Language Used at Work (263), Single and multiple responses of language used at work (3), Mother Tongue (8) and Age (10) for the Population Aged 15 Years and Over Who Worked Since 2015, in Private Households of Canada, Provinces and Territories, Census Divisions and Census Subdivisions, 2016 Census - 25% Sample Data

• Mother tongue (8): Total - Mother tongue
• Age (10): Total - Age

This table details language used at work , single and multiple responses of language used at work , mother tongue and age for the population aged 15 years and over who worked since 2015, in private households in Halifax

Language used at work (263)	Single and multiple responses of language used at work (3)
	Total - Single and multiple responses of language used at work^Footnote 1	Single responses of language used at work^Footnote 2	Multiple responses of language used at work^Footnote 3
Total - Language used at work^Footnote 4	241,390	229,505	11,885
Official languages	240,940	229,065	11,875
English	240,465	228,590	11,870
French	9,665	475	9,190
Non-official languages	3,350	440	2,905
Aboriginal languages	35	0	40
Algonquian languages	30	0	30
Blackfoot	0	0	0
Cree-Montagnais languages	10	0	10
Atikamekw	0	0	0
Montagnais (Innu)	0	0	0
Moose Cree	0	0	0
Naskapi	0	0	0
Northern East Cree	0	0	0
Plains Cree	0	0	0
Southern East Cree	0	0	0
Swampy Cree	0	0	0
Woods Cree	0	0	0
Cree, n.o.s.	0	0	0
Eastern Algonquian languages	25	0	25
Malecite	0	0	0
Mi'kmaq	25	0	25
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages	0	0	0
Algonquin	0	0	0
Ojibway	0	0	0
Oji-Cree	0	0	0
Ottawa (Odawa)	0	0	0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Athabaskan languages	0	0	0
Northern Athabaskan languages	0	0	0
Babine (Wetsuwet'en)	0	0	0
Beaver	0	0	0
Carrier	0	0	0
Chilcotin	0	0	0
Dene	0	0	0
Dogrib (Tlicho)	0	0	0
Gwich'in	0	0	0
Sarsi (Sarcee)	0	0	0
Sekani	0	0	0
Slavey-Hare languages	0	0	0
North Slavey (Hare)	0	0	0
South Slavey	0	0	0
Slavey, n.o.s.	0	0	0
Tahltan languages	0	0	0
Kaska (Nahani)	0	0	0
Tahltan	0	0	0
Tutchone languages	0	0	0
Northern Tutchone	0	0	0
Southern Tutchone	0	0	0
Athabaskan languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Haida	0	0	0
Inuit languages	10	0	0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun)	0	0	0
Inuktitut	0	0	0
Inuit languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Iroquoian languages	0	0	0
Cayuga	0	0	0
Mohawk	0	0	0
Oneida	0	0	0
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Kutenai	0	0	0
Michif	0	0	0
Salish languages	0	0	0
Comox	0	0	0
Halkomelem	0	0	0
Lillooet	0	0	0
Okanagan	0	0	0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin)	0	0	0
Squamish	0	0	0
Straits	0	0	0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux)	0	0	0
Salish languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Siouan languages	0	0	0
Dakota	0	0	0
Stoney	0	0	0
Siouan languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Tlingit	0	0	0
Tsimshian languages	0	0	0
Gitxsan (Gitksan)	0	0	0
Nisga'a	0	0	0
Tsimshian	0	0	0
Wakashan languages	0	0	0
Haisla	0	0	0
Heiltsuk	0	0	0
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala)	0	0	0
Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka)	0	0	0
Wakashan languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Aboriginal languages, n.o.s.	0	0	0
Non-Aboriginal languages	3,310	440	2,870
Afro-Asiatic languages	605	80	525
Berber languages	0	0	0
Kabyle	0	0	0
Berber languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Cushitic languages	10	0	10
Bilen	0	0	0
Oromo	0	0	0
Somali	0	0	0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Semitic languages	600	80	515
Amharic	10	10	0
Arabic	555	70	495
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic	0	0	0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic	0	0	0
Harari	0	0	0
Hebrew	30	0	25
Maltese	0	0	0
Tigrigna	0	0	0
Semitic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Austro-Asiatic languages	35	10	35
Khmer (Cambodian)	0	0	0
Vietnamese	35	10	35
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e	0	0	0
Austronesian languages	185	0	180
Bikol	0	0	0
Cebuano	0	0	0
Fijian	0	0	0
Hiligaynon	0	0	0
Ilocano	0	0	0
Malagasy	0	0	0
Malay	10	0	0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango)	0	0	0
Pangasinan	0	0	0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)	170	10	170
Waray-Waray	0	0	0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e.	10	0	10
Creole languages	0	0	0
Haitian Creole	0	0	0
Creole, n.o.s.	0	0	0
Creole languages, n.i.e.	0	0	10
Dravidian languages	15	0	10
Kannada	0	0	0
Malayalam	15	0	10
Tamil	0	0	0
Telugu	0	0	0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Hmong-Mien languages	0	0	0
Indo-European languages	1,025	115	915
