Data tables, 2016 Census

First Official Language Spoken (7), Language Spoken Most Often at Home (269), Age (15A) and Sex (3) for the Population Excluding Institutional Residents of Canada, Provinces and Territories, Census Divisions and Census Subdivisions, 2016 Census - 100% Data The letter C inside a yellow triangle - correction

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This table details first official language spoken , language spoken most often at home , age and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Newfoundland and Labrador / Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador
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Language spoken most often at home (269) First official language spoken (7)
Total - First official language spoken English French English and French Neither English nor French Official language minority (number)Footnote 1 Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 2
Total - Language spoken most often at homeFootnote 3 515,680 512,350 2,255 345 730 2,430 0.5
Single responses 513,025 509,970 2,115 215 725 2,220 0.4
Official languages 506,480 504,395 2,085 0 0 2,085 0.4
English 505,550 504,285 1,260 0 0 1,265 0.3
French 935 110 830 0 0 825 88.2
Non-official languages 6,545 5,575 25 210 725 130 2.0
Aboriginal languages 1,910 1,750 10 25 130 20 1.0
Algonquian languages 1,800 1,650 5 25 120 20 1.1
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cree-Montagnais languages 1,800 1,650 5 30 120 20 1.1
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Montagnais (Innu) 1,200 1,110 10 25 60 20 1.7
Moose Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Naskapi 600 540 0 0 60 0 0.0
Northern East Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Plains Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Southern East Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Swampy Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Woods Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Eastern Algonquian languages 0 5 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ojibway 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ottawa (Odawa) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Athabaskan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Northern Athabaskan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Babine (Wetsuwet'en) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Beaver 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Carrier 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Dene 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Dogrib (Tlicho) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Gwich'in 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Sarsi (Sarcee) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Sekani 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Slavey-Hare languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
North Slavey (Hare) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
South Slavey 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Slavey, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tahltan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Kaska (Nahani) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tahltan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tutchone languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Northern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Southern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Athabaskan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Haida 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuit languages 110 100 0 0 10 0 0.0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuktitut 105 100 0 0 10 0 0.0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Iroquoian languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cayuga 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Mohawk 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Oneida 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Kutenai 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Michif 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Salish languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Comox 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Halkomelem 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Lillooet 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Okanagan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Squamish 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Straits 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Salish languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Siouan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Dakota 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Stoney 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Siouan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tlingit 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tsimshian languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Gitxsan (Gitksan) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Nisga'a 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tsimshian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Wakashan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Haisla 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Heiltsuk 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Wakashan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Aboriginal languages, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Non-Aboriginal languages 4,630 3,830 20 190 600 110 2.4
Afro-Asiatic languages 835 545 10 20 260 20 2.4
Berber languages 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Kabyle 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Berber languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Cushitic languages 40 40 0 0 0 0 0.0
Bilen 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Oromo 30 35 0 0 0 0 0.0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Semitic languages 790 495 10 20 260 20 2.5
Amharic 10 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Arabic 725 440 10 25 255 20 2.8
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Harari 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Hebrew 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tigrigna 45 40 0 0 0 0 0.0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Austro-Asiatic languages 40 35 0 0 0 5 12.5
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Vietnamese 35 35 0 5 0 0 0.0
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Austronesian languages 505 490 5 5 5 5 1.0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cebuano 15 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Hiligaynon 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Malay 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 475 460 0 10 5 5 1.1
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Creole languages 20 5 0 10 0 5 25.0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Creole, n.o.s. 5 0 0 10 0 5 100.0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 5 0 0 0.0
Dravidian languages 120 115 0 5 5 5 4.2
