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 Greater Vancouver A, RDA
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 15,995 13,480 10 1,510 990
Single responses 15,480 13,065 10 1,420 985
Official languages 5,910 5,000 10 895 0
English 5,735 4,970 0 760 5
French 175 30 10 135 0
Non-official languages 9,575 8,065 0 525 985
Aboriginal languages 5 5 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 5 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 5 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 5 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 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 9,570 8,060 0 525 985
Afro-Asiatic languages 325 280 0 30 15
Berber languages 5 0 0 0 0
Kabyle 0 5 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 320 280 0 25 15
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 270 225 0 25 15
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 55 50 0 5 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. 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 25 15 0 5 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 25 20 0 0 5
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 125 120 0 0 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 0 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 5 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 65 65 0 5 5
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 50 50 0 5 0
Waray-Waray 0 5 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Creole languages 5 0 0 0 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 55 50 0 5 0
Kannada 5 10 0 0 0
Malayalam 15 15 0 0 0
Tamil 15 15 0 5 0
Telugu 15 15 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 1,955 1,670 0 245 35
Albanian 5 5 0 0 0
Armenian 5 0 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 290 245 0 35 10
Baltic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 5 0 0 0
Slavic languages 285 240 0 30 10
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 15 10 0 0 0
Croatian 5 5 0 0 0
Czech 10 10 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 0 0 0 0
Polish 55 50 0 10 0
Russian 155 125 0 20 10
Serbian 10 10 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0 0
Slovak 5 0 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 0 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 20 20 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 5 0 5 0
Scottish Gaelic 0 5 0 5 0
Welsh 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 265 195 0 65 0
Afrikaans 10 15 0 0 0
Danish 10 10 0 5 0
Dutch 50 35 0 20 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 170 125 0 40 0
Icelandic 5 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 5 0 0 5 0
Yiddish 5 0 0 5 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 25 20 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 785 710 0 60 15
Indo-Aryan languages 340 310 0 20 5
Bengali 50 40 0 10 0
Gujarati 5 5 0 0 0
Hindi 130 125 0 0 0
Kashmiri 5 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 5 0 0 0
Marathi 0 5 0 0 0
Nepali 10 10 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 5 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 70 65 0 5 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 20 15 0 0 0
Urdu 50 45 0 5 0
Iranian languages 445 390 0 45 10
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 445 390 0 40 10
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 570 485 0 75 10
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 35 20 0 15 0
Portuguese 145 135 0 5 0
Romanian 25 15 0 15 0
Spanish 365 310 0 45 10
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 190 165 0 15 15
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 1,045 925 0 40 80
Mongolic languages 25 20 0 0 0
Mongolian 25 20 0 0 5
Niger-Congo languages 15 15 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 5 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 0 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 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 0 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 0 0 0 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 0 5 0 0 0
Dinka 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages 0 0 0 0 0
American Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 5,595 4,610 0 170 815
Chinese languages 5,590 4,600 0 170 820
Cantonese 705 615 0 25 65
Hakka 10 15 0 0 5
Mandarin 4,450 3,635 0 110 710
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 55 45 0 0 5
Wu (Shanghainese) 65 50 0 5 15
Chinese, n.o.s. 290 235 0 25 20
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 10 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 50 55 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 50 55 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 70 60 0 10 5
Azerbaijani 0 5 0 0 0
Turkish 65 50 0 5 5
Uyghur 5 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Uralic languages 75 60 0 10 0
Estonian 10 5 0 0 0
Finnish 40 40 0 5 0
Hungarian 25 15 0 5 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 5 0
Multiple responses 515 420 0 95 5
English and French 65 40 0 30 0
English and non-official language 410 370 0 35 0
French and non-official language 20 5 0 20 0
English, French and non-official language 10 0 0 10 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) – Greater Vancouver A, RDA

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 15.5%.
  • Short-form income data quality flag
    Data quality index showing a short-form income non-response rate higher than or equal to 20%, but lower than 30%.

Source: Statistics Canada, 2016 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-400-X2016054.

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