Data tables, 2016 Census

Language Used at Work (263), Single and multiple responses of language used at work (3), Mother Tongue (8) and Age (10) for the Population Aged 15 Years and Over Who Worked Since 2015, in Private Households of Canada, Provinces and Territories, Census Divisions and Census Subdivisions, 2016 Census - 25% Sample Data

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This table details language used at work , single and multiple responses of language used at work , mother tongue and age for the population aged 15 years and over who worked since 2015, in private households in Montréal, V
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Language used at work (263) Single and multiple responses of language used at work (3)
Total - Single and multiple responses of language used at workFootnote 1 Single responses of language used at workFootnote 2 Multiple responses of language used at workFootnote 3
Total - Language used at workFootnote 4 944,225 395,290 548,925
Official languages 937,515 388,840 548,675
English 628,075 92,320 535,750
French 831,190 296,520 534,670
Non-official languages 61,060 6,455 54,610
Aboriginal languages 240 0 235
Algonquian languages 95 0 95
Blackfoot 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 80 0 80
Atikamekw 0 0 0
Montagnais (Innu) 10 0 10
Moose Cree 0 0 0
Naskapi 0 0 0
Northern East Cree 35 0 40
Plains Cree 0 0 0
Southern East Cree 0 0 0
Swampy Cree 0 0 0
Woods Cree 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 35 0 35
Eastern Algonquian languages 0 0 0
Malecite 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 10
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 10 0 10
Algonquin 0 0 10
Ojibway 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0
Ottawa (Odawa) 0 0 0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Athabaskan languages 0 0 0
Northern Athabaskan languages 0 0 0
Babine (Wetsuwet'en) 0 0 0
Beaver 0 0 0
Carrier 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 0 0
Dene 0 0 0
Dogrib (Tlicho) 0 0 0
Gwich'in 0 0 0
Sarsi (Sarcee) 0 0 0
Sekani 0 0 0
Slavey-Hare languages 0 0 0
North Slavey (Hare) 0 0 0
South Slavey 0 0 0
Slavey, n.o.s. 0 0 0
Tahltan languages 0 0 0
Kaska (Nahani) 0 0 0
Tahltan 0 0 0
Tutchone languages 0 0 0
Northern Tutchone 0 0 0
Southern Tutchone 0 0 0
Athabaskan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Haida 0 0 0
Inuit languages 115 0 115
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0
Inuktitut 115 0 115
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 0 10
Iroquoian languages 20 0 20
Cayuga 0 0 0
Mohawk 20 0 20
Oneida 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Kutenai 0 0 0
Michif 0 0 0
Salish languages 0 0 0
Comox 0 0 0
Halkomelem 0 0 0
Lillooet 0 0 0
Okanagan 0 0 0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 0 0 0
Squamish 0 0 0
Straits 0 0 0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 0 0 0
Salish languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Siouan languages 0 0 0
Dakota 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0
Siouan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Tlingit 0 0 0
Tsimshian languages 0 0 0
Gitxsan (Gitksan) 0 0 0
Nisga'a 0 0 0
Tsimshian 0 0 0
Wakashan languages 0 0 0
Haisla 0 0 0
Heiltsuk 0 0 0
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala) 0 0 0
Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka) 0 0 0
Wakashan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.o.s. 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 60,825 6,455 54,375
Afro-Asiatic languages 8,550 445 8,105
Berber languages 260 15 245
Kabyle 165 15 155
Berber languages, n.i.e. 95 0 95
Cushitic languages 0 0 10
Bilen 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0
Somali 10 0 10
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Semitic languages 8,315 435 7,885
Amharic 10 0 10
Arabic 7,830 405 7,425
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0
Hebrew 455 25 430
Maltese 0 0 0
Tigrigna 15 0 15
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 10
Austro-Asiatic languages 3,125 845 2,280
Khmer (Cambodian) 450 100 350
Vietnamese 2,680 750 1,930
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 1,220 30 1,190
Bikol 0 0 0
Cebuano 10 0 10
Fijian 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 20 0 20
Ilocano 20 10 15
Malagasy 0 0 0
Malay 10 0 15
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 1,150 20 1,130
Waray-Waray 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 15 0 0
Creole languages 2,195 95 2,105
Haitian Creole 75 10 75
Creole, n.o.s. 2,120 95 2,030
Creole languages, n.i.e. 0 0 10
Dravidian languages 665 85 580
Kannada 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0
