Data tables, 2016 Census

Mother Tongue (187), Generation Status (4), 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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Number of languages known (11)^{Footnote 1}

Age (12)

Sex (3)

This table details mother tongue , generation status , number of languages known , age and sex for the population in private households in Peterborough
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Mother tongue (187)	Generation status (4)
Mother tongue (187)	Total - Generation status^Footnote 2	First generation^Footnote 3	Second generation^Footnote 4	Third generation or more^Footnote 5
Total - Mother tongue^{Footnote 6}	118,775	11,270	16,865	90,640
Single responses	117,895	11,000	16,550	90,345
Official languages	111,600	5,820	15,600	90,180
English	110,315	5,705	15,530	89,080
French	1,285	115	75	1,100
Non-official languages	6,290	5,185	945	160
Aboriginal languages	85	0	0	85
Non-Aboriginal languages	6,205	5,185	945	75
Afro-Asiatic languages	375	340	40	0
Berber languages	0	0	0	0
Kabyle	0	0	0	0
Berber languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Cushitic languages	20	15	10	0
Bilen	0	0	0	0
Oromo	0	0	0	0
Somali	20	15	0	0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Semitic languages	365	325	35	0
Amharic	20	10	10	0
Arabic	300	270	25	0
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic	0	0	0	0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic	0	0	0	0
Harari	0	0	0	0
Hebrew	20	20	0	0
Maltese	25	20	10	0
Tigrigna	0	0	0	0
Semitic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Austro-Asiatic languages	180	155	20	10
Khmer (Cambodian)	50	50	0	0
Vietnamese	130	105	20	10
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e	0	0	0	0
Austronesian languages	285	275	0	0
Bikol	10	10	0	0
Cebuano	25	20	0	0
Fijian	0	0	0	0
Hiligaynon	10	10	0	0
Ilocano	20	20	0	0
Malagasy	0	0	0	0
Malay	10	10	0	0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango)	10	0	0	0
Pangasinan	0	0	0	0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)	215	215	10	0
Waray-Waray	0	0	0	0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Creole languages	0	0	0	0
Haitian Creole	0	0	0	0
Creole, n.o.s.	0	0	0	0
Creole languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Dravidian languages	155	145	10	0
Kannada	0	0	0	0
Malayalam	55	50	0	0
Tamil	60	60	0	0
Telugu	35	30	0	0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Hmong-Mien languages	0	0	0	0
Indo-European languages	4,030	3,245	760	30
Albanian	75	70	0	0
Armenian	0	0	10	0
Balto-Slavic languages	945	720	215	10
Baltic languages	40	20	20	0
Latvian	35	15	20	0
Lithuanian	0	10	0	0
Slavic languages	905	695	200	0
Belarusan	0	0	0	0
Bosnian	0	0	0	0
Bulgarian	35	25	10	0
Croatian	30	20	10	0
Czech	60	45	10	0
Macedonian	10	10	10	0
Polish	480	360	120	0
Russian	115	115	0	0
Serbian	45	40	0	0
Serbo-Croatian	0	10	0	0
Slovak	20	15	0	0
Slovene (Slovenian)	30	30	0	0
Ukrainian	85	40	35	10
Slavic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Celtic languages	15	15	0	0
Scottish Gaelic	10	0	0	0
Welsh	10	10	0	0
Celtic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Germanic languages	1,400	1,160	225	15
Afrikaans	25	25	0	0
Danish	40	30	10	0
Dutch	565	500	60	10
Frisian	20	10	10	0
German	720	570	140	10
Icelandic	0	0	0	0
Norwegian	0	0	0	0
Swedish	30	20	15	0
Vlaams (Flemish)	10	10	0	0
Yiddish	10	0	0	0
Germanic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Greek	55	30	25	0
Indo-Iranian languages	750	635	115	0
Indo-Aryan languages	630	545	85	0
Bengali	100	75	30	0
Gujarati	215	175	40	0
Hindi	135	120	10	0
Kashmiri	0	0	0	0
Konkani	0	0	0	0
Marathi	10	0	0	0
Nepali	25	25	0	0
Oriya (Odia)	0	0	0	0
Punjabi (Panjabi)	55	55	0	0
Sindhi	10	10	0	0
Sinhala (Sinhalese)	15	10	0	0
Urdu	75	75	0	0
Iranian languages	120	95	25	0
Kurdish	10	0	0	0
Pashto	10	10	0	0
Persian (Farsi)	110	85	30	0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Italic (Romance) languages	785	610	170	10
Catalan	0	0	0	0
Italian	315	215	100	10
Portuguese	145	115	30	0
Romanian	30	30	0	0
Spanish	295	255	40	0
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Japanese	60	40	10	10
Kartvelian languages	0	0	0	0
Georgian	0	0	0	0
Korean	150	140	0	10
Mongolic languages	10	0	0	0
Mongolian	10	10	0	0
Niger-Congo languages	75	75	0	0
Akan (Twi)	10	0	0	0
Bamanankan	0	0	0	0
Edo	0	0	0	0
Ewe	0	0	0	0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde)	0	0	0	0
Ga	0	0	0	0
Ganda	0	0	0	0
Igbo	0	0	0	0
Lingala	0	0	0	0
Rundi (Kirundi)	0	0	0	0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda)	0	0	0	0
Shona	10	0	0	0
Swahili	25	25	0	0
Wolof	10	10	0	0
Yoruba	35	35	0	0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Nilo-Saharan languages	0	0	0	0
Dinka	0	10	0	0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Sign languages	30	0	0	25
American Sign Language	10	0	0	0
Quebec Sign Language	0	0	0	0
Sign languages, n.i.e	25	0	0	25
Sino-Tibetan languages	565	525	45	0
Chinese languages	545	500	45	0
Cantonese	175	145	35	0
Hakka	0	0	0	0
Mandarin	250	245	10	0
Min Dong	10	0	0	0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese)	25	25	0	0
Wu (Shanghainese)	25	15	10	0
Chinese, n.o.s.	65	65	0	0
Chinese languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Tibeto-Burman languages	20	20	0	0
Burmese	0	0	0	0
Karenic languages	0	0	0	0
Tibetan	15	15	0	0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e.	10	10	0	0
Tai-Kadai languages	25	25	0	0
Lao	0	0	0	0
Thai	25	25	0	0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e	0	0	0	0
Turkic languages	0	0	0	0
Azerbaijani	0	0	0	0
Turkish	10	10	0	0
Uyghur	0	0	0	0
Uzbek	0	0	0	0
Turkic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Uralic languages	255	205	45	0
Estonian	35	20	10	0
Finnish	75	55	25	0
Hungarian	150	135	15	0
Uralic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Other languages, n.i.e.	10	0	0	0
Multiple responses	885	265	320	300
English and French	295	10	55	230
English and non-official language	555	235	260	60
French and non-official language	10	0	0	10
English, French and non-official language	20	10	10	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

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 3

'First generation' includes persons who were born outside Canada. For the most part, these are people who are now, or once were, immigrants to Canada.

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Footnote 4

'Second generation' includes persons who were born in Canada and had at least one parent born outside Canada. For the most part, these are the children of immigrants.

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