38.2 39.1 31.7
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 5 256,640 41,745 207,955 6,075
Married or living with a common-law partner 147,960 24,935 119,090 3,435
Married (and not separated) 95,960 18,835 73,575 3,085
Living common law 52,000 6,100 45,515 350
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 108,680 16,805 88,865 2,635
Single (never legally married) 73,940 11,270 60,435 2,150
Separated 5,245 1,110 4,000 110
Divorced 17,975 2,850 14,805 270
Widowed 11,525 1,585 9,630 110
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 6 312,230 50,140 252,870 7,730
English only 23,015 23,015 0 0
French only 89,385 0 89,380 0
English and French 198,275 27,110 163,435 7,725
Neither English nor French 1,560 15 55 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 312,230 50,145 252,870 7,730
Single responses 304,305 48,100 248,930 5,790
English 40,515 40,355 155 0
French 238,805 240 238,565 0
Non-official languages 24,990 7,505 10,210 5,795
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 105 70 15 15
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 70 50 0 15
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 10 0 10 0
Inuktitut 15 10 0 0
Mi'kmaq 5 5 5 0
Ojibway 0 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 8 24,415 7,350 9,895 5,715
African languages, n.i.e. 75 10 45 15
Afrikaans 10 10 0 0
Akan (Twi) 15 10 0 0
Albanian 40 25 0 10
Amharic 60 45 5 10
Arabic 5,745 1,355 2,300 1,715
Armenian 55 15 10 30
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 140 20 100 15
Bengali 75 60 0 10
Berber languages (Kabyle) 105 0 90 15
Bisayan languages 5 5 5 0
Bosnian 140 35 70 40
Bulgarian 205 70 45 85
Burmese 5 5 0 0
Cantonese 155 100 25 15
Chinese, n.o.s. 825 495 100 150
Creoles 775 50 610 90
Croatian 200 45 65 75
Czech 70 40 20 5
Danish 15 15 0 0
Dutch 235 165 50 15
Estonian 10 5 0 0
Finnish 15 15 5 0
Flemish 25 10 10 5
Fukien 5 0 0 0
German 610 425 130 50
Greek 130 90 20 15
Gujarati 10 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 15 10 0 5
Hindi 30 25 0 0
Hungarian 135 75 30 40
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 0 10 0
Italian 450 240 165 50
Japanese 95 50 20 15
Khmer (Cambodian) 200 40 75 60
Korean 100 65 15 20
Kurdish 70 35 20 15
Lao 115 20 65 20
Latvian 20 20 0 0
Lingala 105 5 95 5
Lithuanian 15 10 5 0
Macedonian 5 0 0 5
Malay 30 20 5 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 455 255 70 70
Marathi 10 5 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 295 20 240 30
Norwegian 15 15 5 0
Oromo 200 5 170 25
Panjabi (Punjabi) 65 50 5 10
Pashto 5 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 490 285 80 80
Polish 435 255 90 85
Portuguese 2,640 450 1,535 440
Romanian 875 135 290 405
Rundi (Kirundi) 390 25 280 75
Russian 515 230 110 140
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 355 40 265 50
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 15 5 5 10
Serbian 510 65 165 255
Serbo-Croatian 415 60 140 205
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 5 5 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 5 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 20 5 15 5
Slovak 50 35 10 10
Slovenian 15 5 5 0
Somali 155 40 65 40
Spanish 3,990 930 1,785 1,010
Swahili 265 55 175 20
Swedish 15 10 5 5
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 185 165 5 10
Taiwanese 5 0 5 0
Tamil 40 25 5 5
Telugu 5 5 0 0
Thai 35 25 10 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 30 20 5 5
Turkish 100 75 15 5
Ukrainian 100 65 15 20
Urdu 105 80 10 5
Vietnamese 425 135 130 100
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 9 475 85 300 60
Multiple responses 7,925 2,045 3,935 1,945
English and French 5,205 1,300 2,180 1,725
English and non-official language 655 645 10 0
French and non-official language 1,655 15 1,640 0
English, French and non-official language 405 80 110 215
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 10 312,230 50,140 252,870 7,730
Single responses 301,965 47,985 247,275 5,225
English 48,075 40,995 7,080 0
French 240,645 4,100 236,540 0
Non-official languages 13,250 2,885 3,655 5,225
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 11 50 30 5 15
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 45 25 0 15
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 5 0 5 0
Inuktitut 5 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 5 0 0
Ojibway 0 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 12 13,040 2,840 3,580 5,165
African languages, n.i.e. 25 5 10 20
Afrikaans 0 0 5 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 20 10 0 5
Amharic 30 15 0 5
Arabic 3,300 625 790 1,515
Armenian 25 0 0 25
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 25 5 5 10
Bengali 50 35 0 10
Berber languages (Kabyle) 50 0 30 15
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0
Bosnian 110 10 60 35
Bulgarian 140 30 25 80
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 60 30 10 10
Chinese, n.o.s. 695 385 80 145
Creoles 245 10 135 75
Croatian 130 20 35 65
Czech 25 10 5 5
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 35 20 0 15
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 5
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 90 40 10 40
Greek 25 10 0 10
Gujarati 5 0 0 5
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 0 5 0
Hindi 10 5 0 5
Hungarian 40 10 0 30
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Italian 60 15 15 25
Japanese 45 20 5 15
Khmer (Cambodian) 110 15 20 45
Korean 55 30 5 15
Kurdish 35 15 0 20
Lao 65 15 25 25
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 30 0 15 10
Lithuanian 5 0 5 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 5
Malay 5 5 0 5
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 335 180 45 60
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 40 0 15 20
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 65 5 35 20
Panjabi (Punjabi) 30 25 0 5
Pashto 5 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 285 130 30 75
Polish 170 85 10 65
Portuguese 1,150 110 445 370
Romanian 635 55 140 400
Rundi (Kirundi) 120 0 40 70
Russian 340 100 65 135
