Data tables, 2016 Census

First Official Language Spoken (7), Language Spoken Most Often at Home (269), 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 first official language spoken , language spoken most often at home , age and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Capital
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Language spoken most often at home (269) First official language spoken (7)
Total - First official language spoken English French English and French Neither English nor French Official language minority (number)Footnote 1 Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 2
Total - Language spoken most often at homeFootnote 3 377,670 367,440 6,175 1,005 3,050 6,680 1.8
Single responses 368,105 358,550 5,795 715 3,045 6,150 1.7
Official languages 348,310 342,560 5,750 0 0 5,750 1.7
English 346,395 342,455 3,945 0 0 3,945 1.1
French 1,915 110 1,805 0 0 1,805 94.3
Non-official languages 19,795 15,990 45 715 3,050 400 2.0
Aboriginal languages 35 35 0 5 0 0 0.0
Algonquian languages 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cree-Montagnais languages 0 0 0 0 5 0 not applicable ...
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Montagnais (Innu) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Moose Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Naskapi 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Northern East Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Plains Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Southern East Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Swampy Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Woods Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 5 0 not applicable ...
Eastern Algonquian languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ojibway 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ottawa (Odawa) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Athabaskan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Northern Athabaskan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Babine (Wetsuwet'en) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Beaver 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Carrier 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Dene 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Dogrib (Tlicho) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Gwich'in 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Sarsi (Sarcee) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Sekani 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Slavey-Hare languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
North Slavey (Hare) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
South Slavey 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Slavey, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tahltan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Kaska (Nahani) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tahltan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tutchone languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Northern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Southern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Athabaskan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Haida 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuit languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Iroquoian languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cayuga 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Mohawk 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Oneida 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Kutenai 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Michif 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Salish languages 30 30 0 0 0 0 0.0
Comox 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Halkomelem 5 5 0 5 0 0 0.0
Lillooet 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Okanagan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Squamish 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Straits 20 25 0 0 0 0 0.0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Salish languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Siouan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Dakota 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Stoney 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Siouan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tlingit 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tsimshian languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Gitxsan (Gitksan) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Nisga'a 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tsimshian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Wakashan languages 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Haisla 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Heiltsuk 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka) 5 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Wakashan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Aboriginal languages, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Non-Aboriginal languages 19,755 15,950 40 715 3,050 400 2.0
Afro-Asiatic languages 820 560 10 65 185 40 4.9
Berber languages 5 0 0 0 0 5 100.0
Kabyle 5 5 0 0 5 0 0.0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cushitic languages 35 30 0 0 0 0 0.0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Oromo 10 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Somali 25 25 0 0 0 5 20.0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Semitic languages 785 525 10 65 185 40 5.1
Amharic 30 25 0 0 5 0 0.0
Arabic 655 420 5 60 170 35 5.3
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Harari 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Hebrew 50 40 0 5 5 5 10.0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tigrigna 45 40 0 0 5 0 0.0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Austro-Asiatic languages 605 515 0 20 70 10 1.7
Khmer (Cambodian) 70 60 0 5 5 5 7.1
Vietnamese 535 455 5 15 60 10 1.9
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Austronesian languages 1,575 1,530 0 15 25 5 0.3
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cebuano 60 55 0 0 5 0 0.0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Hiligaynon 10 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Ilocano 60 60 0 0 0 0 0.0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Malay 15 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 1,420 1,390 0 10 20 10 0.7
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Creole languages 5 0 0 0 0 5 100.0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Creole, n.o.s. 0 0 0 5 0 0 not applicable ...
Creole languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Dravidian languages 135 120 0 5 5 0 0.0
