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 Wood Buffalo, SM
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 71,545 65,735 150 5,040 625
Single responses 70,335 64,760 145 4,820 615
Official languages 55,895 51,660 110 4,100 20
English 54,015 51,480 5 2,510 20
French 1,875 180 105 1,590 0
Non-official languages 14,445 13,095 30 725 595
Aboriginal languages 465 445 0 15 5
Algonquian languages 290 275 0 10 5
Blackfoot 5 5 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 275 260 0 5 5
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 5 5 0 0 0
Plains Cree 5 10 0 0 0
Southern East Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Swampy Cree 5 5 0 0 0
Woods Cree 5 5 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 255 245 0 5 5
Eastern Algonquian languages 10 5 0 0 0
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 5 10 0 0 0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 10 10 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 5 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 5 0
Ottawa (Odawa) 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Athabaskan languages 170 155 0 5 5
Northern Athabaskan languages 165 155 0 5 5
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 165 155 0 10 5
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 0 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 5 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 5 5 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. 0 0 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 13,980 12,655 30 710 590
Afro-Asiatic languages 2,665 2,250 15 240 165
Berber languages 10 0 0 10 0
Kabyle 10 0 0 5 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Cushitic languages 800 690 0 45 65
Bilen 5 5 0 0 0
Oromo 65 55 0 0 5
Somali 725 620 0 45 60
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages 1,840 1,555 15 180 95
Amharic 450 425 0 20 5
Arabic 1,275 1,025 15 155 75
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 5 5 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 10 5 0 0 0
Harari 5 10 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 95 80 0 5 10
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 65 60 0 5 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 10 10 0 0 0
Vietnamese 60 50 0 5 5
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 3,195 3,080 5 55 55
Bikol 10 10 0 0 0
Cebuano 80 75 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 20 25 0 0 0
Ilocano 75 70 0 0 5
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 25 25 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 5 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 2,915 2,810 0 55 55
Waray-Waray 5 5 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 50 45 0 5 0
Creole languages 40 20 0 15 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 25 10 0 15 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 360 335 0 10 15
Kannada 15 15 0 0 0
Malayalam 145 140 0 0 5
Tamil 125 115 0 5 5
Telugu 70 65 0 0 5
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 5,710 5,175 5 275 260
Albanian 15 15 0 5 0
Armenian 5 5 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 565 510 5 35 20
Baltic languages 15 20 0 0 0
Latvian 10 10 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0 0
Slavic languages 550 490 0 35 20
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 10 10 0 0 0
Bulgarian 25 20 5 0 0
Croatian 20 20 0 5 0
Czech 20 15 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 10 0 0 0
Polish 135 120 0 10 5
Russian 155 145 0 15 5
Serbian 60 50 0 10 5
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0 0
Slovak 15 15 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 10 10 0 0 0
Ukrainian 75 70 0 5 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 0 5 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 410 385 0 25 5
Afrikaans 170 160 0 0 5
Danish 10 10 0 0 0
Dutch 70 65 0 5 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 150 140 0 10 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 5 0 0 0
Swedish 10 5 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 0 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 25 25 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 3,595 3,325 0 85 190
Indo-Aryan languages 3,365 3,120 0 70 175
Bengali 240 215 0 15 10
Gujarati 1,075 1,010 0 15 50
Hindi 415 395 0 5 15
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 5 5 0 0 0
Marathi 65 55 0 0 5
Nepali 35 35 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 5 5 0 0 5
Punjabi (Panjabi) 425 390 0 5 25
Sindhi 20 15 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 50 50 0 0 0
Urdu 1,035 945 0 25 65
Iranian languages 215 190 0 15 10
Kurdish 10 10 0 0 0
Pashto 75 70 0 5 5
Persian (Farsi) 125 110 0 15 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 1,085 910 0 130 50
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 35 25 0 10 0
Portuguese 130 115 0 15 5
Romanian 115 85 0 25 5
Spanish 805 685 5 75 40
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Japanese 25 25 0 0 0
Kartvelian languages 25 25 0 0 5
Georgian 25 20 0 5 5
Korean 160 150 0 5 5
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 790 685 10 65 30
Akan (Twi) 70 65 0 5 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 10 5 0 0 0
Ewe 20 20 0 5 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 5 0 5 0
Ganda 15 10 0 5 0
Igbo 50 45 0 5 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 30 15 0 10 0
Shona 115 110 0 5 5
Swahili 70 55 0 10 5
Wolof 10 0 0 5 0
Yoruba 100 100 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 285 250 5 15 15
Nilo-Saharan languages 80 70 0 5 0
Dinka 30 35 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 45 40 0 5 0
Sign languages 5 5 0 0 5
American Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 5 0 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 680 620 0 20 40
Chinese languages 670 610 0 15 40
Cantonese 125 115 0 5 5
Hakka 10 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 335 300 0 5 25
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 5 5 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 195 185 0 5 10
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 10 10 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0
Karenic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Tibetan 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 50 50 0 0 5
Lao 10 5 0 0 0
Thai 40 40 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 35 30 0 5 0
Azerbaijani 5 0 0 0 0
Turkish 20 20 0 0 0
Uyghur 5 5 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 5 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Uralic languages 60 50 0 5 0
Estonian 5 0 0 0 0
Finnish 10 10 0 5 0
Hungarian 55 45 0 5 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 5 0
Multiple responses 1,210 980 5 215 10
English and French 140 40 0 105 0
English and non-official language 970 915 0 45 10
French and non-official language 70 15 5 50 0
English, French and non-official language 30 10 0 20 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) – Wood Buffalo, SM

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 14.4%.
  • Short-form income data quality flag
    Data quality index showing a short-form income non-response rate higher than or equal to 10%, but lower than 20%.

Source: Statistics Canada, 2016 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-400-X2016054.

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