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 and Federal Electoral Districts (2013 Representation Order), 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 Pontiac
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 1 115,080 16,365 30,215 68,220 290
Single responses 112,215 16,180 30,020 65,730 285
Official languages 104,830 14,310 28,880 61,625 20
English 26,250 14,190 35 12,020 5
French 78,580 125 28,840 49,600 15
Non-official languages 7,380 1,865 1,140 4,105 265
Aboriginal languages 505 345 15 145 5
Algonquian languages 490 330 15 145 5
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 225 165 5 45 0
Atikamekw 10 5 5 0 0
Montagnais (Innu) 0 0 0 0 0
Moose Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Naskapi 0 5 0 0 0
Northern East Cree 35 25 0 5 0
Plains Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Southern East Cree 5 5 0 0 0
Swampy Cree 0 0 0 0 5
Woods Cree 5 5 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 170 130 0 35 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 270 165 5 95 0
Algonquin 260 155 5 100 0
Ojibway 5 5 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 5 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 15 10 0 5 5
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 15 15 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages 0 0 0 5 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 6,875 1,525 1,125 3,960 260
Afro-Asiatic languages 1,595 230 310 995 65
Berber languages 80 0 35 45 5
Kabyle 45 0 20 20 5
Berber languages, n.i.e. 40 0 15 25 0
Cushitic languages 65 5 15 40 5
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 5 0 0 0 0
Somali 60 0 15 40 5
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 1,445 220 260 910 60
Amharic 10 5 0 5 0
Arabic 1,425 215 255 900 55
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 5 0 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 0 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. 5 0 5 5 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 120 15 25 75 10
Khmer (Cambodian) 55 5 10 30 5
Vietnamese 70 10 15 40 5
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 70 40 5 25 0
Bikol 5 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 5 5 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 0 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 15 0 5 15 0
Malay 5 5 0 5 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 45 35 0 10 0
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Creole languages 190 5 75 105 5
Haitian Creole 20 0 10 10 0
Creole, n.o.s. 165 0 70 90 5
Creole languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Dravidian languages 25 15 0 10 5
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0 0
Tamil 25 15 0 10 0
Telugu 5 0 0 5 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 3,780 945 525 2,190 125
Albanian 20 10 0 10 0
Armenian 15 5 5 5 0
Balto-Slavic languages 865 270 110 440 40
Baltic languages 15 5 0 10 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 10 5 0 5 0
Slavic languages 850 265 105 430 45
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 30 5 10 10 5
Bulgarian 50 15 0 30 0
Croatian 55 15 15 25 0
Czech 40 15 0 20 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 5 0
Polish 130 60 5 65 0
Russian 225 90 25 85 20
Serbian 150 20 30 95 10
Serbo-Croatian 90 15 10 60 0
Slovak 20 5 0 15 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 0 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 55 20 10 25 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 0 0 0 5 0
Scottish Gaelic 0 0 0 5 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 485 230 15 240 0
Afrikaans 10 5 0 5 0
Danish 10 5 0 5 0
Dutch 95 40 0 55 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 330 165 5 165 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 5 0
Swedish 15 5 10 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 10 5 0 5 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 5 0
Greek 55 15 0 35 0
Indo-Iranian languages 240 120 5 100 5
Indo-Aryan languages 75 45 0 30 0
Bengali 10 5 0 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0 0
Hindi 20 10 0 10 0
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 10 5 0 5 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 15 10 0 5 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 0 0 0 0
Urdu 25 15 0 10 0
Iranian languages 160 75 10 70 5
Kurdish 15 5 0 5 5
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 140 65 10 60 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 2,110 295 390 1,350 75
Catalan 5 5 0 5 0
Italian 125 30 5 85 0
Portuguese 595 70 110 400 20
Romanian 360 25 55 265 15
Spanish 1,020 170 220 590 40
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 20 15 0 5 0
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 40 20 0 15 5
Mongolic languages 5 0 5 0 0
Mongolian 5 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 530 25 145 360 0
Akan (Twi) 5 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 10 0 5 5 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 10 0 5 5 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 30 0 5 20 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Ganda 5 0 0 5 0
Igbo 0 5 0 0 0
Lingala 35 0 10 25 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 125 0 25 95 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 110 5 20 85 0
Shona 5 5 0 5 0
Swahili 30 5 10 20 0
Wolof 60 0 25 35 0
Yoruba 10 5 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 100 10 35 55 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 0 0 0 5 0
Dinka 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Sign languages 15 0 5 5 5
American Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 5 0 0 5 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 10 0 5 5 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 385 170 35 145 35
Chinese languages 390 170 35 145 35
Cantonese 65 25 5 40 5
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 275 130 25 85 30
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 15 0 0 10 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 30 10 5 10 10
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 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 25 10 0 10 5
Lao 15 5 5 10 0
Thai 10 10 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 10 10 0 5 0
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Uralic languages 45 30 0 15 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 10 10 0 0 0
Hungarian 35 20 0 15 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 5 0
Multiple responses 2,870 180 190 2,490 5
English and French 1,960 45 40 1,870 0
English and non-official language 245 125 0 115 0
French and non-official language 505 0 150 360 0
English, French and non-official language 155 5 5 145 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) – Pontiac

  • 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: 3.6%.
  • 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-X2016059.

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