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 Cochrane
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 78,930 33,840 3,680 41,295 120
Single responses 76,890 33,265 3,665 39,845 120
Official languages 73,000 29,800 3,645 39,540 10
English 39,110 29,450 5 9,645 5
French 33,895 355 3,645 29,895 0
Non-official languages 3,885 3,460 15 300 110
Aboriginal languages 1,615 1,550 0 25 40
Algonquian languages 1,600 1,540 5 20 45
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 1,545 1,485 0 10 40
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Montagnais (Innu) 0 0 0 0 0
Moose Cree 45 45 0 0 0
Naskapi 0 0 0 0 0
Northern East Cree 5 5 0 0 0
Plains Cree 5 5 0 0 0
Southern East Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Swampy Cree 170 165 0 5 0
Woods Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 1,315 1,265 5 5 40
Eastern Algonquian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 60 50 0 5 0
Algonquin 10 5 0 5 0
Ojibway 35 35 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 15 15 0 0 0
Ottawa (Odawa) 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Athabaskan languages 5 5 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 5 5 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Cayuga 0 0 0 0 0
Mohawk 5 5 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 5 0 0 5 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. 5 0 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 2,270 1,910 15 275 70
Afro-Asiatic languages 50 35 5 10 0
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 5 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 50 35 0 10 5
Amharic 5 5 0 0 0
Arabic 45 30 0 10 5
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0 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 0 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 20 15 0 0 5
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 160 155 0 5 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 0 5 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 10 10 0 0 0
Ilocano 5 10 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 5 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 140 140 0 5 0
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Creole languages 5 5 0 5 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 0 0 0 5 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 30 25 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 10 5 0 0 0
Tamil 25 20 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 1,520 1,260 15 215 35
Albanian 5 5 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 375 325 0 45 5
Baltic languages 15 10 0 5 0
Latvian 5 0 0 5 0
Lithuanian 10 10 0 0 0
Slavic languages 360 310 0 40 10
Belarusan 5 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0 0
Croatian 95 90 0 5 0
Czech 0 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 120 95 0 20 0
Russian 30 25 0 5 5
Serbian 5 5 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0 0
Slovak 15 15 0 5 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 30 30 0 0 0
Ukrainian 50 45 0 5 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 0 0 5 0
Scottish Gaelic 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 405 365 0 35 10
Afrikaans 20 20 0 0 0
Danish 5 0 0 0 0
Dutch 65 55 0 15 0
Frisian 0 0 0 5 0
German 300 275 0 15 5
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0 0
Swedish 10 5 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 5 5 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 10 5 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages 160 150 0 5 5
Indo-Aryan languages 145 135 0 5 5
Bengali 0 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 50 50 0 0 5
Hindi 25 25 0 0 0
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Nepali 20 20 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 15 15 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 25 25 0 5 0
Iranian languages 20 15 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 15 10 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 565 410 15 125 10
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 365 300 0 60 5
Portuguese 70 40 0 25 0
Romanian 30 20 0 10 0
Spanish 100 55 10 35 5
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 5 10 0 0 0
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 10 10 0 5 0
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 45 30 0 10 0
Akan (Twi) 5 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 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 5 0 0 0
Wolof 5 0 0 5 0
Yoruba 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
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 10 5 0 0 5
American Sign Language 5 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 10 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 170 145 0 15 15
Chinese languages 170 145 0 10 10
Cantonese 95 85 0 0 5
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 40 30 0 5 0
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 0 0 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 35 35 0 0 0
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 5 5 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0 0
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Uralic languages 225 200 0 20 5
Estonian 5 5 0 0 0
Finnish 200 180 0 20 0
Hungarian 15 15 0 0 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 2,040 570 10 1,455 0
English and French 1,530 130 10 1,390 0
English and non-official language 470 440 0 25 0
French and non-official language 25 5 0 20 0
English, French and non-official language 20 0 0 15 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) – Cochrane

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 5.1%.
  • 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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