Data tables, 2016 Census

Mother Tongue (269), Knowledge of Official Languages (5), 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 mother tongue , knowledge of official languages , age and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Oshawa, CY
Data quality
Mother tongue (269) Knowledge of official languages (5)
Total - Knowledge of official languages English only French only English and French Neither English nor French
Total - Mother tongueFootnote 1 158,010 146,645 140 10,225 990
Single responses 155,620 144,885 130 9,625 980
Official languages 137,000 128,205 115 8,660 30
English 134,000 127,960 5 6,010 25
French 3,000 240 110 2,645 0
Non-official languages 18,620 16,680 15 970 945
Aboriginal languages 20 15 0 5 0
Algonquian languages 10 5 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 5 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Montagnais (Innu) 0 0 0 0 0
Moose Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Naskapi 0 0 0 0 0
Northern East Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Plains Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Southern East Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Swampy Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Woods Cree 0 5 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0
Eastern Algonquian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 5 0 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 5 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Ottawa (Odawa) 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Athabaskan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Northern Athabaskan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Babine (Wetsuwet'en) 0 0 0 0 0
Beaver 0 0 0 0 0
Carrier 0 0 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0 0
Dogrib (Tlicho) 0 0 0 0 0
Gwich'in 0 0 0 0 0
Sarsi (Sarcee) 0 0 0 0 0
Sekani 0 0 0 0 0
Slavey-Hare languages 0 0 0 0 0
North Slavey (Hare) 0 0 0 0 0
South Slavey 0 0 0 0 0
Slavey, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0
Tahltan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Kaska (Nahani) 0 0 0 0 0
Tahltan 0 0 0 0 0
Tutchone languages 0 0 0 0 0
Northern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0
Southern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0
Athabaskan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Haida 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages 5 5 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 5 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Cayuga 0 0 0 0 0
Mohawk 0 0 0 0 0
Oneida 0 0 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Kutenai 0 0 0 0 0
Michif 0 0 0 0 0
Salish languages 0 0 0 0 0
Comox 0 0 0 0 0
Halkomelem 0 0 0 0 0
Lillooet 0 0 0 0 0
Okanagan 0 0 0 0 0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 0 0 0 0 0
Squamish 0 0 0 0 0
Straits 0 0 0 0 0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 0 0 0 0 0
Salish languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Siouan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Dakota 0 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0 0
Siouan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tlingit 0 0 0 0 0
Tsimshian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Gitxsan (Gitksan) 0 0 0 0 0
Nisga'a 0 0 0 0 0
Tsimshian 0 0 0 0 0
Wakashan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Haisla 0 0 0 0 0
Heiltsuk 0 0 0 0 0
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala) 0 0 0 0 0
Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka) 0 0 0 0 0
Wakashan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.o.s. 5 5 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 18,600 16,665 20 965 950
Afro-Asiatic languages 935 815 0 80 35
Berber languages 0 0 0 0 0
Kabyle 0 0 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 25 20 0 5 5
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 25 15 0 5 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 905 795 5 75 35
Amharic 25 30 0 0 5
Arabic 725 620 5 75 30
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 10 10 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 15 10 0 0 0
Maltese 115 115 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 230 195 0 10 25
Khmer (Cambodian) 20 15 0 0 5
Vietnamese 210 175 0 10 20
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 5 5 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 1,010 985 0 20 5
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 40 35 0 0 0
Fijian 5 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 15 15 0 0 0
Ilocano 30 30 0 0 5
Malagasy 0 0 0 5 0
Malay 30 30 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 5 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 875 855 0 15 5
Waray-Waray 0 5 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Creole languages 75 30 5 40 0
Haitian Creole 15 0 0 15 0
Creole, n.o.s. 30 10 0 20 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 5 0
Dravidian languages 915 805 0 40 70
Kannada 10 15 0 0 0
Malayalam 110 105 0 0 0
Tamil 750 640 0 40 70
Telugu 45 45 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 12,925 11,720 5 680 515
Albanian 35 30 0 5 0
Armenian 30 25 0 5 0
Balto-Slavic languages 3,680 3,370 5 180 125
Baltic languages 55 50 0 5 0
Latvian 30 25 0 5 0
Lithuanian 20 20 0 5 0
Slavic languages 3,625 3,325 5 175 120
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 10 15 0 0 0
Bulgarian 20 15 0 5 0
Croatian 175 170 0 0 5
Czech 45 40 0 0 0
Macedonian 205 185 0 10 5
Polish 1,795 1,645 0 90 60
Russian 330 285 5 30 20
Serbian 170 160 0 5 5
Serbo-Croatian 20 20 0 0 0
Slovak 85 85 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 90 90 0 0 0
Ukrainian 645 605 0 20 25
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 0
Celtic languages 20 20 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 10 10 0 0 0
Welsh 5 10 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages 1,550 1,460 0 80 0
Afrikaans 20 20 0 0 0
Danish 50 45 0 0 0
Dutch 540 510 0 30 0
Frisian 10 10 0 0 0
German 865 820 0 40 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 15 15 0 0 0
Swedish 20 15 0 5 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 10 15 0 0 0
Yiddish 5 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 430 410 0 15 10
Indo-Iranian languages 3,125 2,870 0 90 170
Indo-Aryan languages 2,455 2,270 0 70 120
Bengali 205 190 0 10 5
Gujarati 425 395 0 5 30
Hindi 230 210 0 10 5
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 5 5 0 5 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0 0
Nepali 10 5 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 310 265 0 10 30
Sindhi 25 20 0 5 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 80 75 0 0 0
Urdu 1,155 1,080 0 25 50
Iranian languages 660 595 0 20 50
Kurdish 15 15 0 0 5
Pashto 75 75 0 0 5
Persian (Farsi) 565 500 0 20 45
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 4,055 3,540 0 310 210
Catalan 5 0 0 0 0
Italian 1,520 1,340 0 100 80
Portuguese 970 850 0 55 70
Romanian 230 175 0 40 10
Spanish 1,330 1,170 0 110 45
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 30 25 0 0 5
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 150 135 0 5 15
Mongolic languages 5 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 225 190 0 25 0
Akan (Twi) 35 35 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 5 0
Edo 5 5 0 0 0
Ewe 5 5 0 5 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 5 5 0 5 0
Ga 5 10 0 0 0
Ganda 5 0 0 0 0
Igbo 30 30 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 15 15 0 0 0
Swahili 35 35 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 25 25 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 50 25 0 20 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 5 5 0 0 5
Dinka 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Sign languages 55 30 0 5 25
American Sign Language 20 15 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 35 15 0 0 20
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,395 1,130 5 40 230
Chinese languages 1,395 1,125 0 35 230
Cantonese 555 435 0 15 105
Hakka 10 5 0 0 5
Mandarin 715 580 0 20 115
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 35 40 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 5 5 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 65 60 0 0 10
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 10 5 0 0 0
Burmese 0 5 0 0 0
Karenic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Tibetan 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 55 40 0 5 10
Lao 30 25 0 5 0
Thai 25 20 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 70 65 0 5 5
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 65 60 0 0 0
Uyghur 10 5 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Uralic languages 510 480 0 15 10
Estonian 25 25 0 0 0
Finnish 55 50 0 0 0
Hungarian 430 400 0 15 10
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 2,390 1,765 10 600 15
English and French 510 95 0 420 0
English and non-official language 1,750 1,650 0 85 10
French and non-official language 75 15 5 55 5
English, French and non-official language 55 10 0 40 0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

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

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Data quality note(s) – Oshawa, CY

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 3.6%.
  • 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-X2016054.

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