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 Waterloo, CY
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 1 103,785 92,425 45 9,660 1,660
Single responses 101,705 90,815 40 9,205 1,650
Official languages 73,095 65,690 20 7,345 35
English 71,990 65,600 5 6,350 35
French 1,100 90 15 1,000 0
Non-official languages 28,615 25,125 20 1,855 1,615
Aboriginal languages 0 5 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 0 5 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 0 0 0 0 0
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 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 0 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 5 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 5 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 28,610 25,120 20 1,855 1,615
Afro-Asiatic languages 2,205 1,775 5 210 210
Berber languages 20 10 0 5 0
Kabyle 20 5 0 10 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 170 145 5 5 20
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 5 10 0 0 0
Somali 160 140 5 5 20
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 2,015 1,620 0 205 185
Amharic 80 75 0 0 0
Arabic 1,815 1,425 5 195 180
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 30 30 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 50 45 0 0 5
Maltese 5 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 30 25 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 475 410 0 20 40
Khmer (Cambodian) 15 15 0 0 0
Vietnamese 460 395 0 20 45
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 395 385 0 5 5
Bikol 0 5 0 0 0
Cebuano 5 5 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 5 5 0 0 0
Ilocano 25 20 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 60 60 0 0 5
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 5 5 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 290 280 0 0 0
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Creole languages 25 10 0 10 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 15 5 0 10 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 5 0
Dravidian languages 540 500 0 25 10
Kannada 35 35 0 0 0
Malayalam 125 115 0 0 10
Tamil 265 250 0 15 5
Telugu 110 105 0 10 5
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 65 60 0 5 5
Indo-European languages 14,625 12,900 10 1,205 505
Albanian 70 70 0 0 0
Armenian 170 125 0 15 30
Balto-Slavic languages 3,455 3,020 0 295 140
Baltic languages 35 35 0 5 5
Latvian 15 10 0 0 0
Lithuanian 25 20 0 5 0
Slavic languages 3,420 2,985 5 290 135
Belarusan 0 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 45 45 0 5 0
Bulgarian 65 55 0 10 0
Croatian 255 245 0 10 5
Czech 140 120 0 25 0
Macedonian 30 25 0 5 0
Polish 980 900 5 60 20
Russian 720 595 0 75 50
Serbian 715 600 0 70 45
Serbo-Croatian 110 95 0 10 5
Slovak 115 105 0 5 5
Slovene (Slovenian) 30 30 0 0 0
Ukrainian 175 150 0 20 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 25 20 5 0 5
Celtic languages 10 5 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages 2,850 2,615 0 230 5
Afrikaans 30 30 0 0 0
Danish 55 50 0 5 0
Dutch 330 295 0 40 0
Frisian 10 5 0 0 0
German 2,365 2,190 0 175 5
Icelandic 5 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 10 10 0 0 0
Swedish 25 20 0 5 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 15 15 0 5 0
Yiddish 5 0 0 5 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 340 295 0 40 5
Indo-Iranian languages 4,765 4,315 0 230 220
Indo-Aryan languages 3,315 3,010 0 160 140
Bengali 365 335 0 20 10
Gujarati 395 355 0 20 15
Hindi 565 525 0 25 10
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 20 20 0 0 0
Marathi 70 65 0 0 0
Nepali 60 50 0 10 5
Oriya (Odia) 10 10 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 770 675 0 30 70
Sindhi 75 65 0 5 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 120 110 0 5 0
Urdu 860 790 0 40 20
Iranian languages 1,405 1,255 0 70 80
Kurdish 90 80 0 0 10
Pashto 140 130 0 0 5
Persian (Farsi) 1,180 1,045 0 65 65
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 45 45 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 2,960 2,455 5 395 105
Catalan 10 10 0 0 0
Italian 330 270 0 55 0
Portuguese 535 470 5 50 15
Romanian 800 620 0 145 25
Spanish 1,290 1,090 0 145 55
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Japanese 150 125 0 5 15
Kartvelian languages 0 5 0 0 0
Georgian 0 5 0 0 0
Korean 1,095 980 0 35 80
Mongolic languages 5 5 0 5 0
Mongolian 10 10 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 150 120 0 25 0
Akan (Twi) 20 20 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 5 0 0 0 0
Ewe 10 10 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 10 10 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 5 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 5 5 0 5 0
Shona 15 15 0 5 0
Swahili 35 25 0 10 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 15 20 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 5 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 35 30 0 0 5
Dinka 0 5 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 30 30 0 0 0
Sign languages 20 10 0 5 10
American Sign Language 10 5 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 10 0 0 0 10
Sino-Tibetan languages 8,000 7,060 0 240 700
Chinese languages 8,000 7,060 0 235 700
Cantonese 970 865 0 35 70
Hakka 15 10 0 0 0
Mandarin 6,530 5,760 0 190 580
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 95 75 0 5 20
Wu (Shanghainese) 60 50 0 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 320 300 0 5 20
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 5 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 140 125 0 5 10
Lao 105 90 0 10 10
Thai 35 40 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 305 265 0 25 15
Azerbaijani 40 35 0 0 5
Turkish 255 220 0 20 15
Uyghur 5 5 0 0 0
Uzbek 5 5 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Uralic languages 350 315 0 30 10
Estonian 20 20 0 5 0
Finnish 40 35 0 0 0
Hungarian 285 255 0 25 5
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0 0
Multiple responses 2,080 1,615 5 460 10
English and French 230 55 0 180 0
English and non-official language 1,735 1,540 0 190 10
French and non-official language 55 10 0 45 0
English, French and non-official language 65 10 5 50 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) – Waterloo, CY

  • 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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