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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 Abbotsford - Mission
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 167,810 157,980 1,340 410
0 to 4 years 10,700 9,540 15 10
5 to 9 years 10,625 10,400 20 30
10 to 14 years 11,000 10,805 40 105
15 to 19 years 12,165 11,970 45 110
20 to 24 years 11,375 11,135 45 25
25 to 29 years 11,200 10,660 55 15
30 to 34 years 10,795 10,275 55 20
35 to 39 years 10,685 10,185 70 15
40 to 44 years 11,560 11,120 100 15
45 to 49 years 12,410 11,935 135 20
50 to 54 years 12,310 11,665 150 15
55 to 59 years 10,535 9,635 150 15
60 to 64 years 9,470 8,340 140 10
65 to 69 years 7,045 6,130 105 10
70 to 74 years 5,375 4,660 70 5
75 to 79 years 4,310 3,810 60 0
80 to 84 years 3,355 3,035 55 5
85 years and over 2,910 2,670 35 0
Median ageFootnote 3 37.8 37.1 53.3 17.4
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 135,485 127,235 1,260 270
Married or living with a common-law partner 82,545 76,365 815 110
Married (and not separated) 73,710 67,725 685 105
Living common law 8,830 8,640 135 5
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 52,945 50,870 445 160
Single (never legally married) 34,345 33,750 190 150
Separated 3,695 3,495 45 0
Divorced 7,930 7,665 105 0
Widowed 6,980 5,960 100 5
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 167,815 157,980 1,335 410
English only 151,740 151,740 0 0
French only 50 0 50 0
English and French 7,830 6,130 1,290 410
Neither English nor French 8,195 110 5 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 167,810 157,980 1,335 410
Single responses 164,990 155,235 1,300 365
English 117,240 117,235 0 0
French 1,500 230 1,265 0
Non-official languages 46,250 37,775 30 365
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 25 20 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 20 20 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 45,990 37,520 35 365
African languages, n.i.e. 35 35 0 0
Afrikaans 145 140 0 10
Akan (Twi) 0 5 0 0
Albanian 85 70 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 325 300 5 5
Armenian 25 15 0 5
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 35 35 5 5
Bengali 10 10 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 50 45 0 0
Bosnian 45 45 0 0
Bulgarian 20 20 0 0
Burmese 10 5 0 0
Cantonese 305 255 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 630 525 0 10
Creoles 40 30 0 5
Croatian 65 60 0 0
Czech 135 130 5 0
Danish 190 195 0 0
Dutch 1,680 1,665 0 10
Estonian 15 20 0 0
Finnish 155 150 0 0
Flemish 20 10 0 5
Fukien 10 5 0 0
German 6,275 6,190 5 15
Greek 80 80 0 0
Gujarati 40 35 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 15 15 0 0
Hindi 500 465 0 10
Hungarian 365 360 0 5
Ilocano 40 40 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Italian 280 275 0 0
Japanese 210 195 0 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 25 20 0 0
Korean 1,420 1,215 0 15
Kurdish 10 10 0 0
Lao 235 210 0 5
Latvian 15 15 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 5 10 0 0
Malay 30 30 0 0
Malayalam 55 50 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0
Mandarin 405 350 0 5
Marathi 5 5 0 0
Nepali 0 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Norwegian 70 70 0 0
Oromo 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 26,670 19,265 10 165
Pashto 10 10 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 210 190 0 10
Polish 465 445 5 5
Portuguese 220 205 0 5
Romanian 355 315 0 20
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 425 400 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 5 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 50 45 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 10 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 25 15 0 0
Sindhi 15 15 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 35 35 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Slovak 75 70 0 5
Slovenian 20 20 5 0
Somali 5 0 0 0
Spanish 1,200 1,105 0 35
Swahili 35 35 0 0
Swedish 75 70 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 645 640 0 5
Taiwanese 5 0 0 0
Tamil 25 25 0 0
Telugu 20 20 0 0
Thai 50 50 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 5 0 0
Turkish 35 30 0 0
Ukrainian 310 295 0 5
Urdu 175 160 0 0
Vietnamese 660 550 0 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 235 230 0 0
Multiple responses 2,825 2,745 35 50
English and French 265 230 5 30
English and non-official language 2,425 2,430 0 0
French and non-official language 85 55 30 0
English, French and non-official language 50 35 0 20
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 167,815 157,980 1,335 410
Single responses 161,740 152,060 1,255 350
English 132,800 131,805 990 0
French 275 35 240 0
Non-official languages 28,670 20,220 25 345
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 10 10 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 5 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 11 28,625 20,185 20 350
African languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Afrikaans 90 85 0 5
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 55 40 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 155 135 5 10
Armenian 10 10 0 5
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 5 5
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 20 25 0 0
Bosnian 20 20 0 0
Bulgarian 10 10 0 0
Burmese 0 5 0 0
Cantonese 180 120 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 405 300 0 5
Creoles 10 0 10 5
Croatian 15 15 0 0
Czech 35 35 0 0
