Data tables, 2016 Census

Mother Tongue (187), Immigrant Status and Period of Immigration (11), Number of languages known (11), Age (12) 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 , immigrant status and period of immigration , number of languages known , age and sex for the population in private households in Petawawa
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Mother tongue (187) Immigrant status and period of immigration (11)
Total - Immigrant status and period of immigrationFootnote 2 Non-immigrantsFootnote 3 ImmigrantsFootnote 4 Before 1981 1981 to 1990 1991 to 2000 2001 to 2010 2001 to 2005 2006 to 2010 2011 to 2016Footnote 5 Non-permanent residentsFootnote 6
Total - Mother tongueFootnote 7 16,320 15,395 905 320 135 205 140 70 70 110 20
Single responses 16,130 15,240 870 305 130 195 130 65 65 110 20
Official languages 15,610 15,080 510 225 80 75 65 40 35 60 20
English 14,065 13,560 490 220 75 75 60 35 30 60 15
French 1,545 1,520 25 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
Non-official languages 525 160 355 85 45 125 60 30 35 45 0
Aboriginal languages 10 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 510 155 355 80 40 120 60 25 30 50 10
Afro-Asiatic languages 20 0 15 0 10 0 0 0 10 10 0
Berber languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kabyle 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 20 0 15 0 0 10 10 0 10 10 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 20 0 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 0
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 20 0 20 0 0 10 0 0 0 10 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 20 0 15 0 0 10 0 0 10 10 0
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Creole languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 20 0 15 10 10 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tamil 20 10 15 10 10 0 0 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 375 125 245 70 25 90 40 10 25 25 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Armenian 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 60 15 45 0 0 40 0 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 60 15 50 0 0 40 10 0 10 0 0
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Croatian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 15 10 10 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0
Russian 30 0 30 0 0 25 0 0 0 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 140 45 95 65 20 10 0 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dutch 35 15 15 15 10 0 0 0 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
German 100 30 70 45 15 10 0 10 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Swedish 10 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 15 0 15 0 0 10 10 0 10 0 0
Indo-Aryan languages 10 0 0 0 0 0 10 0 10 0 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 10 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hindi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 15 0 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 0 15 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 145 60 85 10 0 30 20 10 15 25 0
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Portuguese 30 10 20 10 0 0 10 10 0 0 0
Romanian 10 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 0
Spanish 105 40 55 0 0 25 15 0 15 20 10
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 10 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 0
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Swahili 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dinka 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
American Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 30 10 20 0 0 10 10 0 0 0 0
Chinese languages 30 10 20 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 10 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 20 0 20 0 0 10 10 0 0 0 0
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Karenic languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tibetan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 20 0 15 0 0 10 10 10 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 20 0 20 0 10 0 15 10 0 0 0
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Uralic languages 15 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 10 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 185 155 35 10 10 10 15 0 10 0 0
English and French 125 125 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
English and non-official language 45 15 30 10 10 0 10 10 0 0 0
French and non-official language 10 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
English, French and non-official language 10 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

'Knowledge of official languages' refers to whether the person can conduct a conversation in English only, French only, in both or in neither language. For a child who has not yet learned to speak, this includes languages that the child is learning to speak at home.

'Knowledge of non-official languages' refers to whether the person can conduct a conversation in a language other than English or French. For a child who has not yet learned to speak, this includes languages that the child is learning to speak at home. The number of languages that can be reported may vary between surveys, depending on the objectives of the survey.

For more information on language 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 Languages Reference Guide, Census of Population, 2016.

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Footnote 2

Immigrant status refers to whether the person is a non-immigrant, an immigrant or a non-permanent resident.

Period of immigration refers to the period in which the immigrant first obtained landed immigrant or permanent resident status.

For more information on immigration 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 3

'Non-immigrants' includes persons who are Canadian citizens by birth.

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Footnote 4

'Immigrants' includes persons who are, or who have ever been, landed immigrants or permanent residents. Such persons have been granted the right to live in Canada permanently by immigration authorities. Immigrants who have obtained Canadian citizenship by naturalization are included in this category. In the 2016 Census of Population, 'Immigrants' includes immigrants who landed in Canada on or prior to May 10, 2016.

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Footnote 5

Includes immigrants who landed in Canada on or prior to May 10, 2016.

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Footnote 6

'Non-permanent residents' includes persons from another country who have a work or study permit or who are refugee claimants, and their family members sharing the same permit and living in Canada with them.

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Footnote 7

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

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2016 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-400-X2016193.

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