Data tables, 2016 Census

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

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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 Division No. 11
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Language used at work (263) Single and multiple responses of language used at work (3)
Total - Single and multiple responses of language used at workFootnote 1 Single responses of language used at workFootnote 2 Multiple responses of language used at workFootnote 3
Total - Language used at workFootnote 4 183,910 177,690 6,220
Official languages 183,155 176,950 6,205
English 182,995 176,790 6,200
French 2,025 160 1,865
Non-official languages 5,180 740 4,440
Aboriginal languages 270 0 265
Algonquian languages 215 10 210
Blackfoot 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 205 0 200
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 95 0 90
Southern East Cree 0 0 0
Swampy Cree 0 0 10
Woods Cree 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 100 0 100
Eastern Algonquian languages 0 0 0
Malecite 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 10 0 10
Algonquin 0 0 0
Ojibway 10 0 10
Oji-Cree 0 0 0
Ottawa (Odawa) 0 0 0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Athabaskan languages 30 0 30
Northern Athabaskan languages 30 0 35
Babine (Wetsuwet'en) 0 0 0
Beaver 0 0 0
Carrier 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 0 0
Dene 30 0 35
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 0 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 10 0 10
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 10 0 10
Dakota 10 0 15
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 4,910 735 4,175
Afro-Asiatic languages 285 30 255
Berber languages 0 0 0
Kabyle 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 0 0 0
Bilen 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Semitic languages 285 30 260
Amharic 0 0 10
Arabic 210 20 190
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 15 0 10
Harari 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0
Tigrigna 15 0 10
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 40 10 35
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 255 105 145
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0
Vietnamese 250 110 150
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 1,055 30 1,020
Bikol 0 0 0
Cebuano 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 0 0 0
Ilocano 10 10 0
Malagasy 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 1,040 25 1,015
Waray-Waray 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Creole languages 0 0 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 0 0 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 20 0 20
Kannada 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0
Tamil 15 0 15
Telugu 10 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 1,685 105 1,570
Albanian 0 0 0
Armenian 15 0 10
Balto-Slavic languages 515 35 485
Baltic languages 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0
Slavic languages 520 35 480
Belarusan 0 0 0
Bosnian 10 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0
Croatian 10 0 10
Czech 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0
Polish 60 0 60
Russian 110 15 90
Serbian 15 0 15
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 0 0 0
Ukrainian 330 15 310
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Celtic languages 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Germanic languages 175 10 165
Afrikaans 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0
Dutch 10 0 10
Frisian 0 0 0
German 155 10 150
Icelandic 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Greek 25 0 25
Indo-Iranian languages 530 45 485
Indo-Aryan languages 460 25 430
Bengali 35 10 30
Gujarati 15 0 15
Hindi 65 0 60
Kashmiri 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 145 10 135
Sindhi 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 0 10
Urdu 195 10 180
Iranian languages 70 15 50
Kurdish 25 0 25
Pashto 0 0 10
Persian (Farsi) 40 20 20
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 420 20 400
Catalan 0 0 0
Italian 10 0 10
Portuguese 10 10 0
Romanian 15 0 10
Spanish 385 10 375
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 10 0 15
Japanese 15 0 10
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0
Korean 75 25 50
Mongolic languages 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 50 0 45
Akan (Twi) 10 0 10
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 30 0 30
Lingala 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 0 0 0
Shona 0 0 0
Swahili 10 0 10
Wolof 0 0 0
Yoruba 10 0 10
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 0 0 0
Dinka 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Sign languages 175 20 150
American Sign Language 100 0 95
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 80 20 55
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,220 415 805
Chinese languages 1,205 405 795
Cantonese 275 95 180
Hakka 0 0 0
Mandarin 885 285 600
Min Dong 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 55 25 30
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 15 10 10
Burmese 0 0 0
Karenic languages 20 15 10
Tibetan 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 40 0 35
Lao 20 0 15
Thai 20 0 20
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0
Turkic languages 35 0 35
Azerbaijani 0 0 0
Turkish 30 0 35
Uyghur 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Uralic languages 10 0 10
Estonian 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0
Hungarian 10 10 10
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0

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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.

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Footnote 2

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

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Footnote 3

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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