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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 Nanaimo
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 144,920 142,485 1,875 165
0 to 4 years 6,010 5,940 20 5
5 to 9 years 6,060 6,025 20 10
10 to 14 years 6,995 6,950 30 15
15 to 19 years 8,195 8,135 40 15
20 to 24 years 7,660 7,585 50 10
25 to 29 years 7,145 7,070 65 5
30 to 34 years 6,705 6,635 60 5
35 to 39 years 7,085 6,975 95 5
40 to 44 years 8,525 8,390 110 5
45 to 49 years 10,370 10,170 155 10
50 to 54 years 11,955 11,735 175 20
55 to 59 years 12,480 12,200 235 10
60 to 64 years 12,790 12,545 205 10
65 to 69 years 10,405 10,160 200 10
70 to 74 years 7,965 7,755 160 15
75 to 79 years 6,220 6,055 125 5
80 to 84 years 4,640 4,540 80 5
85 years and over 3,690 3,620 45 5
Median ageFootnote 2 49.0 48.8 57.4 46.4
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 125,850 123,570 1,805 135
Married or living with a common-law partner 76,460 74,930 1,230 75
Married (and not separated) 63,440 62,180 980 60
Living common law 13,020 12,750 245 10
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 49,385 48,640 575 55
Single (never legally married) 27,385 27,065 250 40
Separated 3,660 3,595 50 5
Divorced 10,180 10,005 150 10
Widowed 8,160 7,980 115 5
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 144,920 142,485 1,870 165
English only 135,215 135,215 0 0
French only 50 0 55 0
English and French 9,230 7,245 1,820 165
Neither English nor French 425 20 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 144,920 142,485 1,875 165
Single responses 143,685 141,325 1,835 125
English 129,230 129,225 5 0
French 2,105 300 1,805 0
Non-official languages 12,355 11,805 20 125
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 25 25 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 20 20 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 6 12,090 11,565 20 120
African languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Afrikaans 110 110 0 0
Akan (Twi) 15 10 0 0
Albanian 10 10 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 115 110 0 5
Armenian 5 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Bengali 10 10 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 20 20 0 0
Bosnian 5 10 0 0
Bulgarian 15 15 0 0
Burmese 5 0 0 0
Cantonese 225 205 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 610 560 0 0
Creoles 10 10 0 5
Croatian 205 200 0 0
Czech 170 170 0 0
Danish 405 405 0 5
Dutch 1,135 1,115 0 15
Estonian 25 25 0 0
Finnish 160 160 0 0
Flemish 15 20 0 0
Fukien 5 0 0 0
German 2,400 2,375 0 20
Greek 90 85 0 0
Gujarati 45 45 0 0
Hakka 10 10 0 0
Hebrew 15 15 0 0
Hindi 90 90 0 0
Hungarian 290 285 0 5
Ilocano 20 15 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Italian 375 365 0 5
Japanese 290 280 5 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 90 70 0 5
Korean 350 320 0 5
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 20 20 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 20 20 0 0
Macedonian 15 10 0 0
Malay 20 20 0 0
Malayalam 25 25 0 0
Maltese 10 10 0 0
Mandarin 340 300 0 5
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 5 10 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Norwegian 150 150 0 0
Oromo 5 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 965 865 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 115 110 5 0
Polish 320 310 0 5
Portuguese 125 120 0 5
Romanian 55 50 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 235 220 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Serbian 60 60 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 5 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. 20 20 0 0
Slovak 65 65 0 0
Slovenian 40 40 0 0
Somali 5 5 0 0
Spanish 520 495 5 15
Swahili 5 10 0 0
Swedish 155 160 0 5
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 455 450 0 0
Taiwanese 30 30 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0
Telugu 0 5 0 0
Thai 80 80 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 25 20 0 0
Ukrainian 335 335 5 0
Urdu 30 30 0 0
Vietnamese 345 305 0 10
Yiddish 10 10 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 235 215 0 0
Multiple responses 1,240 1,160 40 45
English and French 340 300 10 30
English and non-official language 810 810 0 0
French and non-official language 55 30 30 0
English, French and non-official language 35 25 0 10
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 144,925 142,485 1,875 165
Single responses 143,380 141,080 1,795 110
English 139,465 138,050 1,415 0
French 440 70 370 0
Non-official languages 3,485 2,960 10 110
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 3,435 2,930 15 105
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 45 50 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 40 35 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Bengali 5 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0
Bulgarian 10 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 95 75 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 310 270 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 50 50 0 0
Czech 70 65 0 5
Danish 25 20 0 5
Dutch 115 95 5 15