Kannada 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Malayalam 45 40 0 0 0 0 0.0
Tamil 45 40 0 5 5 0 0.0
Telugu 35 30 0 0 0 0 0.0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Indo-European languages 7,155 5,870 20 490 775 265 3.7
Albanian 70 60 0 0 5 5 7.1
Armenian 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Balto-Slavic languages 1,180 990 5 80 115 45 3.8
Baltic languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Latvian 0 5 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Slavic languages 1,180 985 5 80 110 45 3.8
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Bosnian 5 0 0 5 0 0 0.0
Bulgarian 45 30 0 5 5 5 11.1
Croatian 120 115 0 5 5 0 0.0
Czech 70 65 0 5 5 5 7.1
Macedonian 5 0 0 0 0 5 100.0
Polish 285 255 0 10 15 10 3.5
Russian 445 350 5 30 65 20 4.5
Serbian 70 50 0 5 10 0 0.0
Serbo-Croatian 20 20 0 5 0 0 0.0
Slovak 25 15 0 5 0 0 0.0
Slovene (Slovenian) 10 10 0 5 5 5 50.0
Ukrainian 75 60 0 5 5 0 0.0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Celtic languages 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Scottish Gaelic 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Germanic languages 885 725 5 140 20 75 8.5
Afrikaans 50 50 0 5 0 0 0.0
Danish 25 20 0 5 0 0 0.0
Dutch 190 140 0 45 0 25 13.2
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
German 580 480 5 85 10 45 7.8
Icelandic 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Norwegian 15 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Swedish 25 15 0 5 0 0 0.0
Vlaams (Flemish) 0 0 0 0 5 0 not applicable ...
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Greek 55 45 0 5 5 0 0.0
Indo-Iranian languages 3,080 2,560 5 50 465 30 1.0
Indo-Aryan languages 2,610 2,150 5 30 425 15 0.6
Bengali 70 65 0 0 5 0 0.0
Gujarati 35 30 0 5 5 0 0.0
Hindi 185 175 0 0 5 5 2.7
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Konkani 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Marathi 15 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Nepali 30 30 0 0 5 0 0.0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Punjabi (Panjabi) 2,080 1,650 5 20 400 15 0.7
Sindhi 15 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 30 25 0 0 0 0 0.0
Urdu 150 135 0 0 15 5 3.3
Iranian languages 460 405 0 20 40 10 2.2
Kurdish 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Pashto 25 20 0 0 0 0 0.0
Persian (Farsi) 435 380 0 15 35 10 2.3
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Italic (Romance) languages 1,865 1,475 10 215 170 115 6.2
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Italian 160 125 5 25 10 15 9.4
Portuguese 450 375 0 25 45 15 3.3
Romanian 100 60 0 35 10 15 15.0
Spanish 1,155 915 10 130 105 70 6.1
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Japanese 530 460 0 10 60 5 0.9
Kartvelian languages 5 5 0 0 5 0 0.0
Georgian 5 5 0 0 5 0 0.0
Korean 1,035 865 0 25 135 10 1.0
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Niger-Congo languages 80 55 5 10 10 10 12.5
Akan (Twi) 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Edo 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ewe 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ga 0 5 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ganda 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Igbo 0 5 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 15 10 0 0 0 5 33.3
Shona 15 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Swahili 20 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Wolof 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Yoruba 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 20 10 5 0 10 5 25.0
Nilo-Saharan languages 0 5 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Dinka 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Sign languages 140 100 0 0 35 5 3.6
American Sign Language 35 30 0 0 10 0 0.0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Sign languages, n.i.e 105 75 0 0 30 5 4.8
Sino-Tibetan languages 7,370 5,590 5 60 1,720 40 0.5
Chinese languages 7,345 5,560 5 60 1,715 35 0.5
Cantonese 2,860 1,895 0 10 950 5 0.2
Hakka 10 5 0 0 5 0 0.0
Mandarin 4,030 3,295 0 50 690 25 0.6
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 70 65 0 0 10 0 0.0
Wu (Shanghainese) 70 45 5 0 15 5 7.1
Chinese, n.o.s. 300 250 0 0 50 0 0.0
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tibeto-Burman languages 30 25 0 0 0 0 0.0
Burmese 15 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Karenic languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tibetan 20 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tai-Kadai languages 95 85 0 0 10 0 0.0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Thai 95 85 0 0 10 0 0.0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Turkic languages 40 35 0 5 5 0 0.0
Azerbaijani 10 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Turkish 35 25 0 5 5 0 0.0
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Uzbek 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Uralic languages 175 155 0 10 10 5 2.9
Estonian 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Finnish 35 30 0 0 0 0 0.0
Hungarian 135 120 0 10 5 5 3.7
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Other languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Multiple responses 9,565 8,885 385 290 0 530 5.5
English and French 685 200 290 200 0 390 56.9
English and non-official language 8,640 8,615 25 0 0 25 0.3
French and non-official language 45 5 40 0 0 35 77.8
English, French and non-official language 200 70 35 90 0 80 40.0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

The official language minority population of Quebec includes all individuals with English as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French. The official language minority population of the country overall and of every province and territory other than Quebec includes individuals with French as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French.

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Footnote 2

The official language minority population of Quebec includes all individuals with English as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French. The official language minority population of the country overall and of every province and territory other than Quebec includes individuals with French as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French.

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Footnote 3

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

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Data quality note(s) – Capital

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Excludes census data for one or more incompletely enumerated Indian reserves or Indian settlements.
  • 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-X2016070.

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