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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 North OkanaganFootnote 1
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 80,170 78,880 920 110
0 to 4 years 3,745 3,675 15 0
5 to 9 years 3,925 3,915 5 5
10 to 14 years 4,400 4,365 15 10
15 to 19 years 5,180 5,155 15 10
20 to 24 years 4,100 4,065 20 5
25 to 29 years 3,765 3,745 15 0
30 to 34 years 4,000 3,945 40 0
35 to 39 years 4,100 4,050 35 5
40 to 44 years 4,785 4,720 50 5
45 to 49 years 6,215 6,135 70 5
50 to 54 years 6,925 6,800 100 10
55 to 59 years 6,490 6,370 95 5
60 to 64 years 6,210 6,075 100 5
65 to 69 years 5,000 4,875 95 5
70 to 74 years 4,035 3,930 85 5
75 to 79 years 3,105 3,010 70 5
80 to 84 years 2,375 2,310 55 5
85 years and over 1,805 1,745 35 5
Median ageFootnote 3 46.8 46.6 58.5 50.5
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 68,100 66,930 890 90
Married or living with a common-law partner 41,695 40,935 580 65
Married (and not separated) 35,050 34,385 485 60
Living common law 6,650 6,550 95 5
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 26,400 25,990 310 25
Single (never legally married) 14,840 14,715 100 20
Separated 2,135 2,100 30 0
Divorced 5,060 4,960 85 5
Widowed 4,365 4,215 95 10
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 80,165 78,885 920 105
English only 75,490 75,490 0 0
French only 10 0 10 0
English and French 4,395 3,380 910 105
Neither English nor French 265 10 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 80,165 78,885 925 105
Single responses 79,570 78,315 910 95
English 71,415 71,415 5 0
French 1,100 200 905 0
Non-official languages 7,060 6,700 5 100
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 30 30 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 25 20 0 0
Dene 0 5 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 6,865 6,510 5 95
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 70 70 0 5
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 40 25 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 30 25 0 5
Armenian 0 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 5 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 20 15 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 90 75 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 125 115 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 70 70 0 0
Czech 90 85 0 0
Danish 90 90 0 0
Dutch 745 725 0 15
Estonian 5 0 0 0
Finnish 40 40 0 0
Flemish 15 15 0 5
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 2,325 2,270 5 35
Greek 30 30 0 0
Gujarati 5 5 0 0
Hakka 0 5 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 15 15 0 0
Hungarian 125 125 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 155 145 0 5
Japanese 120 110 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 20 15 0 0
Korean 65 50 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 5 5 0 0
Latvian 10 10 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 5 0 0
Malay 10 5 0 0
Malayalam 10 10 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0
Mandarin 25 25 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 40 40 0 0
Oromo 5 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 505 425 0 5
Pashto 5 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 25 20 0 0
Polish 165 155 0 10
Portuguese 75 70 0 5
Romanian 30 30 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 485 440 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 10 10 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 5 0 0
Shanghainese 5 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 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. 5 5 0 0
Slovak 40 45 0 0
Slovenian 20 20 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 190 180 5 5
Swahili 5 0 0 0
Swedish 45 45 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 145 145 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 5 0 0
Thai 20 20 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 10 5 0 0
Ukrainian 495 490 0 5
Urdu 55 50 0 0
Vietnamese 100 75 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 165 165 0 0
Multiple responses 595 570 10 10
English and French 115 105 0 10
English and non-official language 430 430 0 0
French and non-official language 35 25 10 0
English, French and non-official language 5 10 0 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 80,170 78,885 925 105
Single responses 79,395 78,160 885 90
English 77,320 76,595 725 0
French 205 40 160 0
Non-official languages 1,870 1,525 0 90
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 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 11 1,815 1,475 0 95
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 55 55 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 35 20 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 10 5 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 5 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 5 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 40 25 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 60 55 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 15 15 0 0
Czech 20 15 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 110 95 0 20
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 5 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 450 385 0 35
Greek 10 10 0 0
Gujarati 5 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 15 15 0 5
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 25 15 0 0
Japanese 40 30 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 5 0 0
Korean 55 45 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 10 10 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 320 245 0 5
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 15 10 0 0
Polish 30 25 0 5
Portuguese 15 10 0 5
Romanian 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 170 130 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 10 10 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 15 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 5 5 0 0
Slovenian 0 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 60 55 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 25 20 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 10 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 30 25 0 5
Urdu 40 35 0 0
Vietnamese 65 45 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 45 45 0 0
Multiple responses 770 720 35 15
English and French 65 20 30 15
English and non-official language 695 690 0 0
French and non-official language 10 10 5 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 5
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 80,170 78,880 925 110
None 76,230 75,325 620 50
Single responses 3,855 3,485 300 50
English 920 775 85 45
French 605 400 200 0
Non-official languages 2,335 2,310 10 5
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 10 15 0 0
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 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 2,195 2,170 10 5
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 25 30 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 5 0 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 15 10 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 45 45 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 40 40 0 0
Creoles 5 0 0 0
Croatian 30 30 0 0
Czech 20 20 0 0
Danish 25 25 0 0
Dutch 190 195 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 10 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 730 725 5 5
Greek 10 15 0 0
Gujarati 5 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 10 10 0 0
Hungarian 40 40 0 0
Ilocano 0 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Italian 35 30 0 5
Japanese 55 55 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0
Korean 10 5 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 5 5 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 0 5 0 0
Maltese 0 5 0 0
Mandarin 10 10 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Norwegian 10 10 0 0
Oromo 5 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 100 100 0 0
Pashto 0 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 5 0 0
Polish 45 45 0 5
Portuguese 30 30 0 0
Romanian 10 10 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 0
Russian 175 180 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. 20 25 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 10 10 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 190 190 0 0
Swahili 5 0 5 0
Swedish 20 20 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 80 80 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 10 10 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 5 0 0
Ukrainian 85 80 0 0
Urdu 10 10 0 0
Vietnamese 15 15 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 135 130 0 0
Multiple responses 80 75 5 5
English and French 10 0 0 5
English and non-official language 10 5 0 0
French and non-official language 65 65 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 80,165 78,880 920 105
English 78,885 78,885 0 0
French 920 0 925 0
English and French 105 0 0 105
Neither English nor French 255 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 975 0 920 50
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 1.2 0.0 100.0 47.6

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

Data quality index showing a global non response rate higher than or equal to 5% but lower than 10%.

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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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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-XCB2011053.

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