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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 Saguenay, V
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 143,560 1,215 142,110 190
0 to 4 years 6,985 55 6,900 10
5 to 9 years 6,440 40 6,395 5
10 to 14 years 6,920 45 6,865 5
15 to 19 years 8,890 55 8,825 15
20 to 24 years 8,950 105 8,820 15
25 to 29 years 8,550 110 8,405 30
30 to 34 years 8,930 110 8,795 25
35 to 39 years 7,720 70 7,630 25
40 to 44 years 7,700 85 7,610 10
45 to 49 years 11,300 90 11,180 20
50 to 54 years 13,540 105 13,425 10
55 to 59 years 12,295 75 12,210 10
60 to 64 years 10,405 85 10,310 5
65 to 69 years 8,135 45 8,085 5
70 to 74 years 5,860 45 5,810 5
75 to 79 years 4,805 35 4,755 5
80 to 84 years 3,545 35 3,505 0
85 years and over 2,590 15 2,575 5
Median ageFootnote 2 45.4 40.9 45.4 31.0
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 123,210 1,070 121,945 165
Married or living with a common-law partner 73,265 710 72,440 105
Married (and not separated) 44,195 475 43,620 85
Living common law 29,070 230 28,820 20
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 49,945 365 49,510 65
Single (never legally married) 32,050 235 31,750 50
Separated 1,615 10 1,605 0
Divorced 8,325 65 8,245 5
Widowed 7,960 45 7,905 5
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 143,555 1,215 142,110 195
English only 150 155 0 0
French only 114,120 0 114,120 0
English and French 29,240 1,065 27,985 195
Neither English nor French 45 0 10 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 143,560 1,210 142,105 195
Single responses 143,075 1,165 141,735 135
English 1,180 1,080 100 0
French 140,910 10 140,905 0
Non-official languages 980 75 730 130
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 80 0 75 5
Atikamekw 50 0 45 5
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 35 0 30 5
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 6 855 75 615 125
African languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 115 5 95 10
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 5
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 5 0 0 5
Bisayan languages 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 40 10 15 15
Creoles 15 0 10 0
Croatian 5 0 5 0
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 5 0 5 5
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 0 5 0
Flemish 5 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 35 10 25 5
Greek 5 0 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 10 5 10 5
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 40 0 35 0
Japanese 5 0 5 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 0 5 0
Korean 5 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 10 0 5 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 10 0 5 5
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 25 0 20 5
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 15 0 15 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 5 5 0 5
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 35 5 15 15
Polish 20 5 15 0
Portuguese 40 0 35 5
Romanian 10 0 5 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 5 0
Russian 15 5 5 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 10 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 15 0 5 5
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 5 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 0 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 0 0 0
Slovenian 5 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 235 10 190 25
Swahili 20 0 15 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 5 5 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 10 5 5 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 25 5 10 10
Ukrainian 5 0 5 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 20 0 15 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 40 0 40 0
Multiple responses 485 45 370 65
English and French 350 25 260 60
English and non-official language 25 20 5 0
French and non-official language 100 0 100 0
English, French and non-official language 10 0 5 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 143,560 1,215 142,105 190
Single responses 143,040 1,145 141,740 115
English 765 570 195 0
French 141,875 555 141,325 0
Non-official languages 405 20 225 115
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 9 50 0 45 5
Atikamekw 40 0 35 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 15 0 10 5
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 10 340 20 170 110
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 35 5 15 15
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 5
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 30 5 10 15
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 0 0 0 5
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 0 0 0 0
Greek 5 0 5 5
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 5 0 5 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 10 0 5 0
Japanese 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 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 5 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 5 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 20 0 5 20
Polish 0 0 0 0
Portuguese 10 0 5 5
Romanian 5 0 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 0
Russian 15 5 5 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 5 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 5 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 0 5 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 120 0 90 20
Swahili 5 0 0 5
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 5 0 0 5
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 20 0 5 10
Ukrainian 0 0 5 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 5 0 5 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 10 0 5 0
Multiple responses 515 70 370 75
English and French 300 60 180 60
English and non-official language 10 10 0 0
French and non-official language 180 5 180 0
English, French and non-official language 30 5 5 15
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 143,560 1,215 142,110 195
None 139,205 590 138,470 110
Single responses 4,235 610 3,560 60
English 3,220 290 2,925 5
French 575 290 235 50
Non-official languages 440 30 405 0
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 30 0 30 0
Atikamekw 15 0 15 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 20 5 20 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 14 385 30 350 0
African languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 45 0 40 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 5 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 5 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 10 5 5 0
Creoles 5 0 5 0
Croatian 5 0 5 0
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 0 0 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 15 0 10 5
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 5 0 5 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 25 5 20 0
Japanese 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 0 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 10 0 5 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 5 0 5 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 5 0 5 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 0 5 0
Polish 5 5 5 0
Portuguese 25 0 20 0
Romanian 5 0 5 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 0 5 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 190 5 180 5
Swahili 5 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 5 5 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 0 0 0 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 20 0 20 0
Multiple responses 115 15 75 25
English and French 30 5 5 25
English and non-official language 75 0 75 0
French and non-official language 10 10 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 143,560 1,215 142,110 190
English 1,215 1,215 0 0
French 142,110 0 142,105 0
English and French 195 0 0 195
Neither English nor French 40 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 1,315 1,210 0 100
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 0.9 99.6 0.0 52.6

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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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Footnote 11

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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