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 Heritage
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 1 111,330 102,080 100 7,760 1,385
Single responses 108,315 99,480 100 7,360 1,375
Official languages 78,715 72,685 60 5,945 25
English 77,180 72,570 5 4,580 25
French 1,530 115 55 1,365 0
Non-official languages 29,605 26,795 40 1,415 1,350
Aboriginal languages 80 80 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 50 50 0 0 0
Blackfoot 30 30 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 15 15 0 0 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 0 5 0 0 0
Southern East Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Swampy Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Woods Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 10 10 0 0 0
Eastern Algonquian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 10 5 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 5 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 5 5 0 0 0
Ottawa (Odawa) 5 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Athabaskan languages 20 20 0 0 0
Northern Athabaskan languages 20 20 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) 15 15 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 0 0 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 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 5 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 0 5 0 0 0
Dakota 5 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. 0 0 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 29,525 26,715 40 1,415 1,350
Afro-Asiatic languages 1,600 1,355 0 145 95
Berber languages 10 5 0 5 0
Kabyle 5 0 0 5 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 70 65 0 5 5
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 20 20 0 0 5
Somali 45 45 0 5 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 1,520 1,290 5 140 90
Amharic 170 165 0 0 5
Arabic 970 775 0 130 65
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 15 10 0 0 5
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 260 250 0 5 5
Maltese 5 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 95 85 0 0 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 5
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 275 250 0 10 20
Khmer (Cambodian) 25 25 0 0 0
Vietnamese 250 225 0 5 20
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 6,000 5,920 5 40 40
Bikol 10 10 0 0 0
Cebuano 230 230 0 0 5
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 90 90 0 0 0
Ilocano 415 405 0 0 5
Malagasy 0 0 0 5 0
Malay 55 55 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 35 35 0 0 0
Pangasinan 15 15 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 4,985 4,925 0 30 25
Waray-Waray 50 50 0 0 5
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 105 100 0 0 0
Creole languages 45 15 0 20 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 30 10 0 25 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 350 335 0 5 5
Kannada 25 25 0 0 0
Malayalam 110 105 0 5 5
Tamil 130 120 0 5 5
Telugu 85 80 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 14,265 12,700 35 985 545
Albanian 150 135 0 5 10
Armenian 50 40 0 10 0
Balto-Slavic languages 5,140 4,610 5 275 245
Baltic languages 100 90 0 5 5
Latvian 20 15 0 0 5
Lithuanian 75 75 0 5 0
Slavic languages 5,045 4,520 10 265 245
Belarusan 5 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 90 75 0 10 5
Bulgarian 125 115 0 10 0
Croatian 215 205 0 10 5
Czech 210 195 0 15 5
Macedonian 30 20 0 10 0
Polish 960 870 5 60 25
Russian 2,225 1,940 0 110 170
Serbian 365 330 0 20 15
Serbo-Croatian 95 85 0 0 0
Slovak 185 175 0 10 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 25 25 0 0 0
Ukrainian 520 475 0 25 20
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages 10 5 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 5 5 0 0 0
Welsh 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 1,725 1,600 5 125 5
Afrikaans 90 90 0 0 5
Danish 90 90 0 0 0
Dutch 410 375 0 30 0
Frisian 0 0 0 5 0
German 1,030 955 0 70 0
Icelandic 5 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 15 15 0 0 0
Swedish 25 25 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 10 5 0 5 0
Yiddish 55 50 0 10 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 160 145 0 10 5
Indo-Iranian languages 2,940 2,755 0 75 110
Indo-Aryan languages 2,215 2,095 0 55 65
Bengali 165 155 0 5 0
Gujarati 480 455 0 15 10
Hindi 405 390 0 10 0
Kashmiri 5 5 0 0 0
Konkani 10 10 0 0 0
Marathi 100 100 0 0 5
Nepali 65 60 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 10 15 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 330 300 0 5 20
Sindhi 75 70 0 10 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 105 100 0 5 0
Urdu 475 445 0 10 20
Iranian languages 715 655 0 20 45
Kurdish 25 25 0 0 0
Pashto 10 10 0 0 5
Persian (Farsi) 685 625 0 20 40
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 4,090 3,410 30 485 165
Catalan 5 0 0 5 0
Italian 345 290 0 50 5
Portuguese 320 285 5 20 15
Romanian 770 600 5 130 35
Spanish 2,650 2,235 20 280 115
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Japanese 200 190 0 10 10
Kartvelian languages 45 35 0 0 5
Georgian 45 35 0 0 5
Korean 945 850 0 20 75
Mongolic languages 25 20 0 0 0
Mongolian 20 20 0 0 5
Niger-Congo languages 405 335 0 55 15
Akan (Twi) 45 40 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 5 5 0 0 0
Ewe 0 0 0 0 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 5 0 0 0
Ga 10 15 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 45 40 0 5 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 25 5 0 15 5
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 5 0 0 0 0
Shona 30 25 0 0 0
Swahili 50 30 0 15 5
Wolof 0 0 0 5 0
Yoruba 120 120 0 5 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 60 55 0 5 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 60 55 0 0 0
Dinka 25 20 0 0 5
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 30 30 0 0 0
Sign languages 15 5 0 0 10
American Sign Language 5 5 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 10 5 0 0 10
Sino-Tibetan languages 4,510 3,950 0 60 500
Chinese languages 4,455 3,905 0 65 490
Cantonese 1,270 1,105 0 15 150
Hakka 15 10 0 0 5
Mandarin 2,975 2,620 0 40 315
Min Dong 5 5 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 80 70 0 0 5
Wu (Shanghainese) 25 20 0 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 90 75 0 5 10
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 55 50 0 0 5
Burmese 15 10 0 0 0
Karenic languages 5 0 0 0 0
Tibetan 40 35 0 0 5
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 55 50 0 0 0
Lao 10 10 0 0 0
Thai 40 35 0 0 5
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 150 115 0 10 25
Azerbaijani 25 20 0 0 5
Turkish 95 70 0 5 25
Uyghur 15 15 0 0 5
Uzbek 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 0
Uralic languages 560 515 0 35 10
Estonian 10 5 0 0 0
Finnish 35 30 0 0 0
Hungarian 520 480 0 35 10
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 5 0
Multiple responses 3,015 2,600 5 400 10
English and French 280 65 5 215 0
English and non-official language 2,590 2,520 0 70 5
French and non-official language 75 15 0 55 0
English, French and non-official language 70 5 5 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 Heritage

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 3.4%.
  • 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-X2016059.

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