Data tables, 2016 Census

Mother Tongue (269), Knowledge of Official Languages (5) and Sex (3) for the Population Excluding Institutional Residents of Canada, Provinces and Territories, Census Divisions, Census Subdivisions and Dissemination Areas, 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 and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Saint John, C
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 66,205 56,770 105 8,690 640
Single responses 65,555 56,470 100 8,350 635
Official languages 62,145 53,995 65 8,075 15
English 59,255 53,710 0 5,540 10
French 2,885 280 65 2,535 0
Non-official languages 3,410 2,475 35 275 625
Aboriginal languages 5 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 0 5 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 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 5 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 5 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 3,405 2,475 30 275 625
Afro-Asiatic languages 765 310 10 45 400
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 20 20 0 0 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 20 20 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 740 290 10 45 400
Amharic 0 5 0 0 0
Arabic 695 245 10 40 400
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 45 40 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 85 80 0 5 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 85 75 0 5 5
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 180 170 0 5 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 15 15 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 0 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 0 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 160 155 0 5 0
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Creole languages 5 10 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 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 55 45 0 5 0
Kannada 10 0 0 5 0
Malayalam 10 15 0 0 0
Tamil 10 10 0 0 0
Telugu 20 25 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 1,165 960 0 145 65
Albanian 10 5 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 205 180 0 20 5
Baltic languages 5 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 205 175 0 25 5
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 10 10 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0 0
Croatian 0 0 0 0 0
Czech 5 5 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 15 15 0 0 0
Russian 130 110 0 15 5
Serbian 5 5 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 5 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 30 25 0 0 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 5 0 0 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 115 100 0 15 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 0 0
Dutch 35 30 0 10 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 70 60 0 10 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 5 0 0 0
Swedish 0 5 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 0 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 50 50 0 5 5
Indo-Iranian languages 410 350 0 25 40
Indo-Aryan languages 255 225 0 15 15
Bengali 60 50 0 0 0
Gujarati 20 15 0 5 0
Hindi 50 40 0 5 0
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 5 5 0 0 0
Marathi 15 10 0 5 0
Nepali 35 25 0 0 5
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 20 20 0 0 0
Sindhi 5 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 55 50 0 0 5
Iranian languages 155 120 0 15 25
Kurdish 20 5 0 0 15
Pashto 5 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 135 110 0 10 15
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 370 270 0 80 20
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 45 35 0 10 0
Portuguese 60 45 0 10 0
Romanian 50 30 0 15 5
Spanish 215 160 0 45 15
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 15 10 0 0 0
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 235 200 0 30 15
Mongolic languages 0 5 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 80 40 25 15 5
Akan (Twi) 10 5 0 5 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 0 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 10 0 0 0
Lingala 5 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 5 0 0 5 0
Shona 5 5 0 0 0
Swahili 20 0 15 0 5
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 25 15 5 5 5
Nilo-Saharan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Dinka 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages 15 10 0 0 5
American Sign Language 10 5 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 10 5 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 745 600 5 20 125
Chinese languages 745 600 0 20 125
Cantonese 85 65 0 5 15
Hakka 0 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 580 460 0 15 105
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 5 0 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 20 20 0 5 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 55 45 0 0 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 10 10 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 10 5 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 20 10 0 0 5
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 20 15 0 5 5
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 5 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Uralic languages 25 20 0 5 0
Estonian 0 5 0 0 0
Finnish 5 10 0 0 0
Hungarian 15 15 0 0 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 645 300 5 345 5
English and French 390 90 0 300 0
English and non-official language 245 205 0 30 5
French and non-official language 5 0 0 5 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) – Saint John, C

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 4.2%.
  • 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-X2016055.

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