Data tables, 2016 Census

Mother Tongue (263), Single and Multiple Mother Tongue Responses (3), Age (7) 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 , single and multiple mother tongue responses , age and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Perth
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Mother Tongue (263) Single and multiple mother tongue responses (3)
Total - Single and multiple mother tongue responsesFootnote 1 Single mother tongue responsesFootnote 2 Multiple mother tongue responsesFootnote 3
Total - Mother tongueFootnote 4 75,625 75,070 555
Official languages 68,070 67,515 555
English 67,670 67,125 540
French 485 390 95
Non-official languages 8,035 7,555 480
Aboriginal languages 5 5 0
Algonquian languages 5 5 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0
Montagnais (Innu) 0 0 0
Moose Cree 0 0 0
Naskapi 0 0 0
Northern East Cree 0 0 0
Plains Cree 0 0 0
Southern East Cree 0 0 0
Swampy Cree 5 0 0
Woods Cree 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0
Eastern Algonquian languages 0 0 0
Malecite 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 5 0 0
Ottawa (Odawa) 0 0 0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Athabaskan languages 0 0 0
Northern Athabaskan languages 0 0 0
Babine (Wetsuwet'en) 0 0 0
Beaver 0 0 0
Carrier 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 0 0
Dene 0 0 0
Dogrib (Tlicho) 0 0 0
Gwich'in 0 0 0
Sarsi (Sarcee) 0 0 0
Sekani 0 0 0
Slavey-Hare languages 0 0 0
North Slavey (Hare) 0 0 0
South Slavey 0 0 0
Slavey, n.o.s. 0 0 0
Tahltan languages 0 0 0
Kaska (Nahani) 0 0 0
Tahltan 0 0 0
Tutchone languages 0 0 0
Northern Tutchone 0 0 0
Southern Tutchone 0 0 0
Athabaskan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Haida 0 0 0
Inuit languages 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages 0 0 0
Cayuga 0 0 0
Mohawk 0 0 0
Oneida 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Kutenai 0 0 0
Michif 0 0 0
Salish languages 0 0 0
Comox 0 0 0
Halkomelem 0 0 0
Lillooet 0 0 0
Okanagan 0 0 0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 0 0 0
Squamish 0 0 0
Straits 0 0 0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 0 0 0
Salish languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Siouan languages 0 5 0
Dakota 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0
Siouan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Tlingit 0 0 0
Tsimshian languages 0 0 0
Gitxsan (Gitksan) 0 0 0
Nisga'a 0 0 0
Tsimshian 0 0 0
Wakashan languages 0 0 0
Haisla 0 0 0
Heiltsuk 0 0 0
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala) 0 0 0
Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka) 0 0 0
Wakashan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.o.s. 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 8,030 7,555 480
Afro-Asiatic languages 105 95 5
Berber languages 0 0 0
Kabyle 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 0 0 0
Bilen 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0
Somali 5 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Semitic languages 95 95 0
Amharic 5 5 0
Arabic 75 75 0
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 5 0
Maltese 5 0 0
Tigrigna 5 5 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 5
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 25 25 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0
Vietnamese 25 20 0
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 135 110 30
Bikol 5 5 0
Cebuano 5 5 0
Fijian 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 0 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0
Malagasy 0 0 0
Malay 5 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 120 90 30
Waray-Waray 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 5
Creole languages 15 15 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 5 0 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0
Dravidian languages 65 45 15
Kannada 5 5 0
Malayalam 35 25 10
Tamil 10 10 0
Telugu 10 10 5
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 7,095 6,695 400
Albanian 15 10 5
Armenian 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 350 330 20
Baltic languages 10 5 5
Latvian 10 10 0
Lithuanian 5 0 0
Slavic languages 340 320 20
Belarusan 5 5 0
Bosnian 5 5 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0
Croatian 25 25 0
Czech 15 15 0
Macedonian 5 5 0
Polish 145 130 10
Russian 40 35 5
Serbian 30 30 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0
Slovak 15 15 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 25 20 0
Ukrainian 40 35 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0
Celtic languages 15 15 5
Scottish Gaelic 5 5 0
Welsh 10 5 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Germanic languages 5,590 5,330 255
Afrikaans 10 10 0
Danish 35 30 0
Dutch 1,175 1,105 65
Frisian 25 25 0
German 4,255 4,070 180
Icelandic 5 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0
Swedish 15 20 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 65 65 0
Yiddish 5 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0
Greek 80 75 10
Indo-Iranian languages 330 295 35
Indo-Aryan languages 305 270 30
Bengali 10 10 0
Gujarati 90 75 10
Hindi 50 40 5
Kashmiri 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 120 110 15
Sindhi 5 10 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0
Urdu 25 20 5
Iranian languages 25 20 5
Kurdish 0 0 0
Pashto 0 5 0
Persian (Farsi) 20 20 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 715 645 70
Catalan 5 5 0
Italian 240 215 25
Portuguese 145 130 15
Romanian 30 30 0
Spanish 295 265 35
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Japanese 50 50 5
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0
Korean 65 65 0
Mongolic languages 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 20 20 5
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0
Ewe 5 0 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0
Igbo 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 0 0 0
Shona 0 5 0
Swahili 5 10 0
Wolof 0 0 0
Yoruba 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 5 0 0
Dinka 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0
Sign languages 20 20 0
American Sign Language 5 5 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 15 10 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 170 165 5
Chinese languages 165 160 5
Cantonese 70 65 5
Hakka 0 0 0
Mandarin 80 80 0
Min Dong 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 15 15 0
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 5 5 0
Burmese 0 0 0
Karenic languages 0 0 0
Tibetan 0 5 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 165 150 10
Lao 130 120 10
Thai 35 30 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0
Turkic languages 10 10 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0
Uyghur 5 5 0
Uzbek 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Uralic languages 90 85 5
Estonian 5 5 0
Finnish 15 15 0
Hungarian 70 65 5
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

The category 'Total - Single and multiple mother tongue responses' indicates the number of respondents who reported each language, either as their only response, or in combination with another language. Total responses represent the sum of single mother tongue responses and multiple mother tongue responses received in the census.

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Footnote 2

A single mother tongue response occurs when a respondent provides one language only.

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Footnote 3

A multiple mother tongue response occurs when a respondent provides two or more languages.

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Footnote 4

This is a total population count. The sum of the languages in this table is greater than the total population count because a person may report more than one language in the census.

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

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Data quality note(s) – Perth

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 3.9%.
  • 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-X2016060.

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