Data tables, 2016 Census

Mother Tongue (8), Language Spoken Most Often at Home (187), Other Language Spoken Regularly at Home (9), Generation Status (6), Age (8B) and Sex (3) for the Population in Private Households of Canada, Provinces and Territories, Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, 2016 Census - 25% Sample Data

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This table details mother tongue , language spoken most often at home , other language spoken regularly at home , generation status , age and sex for the population in private households in Saint John
Data quality
Language spoken most often at home (187) Mother tongue (8)
Total - Mother tongue English French Non-official language English and French English and non-official language French and non-official language English, French and non-official language
Total - Language spoken most often at homeFootnote 2 123,520 112,930 4,965 4,550 640 395 30 10
Single responses 122,050 112,715 4,735 3,965 460 170 0 10
Official languages 119,445 112,620 4,735 1,505 465 120 0 10
English 117,630 112,530 3,045 1,495 435 115 0 10
French 1,820 90 1,695 10 30 0 0 0
Non-official languages 2,605 95 0 2,460 0 55 0 0
Aboriginal languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 2,605 95 0 2,460 0 50 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 620 10 0 605 0 10 0 0
Berber languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kabyle 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 0 0 0 0 0 10 0 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 610 0 0 605 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 535 0 0 535 0 0 0 0
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 80 10 0 70 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 100 20 0 80 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 95 20 0 80 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 40 0 0 35 0 0 0 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 10 0 0 15 0 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 30 0 0 25 0 0 0 0
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Creole languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 10 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 15 0 0 15 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 10 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 655 30 0 595 0 30 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 115 0 0 115 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 115 0 0 115 0 0 0 0
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Croatian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Russian 70 0 0 70 0 0 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 35 0 0 35 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 30 0 0 25 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dutch 10 0 0 15 0 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
German 10 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 30 0 0 30 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 305 10 0 280 0 20 0 0
Indo-Aryan languages 115 0 0 100 0 10 0 0
Bengali 20 0 0 25 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 20 0 0 10 0 10 0 0
Hindi 10 0 0 15 0 0 0 0
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 55 0 0 55 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 195 0 0 175 0 10 0 0
Kurdish 30 0 0 35 0 0 0 0
Pashto 15 0 0 0 0 10 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 145 10 0 135 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 180 20 0 150 0 10 0 0
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 20 0 0 20 0 0 0 0
Portuguese 20 0 0 25 0 0 0 0
Romanian 20 0 0 20 0 0 0 0
Spanish 115 20 0 85 0 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 370 15 0 355 0 0 0 0
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 90 0 0 90 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Swahili 55 0 0 55 0 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 35 0 0 35 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dinka 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages 35 15 0 10 0 10 0 0
American Sign Language 15 0 0 10 0 10 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 20 15 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 660 10 0 650 0 10 0 0
Chinese languages 660 10 0 650 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 50 0 0 40 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 530 0 0 520 0 10 0 0
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 20 0 0 15 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 70 0 0 70 0 0 0 0
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Karenic languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tibetan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 10 0 0 15 0 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 15 0 0 15 0 0 0 0
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Uralic languages 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,470 215 230 585 175 225 30 0
English and French 525 120 225 10 175 0 0 0
English and non-official language 875 95 0 555 0 215 0 0
French and non-official language 35 0 0 10 0 0 25 0
English, French and non-official language 40 0 0 15 0 10 0 0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

For more information on generation status variables, including information on their classifications, the questions from which they are derived, data quality and their comparability with other sources of data, please refer to the Place of Birth, Generation Status, Citizenship and Immigration Reference Guide, Census of Population, 2016.

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Footnote 2

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

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Data quality note(s) – Saint John

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Long-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), long-form census questionnaire: 4.9%.
  • Long-form income data quality flag
    Default. Data quality index showing a long-form income non-response rate lower than 10%.

Source: Statistics Canada, 2016 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-400-X2016196.

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