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 Markham, CY
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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 4 183,020 150,925 32,095
Official languages 171,545 140,140 31,410
English 171,425 140,035 31,390
French 2,535 105 2,435
Non-official languages 40,635 10,785 29,850
Aboriginal languages 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0
Montagnais (Innu) 0 0 0
Moose Cree 0 0 0
Naskapi 0 0 0
Northern East Cree 0 0 0
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. 0 0 0
Eastern Algonquian languages 0 0 0
Malecite 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0
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 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages 0 0 0
Cayuga 0 0 0
Mohawk 0 0 0
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 40,640 10,780 29,850
Afro-Asiatic languages 265 10 260
Berber languages 0 0 0
Kabyle 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 0 0 0
Bilen 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Semitic languages 270 0 260
Amharic 0 0 0
Arabic 175 10 170
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0
Hebrew 95 0 90
Maltese 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 75 10 70
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0
Vietnamese 75 10 60
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 435 15 415
Bikol 0 0 0
Cebuano 10 0 15
Fijian 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 10 0
Malagasy 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 415 10 405
Waray-Waray 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Creole languages 10 0 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 10 10 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 1,425 130 1,285
Kannada 0 0 0
Malayalam 25 0 20
Tamil 1,390 135 1,260
Telugu 0 0 10
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 3,645 265 3,380
Albanian 0 0 0
Armenian 30 0 30
Balto-Slavic languages 455 30 420
Baltic languages 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0
Slavic languages 455 30 425
Belarusan 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0
Bulgarian 10 0 15
Croatian 0 0 0
Czech 0 0 0
Macedonian 45 10 40
Polish 15 0 15
Russian 335 25 310
Serbian 30 0 30
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0
Slovak 10 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 0 0 10
Ukrainian 10 0 10
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Celtic languages 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Germanic languages 70 0 75
Afrikaans 0 0 10
Danish 10 0 10
Dutch 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0
German 55 0 50
Icelandic 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Greek 135 0 130
Indo-Iranian languages 2,235 215 2,025
Indo-Aryan languages 1,240 120 1,120
Bengali 20 0 15
Gujarati 180 40 140
Hindi 295 15 280
Kashmiri 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0
Marathi 15 10 0
Nepali 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 320 55 265
Sindhi 10 0 10
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0
Urdu 405 0 405
Iranian languages 985 90 895
Kurdish 10 0 10
Pashto 10 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 975 90 890
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 20 0 15
Italic (Romance) languages 725 20 700
Catalan 0 0 0
Italian 285 10 280
Portuguese 40 0 40
Romanian 25 0 20
Spanish 375 15 360
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 10
Japanese 95 10 90
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0
Korean 690 140 550
Mongolic languages 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 10 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0
Ewe 0 0 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0
Igbo 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 0 0 0
Shona 0 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0
Yoruba 10 0 10
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 0 0 0
Dinka 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Sign languages 30 10 30
American Sign Language 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 25 10 20
Sino-Tibetan languages 33,900 10,185 23,710
Chinese languages 33,890 10,185 23,705
Cantonese 19,580 5,570 14,010
Hakka 60 15 45
Mandarin 14,975 4,400 10,575
Min Dong 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 125 70 55
Wu (Shanghainese) 15 10 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 460 120 335
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 10 0 0
Burmese 10 0 10
Karenic languages 0 0 0
Tibetan 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 10 0 15
Lao 0 0 0
Thai 10 0 10
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0
Turkic languages 45 10 35
Azerbaijani 0 0 0
Turkish 45 10 35
Uyghur 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Uralic languages 15 0 15
Estonian 0 0 0
Finnish 10 0 10
Hungarian 0 0 0
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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