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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 Prince Albert, CYFootnote 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 34,370 33,320 910 40
0 to 4 years 2,750 2,720 15 0
5 to 9 years 2,435 2,400 15 5
10 to 14 years 2,425 2,395 20 0
15 to 19 years 2,640 2,615 15 0
20 to 24 years 2,560 2,535 25 0
25 to 29 years 2,410 2,385 15 5
30 to 34 years 2,215 2,170 35 5
35 to 39 years 1,980 1,940 30 0
40 to 44 years 2,060 2,005 40 5
45 to 49 years 2,340 2,280 55 0
50 to 54 years 2,300 2,210 80 0
55 to 59 years 2,040 1,935 90 10
60 to 64 years 1,780 1,685 95 0
65 to 69 years 1,215 1,130 80 0
70 to 74 years 1,040 955 75 0
75 to 79 years 870 790 70 0
80 to 84 years 725 645 75 0
85 years and over 595 510 85 5
Median ageFootnote 3 34.4 33.6 61.7 30.5
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 26,770 25,805 865 25
Married or living with a common-law partner 14,050 13,465 530 20
Married (and not separated) 11,190 10,665 475 15
Living common law 2,855 2,800 55 0
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 12,720 12,340 340 10
Single (never legally married) 8,455 8,310 130 5
Separated 820 795 20 0
Divorced 1,790 1,725 60 0
Widowed 1,655 1,515 130 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 34,375 33,320 910 40
English only 31,730 31,730 0 0
French only 15 0 15 0
English and French 2,510 1,580 890 40
Neither English nor French 110 10 5 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 34,370 33,320 910 45
Single responses 33,770 32,750 895 30
English 29,050 29,050 0 0
French 1,015 130 880 0
Non-official languages 3,710 3,570 10 25
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 1,545 1,535 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 1,265 1,260 0 0
Dene 265 265 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 5 5 0 0
Ojibway 10 10 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 2,090 1,970 10 25
African languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0
Afrikaans 55 55 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0
Albanian 5 5 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 30 30 5 5
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Bengali 5 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 15 10 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 25 15 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 60 50 0 0
Creoles 0 5 0 0
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 15 15 0 0
Danish 10 10 0 0
Dutch 30 25 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 230 230 0 0
Greek 5 5 0 0
Gujarati 45 40 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 20 20 0 0
Hungarian 40 35 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 5 10 0 0
Japanese 5 5 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 5 5 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 5 5 0 5
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 10 5 0 0
Maltese 0 5 0 0
Mandarin 10 10 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 10 5 0
Norwegian 30 25 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 25 25 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 5 0 0
Polish 115 120 0 0
Portuguese 5 5 0 0
Romanian 25 20 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 55 55 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 15 15 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 65 45 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 40 30 0 0
Spanish 150 140 0 5
Swahili 5 0 0 0
Swedish 15 10 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 230 225 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 5 0 0
Turkish 0 5 0 0
Ukrainian 525 520 0 0
Urdu 15 15 0 0
Vietnamese 45 40 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 75 65 0 0
Multiple responses 600 575 15 15
English and French 85 70 0 15
English and non-official language 490 485 5 0
French and non-official language 20 10 15 0
English, French and non-official language 5 5 0 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 34,375 33,320 910 40
Single responses 33,705 32,715 865 15
English 32,340 31,690 650 0
French 225 15 205 0
Non-official languages 1,140 1,010 5 15
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 335 325 5 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 285 275 0 0
Dene 50 50 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 11 770 665 5 20
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Afrikaans 40 45 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 0 0 0
Albanian 5 10 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 15 15 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 15 20 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 15 10 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 40 25 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 0 5 0 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 40 40 0 0
Greek 5 5 0 0
Gujarati 20 20 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 10 10 0 0
Hungarian 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 0 0 0 0
Japanese 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 10 5 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 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) 15 20 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 0 0
Polish 15 15 0 0
Portuguese 5 5 0 0
Romanian 10 5 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 30 25 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. 5 5 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 60 35 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 40 25 0 0
Spanish 90 75 0 0
Swahili 5 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 135 130 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 5 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 60 55 0 0
Urdu 15 15 0 0
Vietnamese 35 30 0 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 30 20 5 0
Multiple responses 670 600 45 20
English and French 75 15 40 20
English and non-official language 580 580 0 0
French and non-official language 5 5 0 0
English, French and non-official language 10 0 5 0
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 34,375 33,320 910 40
None 31,330 30,640 570 30
Single responses 2,980 2,615 335 15
English 595 455 130 5
French 555 365 190 0
Non-official languages 1,825 1,800 10 5
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 1,155 1,155 5 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 945 940 0 0
Dene 200 200 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 10 10 0 0
Oji-Cree 5 5 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 15 615 600 10 5
African languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Afrikaans 25 20 0 0
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 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 5 0 0 0
Cantonese 5 5 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 15 15 0 0
Creoles 5 0 0 0
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 5 5 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 10 10 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 5 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 65 65 0 0
Greek 10 5 0 0
Gujarati 20 20 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 5 5 0 0
Hungarian 5 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 0 0 0 0
Japanese 10 5 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 0 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 5 5 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 5 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 10 5 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 15 15 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 5 0 0
Polish 30 30 0 0
Portuguese 5 5 0 0
Romanian 10 0 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 15 15 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 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 5 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 50 45 5 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 65 60 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 160 160 0 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 10 15 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 50 45 0 0
Multiple responses 65 65 10 0
English and French 0 0 0 0
English and non-official language 15 15 5 0
French and non-official language 55 50 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 34,375 33,320 910 45
English 33,315 33,320 0 0
French 910 0 905 0
English and French 40 0 0 45
Neither English nor French 105 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 930 0 910 20
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 2.7 0.0 100.0 44.4

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

2006 adjusted count; most of these are the result of boundary changes.

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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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Footnote 14

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 17

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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