Data tables, 2016 Census

Mother Tongue (8), Language Spoken Most Often at Home (187), Other Language Spoken Regularly at Home (9), Generation Status (6), Age (8B) and Sex (3) for the Population in Private Households of Canada, Provinces and Territories, Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, 2016 Census - 25% Sample Data

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This table details mother tongue , language spoken most often at home , other language spoken regularly at home , generation status , age and sex for the population in private households in Nova Scotia / Nouvelle-Écosse
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Language spoken most often at home (187) Mother tongue (8)
Total - Mother tongue English French Non-official language English and French English and non-official language French and non-official language English, French and non-official language
Total - Language spoken most often at homeFootnote 2 908,340 827,355 28,710 44,285 3,485 4,055 245 205
Single responses 896,960 825,810 27,810 38,200 2,750 2,160 155 85
Official languages 874,540 824,890 27,765 17,355 2,750 1,595 120 70
English 860,445 824,165 14,760 17,265 2,505 1,595 90 65
French 14,095 725 13,010 85 240 0 30 0
Non-official languages 22,420 925 40 20,845 0 565 30 15
Aboriginal languages 2,545 155 0 2,360 0 35 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 19,875 770 40 18,485 0 535 30 10
Afro-Asiatic languages 4,630 170 20 4,255 0 160 20 0
Berber languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kabyle 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 70 10 0 65 0 0 0 0
Bilen 25 0 0 20 0 0 0 0
Oromo 20 0 0 20 0 0 0 0
Somali 15 0 0 15 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 10 0 0 15 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 4,560 165 20 4,190 0 160 15 10
Amharic 50 0 0 50 0 0 0 0
Arabic 4,270 155 20 3,915 0 155 15 10
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 150 0 0 140 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 85 10 0 85 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 240 10 0 225 0 15 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 245 0 0 225 0 15 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 1,200 60 0 1,015 0 125 0 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 45 0 0 50 0 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 25 0 0 25 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 10 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 1,120 60 0 930 0 125 0 0
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Creole languages 15 0 0 15 0 0 0 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 10 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 415 45 0 340 0 25 0 0
Kannada 20 0 0 15 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 200 0 0 190 0 10 0 0
Tamil 90 50 0 40 0 10 0 0
Telugu 105 0 0 95 0 10 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 7,450 235 20 7,060 0 120 20 0
Albanian 125 0 0 125 0 0 0 0
Armenian 30 0 0 35 0 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 1,250 35 0 1,200 0 10 0 0
Baltic languages 30 0 0 25 0 0 0 0
Latvian 15 0 0 15 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 10 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 1,225 35 0 1,175 0 10 0 0
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 50 0 0 50 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 40 0 0 40 0 0 0 0
Croatian 30 0 0 30 0 0 0 0
Czech 45 0 0 45 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 285 15 0 260 0 10 0 0
Russian 645 20 0 625 0 0 0 0
Serbian 30 0 0 35 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 40 0 0 40 0 0 0 0
Slovak 10 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 45 0 0 50 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 50 15 0 25 0 10 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 50 10 0 25 0 10 0 0
Welsh 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 1,520 65 15 1,410 0 10 15 10
Afrikaans 45 0 0 40 0 0 0 0
Danish 30 0 0 20 0 0 0 0
Dutch 140 20 0 110 0 10 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
German 1,170 30 0 1,115 0 0 15 0
Icelandic 55 0 0 50 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Swedish 15 10 0 10 0 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 10 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 65 0 0 65 0 0 0 0
Greek 365 10 0 345 0 15 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 2,885 70 0 2,760 0 50 0 0
Indo-Aryan languages 1,955 50 0 1,850 0 50 0 0
Bengali 250 10 0 245 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 85 0 0 75 0 10 0 0
Hindi 225 15 0 210 0 0 0 0
Kashmiri 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 15 0 0 20 0 0 0 0
Nepali 560 10 0 555 0 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 10 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 305 10 0 290 0 10 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 50 0 0 40 0 10 0 0
Urdu 430 20 0 405 0 10 0 0
Iranian languages 930 20 0 910 0 0 0 0
Kurdish 105 0 0 100 0 0 0 0
Pashto 10 0 0 15 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 820 15 0 800 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 1,225 45 0 1,160 0 25 0 0
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 130 0 0 130 0 0 0 0
Portuguese 240 10 0 230 0 0 0 0
Romanian 45 0 0 45 0 0 0 0
Spanish 810 35 0 750 0 25 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 140 10 0 135 0 0 0 0
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 885 40 0 830 0 15 0 0
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 180 10 0 140 0 35 0 0
Akan (Twi) 10 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 25 0 0 20 0 0 0 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 10 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 45 0 0 15 0 35 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 15 0 0 20 0 0 0 0
Shona 10 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
Swahili 55 0 0 55 0 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 10 10 0 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 15 0 0 15 0 0 0 0
Dinka 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages 240 110 0 110 0 25 0 0
American Sign Language 90 20 0 60 0 10 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 155 90 0 50 0 10 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 4,125 75 0 4,035 0 15 0 0
Chinese languages 4,120 75 0 4,030 0 15 0 0
Cantonese 630 20 0 605 0 0 0 0
Hakka 10 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 3,115 45 0 3,060 0 0 0 0
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 30 0 0 30 0 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 30 0 0 35 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 300 10 0 285 0 10 0 0
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Karenic languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tibetan 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 40 0 0 40 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 45 0 0 40 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 225 10 0 220 0 10 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 185 10 0 170 0 10 0 0
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 45 0 0 45 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Uralic languages 65 0 0 65 0 0 0 0
Estonian 10 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
Finnish 10 0 0 15 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 45 0 0 45 0 0 0 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 11,380 1,540 905 6,090 735 1,890 90 125
English and French 2,115 480 860 40 695 10 20 15
English and non-official language 8,915 1,020 30 5,930 0 1,865 25 45
French and non-official language 90 10 10 55 0 0 20 0
English, French and non-official language 255 40 10 60 40 20 20 60

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

For more information on generation status variables, including information on their classifications, the questions from which they are derived, data quality and their comparability with other sources of data, please refer to the Place of Birth, Generation Status, Citizenship and Immigration Reference Guide, Census of Population, 2016.

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Footnote 2

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

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Data quality note(s) – Nova Scotia / Nouvelle-Écosse

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Long-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), long-form census questionnaire: 5.5%.
  • Long-form income data quality flag
    Default. Data quality index showing a long-form income non-response rate lower than 10%.

Source: Statistics Canada, 2016 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-400-X2016196.

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