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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 Kitimat-StikineFootnote 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 37,145 36,320 655 35
0 to 4 years 2,295 2,270 25 0
5 to 9 years 2,370 2,345 20 0
10 to 14 years 2,545 2,530 15 0
15 to 19 years 2,810 2,785 15 5
20 to 24 years 2,220 2,200 15 0
25 to 29 years 1,955 1,935 20 5
30 to 34 years 1,985 1,955 30 5
35 to 39 years 2,305 2,250 55 0
40 to 44 years 2,620 2,575 40 5
45 to 49 years 3,030 2,975 50 5
50 to 54 years 3,180 3,095 75 5
55 to 59 years 2,855 2,775 65 0
60 to 64 years 2,445 2,345 85 5
65 to 69 years 1,730 1,640 75 5
70 to 74 years 1,180 1,140 30 0
75 to 79 years 820 770 20 5
80 to 84 years 505 465 10 0
85 years and over 295 270 5 0
Median ageFootnote 3 40.2 39.8 52.9 51.5
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 29,935 29,180 600 30
Married or living with a common-law partner 17,555 17,055 420 15
Married (and not separated) 13,400 13,010 315 10
Living common law 4,155 4,045 100 5
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 12,375 12,125 175 15
Single (never legally married) 8,220 8,130 75 10
Separated 1,095 1,075 20 0
Divorced 1,590 1,535 45 0
Widowed 1,475 1,385 35 5
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 37,140 36,320 655 35
English only 35,090 35,090 0 0
French only 35 0 35 0
English and French 1,880 1,220 625 35
Neither English nor French 140 10 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 37,145 36,320 660 35
Single responses 36,645 35,840 655 25
English 31,280 31,275 5 0
French 720 80 640 0
Non-official languages 4,645 4,485 10 25
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 10 10 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 5 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 3,205 3,045 10 25
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Afrikaans 60 60 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 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 5 0 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 35 30 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 60 55 5 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 15 15 0 0
Czech 15 10 0 0
Danish 30 30 0 0
Dutch 170 165 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 65 65 0 0
Flemish 10 10 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 660 640 0 10
Greek 35 30 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 20 15 0 0
Hungarian 40 40 0 0
Ilocano 10 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 140 130 0 5
Japanese 20 15 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 0 0 0
Korean 10 15 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 5 0 0 0
Latvian 0 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 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 30 25 0 0
Oromo 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 315 285 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 5 0 0
Polish 50 50 0 0
Portuguese 965 895 0 10
Romanian 5 10 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 20 20 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) 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slovak 5 5 0 0
Slovenian 10 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 95 90 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 15 15 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 135 130 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0
Telugu 10 5 0 0
Thai 10 10 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 45 45 0 0
Urdu 5 5 0 0
Vietnamese 15 15 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 1,425 1,425 0 0
Multiple responses 500 480 5 10
English and French 70 55 0 10
English and non-official language 405 405 0 0
French and non-official language 15 5 5 0
English, French and non-official language 10 10 0 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 37,140 36,320 655 35
Single responses 36,650 35,855 640 25
English 34,960 34,600 360 0
French 290 15 270 0
Non-official languages 1,400 1,240 5 25
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 5 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 1,030 875 5 20
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 35 35 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 10 5 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 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 20 20 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 45 30 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 5 0 0 0
Dutch 10 5 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 10 10 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 95 80 0 5
Greek 15 15 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 5 0 0 0
Hungarian 5 5 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Italian 40 30 0 5
Japanese 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 10 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 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 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 5
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 200 165 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 0 0
Polish 10 5 0 0
Portuguese 370 305 0 10
Romanian 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 5 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. 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 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 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 55 55 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 5 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 0 0 0 0
Urdu 0 5 0 0
Vietnamese 5 5 0 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 365 360 0 0
Multiple responses 495 465 20 10
English and French 35 5 15 10
English and non-official language 455 450 0 0
French and non-official language 5 5 0 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 0
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 37,145 36,320 660 35
None 33,720 33,220 365 25
Single responses 3,370 3,055 290 10
English 850 650 175 5
French 300 185 110 0
Non-official languages 2,220 2,215 5 0
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 10 10 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 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 15 1,140 1,135 5 0
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Afrikaans 20 20 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 5 5 5 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 10 10 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 15 15 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 25 20 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 5 10 0 0
Czech 0 5 0 0
Danish 10 10 0 0
Dutch 45 45 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 15 10 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 220 215 0 0
Greek 10 10 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 0 0 0
Hindi 15 15 0 0
Hungarian 10 15 0 0
Ilocano 10 10 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 50 50 0 0
Japanese 10 10 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 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 10 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 80 80 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 5 0 0
Polish 15 15 0 0
Portuguese 340 340 0 0
Romanian 5 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 5 5 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 10 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 75 75 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 10 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 55 55 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 5 0 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 5 10 0 0
Urdu 5 5 0 0
Vietnamese 10 10 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 1,070 1,070 0 0
Multiple responses 55 45 10 0
English and French 5 0 0 0
English and non-official language 10 5 5 0
French and non-official language 40 40 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 37,145 36,320 655 35
English 36,320 36,320 0 0
French 660 0 655 0
English and French 35 0 0 35
Neither English nor French 130 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 675 0 655 20
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 1.8 0.0 100.0 57.1

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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%.

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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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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