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 Saanich, DM
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 1 112,875 101,080 30 9,895 1,870
Single responses 110,895 99,535 30 9,475 1,855
Official languages 88,585 80,195 15 8,350 30
English 87,265 80,105 0 7,135 30
French 1,320 90 10 1,215 0
Non-official languages 22,315 19,340 15 1,130 1,825
Aboriginal languages 30 25 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 15 10 0 0 5
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 5 5 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 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0
Eastern Algonquian languages 5 0 0 0 0
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 5 5 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 5 0 0 0 0
Northern Athabaskan languages 0 5 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 5 0 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0 0
Dogrib (Tlicho) 0 0 0 0 0
Gwich'in 5 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 0 0 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 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 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 5 5 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 5 5 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) 5 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 22,285 19,310 20 1,130 1,825
Afro-Asiatic languages 740 590 5 95 55
Berber languages 10 0 5 5 0
Kabyle 0 0 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 10 0 0 5 0
Cushitic languages 40 35 0 0 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 10 10 0 0 0
Somali 30 30 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 695 555 0 85 55
Amharic 35 35 0 0 0
Arabic 570 445 0 75 50
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 5 5 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 45 35 0 5 0
Maltese 10 15 0 0 0
Tigrigna 30 25 0 0 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 510 465 0 10 35
Khmer (Cambodian) 50 50 0 0 0
Vietnamese 460 420 0 10 30
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 1,465 1,435 0 20 10
Bikol 10 5 0 0 0
Cebuano 85 80 0 5 5
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 15 10 0 0 0
Ilocano 75 70 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 35 35 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 5 0 0 0
Pangasinan 5 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 1,225 1,200 0 15 5
Waray-Waray 5 5 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0 0
Creole languages 10 5 0 10 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 5 0 0 5 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 170 160 0 5 0
Kannada 5 10 0 0 0
Malayalam 40 35 0 0 0
Tamil 75 70 0 5 0
Telugu 50 45 0 0 5
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 9,850 8,645 10 740 455
Albanian 40 40 0 0 5
Armenian 15 5 0 5 0
Balto-Slavic languages 1,450 1,295 0 115 35
Baltic languages 30 30 0 0 0
Latvian 10 5 0 5 0
Lithuanian 25 20 0 5 0
Slavic languages 1,415 1,270 0 110 35
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 50 40 0 10 0
Croatian 225 220 0 5 0
Czech 95 90 0 10 0
Macedonian 0 5 0 0 0
Polish 315 285 0 25 5
Russian 315 270 0 30 15
Serbian 100 80 0 15 5
Serbo-Croatian 40 40 0 0 0
Slovak 35 25 0 5 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 35 30 0 5 0
Ukrainian 185 165 0 10 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Celtic languages 25 15 0 10 0
Scottish Gaelic 10 5 0 0 0
Welsh 15 10 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 5 0
Germanic languages 2,265 1,990 0 265 10
Afrikaans 55 55 0 5 0
Danish 105 95 0 10 0
Dutch 600 520 5 75 0
Frisian 5 5 0 0 0
German 1,355 1,190 0 160 5
Icelandic 10 10 0 0 0
Norwegian 60 60 0 5 0
Swedish 45 45 0 5 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 15 5 0 0 0
Yiddish 15 15 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 105 100 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages 3,705 3,275 5 95 335
Indo-Aryan languages 3,305 2,925 0 60 315
Bengali 100 95 0 10 0
Gujarati 65 60 0 0 0
Hindi 300 285 0 5 10
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 5 0 0 0
Marathi 20 20 0 0 0
Nepali 40 35 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 5 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 2,615 2,275 0 50 295
Sindhi 15 15 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 30 30 0 0 0
Urdu 120 110 0 0 10
Iranian languages 395 350 0 30 20
Kurdish 5 5 0 0 0
Pashto 20 20 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 370 325 0 25 20
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 5
Italic (Romance) languages 2,245 1,920 0 250 70
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 450 395 0 50 5
Portuguese 685 615 0 45 25
Romanian 130 80 0 40 5
Spanish 985 830 0 115 40
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Japanese 635 580 0 25 35
Kartvelian languages 5 0 0 0 0
Georgian 5 0 0 0 0
Korean 790 665 0 40 80
Mongolic languages 5 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 105 80 0 20 5
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 5 0 0 0 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 5 0 0 0
Ganda 5 0 0 0 5
Igbo 5 5 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 10 5 0 5 5
Shona 5 5 0 0 0
Swahili 30 25 0 0 5
Wolof 5 0 0 5 0
Yoruba 10 10 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 30 25 0 5 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 10 5 0 0 0
Dinka 5 5 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Sign languages 30 15 0 0 10
American Sign Language 5 5 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 20 10 0 0 10
Sino-Tibetan languages 7,495 6,225 0 140 1,130
Chinese languages 7,455 6,185 0 140 1,130
Cantonese 3,285 2,625 0 55 610
Hakka 35 30 0 0 0
Mandarin 3,605 3,070 0 85 450
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 140 115 0 0 20
Wu (Shanghainese) 85 70 5 0 10
Chinese, n.o.s. 300 270 0 0 25
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 40 35 0 0 0
Burmese 20 20 0 0 0
Karenic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Tibetan 10 10 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 85 85 0 5 0
Lao 5 5 0 0 0
Thai 80 80 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 5 5 0 0 0
Turkic languages 55 50 0 10 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 50 40 0 10 5
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Uralic languages 320 295 0 20 5
Estonian 15 10 0 0 0
Finnish 80 75 0 5 0
Hungarian 225 210 0 15 5
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,980 1,545 0 420 10
English and French 295 55 0 245 0
English and non-official language 1,600 1,480 0 110 10
French and non-official language 50 10 5 40 0
English, French and non-official language 35 10 0 30 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) – Saanich, DM

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 4.0%.
  • 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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