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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 Bulkley-NechakoFootnote 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 39,035 38,560 375 45
0 to 4 years 2,540 2,525 5 0
5 to 9 years 2,645 2,645 0 0
10 to 14 years 2,940 2,915 10 10
15 to 19 years 3,010 2,990 15 5
20 to 24 years 2,180 2,170 5 0
25 to 29 years 2,030 2,005 20 0
30 to 34 years 2,105 2,085 15 0
35 to 39 years 2,475 2,440 30 0
40 to 44 years 2,590 2,550 35 0
45 to 49 years 3,110 3,070 35 5
50 to 54 years 3,425 3,375 45 5
55 to 59 years 2,970 2,930 30 5
60 to 64 years 2,335 2,285 40 5
65 to 69 years 1,715 1,680 25 5
70 to 74 years 1,230 1,195 30 5
75 to 79 years 825 800 15 0
80 to 84 years 535 525 5 0
85 years and over 380 370 5 0
Median ageFootnote 3 39.2 39.0 50.8 42.5
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 30,915 30,475 350 30
Married or living with a common-law partner 19,350 19,045 250 25
Married (and not separated) 15,765 15,525 185 20
Living common law 3,585 3,520 60 5
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 11,565 11,430 100 5
Single (never legally married) 7,735 7,680 45 10
Separated 920 915 10 0
Divorced 1,530 1,495 30 0
Widowed 1,385 1,345 20 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 39,035 38,560 375 45
English only 37,230 37,230 0 0
French only 10 0 10 0
English and French 1,730 1,320 365 45
Neither English nor French 65 5 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 39,040 38,560 375 45
Single responses 38,605 38,135 370 35
English 34,330 34,325 0 0
French 470 105 365 0
Non-official languages 3,805 3,705 0 40
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 15 15 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 15 15 0 0
Dene 5 0 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 2,915 2,815 0 35
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 40 35 0 5
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 15 10 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 10 10 0 0
Bosnian 0 5 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 10 15 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 65 55 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 10 10 0 0
Czech 20 20 0 0
Danish 30 30 0 0
Dutch 435 430 0 5
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 30 30 0 0
Flemish 5 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 1,335 1,310 0 20
Greek 10 10 0 0
Gujarati 5 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 10 10 0 0
Hungarian 15 15 0 0
Ilocano 0 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 65 60 0 0
Japanese 30 25 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 0 0 0
Korean 15 10 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 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 10 10 0 0
Maltese 0 5 0 0
Mandarin 5 5 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 15 15 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 160 155 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 5 0 0
Polish 30 30 0 0
Portuguese 120 105 0 0
Romanian 5 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 25 25 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Serbian 5 5 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 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 5 0 0
Slovak 10 10 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 100 95 0 0
Swahili 0 5 0 0
Swedish 15 15 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 75 75 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 60 60 0 0
Urdu 5 5 0 0
Vietnamese 50 45 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 875 875 0 0
Multiple responses 435 420 5 10
English and French 45 40 0 10
English and non-official language 350 350 0 0
French and non-official language 30 25 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 39,035 38,555 375 45
Single responses 38,580 38,120 365 35
English 37,490 37,210 280 0
French 145 60 85 0
Non-official languages 950 850 0 35
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 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 11 755 660 0 35
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 25 20 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 10 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 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 5 5 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 40 30 0 5
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 5 5 0 0
Czech 0 5 0 0
Danish 5 0 0 0
Dutch 35 35 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 10 5 0 5
Flemish 0 0 0 5
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 280 250 0 20
Greek 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 0 5 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 25 15 0 5
Japanese 15 15 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 5 0 0
Korean 15 5 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 5 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 5 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 5 5 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) 115 110 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 0 0
Polish 0 0 0 0
Portuguese 45 35 0 5
Romanian 5 5 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 5 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 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 45 40 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 15 10 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 5 5 0 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 40 40 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 195 195 0 0
Multiple responses 460 440 15 5
English and French 30 10 10 10
English and non-official language 420 420 0 0
French and non-official language 10 10 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 39,040 38,555 375 45
None 36,620 36,300 235 20
Single responses 2,360 2,200 135 20
English 475 415 40 20
French 295 205 90 0
Non-official languages 1,590 1,585 5 0
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 15 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 15 930 930 5 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 20 20 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 0 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 0 5 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 15 15 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 5 5 0 0
Danish 10 10 0 0
Dutch 105 105 0 0
Estonian 0 5 0 0
Finnish 15 15 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 395 390 0 0
Greek 0 5 0 0
Gujarati 0 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 10 10 0 0
Hungarian 5 5 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 20 15 0 0
Japanese 5 5 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 5 0 0
Korean 0 0 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 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 45 45 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 5 0 0
Polish 10 10 0 0
Portuguese 30 35 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 5 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 5 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 5 0 0
Slovenian 5 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 80 80 0 0
Swahili 5 5 0 0
Swedish 10 10 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 45 45 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 10 10 0 0
Urdu 0 5 0 0
Vietnamese 10 10 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 645 645 0 0
Multiple responses 60 55 0 5
English and French 5 0 0 0
English and non-official language 5 5 0 5
French and non-official language 50 50 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 39,040 38,560 375 45
English 38,555 38,560 0 0
French 375 0 375 0
English and French 45 0 0 45
Neither English nor French 60 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 395 0 375 25
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 1.0 0.0 100.0 55.6

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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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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-XCB2011053.

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