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 Cambridge
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 1 114,340 106,240 30 6,180 1,885
Single responses 112,385 104,640 30 5,840 1,880
Official languages 91,930 86,865 20 5,025 20
English 90,585 86,745 0 3,815 20
French 1,355 120 20 1,210 0
Non-official languages 20,450 17,770 10 810 1,860
Aboriginal languages 5 5 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 0 0 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 5 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 5 5 0 0 0
Algonquin 5 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 5 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 20,445 17,770 10 810 1,860
Afro-Asiatic languages 855 700 0 60 90
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 60 55 0 0 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 60 60 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 795 645 0 65 90
Amharic 40 35 0 5 0
Arabic 680 535 0 60 85
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 30 20 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0 0
Maltese 30 30 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 5 0 0 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 705 575 0 10 115
Khmer (Cambodian) 15 15 0 0 5
Vietnamese 685 565 5 10 115
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 580 570 0 5 5
Bikol 5 5 0 0 0
Cebuano 45 40 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 15 15 0 0 0
Ilocano 45 40 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 25 15 0 5 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 5 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 445 440 0 5 5
Waray-Waray 5 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Creole languages 30 20 0 10 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 20 15 0 5 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 275 260 0 10 5
Kannada 5 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 125 125 0 5 0
Tamil 110 100 0 5 0
Telugu 40 35 0 5 5
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 5 5 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 16,315 14,140 10 660 1,505
Albanian 55 45 0 0 5
Armenian 235 200 0 35 10
Balto-Slavic languages 1,885 1,710 0 85 95
Baltic languages 30 30 0 5 0
Latvian 15 10 0 0 0
Lithuanian 15 15 0 0 0
Slavic languages 1,855 1,680 0 80 95
Belarusan 5 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 25 20 0 0 0
Bulgarian 20 15 0 0 0
Croatian 220 205 0 15 5
Czech 140 125 0 10 5
Macedonian 65 65 0 0 5
Polish 815 750 0 30 35
Russian 160 140 0 5 15
Serbian 135 125 0 5 5
Serbo-Croatian 20 15 0 0 5
Slovak 85 80 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 20 20 0 0 0
Ukrainian 145 115 0 5 35
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 0 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 1,470 1,375 0 95 0
Afrikaans 25 25 0 0 0
Danish 20 20 0 0 0
Dutch 480 445 0 35 0
Frisian 10 15 0 5 0
German 890 840 0 55 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0 0
Swedish 10 10 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 15 15 0 5 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 170 160 0 10 0
Indo-Iranian languages 4,560 3,935 5 155 465
Indo-Aryan languages 3,690 3,170 0 130 395
Bengali 60 55 0 0 5
Gujarati 1,125 950 0 15 160
Hindi 220 195 0 10 10
Kashmiri 5 0 0 0 0
Konkani 5 5 0 0 0
Marathi 15 15 0 0 0
Nepali 20 20 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 1,230 1,005 0 60 170
Sindhi 15 10 0 5 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 20 20 0 0 0
Urdu 975 890 0 30 55
Iranian languages 860 755 5 30 75
Kurdish 20 20 0 0 0
Pashto 625 545 5 20 55
Persian (Farsi) 215 190 0 10 10
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 7,945 6,725 5 285 930
Catalan 10 5 0 0 0
Italian 725 645 0 65 20
Portuguese 5,670 4,710 0 110 845
Romanian 350 295 0 45 15
Spanish 1,190 1,065 0 70 55
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 65 55 0 0 10
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 145 135 0 0 5
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 60 55 0 5 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 5 0 0 0 0
Ewe 5 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 5 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 5 0 0 5 0
Shona 5 10 0 0 0
Swahili 10 5 0 5 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 15 15 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 40 40 0 0 0
Dinka 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 35 40 0 0 0
Sign languages 30 25 0 0 5
American Sign Language 20 20 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 10 5 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 710 600 0 15 95
Chinese languages 700 595 0 15 95
Cantonese 280 240 0 10 35
Hakka 5 5 0 5 0
Mandarin 330 280 0 5 45
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 35 25 0 0 5
Wu (Shanghainese) 10 10 0 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 40 40 0 0 5
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 10 5 0 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0 0
Karenic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Tibetan 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 195 180 0 0 15
Lao 175 160 0 5 10
Thai 20 20 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 45 35 0 5 5
Azerbaijani 5 0 0 0 0
Turkish 35 25 0 5 0
Uyghur 5 5 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Uralic languages 390 365 0 20 5
Estonian 25 20 0 5 0
Finnish 45 40 0 0 0
Hungarian 320 305 0 10 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,955 1,605 0 345 5
English and French 280 55 0 225 0
English and non-official language 1,610 1,530 0 75 5
French and non-official language 35 15 0 20 0
English, French and non-official language 35 10 0 25 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) – Cambridge

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 3.4%.
  • 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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