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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), Age Groups (8B) and Sex (3) for the population excluding institutional residents of Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Divisions and Census Subdivisions, 2011 Census

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This table details selected demographic and language characteristics , first official language spoken , age groups and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Cowichan Valley
Selected Demographic and Language Characteristics (375) First official language spoken (4A)
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 1 English French English and French
Age groups - Total population excluding institutional residents 79,560 78,505 850 60
0 to 4 years 3,770 3,740 15 5
5 to 9 years 4,045 4,025 20 5
10 to 14 years 4,510 4,485 15 5
15 to 19 years 5,115 5,090 20 5
20 to 24 years 3,820 3,800 20 5
25 to 29 years 3,415 3,390 20 0
30 to 34 years 3,790 3,750 40 5
35 to 39 years 4,130 4,075 45 5
40 to 44 years 4,880 4,815 60 10
45 to 49 years 6,260 6,160 90 0
50 to 54 years 6,960 6,840 100 5
55 to 59 years 6,775 6,680 85 5
60 to 64 years 6,750 6,635 105 5
65 to 69 years 4,915 4,830 65 10
70 to 74 years 3,750 3,680 50 10
75 to 79 years 2,895 2,830 45 5
80 to 84 years 2,070 2,010 45 5
85 years and over 1,700 1,660 30 0
Median ageFootnote 2 47.0 46.8 55.0 46.0
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 67,230 66,255 805 55
Married or living with a common-law partner 41,625 40,940 575 40
Married (and not separated) 34,225 33,665 460 35
Living common law 7,395 7,275 115 5
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 25,605 25,310 230 15
Single (never legally married) 14,585 14,475 90 10
Separated 2,055 2,035 25 0
Divorced 4,995 4,935 55 5
Widowed 3,965 3,870 55 5
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 79,560 78,510 850 65
English only 74,935 74,935 0 0
French only 10 0 15 0
English and French 4,465 3,560 835 60
Neither English nor French 150 10 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 79,560 78,505 850 65
Single responses 78,985 77,955 840 50
English 72,795 72,795 0 0
French 1,015 190 830 0
Non-official languages 5,175 4,975 10 50
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 5 5 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 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 4,740 4,545 10 55
African languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Afrikaans 20 25 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 15 15 0 0
Armenian 0 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 5 10 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 15 10 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0
Bulgarian 0 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 85 75 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 130 115 0 5
Creoles 5 0 0 0
Croatian 40 40 0 0
Czech 55 50 0 0
Danish 160 160 0 0
Dutch 695 685 0 10
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 100 100 0 0
Flemish 10 10 0 0
Fukien 0 5 0 0
German 1,090 1,075 0 10
Greek 35 35 0 0
Gujarati 15 15 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 0 0 0
Hindi 25 20 0 0
Hungarian 125 115 0 5
Ilocano 10 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Italian 145 145 0 0
Japanese 75 70 0 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0
Korean 95 90 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 15 15 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 5 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 40 35 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 55 55 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 630 555 0 5
Pashto 10 10 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 30 30 0 0
Polish 115 110 0 5
Portuguese 60 55 0 0
Romanian 15 15 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 60 60 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 10 10 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Sindhi 0 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slovak 15 15 0 0
Slovenian 10 10 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 165 150 0 5
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 50 50 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 175 180 0 0
Taiwanese 10 10 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 10 10 0 0
Tibetan languages 5 5 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 135 140 0 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 70 65 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 430 425 0 0
Multiple responses 575 550 10 10
English and French 120 100 5 15
English and non-official language 420 415 0 0
French and non-official language 25 20 5 0
English, French and non-official language 10 15 0 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 79,560 78,505 850 65
Single responses 78,930 77,925 815 50
English 77,425 76,775 655 0
French 210 50 160 0
Non-official languages 1,295 1,105 5 45
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 9 0 0 0 0
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 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 1,240 1,055 5 45
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 15 15 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 0 5 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 0 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 35 25 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 75 60 0 5
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 10 5 0 0
Czech 0 5 0 0
Danish 10 10 0 0
Dutch 60 45 0 10
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 15 10 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 160 145 0 10
Greek 10 10 0 0
Gujarati 5 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 10 5 0 0
Hungarian 25 20 0 5
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Italian 20 15 0 0
Japanese 35 30 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 80 70 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 10 10 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 10 10 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 400 330 0 5
Pashto 0 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 10 0 0
Polish 10 5 0 0
Portuguese 10 5 0 0
Romanian 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 10 10 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 10 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 5 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 55 50 0 5
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 50 45 0 0
Taiwanese 10 10 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 5 5 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 10 5 0 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 50 45 0 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 50 55 0 0
Multiple responses 630 580 30 15
English and French 60 15 25 15
English and non-official language 560 555 5 0
French and non-official language 10 5 0 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 0
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 79,560 78,505 850 65
None 75,850 75,165 525 35
Single responses 3,610 3,270 310 25
English 680 565 90 20
French 680 460 215 0
Non-official languages 2,250 2,240 10 0
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 5 5 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0
Dene 5 5 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 14 1,690 1,685 5 0
African languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Afrikaans 15 10 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 5 0 0
Arabic 10 10 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 0 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 25 20 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 35 40 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 10 15 0 0
Czech 15 20 0 0
Danish 55 55 0 0
Dutch 210 210 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 30 30 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 345 345 0 0
Greek 15 15 0 0
Gujarati 5 10 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 10 10 0 0
Hindi 15 15 0 0
Hungarian 35 35 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 65 60 0 0
Japanese 35 40 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 15 15 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 10 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 10 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 15 15 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Norwegian 25 25 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 180 180 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 15 15 0 0
Polish 35 30 0 0
Portuguese 25 30 0 0
Romanian 5 5 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 10 10 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 5 5 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 15 0 0
Sindhi 5 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 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 195 190 5 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 15 20 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 85 85 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 5 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 20 20 0 0
Urdu 5 0 0 0
Vietnamese 10 15 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 555 555 0 0
Multiple responses 95 70 15 10
English and French 5 0 0 5
English and non-official language 15 5 10 0
French and non-official language 70 70 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 79,560 78,505 850 65
English 78,510 78,505 0 0
French 850 0 850 0
English and French 65 0 0 65
Neither English nor French 140 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 880 0 850 35
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 1.1 0.0 100.0 53.8

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

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

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Footnote 2

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 3

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 4

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 5

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 8

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 9

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 12

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 13

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 17

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 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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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-314-XCB2011053.

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