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 85 5 30 40
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 15 0 5 10
Serbian 450 45 130 245
Serbo-Croatian 325 40 80 195
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 25 0 15 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 10 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 0 5 5
Slovak 15 5 5 10
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 90 15 20 35
Spanish 2,705 395 1,100 960
Swahili 85 10 40 15
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 30 20 0 5
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 15 10 0 5
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 10 10 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 5 0 0
Tigrigna 15 5 0 0
Turkish 40 30 0 5
Ukrainian 40 15 5 10
Urdu 60 40 0 10
Vietnamese 275 85 30 105
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 13 155 20 70 50
Multiple responses 10,265 2,160 5,600 2,505
English and French 5,535 915 2,735 1,890
English and non-official language 1,180 1,145 30 0
French and non-official language 2,600 15 2,580 0
English, French and non-official language 950 90 250 615
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 14 312,230 50,145 252,875 7,735
None 242,730 33,875 203,205 4,320
Single responses 66,765 15,685 48,475 2,470
English 40,660 3,805 36,195 620
French 17,320 8,990 6,700 1,550
Non-official languages 8,790 2,890 5,570 290
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 15 35 30 5 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 15 15 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 5 0
Inuktitut 5 5 0 0
Mi'kmaq 5 5 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 16 8,350 2,790 5,260 275
African languages, n.i.e. 60 5 55 0
Afrikaans 10 5 5 0
Akan (Twi) 10 10 0 0
Albanian 10 10 0 0
Amharic 25 20 5 0
Arabic 1,675 505 1,105 60
Armenian 10 5 0 5
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 95 10 85 0
Bengali 15 15 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 20 0 25 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 30 15 15 5
Bulgarian 30 15 10 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 55 50 10 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 105 75 20 5
Creoles 620 25 590 5
Croatian 35 15 20 0
Czech 30 15 10 5
Danish 5 10 0 0
Dutch 85 65 20 0
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 20 15 5 0
Flemish 5 0 5 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 255 145 85 15
Greek 70 55 15 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 30 30 0 0
Hungarian 30 20 5 0
Ilocano 0 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 210 115 95 10
Japanese 55 20 30 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 60 15 45 0
Korean 25 20 5 0
Kurdish 10 5 0 0
Lao 25 5 20 0
Latvian 10 5 0 0
Lingala 155 5 145 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 20 10 10 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 85 60 20 5
Marathi 0 5 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 215 10 200 5
Norwegian 5 0 5 0
Oromo 70 0 70 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 30 30 5 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 120 80 35 5
Polish 135 90 40 10
Portuguese 820 180 610 25
Romanian 140 40 85 10
Rundi (Kirundi) 210 5 195 5
Russian 195 100 65 20
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 170 20 150 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 65 25 35 5
Serbo-Croatian 55 10 45 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 10 10 5
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 0
Slovak 15 5 5 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 50 15 35 5
Spanish 1,495 470 985 40
Swahili 185 30 145 0
Swedish 15 10 5 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 75 75 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 10 10 0 0
Telugu 5 0 0 0
Thai 15 10 0 5
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 15 10 5 0
Turkish 35 30 10 0
Ukrainian 30 25 5 5
Urdu 40 35 0 0
Vietnamese 100 45 55 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 5
Other languagesFootnote 17 400 70 305 15
Multiple responses 2,735 580 1,195 945
English and French 1,055 45 80 920
English and non-official language 1,090 45 1,040 5
French and non-official language 570 490 80 5
English, French and non-official language 15 0 0 15
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 18 312,230 50,145 252,875 7,735
English 50,145 50,145 0 0
French 252,870 0 252,870 0
English and French 7,730 0 0 7,735
Neither English nor French 1,480 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 19 54,010 50,145 0 3,870
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 20 17.3 100.0 0.0 50.0

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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

2006 adjusted count; most of these are the result of boundary changes.

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Footnote 3

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

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Footnote 4

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 5

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 6

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 7

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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Footnote 8

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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Footnote 9

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 10

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 11

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 14

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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Footnote 17

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 18

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 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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Footnote 20

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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