Danish 15 15 0 0
Dutch 150 135 0 10
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 25 20 0 0
Flemish 5 0 0 5
Fukien 5 5 0 0
German 1,040 965 0 15
Greek 20 15 0 0
Gujarati 10 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 5 0 0
Hindi 245 225 0 0
Hungarian 85 80 0 0
Ilocano 15 10 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Italian 40 40 0 0
Japanese 95 80 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 15 15 0 0
Korean 1,215 1,010 0 15
Kurdish 15 15 0 0
Lao 110 90 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 10 10 0 0
Malayalam 20 20 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 285 235 0 5
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 21,780 14,390 5 160
Pashto 10 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 120 105 0 5
Polish 150 135 0 5
Portuguese 55 45 0 5
Romanian 205 165 0 20
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 190 165 0 10
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 15 15 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 45 35 0 0
Sindhi 5 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 10 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 25 20 0 5
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 600 500 0 40
Swahili 5 5 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 225 210 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0
Tamil 10 10 0 0
Telugu 15 15 0 0
Thai 20 15 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 5 0 0
Turkish 20 20 0 5
Ukrainian 40 30 0 0
Urdu 95 80 0 5
Vietnamese 490 385 0 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 35 25 0 0
Multiple responses 6,070 5,920 85 65
English and French 140 40 65 30
English and non-official language 5,835 5,835 5 0
French and non-official language 30 15 15 0
English, French and non-official language 65 25 5 40
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 167,810 157,985 1,340 410
None 148,725 139,895 840 200
Single responses 18,805 17,835 490 185
English 8,555 7,985 140 185
French 1,050 725 320 5
Non-official languages 9,200 9,130 25 5
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 15 10 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 15 15 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 15 8,985 8,915 25 5
African languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0
Afrikaans 65 65 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 5 0 0
Albanian 15 15 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 85 85 5 0
Armenian 5 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 15 15 0 0
Bosnian 20 20 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0
Burmese 5 0 0 0
Cantonese 80 75 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 145 140 0 0
Creoles 20 15 5 0
Croatian 25 25 0 0
Czech 55 50 0 0
Danish 55 55 0 0
Dutch 530 530 0 0
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 55 55 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 0 5 0 0
German 1,585 1,585 5 0
Greek 65 65 0 0
Gujarati 20 20 0 0
Hakka 5 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 10 0 0
Hindi 310 290 0 0
Hungarian 95 100 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 105 105 0 0
Japanese 130 130 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0
Korean 130 130 5 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 75 70 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 5 0 5 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0
Malay 25 25 0 0
Malayalam 30 30 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 95 85 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Norwegian 20 20 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 3,115 3,110 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 60 55 0 0
Polish 140 140 0 0
Portuguese 115 115 0 0
Romanian 85 80 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 140 140 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 25 20 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 10 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 40 40 0 0
Sindhi 0 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 15 10 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 25 25 0 0
Slovenian 5 10 0 0
Somali 5 0 0 0
Spanish 620 615 5 0
Swahili 40 40 0 0
Swedish 20 15 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 245 250 0 0
Taiwanese 10 5 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0
Thai 20 20 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 10 10 0 0
Ukrainian 70 70 0 5
Urdu 50 50 0 0
Vietnamese 160 160 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 205 200 0 0
Multiple responses 285 250 10 20
English and French 20 5 0 15
English and non-official language 110 100 5 5
French and non-official language 150 145 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 167,810 157,985 1,340 410
English 157,980 157,985 0 0
French 1,335 0 1,335 0
English and French 410 0 0 415
Neither English nor French 8,080 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 1,540 0 1,340 205
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 0.9 0.0 100.0 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

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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Footnote 8

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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Footnote 14

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 17

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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