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 Wellington
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 1 220,565 201,035 90 17,065 2,375
Single responses 217,555 198,700 85 16,410 2,360
Official languages 181,195 166,405 55 14,700 35
English 178,735 166,245 10 12,445 35
French 2,470 160 45 2,260 0
Non-official languages 36,355 32,295 25 1,710 2,325
Aboriginal languages 15 10 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 15 15 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 0 0 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 0 0 0 0 0
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 10 15 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 10 10 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 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 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 36,340 32,280 30 1,705 2,320
Afro-Asiatic languages 1,505 1,300 5 80 125
Berber languages 5 0 0 0 0
Kabyle 0 0 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 80 75 0 0 5
Bilen 15 15 0 0 0
Oromo 5 5 0 0 0
Somali 60 55 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 1,420 1,220 5 75 125
Amharic 200 185 0 0 5
Arabic 835 675 5 65 85
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 5 10 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 30 30 0 5 0
Maltese 70 70 0 0 0
Tigrigna 275 250 0 0 25
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 1,860 1,535 0 40 285
Khmer (Cambodian) 140 115 0 5 20
Vietnamese 1,715 1,415 5 35 265
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 5 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 1,990 1,945 0 35 10
Bikol 5 5 0 0 0
Cebuano 90 85 0 0 0
Fijian 5 5 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 35 30 0 0 0
Ilocano 65 60 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 70 70 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 20 20 0 0 0
Pangasinan 5 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 1,690 1,650 0 35 10
Waray-Waray 0 5 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Creole languages 25 20 0 5 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 5 0 0 5 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 5 0
Dravidian languages 600 550 0 30 25
Kannada 40 35 0 0 0
Malayalam 180 155 0 5 5
Tamil 360 330 0 15 10
Telugu 30 25 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 24,110 21,560 20 1,280 1,250
Albanian 55 50 0 0 10
Armenian 85 70 0 15 5
Balto-Slavic languages 3,860 3,505 0 230 120
Baltic languages 100 90 0 10 5
Latvian 40 35 0 0 0
Lithuanian 60 50 0 5 0
Slavic languages 3,760 3,420 0 220 115
Belarusan 5 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 80 70 0 0 10
Bulgarian 30 25 0 5 0
Croatian 315 300 0 15 5
Czech 175 165 0 10 0
Macedonian 50 45 0 0 0
Polish 1,685 1,555 0 75 50
Russian 345 300 0 30 10
Serbian 545 480 0 30 35
Serbo-Croatian 65 60 0 0 0
Slovak 100 85 0 10 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 75 70 0 5 0
Ukrainian 290 255 0 30 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages 25 25 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 15 10 0 0 0
Welsh 15 15 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 8,685 7,950 5 305 425
Afrikaans 45 40 0 5 0
Danish 140 130 0 5 0
Dutch 2,240 2,135 5 85 25
Frisian 70 65 0 0 0
German 6,080 5,490 5 180 400
Icelandic 10 10 0 0 0
Norwegian 10 10 0 0 0
Swedish 40 30 0 5 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 35 20 0 15 0
Yiddish 10 5 0 0 5
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 285 255 0 15 10
Indo-Iranian languages 5,545 4,790 10 275 475
Indo-Aryan languages 4,270 3,680 5 205 380
Bengali 300 280 0 10 5
Gujarati 670 610 0 15 45
Hindi 390 360 0 20 10
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 15 10 0 0 0
Marathi 45 40 0 5 0
Nepali 285 175 10 60 45
Oriya (Odia) 25 20 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 1,770 1,440 0 80 245
Sindhi 35 35 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 140 135 0 5 0
Urdu 600 570 0 20 15
Iranian languages 1,255 1,090 0 70 95
Kurdish 80 60 0 5 10
Pashto 160 130 0 15 10
Persian (Farsi) 1,015 890 0 55 70
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0 5
Italic (Romance) languages 5,565 4,910 5 445 205
Catalan 5 0 0 0 0
Italian 2,745 2,475 0 155 110
Portuguese 780 700 0 50 35
Romanian 395 310 0 70 15
Spanish 1,640 1,425 0 165 45
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Japanese 155 135 0 0 10
Kartvelian languages 5 10 0 0 0
Georgian 10 5 0 0 0
Korean 320 290 0 5 25
Mongolic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Mongolian 5 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 180 145 0 25 10
Akan (Twi) 25 25 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 5 0
Edo 5 0 0 0 0
Ewe 5 5 0 0 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Ganda 5 5 0 0 0
Igbo 5 10 0 0 0
Lingala 5 0 0 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 10 0 0 10 0
Shona 10 10 0 0 0
Swahili 35 20 0 5 10
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 30 30 0 5 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 35 30 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 40 35 0 5 0
Dinka 5 5 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 35 30 0 5 0
Sign languages 55 35 0 5 15
American Sign Language 30 20 0 5 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 30 15 0 0 15
Sino-Tibetan languages 3,690 3,120 0 115 445
Chinese languages 3,680 3,120 0 120 450
Cantonese 1,225 970 0 45 215
Hakka 25 20 0 0 5
Mandarin 2,125 1,855 0 65 205
Min Dong 0 5 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 140 115 0 5 15
Wu (Shanghainese) 30 25 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 140 120 0 5 10
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 5 5 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. 5 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 240 190 0 5 40
Lao 155 130 0 5 20
Thai 85 55 0 5 20
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 430 355 0 25 45
Azerbaijani 5 5 0 0 0
Turkish 70 60 0 5 5
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 335 275 0 20 35
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 5
Uralic languages 1,115 1,040 0 50 30
Estonian 40 35 0 5 0
Finnish 80 75 0 5 0
Hungarian 995 925 0 45 25
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Multiple responses 3,010 2,340 5 650 15
English and French 500 125 0 375 0
English and non-official language 2,390 2,190 0 180 15
French and non-official language 50 10 0 40 0
English, French and non-official language 70 15 5 55 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) – Wellington

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 3.8%.
  • 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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