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 Saint John
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 72,650 62,570 105 9,325 645
Single responses 71,975 62,260 100 8,975 640
Official languages 68,530 59,750 70 8,690 15
English 65,460 59,450 0 5,995 15
French 3,070 305 70 2,695 5
Non-official languages 3,445 2,510 30 280 625
Aboriginal languages 5 5 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 0 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 5 0 0 0 0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 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 0 0 0 0
Northern Athabaskan languages 0 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 0 5 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 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 3,440 2,505 30 275 620
Afro-Asiatic languages 770 315 10 45 400
Berber languages 0 0 0 0 0
Kabyle 0 0 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 20 20 0 0 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 25 20 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 750 295 10 45 400
Amharic 0 5 0 0 0
Arabic 700 250 10 40 400
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 45 40 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 85 80 0 10 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 85 75 0 10 0
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 190 175 0 5 5
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 15 10 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 0 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 165 155 0 5 5
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Creole languages 5 5 0 0 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 50 50 0 5 0
Kannada 5 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 10 10 0 0 0
Tamil 10 10 0 0 0
Telugu 20 25 0 0 5
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 1,180 975 0 145 60
Albanian 10 10 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 205 175 5 20 5
Baltic languages 0 5 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 205 175 0 20 5
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 10 10 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0 0
Croatian 0 0 0 0 0
Czech 5 5 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 0 0 0 0
Polish 15 15 0 0 0
Russian 130 110 0 15 5
Serbian 0 5 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 5 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 30 25 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 5 0 5 0
Scottish Gaelic 5 5 0 0 0
Welsh 5 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 135 115 0 20 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 0 0
Dutch 45 40 0 10 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 75 60 0 10 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 0 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 50 45 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages 410 350 0 20 40
Indo-Aryan languages 255 225 0 10 15
Bengali 55 50 0 5 0
Gujarati 20 15 0 0 0
Hindi 50 40 0 0 0
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 15 10 0 5 0
Nepali 35 25 0 0 5
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 20 15 0 0 0
Sindhi 5 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 55 55 0 0 0
Iranian languages 155 125 0 10 25
Kurdish 20 5 0 0 15
Pashto 5 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 130 110 0 15 10
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 365 275 0 75 15
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 45 35 0 5 5
Portuguese 55 45 0 10 5
Romanian 45 30 0 15 0
Spanish 215 160 0 40 10
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 10 15 0 0 0
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 240 195 0 30 15
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 80 40 25 15 5
Akan (Twi) 10 5 0 5 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 0 0 0 0 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 5 10 0 0 0
Lingala 5 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 5 0 0 5 0
Shona 5 5 0 0 0
Swahili 20 0 15 0 5
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 25 15 5 5 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 5 5 0 0 0
Dinka 5 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages 15 10 0 0 5
American Sign Language 5 5 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 10 10 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 745 600 0 20 125
Chinese languages 750 600 0 20 125
Cantonese 80 65 0 5 10
Hakka 5 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 580 460 0 15 105
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 5 5 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 20 20 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 60 50 0 0 5
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 0 0 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. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 5 10 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 10 10 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 20 10 0 5 5
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 20 10 0 5 5
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Uralic languages 30 25 0 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 5 0
Finnish 5 10 0 0 0
Hungarian 20 15 0 0 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 670 305 0 355 10
English and French 405 95 0 315 0
English and non-official language 245 205 0 30 10
French and non-official language 10 0 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 10 0 0 5 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) – Saint John

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 4.1%.
  • 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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