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 Laval
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 1 417,995 21,185 144,745 243,635 8,435
Single responses 398,960 20,200 140,370 230,045 8,345
Official languages 267,725 6,350 109,310 151,945 120
English 30,295 6,230 170 23,855 45
French 237,430 120 109,145 128,090 75
Non-official languages 131,235 13,850 31,060 78,100 8,225
Aboriginal languages 20 10 0 10 0
Algonquian languages 10 0 0 5 5
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 5 5 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Montagnais (Innu) 5 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 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 5 0 0 0
Eastern Algonquian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 5 0 0 0 0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 0 0 0 5 0
Algonquin 5 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 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 5 0 0 0
Northern Athabaskan languages 5 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 0 0 5 0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 0 0 5 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 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 5 5 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. 5 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. 0 0 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 131,210 13,845 31,060 78,090 8,225
Afro-Asiatic languages 32,140 1,660 10,500 18,075 1,905
Berber languages 2,240 10 1,285 915 35
Kabyle 1,175 0 705 455 15
Berber languages, n.i.e. 1,070 5 585 465 15
Cushitic languages 15 5 5 10 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 15 5 5 5 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 29,860 1,650 9,195 17,145 1,870
Amharic 40 10 0 30 0
Arabic 29,500 1,585 9,170 16,900 1,835
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 60 10 10 25 15
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 10 0 0 5 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 195 30 10 160 5
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 15 0 0 10 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 35 5 5 15 5
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 25 5 15 10 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 4,105 330 1,190 2,100 480
Khmer (Cambodian) 1,670 95 550 795 230
Vietnamese 2,430 240 640 1,300 250
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 5 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 690 385 35 275 5
Bikol 0 5 0 0 0
Cebuano 20 5 0 10 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 10 5 0 0 0
Ilocano 30 20 0 10 0
Malagasy 60 0 30 25 0
Malay 45 20 0 25 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 5 5 0 0 0
Pangasinan 5 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 505 310 0 190 0
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Creole languages 7,725 25 4,800 2,625 280
Haitian Creole 260 0 145 105 10
Creole, n.o.s. 7,400 15 4,650 2,460 270
Creole languages, n.i.e. 70 5 5 55 0
Dravidian languages 2,010 800 100 890 220
Kannada 5 0 0 5 0
Malayalam 10 5 0 5 0
Tamil 1,995 790 100 885 220
Telugu 5 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 77,290 9,515 12,480 50,645 4,645
Albanian 460 40 125 250 45
Armenian 7,815 945 535 5,570 775
Balto-Slavic languages 4,670 605 970 2,880 215
Baltic languages 30 10 0 20 0
Latvian 15 5 0 10 0
Lithuanian 20 10 0 10 0
Slavic languages 4,635 595 970 2,860 210
Belarusan 5 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 120 15 35 60 5
Bulgarian 575 30 130 400 20
Croatian 360 85 20 250 5
Czech 85 15 10 55 0
Macedonian 25 0 5 15 0
Polish 760 135 105 505 20
Russian 2,130 220 565 1,210 135
Serbian 150 20 25 95 10
Serbo-Croatian 75 10 20 35 5
Slovak 60 10 5 40 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 70 20 5 45 0
Ukrainian 210 30 45 135 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 0 0 10 0
Celtic languages 15 0 5 10 0
Scottish Gaelic 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 20 0 0 15 0
Germanic languages 1,010 390 25 595 5
Afrikaans 5 5 0 5 0
Danish 5 0 0 5 0
Dutch 90 30 0 60 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 805 330 15 460 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 0 0 5 0
Swedish 25 10 0 10 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 20 0 5 20 0
Yiddish 45 15 0 25 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 10 0 0 5 0
Greek 13,820 4,050 95 8,510 1,160
Indo-Iranian languages 7,885 2,395 845 3,680 970
Indo-Aryan languages 4,330 1,865 120 1,850 495
Bengali 465 205 0 215 40
Gujarati 445 200 10 175 55
Hindi 140 60 0 75 5
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 5 0 5 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Nepali 80 10 20 30 20
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 1,740 775 40 660 260
Sindhi 20 0 0 15 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 70 35 0 30 0
Urdu 1,365 565 50 640 110
Iranian languages 3,525 530 725 1,805 470
Kurdish 105 15 40 40 10
Pashto 150 40 15 70 25
Persian (Farsi) 3,275 475 675 1,690 435
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 25 5 5 20 5
Italic (Romance) languages 41,610 1,095 9,880 29,150 1,485
Catalan 15 0 0 15 0
Italian 16,540 455 1,455 14,270 355
Portuguese 5,170 195 1,390 3,305 280
Romanian 6,325 95 1,825 4,175 230
Spanish 13,560 350 5,210 7,380 620
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 10 0 5 10 0
Japanese 65 20 5 30 5
Kartvelian languages 5 5 0 5 5
Georgian 10 5 0 5 0
Korean 110 30 10 60 15
Mongolic languages 20 5 0 15 0
Mongolian 20 5 0 15 0
Niger-Congo languages 1,390 75 630 655 25
Akan (Twi) 105 45 0 60 0
Bamanankan 75 0 40 35 0
Edo 5 0 0 0 0
Ewe 45 0 25 15 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 105 0 55 50 0
Ga 10 5 0 5 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 5 0 0 5 0
Lingala 140 0 85 55 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 105 0 55 45 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 110 0 25 80 0
Shona 0 0 0 5 0
Swahili 120 10 45 60 5
Wolof 165 0 85 70 5
Yoruba 5 0 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 395 10 210 170 10
Nilo-Saharan languages 20 0 10 10 0
Dinka 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 20 0 15 10 0
Sign languages 80 0 30 10 40
American Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 40 0 25 10 10
Sign languages, n.i.e 35 0 5 5 25
Sino-Tibetan languages 2,870 680 465 1,335 395
Chinese languages 2,860 680 460 1,330 395
Cantonese 1,050 160 145 565 180
Hakka 10 5 5 5 0
Mandarin 1,445 450 250 585 165
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 225 25 50 125 35
Wu (Shanghainese) 20 10 5 5 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 100 30 20 45 15
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 15 5 0 10 0
Burmese 5 0 0 0 0
Karenic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Tibetan 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 5
Tai-Kadai languages 1,070 55 410 530 80
Lao 995 35 395 495 75
Thai 70 20 15 35 5
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 935 105 325 400 105
Azerbaijani 25 0 5 15 5
Turkish 900 100 320 385 105
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0 5 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Uralic languages 650 150 65 405 25
Estonian 5 5 0 0 0
Finnish 10 5 0 10 0
Hungarian 635 145 65 400 25
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 30 5 5 15 0
Multiple responses 19,035 985 4,375 13,585 85
English and French 4,405 65 195 4,140 5
English and non-official language 3,260 835 40 2,370 20
French and non-official language 8,495 30 4,025 4,395 55
English, French and non-official language 2,870 50 130 2,685 10

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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) – Laval

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 2.9%.
  • 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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