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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 NunavutFootnote 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 31,765 28,425 455 55
0 to 4 years 3,965 2,790 20 5
5 to 9 years 3,335 2,840 20 5
10 to 14 years 3,105 2,935 10 0
15 to 19 years 3,045 2,970 15 0
20 to 24 years 2,925 2,865 25 5
25 to 29 years 2,615 2,535 55 5
30 to 34 years 2,400 2,320 55 5
35 to 39 years 1,920 1,850 40 0
40 to 44 years 2,085 2,015 40 5
45 to 49 years 1,800 1,715 50 5
50 to 54 years 1,490 1,400 45 5
55 to 59 years 1,130 1,015 45 0
60 to 64 years 905 710 25 0
65 to 69 years 465 285 5 0
70 to 74 years 290 100 0 0
75 to 79 years 180 55 0 0
80 to 84 years 70 20 5 0
85 years and over 35 5 5 0
Median ageFootnote 3 24.1 24.6 39.4 33.5
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 21,355 19,860 405 40
Married or living with a common-law partner 11,470 10,705 200 20
Married (and not separated) 6,375 5,780 105 10
Living common law 5,095 4,920 105 10
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 9,885 9,155 205 25
Single (never legally married) 8,545 8,165 160 15
Separated 345 315 15 5
Divorced 400 360 30 0
Widowed 590 320 5 5
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 31,765 28,425 450 50
English only 27,670 27,670 0 0
French only 35 0 35 0
English and French 1,205 735 410 50
Neither English nor French 2,860 20 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 31,765 28,425 455 55
Single responses 31,435 28,095 450 50
English 8,925 8,925 0 0
French 435 15 420 0
Non-official languages 22,075 19,155 25 50
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 21,265 18,390 20 45
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 15 15 0 0
Dene 5 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 20 20 0 0
Inuktitut 21,230 18,355 20 40
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 7 465 445 0 10
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 5 0 0
Arabic 20 20 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Bengali 5 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 20 20 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. 15 15 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 0 5 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 5 5 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 5 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 35 30 0 5
Greek 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 0 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 0 0 0
Hindi 25 20 0 0
Hungarian 10 10 5 0
Ilocano 10 10 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 10 10 0 0
Japanese 5 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 5 5 0 0
Kurdish 0 5 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 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 20 20 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 10 5 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 0 0
Polish 15 15 0 0
Portuguese 5 5 0 0
Romanian 10 10 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 5 10 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 5 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. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 0 5 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 25 25 0 5
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 100 100 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0
Ukrainian 5 10 0 0
Urdu 10 10 0 0
Vietnamese 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 345 320 0 5
Multiple responses 330 330 5 0
English and French 5 5 0 0
English and non-official language 320 320 0 0
French and non-official language 5 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 31,765 28,425 450 50
Single responses 31,510 28,170 445 55
English 14,435 14,235 200 0
French 250 20 230 0
Non-official languages 16,825 13,915 15 55
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 16,520 13,655 15 45
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 10 0 0
Dene 5 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 20 20 0 0
Inuktitut 16,495 13,630 15 40
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 11 170 150 0 10
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 0 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 5 5 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 5 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 10 10 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 0 0 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 5 0 0 5
Greek 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 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 0 0 0 0
Japanese 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 5 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 10 10 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) 5 0 0 0
Pashto 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 0 0
Polish 5 10 0 0
Portuguese 0 0 0 0
Romanian 5 5 0 5
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. 10 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 20 15 0 5
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 60 60 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 5 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0
Ukrainian 0 0 0 0
Urdu 5 0 0 0
Vietnamese 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 130 115 0 0
Multiple responses 255 250 5 0
English and French 5 5 0 0
English and non-official language 250 245 0 0
French and non-official language 5 5 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 31,765 28,425 450 50
None 17,065 14,120 220 20
Single responses 14,670 14,280 230 30
English 7,825 7,545 120 25
French 250 160 85 5
Non-official languages 6,595 6,565 20 0
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 5,955 5,940 15 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 15 15 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5,940 5,925 15 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 15 220 215 5 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 10 10 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 10 10 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 5 5 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 5 5 0 0
Creoles 5 0 0 0
Croatian 5 5 0 0
Czech 5 5 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 0 5 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 0 5 0 0
Greek 5 5 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 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 10 10 0 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 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 0 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. 5 5 0 0
Norwegian 10 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 10 10 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 0 0
Polish 0 0 0 0
Portuguese 0 5 0 0
Romanian 0 5 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 10 10 5 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) 5 5 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 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 20 15 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 40 45 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 5 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 0 0 0
Urdu 10 5 0 0
Vietnamese 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 420 410 0 0
Multiple responses 30 20 0 5
English and French 5 0 0 0
English and non-official language 10 10 0 0
French and non-official language 15 10 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 31,765 28,425 455 50
English 28,425 28,425 0 0
French 450 0 450 0
English and French 50 0 0 55
Neither English nor French 2,840 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 480 0 450 25
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 1.5 0.0 98.9 50.0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

Data quality index showing a global non response rate higher than or equal to 10% but lower than 25%.

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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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