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 20 20 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 240 210 5 20
Greek 30 30 0 0
Gujarati 10 15 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 40 40 0 5
Hungarian 55 50 0 5
Ilocano 10 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 45 40 0 5
Japanese 85 80 0 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 65 45 0 0
Korean 225 190 0 5
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 5 5 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 15 15 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 230 190 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 595 495 0 5
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 50 40 5 0
Polish 80 75 0 5
Portuguese 30 20 0 0
Romanian 10 0 5 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 90 75 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Serbian 15 20 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 30 20 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 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 10 5 0 0
Slovenian 10 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 165 140 0 15
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 20 20 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 115 110 0 0
Taiwanese 20 15 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 15 15 0 0
Tibetan languages 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0
Ukrainian 10 5 0 0
Urdu 15 15 0 0
Vietnamese 240 205 0 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 45 30 0 0
Multiple responses 1,540 1,405 75 60
English and French 135 25 70 35
English and non-official language 1,370 1,365 5 0
French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
English, French and non-official language 35 15 5 20
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 144,920 142,485 1,875 165
None 137,120 135,500 1,185 85
Single responses 7,630 6,845 675 60
English 1,725 1,445 200 50
French 1,255 800 450 5
Non-official languages 4,650 4,600 25 5
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 10 15 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 5 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 4,335 4,295 25 5
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 60 60 0 0
Akan (Twi) 15 15 0 0
Albanian 5 5 0 0
Amharic 0 5 0 0
Arabic 50 45 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Bengali 5 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 60 65 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 150 150 0 0
Creoles 5 5 0 0
Croatian 75 80 0 0
Czech 65 60 5 0
Danish 125 125 0 0
Dutch 320 320 0 0
Estonian 10 5 0 0
Finnish 45 45 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 740 735 10 0
Greek 40 45 0 0
Gujarati 30 30 0 0
Hakka 5 5 0 0
Hebrew 15 20 0 0
Hindi 80 80 0 0
Hungarian 90 90 0 0
Ilocano 15 10 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 130 130 0 0
Japanese 180 180 5 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 20 20 0 0
Korean 70 75 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 5 5 0 0
Malay 20 20 0 0
Malayalam 0 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 110 110 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Norwegian 50 50 0 0
Oromo 5 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 285 285 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 35 30 0 0
Polish 105 105 0 0
Portuguese 50 50 0 0
Romanian 25 25 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 70 70 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 25 25 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 25 25 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. 10 5 0 0
Slovak 25 25 0 0
Slovenian 10 10 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 475 465 10 0
Swahili 5 5 0 0
Swedish 65 70 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 240 235 5 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 40 35 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 15 15 0 0
Ukrainian 60 55 0 0
Urdu 10 15 0 0
Vietnamese 85 85 0 0
Yiddish 5 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 305 295 0 0
Multiple responses 170 145 10 15
English and French 20 0 0 15
English and non-official language 30 20 5 0
French and non-official language 130 125 5 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 144,920 142,485 1,870 165
English 142,485 142,485 0 0
French 1,870 0 1,870 0
English and French 165 0 0 165
Neither English nor French 400 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 1,955 0 1,870 80
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 1.3 0.0 100.0 48.5

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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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Footnote 6

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 7

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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Footnote 10

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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Footnote 14

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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