Data tables, 2016 Census

Mother Tongue (269), Knowledge of Official Languages (5), Age (15A) and Sex (3) for the Population Excluding Institutional Residents of Canada, Provinces and Territories and Federal Electoral Districts (2013 Representation Order), 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 , age and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Calgary Confederation
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 1 119,500 104,745 95 13,100 1,550
Single responses 117,035 102,835 95 12,560 1,545
Official languages 90,840 79,880 60 10,870 30
English 88,730 79,765 5 8,935 30
French 2,110 120 55 1,935 0
Non-official languages 26,195 22,960 35 1,695 1,515
Aboriginal languages 120 115 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 75 70 0 0 0
Blackfoot 35 35 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 20 20 0 5 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 5 10 0 0 0
Southern East Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Swampy Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Woods Cree 0 5 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 10 15 0 0 0
Eastern Algonquian languages 5 5 0 0 0
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 5 5 0 0 0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 10 10 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 10 10 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 5 5 0 0 0
Northern Athabaskan languages 5 5 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 5 5 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 5 0 0 0 0
Northern Tutchone 5 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 0 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 0 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 35 30 0 0 0
Dakota 0 5 0 0 0
Stoney 25 30 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. 10 10 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 26,080 22,840 35 1,690 1,510
Afro-Asiatic languages 2,195 1,805 10 195 185
Berber languages 15 5 0 10 5
Kabyle 10 0 0 5 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 10 0 0 5 0
Cushitic languages 160 150 0 5 5
Bilen 10 10 0 0 5
Oromo 55 50 0 0 5
Somali 105 95 0 0 5
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 2,010 1,650 10 185 175
Amharic 280 260 0 5 10
Arabic 1,425 1,110 10 170 140
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 10 10 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 5 0
Harari 5 5 0 0 0
Hebrew 15 15 0 5 0
Maltese 10 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 265 235 0 5 25
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 410 360 0 25 25
Khmer (Cambodian) 15 15 0 0 5
Vietnamese 395 345 0 25 20
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 1,820 1,780 0 20 15
Bikol 10 10 0 0 0
Cebuano 75 75 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 30 30 0 0 0
Ilocano 75 70 0 0 0
Malagasy 5 0 0 5 0
Malay 105 100 0 5 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 5 5 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 1,495 1,470 0 15 15
Waray-Waray 5 5 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Creole languages 25 10 0 10 5
Haitian Creole 0 5 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 10 0 0 5 5
Creole languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 5 0
Dravidian languages 325 310 0 10 10
Kannada 20 20 0 0 0
Malayalam 130 125 0 0 0
Tamil 125 120 0 10 5
Telugu 45 45 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 5 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 11,970 10,515 20 1,110 330
Albanian 50 40 0 0 5
Armenian 20 15 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 2,585 2,280 0 235 70
Baltic languages 50 45 0 5 0
Latvian 30 30 0 0 0
Lithuanian 20 20 0 0 0
Slavic languages 2,540 2,240 0 235 65
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 30 25 0 5 0
Bulgarian 60 55 0 5 0
Croatian 155 145 0 10 0
Czech 190 170 0 20 0
Macedonian 10 5 0 0 0
Polish 740 635 0 85 15
Russian 635 550 0 50 25
Serbian 105 95 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 25 25 0 0 0
Slovak 95 85 0 10 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 35 30 0 5 0
Ukrainian 460 410 0 35 15
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages 20 20 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 5 5 0 0 0
Welsh 10 15 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 2,340 2,050 0 285 5
Afrikaans 60 50 0 5 0
Danish 115 110 0 5 0
Dutch 525 445 0 70 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 1,515 1,335 0 175 5
Icelandic 5 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 45 45 0 0 0
Swedish 55 40 0 15 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 20 10 0 5 0
Yiddish 5 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 120 100 0 20 5
Indo-Iranian languages 3,225 3,005 0 110 105
Indo-Aryan languages 1,960 1,850 0 50 60
Bengali 355 340 5 15 0
Gujarati 200 190 0 5 0
Hindi 315 300 0 10 0
Kashmiri 0 5 0 0 0
Konkani 10 10 0 0 0
Marathi 30 30 0 0 0
Nepali 75 70 0 0 5
Oriya (Odia) 5 5 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 345 325 0 5 20
Sindhi 65 60 0 10 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 90 80 0 5 0
Urdu 465 440 0 10 15
Iranian languages 1,245 1,140 0 60 45
Kurdish 40 35 0 5 0
Pashto 70 65 0 0 5
Persian (Farsi) 1,135 1,040 0 55 35
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 5 0
Italic (Romance) languages 3,610 2,995 15 455 150
Catalan 15 15 0 5 0
Italian 845 750 0 70 30
Portuguese 345 290 5 40 10
Romanian 265 170 0 80 15
Spanish 2,135 1,770 10 255 100
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Japanese 380 350 0 20 10
Kartvelian languages 20 15 0 0 5
Georgian 20 10 0 0 5
Korean 770 695 0 20 55
Mongolic languages 20 15 0 0 0
Mongolian 20 15 0 0 5
Niger-Congo languages 330 250 5 65 5
Akan (Twi) 25 25 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 0 5 0 0 0
Ewe 0 0 0 0 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 15 0 5 10 5
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Ganda 5 5 0 0 0
Igbo 30 25 0 5 0
Lingala 0 0 0 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 5 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 10 5 0 5 0
Shona 15 15 0 0 0
Swahili 50 40 0 5 0
Wolof 20 5 5 10 5
Yoruba 75 75 0 0 5
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 80 60 0 20 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 60 55 0 0 0
Dinka 20 15 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 45 40 0 5 5
Sign languages 20 15 0 0 0
American Sign Language 10 10 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 10 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 7,065 6,060 5 160 840
Chinese languages 7,025 6,025 0 160 835
Cantonese 3,350 2,825 0 75 450
Hakka 30 25 0 0 5
Mandarin 3,130 2,735 0 70 325
Min Dong 5 5 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 150 125 0 5 20
Wu (Shanghainese) 35 30 0 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 315 285 0 0 30
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 45 35 0 0 10
Burmese 5 5 0 0 0
Karenic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Tibetan 25 25 0 5 5
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 5
Tai-Kadai languages 110 100 0 5 5
Lao 15 15 0 0 0
Thai 95 85 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 200 180 0 10 5
Azerbaijani 35 30 0 0 0
Turkish 150 135 0 10 5
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Uralic languages 330 295 0 30 5
Estonian 15 15 0 5 0
Finnish 40 35 0 5 0
Hungarian 270 250 0 20 5
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 5 0
Multiple responses 2,460 1,910 5 535 10
English and French 365 55 0 305 0
English and non-official language 1,950 1,825 0 120 15
French and non-official language 70 15 0 55 0
English, French and non-official language 75 20 0 55 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) – Calgary Confederation

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 6.1%.
  • Short-form income data quality flag
    Data quality index showing a short-form income non-response rate higher than or equal to 10%, but lower than 20%.

Source: Statistics Canada, 2016 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-400-X2016059.

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