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 Division No. 8
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 1 206,260 195,625 105 9,500 1,030
Single responses 203,635 193,430 100 9,085 1,020
Official languages 183,060 174,470 70 8,495 25
English 180,560 174,145 10 6,385 25
French 2,500 325 65 2,110 0
Non-official languages 20,575 18,960 30 595 995
Aboriginal languages 1,020 1,000 0 15 0
Algonquian languages 975 965 0 10 5
Blackfoot 5 5 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 955 940 0 10 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 75 70 0 5 0
Southern East Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Swampy Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Woods Cree 15 15 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 865 850 0 10 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 25 20 0 5 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 20 20 0 5 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 15 15 0 0 0
Northern Athabaskan languages 15 10 0 0 0
Babine (Wetsuwet'en) 0 0 0 0 0
Beaver 0 0 0 0 0
Carrier 0 5 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0
Dene 10 10 0 0 0
Dogrib (Tlicho) 0 5 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 5 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 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 5 5 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 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 15 15 0 0 0
Dakota 10 10 0 0 0
Stoney 0 5 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) 5 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) 5 5 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 19,560 17,955 30 575 995
Afro-Asiatic languages 765 485 5 55 210
Berber languages 0 0 0 5 0
Kabyle 0 0 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 75 70 0 0 10
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 15 10 0 0 5
Somali 65 55 0 5 5
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 680 415 5 50 200
Amharic 25 25 0 0 0
Arabic 590 340 5 50 195
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 5 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 55 45 0 0 10
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 340 295 0 5 40
Khmer (Cambodian) 65 60 0 0 5
Vietnamese 270 230 0 10 35
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 5,390 5,325 5 25 35
Bikol 25 30 0 0 0
Cebuano 155 155 0 0 0
Fijian 10 10 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 55 50 0 0 0
Ilocano 290 285 0 5 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 25 25 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 50 45 0 0 0
Pangasinan 20 20 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 4,710 4,650 5 20 30
Waray-Waray 25 20 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 30 35 0 0 0
Creole languages 50 20 0 30 0
Haitian Creole 15 5 0 10 5
Creole, n.o.s. 25 0 0 15 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 185 180 0 0 5
Kannada 5 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 85 75 0 5 0
Tamil 65 60 0 5 0
Telugu 30 30 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 10,625 9,800 20 375 440
Albanian 10 5 0 0 0
Armenian 50 40 0 5 5
Balto-Slavic languages 2,060 1,930 0 50 80
Baltic languages 35 30 0 0 0
Latvian 20 20 0 0 0
Lithuanian 15 15 0 0 0
Slavic languages 2,025 1,895 0 50 80
Belarusan 0 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 75 70 0 0 0
Bulgarian 30 25 0 0 5
Croatian 60 55 0 0 0
Czech 65 65 0 5 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0 0
Polish 265 255 0 5 0
Russian 510 465 0 20 25
Serbian 70 65 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 20 20 0 0 0
Slovak 45 40 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 0 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 875 820 0 10 45
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages 30 30 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 10 10 0 0 0
Welsh 20 20 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 4,370 4,165 0 130 75
Afrikaans 205 205 0 5 0
Danish 155 150 0 5 0
Dutch 1,590 1,550 0 40 5
Frisian 55 50 0 0 0
German 2,270 2,125 0 75 70
Icelandic 5 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 40 35 0 0 0
Swedish 35 35 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 10 10 0 5 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Greek 80 75 0 5 5
Indo-Iranian languages 1,520 1,420 0 20 85
Indo-Aryan languages 1,120 1,060 0 15 50
Bengali 55 50 0 0 5
Gujarati 110 100 0 0 0
Hindi 245 235 0 5 5
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 5 0 0 0
Marathi 5 0 0 0 0
Nepali 50 45 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 280 260 0 0 20
Sindhi 15 10 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 65 60 0 0 10
Urdu 305 290 0 5 10
Iranian languages 380 340 0 0 35
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 85 85 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 285 255 0 0 25
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 2,515 2,145 15 165 185
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 115 100 0 10 0
Portuguese 105 85 0 15 5
Romanian 150 135 0 10 5
Spanish 2,140 1,825 15 125 175
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 60 55 0 0 0
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 5 0 0 0 0
Korean 430 380 0 5 40
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 265 230 0 35 5
Akan (Twi) 35 40 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 10 0 0 5 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 30 30 0 0 0
Lingala 10 5 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 5 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 10 5 0 5 0
Shona 20 15 0 0 0
Swahili 40 35 0 0 5
Wolof 5 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 25 20 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 85 70 0 10 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 35 35 0 0 0
Dinka 25 25 0 5 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Sign languages 40 20 0 0 20
American Sign Language 10 10 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 30 15 0 0 15
Sino-Tibetan languages 965 770 0 20 165
Chinese languages 935 750 0 25 165
Cantonese 515 400 0 10 110
Hakka 5 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 315 265 0 10 45
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 20 15 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 5 5 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 70 55 0 0 10
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 25 25 0 0 5
Burmese 5 5 0 0 0
Karenic languages 15 20 0 0 0
Tibetan 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 135 110 0 0 25
Lao 50 45 0 0 5
Thai 75 60 0 0 20
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 35 30 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 10 10 0 0 0
Uyghur 0 5 0 0 0
Uzbek 10 10 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Uralic languages 225 205 0 20 0
Estonian 15 10 0 0 0
Finnish 60 60 0 5 0
Hungarian 150 135 0 10 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 30 25 0 0 0
Multiple responses 2,625 2,200 5 415 10
English and French 420 120 5 295 0
English and non-official language 2,120 2,055 0 55 10
French and non-official language 50 10 0 35 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) – Division No. 8

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 5.1%.
  • 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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