Kannada 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Malayalam 35 35 0 0 0 0 0.0
Tamil 55 55 0 0 0 0 0.0
Telugu 30 25 0 0 0 0 0.0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Indo-European languages 1,620 1,400 5 110 105 60 3.7
Albanian 30 20 0 0 15 0 0.0
Armenian 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Balto-Slavic languages 190 170 0 15 5 10 5.3
Baltic languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Latvian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Slavic languages 195 170 0 15 5 10 5.1
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Bosnian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Bulgarian 35 25 0 5 0 5 14.3
Croatian 0 5 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Czech 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Polish 30 25 0 5 5 0 0.0
Russian 100 80 0 10 5 10 10.0
Serbian 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Slovak 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Slovene (Slovenian) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ukrainian 10 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Celtic languages 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Scottish Gaelic 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Germanic languages 155 135 0 15 5 5 3.2
Afrikaans 15 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Danish 25 25 0 0 0 0 0.0
Dutch 10 15 0 5 0 5 50.0
Frisian 0 5 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
German 60 45 0 15 0 10 16.7
Icelandic 15 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Norwegian 20 20 0 0 0 0 0.0
Swedish 0 5 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Vlaams (Flemish) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Greek 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Indo-Iranian languages 860 795 5 20 50 15 1.7
Indo-Aryan languages 690 635 5 15 35 10 1.4
Bengali 150 145 0 5 5 0 0.0
Gujarati 25 20 0 0 5 0 0.0
Hindi 80 75 0 0 0 5 6.3
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Marathi 15 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Nepali 95 85 0 0 10 0 0.0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Punjabi (Panjabi) 145 135 0 5 0 0 0.0
Sindhi 10 5 0 5 0 0 0.0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 45 45 0 0 0 0 0.0
Urdu 130 115 0 5 5 5 3.8
Iranian languages 155 140 0 0 10 0 0.0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 5 0 not applicable ...
Pashto 10 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Persian (Farsi) 145 130 0 5 10 0 0.0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0 5 0 0.0
Italic (Romance) languages 365 275 0 55 30 25 6.8
Catalan 5 5 0 5 0 0 0.0
Italian 20 20 0 0 0 0 0.0
Portuguese 55 35 0 10 5 5 9.1
Romanian 15 10 0 5 0 0 0.0
Spanish 275 210 0 45 25 25 9.1
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Japanese 15 15 5 0 5 0 0.0
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Korean 60 50 0 5 10 0 0.0
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Niger-Congo languages 105 60 5 15 25 15 14.3
Akan (Twi) 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Edo 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ewe 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ga 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ganda 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Igbo 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Lingala 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 5 0 0 0.0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Shona 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Swahili 45 10 5 5 20 10 22.2
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Yoruba 15 15 0 5 0 0 0.0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 5 0 0 0.0
Nilo-Saharan languages 10 10 0 0 5 0 0.0
Dinka 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Sign languages 210 140 0 0 70 0 0.0
American Sign Language 60 40 0 0 20 0 0.0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Sign languages, n.i.e 155 105 0 0 50 0 0.0
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,040 915 0 5 115 5 0.5
Chinese languages 1,030 910 0 5 115 0 0.0
Cantonese 190 145 0 0 40 0 0.0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Mandarin 705 645 0 5 55 5 0.7
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 10 10 0 0 5 0 0.0
Wu (Shanghainese) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Chinese, n.o.s. 120 105 0 0 15 0 0.0
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tibeto-Burman languages 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Burmese 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Karenic languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tibetan 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 5 0 not applicable ...
Tai-Kadai languages 5 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Lao 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Thai 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Turkic languages 25 25 0 0 0 0 0.0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Turkish 15 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Uzbek 10 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 5 0 0.0
Uralic languages 20 15 0 5 0 0 0.0
Estonian 10 5 0 5 0 0 0.0
Finnish 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Hungarian 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Other languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Multiple responses 2,655 2,385 140 130 0 205 7.7
English and French 400 190 105 105 0 155 38.8
English and non-official language 2,175 2,165 5 0 0 5 0.2
French and non-official language 30 5 20 0 0 20 66.7
English, French and non-official language 55 15 10 30 0 25 45.5

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

The official language minority population of Quebec includes all individuals with English as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French. The official language minority population of the country overall and of every province and territory other than Quebec includes individuals with French as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French.

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Footnote 2

The official language minority population of Quebec includes all individuals with English as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French. The official language minority population of the country overall and of every province and territory other than Quebec includes individuals with French as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French.

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Footnote 3

n.i.e. = not included elsewhere
n.o.s. = not otherwise specified

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Data quality note(s) – Newfoundland and Labrador / Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 4.0%.
  • Short-form income data quality flag
    Default. Data quality index showing a short-form income non-response rate lower than 10%.

Source: Statistics Canada, 2016 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-400-X2016070.

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