Tamil 660 80 580
Telugu 10 10 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 15 10 10
Indo-European languages 34,715 2,505 32,215
Albanian 35 0 30
Armenian 435 55 385
Balto-Slavic languages 2,950 315 2,635
Baltic languages 25 0 25
Latvian 10 0 15
Lithuanian 15 0 15
Slavic languages 2,925 310 2,610
Belarusan 0 0 0
Bosnian 10 0 0
Bulgarian 110 15 95
Croatian 40 0 40
Czech 30 0 30
Macedonian 0 0 0
Polish 560 35 530
Russian 1,960 215 1,740
Serbian 30 10 25
Serbo-Croatian 20 0 20
Slovak 10 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 0 0 0
Ukrainian 185 45 145
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 0 10
Celtic languages 10 0 10
Scottish Gaelic 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 10 0 0
Germanic languages 1,880 325 1,555
Afrikaans 0 0 0
Danish 25 0 25
Dutch 85 10 80
Frisian 0 0 0
German 720 35 685
Icelandic 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0
Swedish 35 0 35
Vlaams (Flemish) 0 0 0
Yiddish 1,005 285 720
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Greek 1,625 110 1,520
Indo-Iranian languages 3,525 505 3,025
Indo-Aryan languages 2,330 250 2,080
Bengali 395 25 375
Gujarati 200 10 190
Hindi 365 20 345
Kashmiri 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 960 170 785
Sindhi 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 0 10
Urdu 420 30 390
Iranian languages 1,185 255 930
Kurdish 20 0 20
Pashto 20 0 20
Persian (Farsi) 1,145 250 895
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 20 0 15
Italic (Romance) languages 24,375 1,190 23,185
Catalan 20 0 20
Italian 6,280 160 6,115
Portuguese 1,740 205 1,540
Romanian 825 75 755
Spanish 15,670 755 14,920
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 15 0 15
Japanese 520 70 450
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0
Korean 490 95 390
Mongolic languages 10 0 0
Mongolian 10 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 215 10 215
Akan (Twi) 15 0 20
Bamanankan 15 0 15
Edo 0 0 0
Ewe 0 0 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 0 10
Ga 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0
Igbo 0 0 0
Lingala 55 10 50
Rundi (Kirundi) 25 0 30
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 0 0 0
Shona 0 0 0
Swahili 15 0 15
Wolof 30 0 30
Yoruba 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 55 0 55
Nilo-Saharan languages 0 0 0
Dinka 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Sign languages 375 30 350
American Sign Language 45 0 45
Quebec Sign Language 230 0 225
Sign languages, n.i.e 105 25 80
Sino-Tibetan languages 8,450 2,170 6,285
Chinese languages 8,455 2,170 6,285
Cantonese 2,890 1,030 1,860
Hakka 0 0 10
Mandarin 5,125 995 4,130
Min Dong 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 135 30 100
Wu (Shanghainese) 10 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 445 110 335
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0
Karenic languages 0 0 0
Tibetan 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 80 15 65
Lao 20 0 10
Thai 60 10 50
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0
Turkic languages 325 45 280
Azerbaijani 0 0 0
Turkish 315 45 275
Uyghur 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Uralic languages 115 15 95
Estonian 0 0 10
Finnish 15 0 15
Hungarian 90 15 75
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

The category 'Total - Single and multiple responses of language used at work' indicates the number of respondents who reported each language, either as their only response, or in combination with another language. Total responses represent the sum of single and multiple responses of the language used at work received in the census.

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Footnote 2

A single response to the language used at work occurs when a respondent provides one language only.

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Footnote 3

A multiple response to the language used at work occurs when a respondent provides two or more languages.

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Footnote 4

This is a total population count. The sum of the languages in this table is greater than the total population count because a person may report more than one language in the census.

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

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Refers to the language used at work, as reported on May 10, 2016 by the individuals aged 15 years and over who worked since January 1, 2015.

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2016 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-400-X2016095.

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