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
About this variable: Language used at work (263)
Definition
The 'Language used at work' refers to the language used either most often or regularly at work.
'Language used most often at work' refers to the language the person uses most often at work. A person can report more than one language as 'used most often at work' if the languages are used equally often.
'Other language(s) used regularly at work' refers to the languages, if any, that the person uses in their job on a regular basis, other than the language or languages he or she uses most often at work.
Values
- Total - Language used at work Footnote 1
- Official languages
- English
- French
- Non-official languages
- Aboriginal languages
- Algonquian languages
- Blackfoot
- Cree-Montagnais languages
- Atikamekw
- Montagnais (Innu)
- Moose Cree
- Naskapi
- Northern East Cree
- Plains Cree
- Southern East Cree
- Swampy Cree
- Woods Cree
- Cree, n.o.s.
- Eastern Algonquian languages
- Malecite
- Mi'kmaq
- Ojibway-Potawatomi languages
- Algonquin
- Ojibway
- Oji-Cree
- Ottawa (Odawa)
- Algonquian languages, n.i.e.
- Athabaskan languages
- Northern Athabaskan languages
- Babine (Wetsuwet'en)
- Beaver
- Carrier
- Chilcotin
- Dene
- Dogrib (Tlicho)
- Gwich'in
- Sarsi (Sarcee)
- Sekani
- Slavey-Hare languages
- North Slavey (Hare)
- South Slavey
- Slavey, n.o.s.
- Tahltan languages
- Kaska (Nahani)
- Tahltan
- Tutchone languages
- Northern Tutchone
- Southern Tutchone
- Athabaskan languages, n.i.e.
- Haida
- Inuit languages
- Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun)
- Inuktitut
- Inuit languages, n.i.e.
- Iroquoian languages
- Cayuga
- Mohawk
- Oneida
- Iroquoian languages, n.i.e.
- Kutenai
- Michif
- Salish languages
- Comox
- Halkomelem
- Lillooet
- Okanagan
- Shuswap (Secwepemctsin)
- Squamish
- Straits
- Thompson (Ntlakapamux)
- Salish languages, n.i.e.
- Siouan languages
- Dakota
- Stoney
- Siouan languages, n.i.e.
- Tlingit
- Tsimshian languages
- Gitxsan (Gitksan)
- Nisga'a
- Tsimshian
- Wakashan languages
- Haisla
- Heiltsuk
- Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala)
- Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka)
- Wakashan languages, n.i.e.
- Aboriginal languages, n.o.s.
- Non-Aboriginal languages
- Afro-Asiatic languages
- Berber languages
- Kabyle
- Berber languages, n.i.e.
- Cushitic languages
- Bilen
- Oromo
- Somali
- Cushitic languages, n.i.e.
- Semitic languages
- Amharic
- Arabic
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
- Chaldean Neo-Aramaic
- Harari
- Hebrew
- Maltese
- Tigrigna
- Semitic languages, n.i.e.
- Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e.
- Austro-Asiatic languages
- Khmer (Cambodian)
- Vietnamese
- Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e
- Austronesian languages
- Bikol
- Cebuano
- Fijian
- Hiligaynon
- Ilocano
- Malagasy
- Malay
- Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango)
- Pangasinan
- Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)
- Waray-Waray
- Austronesian languages, n.i.e.
- Creole languages
- Haitian Creole
- Creole, n.o.s.
- Creole languages, n.i.e.
- Dravidian languages
- Kannada
- Malayalam
- Tamil
- Telugu
- Dravidian languages, n.i.e.
- Hmong-Mien languages
- Indo-European languages
- Albanian
- Armenian
- Balto-Slavic languages
- Baltic languages
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Slavic languages
- Belarusan
- Bosnian
- Bulgarian
- Croatian
- Czech
- Macedonian
- Polish
- Russian
- Serbian
- Serbo-Croatian
- Slovak
- Slovene (Slovenian)
- Ukrainian
- Slavic languages, n.i.e.
- Celtic languages
- Scottish Gaelic
- Welsh
- Celtic languages, n.i.e.
- Germanic languages
- Afrikaans
- Danish
- Dutch
- Frisian
- German
- Icelandic
- Norwegian
- Swedish
- Vlaams (Flemish)
- Yiddish
- Germanic languages, n.i.e.
- Greek
- Indo-Iranian languages
- Indo-Aryan languages
- Bengali
- Gujarati
- Hindi
- Kashmiri
- Konkani
- Marathi
- Nepali
- Oriya (Odia)
- Punjabi (Panjabi)
- Sindhi
- Sinhala (Sinhalese)
- Urdu
- Iranian languages
- Kurdish
- Pashto
- Persian (Farsi)
- Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.
- Italic (Romance) languages
- Catalan
- Italian
- Portuguese
- Romanian
- Spanish
- Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e.
- Japanese
- Kartvelian languages
- Georgian
- Korean
- Mongolic languages
- Mongolian
- Niger-Congo languages
- Akan (Twi)
- Bamanankan
- Edo
- Ewe
- Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde)
- Ga
- Ganda
- Igbo
- Lingala
- Rundi (Kirundi)
- Kinyarwanda (Rwanda)
- Shona
- Swahili
- Wolof
- Yoruba
- Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e.
- Nilo-Saharan languages
- Dinka
- Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e.
- Sign languages
- American Sign Language
- Quebec Sign Language
- Sign languages, n.i.e
- Sino-Tibetan languages
- Chinese languages
- Cantonese
- Hakka
- Mandarin
- Min Dong
- Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese)
- Wu (Shanghainese)
- Chinese, n.o.s.
- Chinese languages, n.i.e.
- Tibeto-Burman languages
- Burmese
- Karenic languages
- Tibetan
- Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e.
- Tai-Kadai languages
- Lao
- Thai
- Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e
- Turkic languages
- Azerbaijani
- Turkish
- Uyghur
- Uzbek
- Turkic languages, n.i.e.
- Uralic languages
- Estonian
- Finnish
- Hungarian
- Uralic languages, n.i.e.
- Other languages, n.i.e.
Footnotes
- Footnote 1
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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 specifiedRefers 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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