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 Calgary, 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 4 772,240 726,720 45,520
Official languages 766,460 721,150 45,305
English 765,835 720,570 45,265
French 11,200 585 10,620
Non-official languages 41,285 5,565 35,720
Aboriginal languages 100 0 105
Algonquian languages 65 0 65
Blackfoot 60 0 60
Cree-Montagnais languages 10 0 10
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. 10 0 10
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 20 0 20
Northern Athabaskan languages 20 0 15
Babine (Wetsuwet'en) 0 0 0
Beaver 0 0 0
Carrier 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 0 0
Dene 0 0 10
Dogrib (Tlicho) 0 0 0
Gwich'in 0 0 0
Sarsi (Sarcee) 15 0 15
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 15 0 20
Dakota 0 0 0
Stoney 15 0 20
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 41,180 5,565 35,615
Afro-Asiatic languages 1,935 185 1,755
Berber languages 0 0 0
Kabyle 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 80 0 75
Bilen 0 0 0
Oromo 30 0 30
Somali 45 0 50
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Semitic languages 1,855 185 1,675
Amharic 175 25 145
Arabic 1,480 150 1,330
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 10 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 15 0 10
Harari 0 0 10
Hebrew 115 0 115
Maltese 0 0 0
Tigrigna 60 0 60
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 15 0 15
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 2,435 500 1,930
Khmer (Cambodian) 20 0 25
Vietnamese 2,415 500 1,915
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 4,970 135 4,835
Bikol 0 0 0
Cebuano 60 0 60
Fijian 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 70 10 65
Ilocano 80 0 80
Malagasy 0 0 0
Malay 35 0 40
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 4,705 125 4,580
Waray-Waray 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 40 10 30
Creole languages 35 0 35
Haitian Creole 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 10 0 10
Creole languages, n.i.e. 25 0 30
Dravidian languages 125 25 110
Kannada 0 0 0
Malayalam 25 0 30
Tamil 85 20 70
Telugu 15 0 10
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 17,990 1,710 16,280
Albanian 95 25 75
Armenian 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 1,955 110 1,845
Baltic languages 30 0 30
Latvian 15 0 15
Lithuanian 15 0 10
Slavic languages 1,925 110 1,815
Belarusan 0 0 0
Bosnian 45 0 45
Bulgarian 25 0 25
Croatian 70 0 65
Czech 20 0 20
Macedonian 10 0 10
Polish 580 20 560
Russian 995 70 920
Serbian 80 0 80
Serbo-Croatian 15 0 20
Slovak 10 0 10
Slovene (Slovenian) 0 0 0
Ukrainian 90 15 75
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Celtic languages 15 0 15
Scottish Gaelic 10 0 15
Welsh 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Germanic languages 735 20 715
Afrikaans 30 0 30
Danish 10 0 10
Dutch 80 0 80
Frisian 0 0 0
German 565 15 550
Icelandic 0 0 0
Norwegian 15 0 20
Swedish 20 0 20
Vlaams (Flemish) 10 0 0
Yiddish 10 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Greek 85 0 80
Indo-Iranian languages 8,870 1,170 7,700
Indo-Aryan languages 8,310 1,115 7,200
Bengali 45 10 40
Gujarati 105 15 95
Hindi 1,115 65 1,055
Kashmiri 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0
Marathi 10 0 10
Nepali 115 10 105
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 5,865 965 4,905
Sindhi 30 0 30
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 20 10 15
Urdu 1,080 50 1,025
Iranian languages 550 65 485
Kurdish 45 0 45
Pashto 40 0 35
Persian (Farsi) 465 60 400
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 50 0 50
Italic (Romance) languages 6,240 380 5,855
Catalan 0 0 0
Italian 260 0 265
Portuguese 325 50 280
Romanian 300 30 275
Spanish 5,335 305 5,030
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 20 0 20
Japanese 485 40 445
Kartvelian languages 10 0 10
Georgian 10 0 10
Korean 1,475 245 1,230
Mongolic languages 30 0 30
Mongolian 25 0 25
Niger-Congo languages 185 10 175
Akan (Twi) 40 0 40
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 25 0 20
Lingala 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 0 0 0
Shona 10 0 10
Swahili 70 10 65
Wolof 0 0 0
Yoruba 35 0 35
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 0 15
Nilo-Saharan languages 10 0 15
Dinka 15 0 15
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Sign languages 350 40 310
American Sign Language 200 20 185
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 150 20 130
Sino-Tibetan languages 10,835 2,640 8,195
Chinese languages 10,745 2,625 8,120
Cantonese 6,290 1,760 4,530
Hakka 0 0 0
Mandarin 4,130 745 3,380
Min Dong 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 40 10 35
Wu (Shanghainese) 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 490 115 380
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 85 10 75
Burmese 25 0 15
Karenic languages 25 0 20
Tibetan 40 0 35
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 0 10
Tai-Kadai languages 85 10 80
Lao 10 0 10
Thai 75 10 65
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 10 0 10
Turkic languages 95 15 80
Azerbaijani 0 0 0
Turkish 80 15 70
Uyghur 10 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 10
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 10 0 10
Uralic languages 215 20 200
Estonian 0 0 0
Finnish 10 0 10
Hungarian 205 25 185
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 15 10 10

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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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