Albanian	15	0	15
Armenian	0	0	0
Balto-Slavic languages	145	0	140
Baltic languages	10	0	0
Latvian	10	0	10
Lithuanian	0	0	0
Slavic languages	145	10	135
Belarusan	0	0	0
Bosnian	10	0	10
Bulgarian	0	0	0
Croatian	0	0	10
Czech	0	0	0
Macedonian	0	0	0
Polish	10	0	10
Russian	105	10	95
Serbian	0	0	0
Serbo-Croatian	10	0	0
Slovak	0	0	0
Slovene (Slovenian)	0	0	0
Ukrainian	0	0	0
Slavic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Celtic languages	20	0	15
Scottish Gaelic	10	0	10
Welsh	10	0	10
Celtic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Germanic languages	190	20	165
Afrikaans	0	0	0
Danish	20	0	15
Dutch	10	0	15
Frisian	0	0	0
German	145	20	125
Icelandic	10	0	10
Norwegian	0	0	10
Swedish	0	0	0
Vlaams (Flemish)	0	0	0
Yiddish	0	0	0
Germanic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Greek	50	0	55
Indo-Iranian languages	165	40	120
Indo-Aryan languages	100	15	75
Bengali	0	0	0
Gujarati	0	0	0
Hindi	30	0	30
Kashmiri	0	0	0
Konkani	0	0	0
Marathi	0	0	0
Nepali	35	15	20
Oriya (Odia)	0	0	0
Punjabi (Panjabi)	10	0	10
Sindhi	0	0	0
Sinhala (Sinhalese)	0	0	0
Urdu	20	0	20
Iranian languages	65	25	35
Kurdish	0	0	0
Pashto	0	0	0
Persian (Farsi)	65	20	40
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.	10	0	0
Italic (Romance) languages	450	40	410
Catalan	0	0	0
Italian	55	0	55
Portuguese	45	20	25
Romanian	0	0	0
Spanish	340	20	330
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e.	0	0	10
Japanese	60	10	50
Kartvelian languages	0	0	0
Georgian	0	0	0
Korean	165	30	145
Mongolic languages	0	0	0
Mongolian	0	0	0
Niger-Congo languages	25	0	30
Akan (Twi)	0	0	0
Bamanankan	0	0	0
Edo	0	0	0
Ewe	0	0	0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde)	0	0	0
Ga	0	0	0
Ganda	0	0	0
Igbo	0	0	0
Lingala	0	0	0
Rundi (Kirundi)	0	0	0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda)	0	0	0
Shona	0	0	0
Swahili	15	0	20
Wolof	0	0	0
Yoruba	0	0	0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e.	10	0	0
Nilo-Saharan languages	0	0	0
Dinka	0	0	0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Sign languages	275	0	265
American Sign Language	145	10	135
Quebec Sign Language	0	0	0
Sign languages, n.i.e	130	0	130
Sino-Tibetan languages	845	185	660
Chinese languages	840	185	655
Cantonese	155	50	100
Hakka	0	0	0
Mandarin	645	130	515
Min Dong	0	0	0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese)	10	0	0
Wu (Shanghainese)	0	0	0
Chinese, n.o.s.	50	10	40
Chinese languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Tibeto-Burman languages	10	0	10
Burmese	0	0	0
Karenic languages	0	0	0
Tibetan	0	0	0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Tai-Kadai languages	40	0	40
Lao	0	0	0
Thai	40	0	40
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e	0	0	0
Turkic languages	20	10	20
Azerbaijani	0	0	0
Turkish	25	10	20
Uyghur	0	0	0
Uzbek	0	0	0
Turkic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Uralic languages	0	0	0
Estonian	0	0	0
Finnish	0	0	0
Hungarian	0	0	0
Uralic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Other languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0

Symbol(s)

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not applicable

Symbol x

suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act

Symbol F

too unreliable to be published

Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

The category 'Total - Single and multiple responses of language used at work' indicates the number of respondents who reported each language, either as their only response, or in combination with another language. Total responses represent the sum of single and multiple responses of the language used at work received in the census.

Footnote 2

A single response to the language used at work occurs when a respondent provides one language only.

Footnote 3

A multiple response to the language used at work occurs when a respondent provides two or more languages.

Footnote 4

This is a total population count. The sum of the languages in this table is greater than the total population count because a person may report more than one language in the census.

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

Refers to the language used at work, as reported on May 10, 2016 by the individuals aged 15 years and over who worked since January 1, 2015.

Data quality note(s) – Halifax

• Incomplete enumeration flag
  Default. Not applicable.
• Long-form data quality flag
  Global non-response rate (GNR), long-form census questionnaire: 4.7%.
• Long-form income data quality flag
  Default. Data quality index showing a long-form income non-response rate lower than 10%.

Source: Statistics Canada, 2016 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-400-X2016095.