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, Census Divisions and Census Subdivisions, 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 Québec
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 1 560,310 1,390 330,785 226,265 1,875
Single responses 554,290 1,325 328,645 222,480 1,840
Official languages 527,110 615 315,320 211,125 50
English 7,865 580 305 6,975 5
French 519,245 40 315,015 204,150 45
Non-official languages 27,185 710 13,325 11,360 1,795
Aboriginal languages 585 10 455 105 15
Algonquian languages 580 10 455 100 15
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 570 10 450 90 10
Atikamekw 45 0 35 5 5
Montagnais (Innu) 515 5 415 80 5
Moose Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Naskapi 5 5 0 0 0
Northern East Cree 5 0 0 0 0
Plains Cree 0 0 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. 0 0 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 0 5 5 0
Algonquin 15 0 5 5 0
Ojibway 0 0 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 0 0 0 0 0
Northern Athabaskan languages 0 0 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 0 0 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 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 10 0 0 5 0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 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 5 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 0 0 0 0 0
Dakota 0 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 26,600 700 12,870 11,250 1,780
Afro-Asiatic languages 5,550 60 2,700 2,410 380
Berber languages 685 0 410 255 15
Kabyle 360 0 235 115 10
Berber languages, n.i.e. 325 0 175 140 5
Cushitic languages 45 0 20 25 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 40 0 20 15 5
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Semitic languages 4,785 60 2,250 2,130 355
Amharic 5 0 0 0 0
Arabic 4,765 55 2,235 2,120 350
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 5 0 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 10 0 5 5 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 0 0 5 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 25 0 20 5 5
Austro-Asiatic languages 1,170 20 540 500 110
Khmer (Cambodian) 375 0 215 130 35
Vietnamese 790 25 325 370 75
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 5 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 320 35 100 180 5
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 20 5 0 15 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 0 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 180 0 90 85 5
Malay 20 5 5 15 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 75 20 0 55 0
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 25 5 5 10 5
Creole languages 530 0 315 200 10
Haitian Creole 45 0 20 20 0
Creole, n.o.s. 480 0 295 170 10
Creole languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 5 0
Dravidian languages 35 10 0 15 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 10 0 0 5 0
Tamil 20 0 0 10 0
Telugu 10 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 14,395 340 7,040 6,145 870
Albanian 205 0 130 50 20
Armenian 65 0 10 50 0
Balto-Slavic languages 2,400 60 1,160 1,075 105
Baltic languages 15 10 0 10 0
Latvian 10 5 5 5 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0 0
Slavic languages 2,375 50 1,160 1,065 105
Belarusan 5 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 615 5 370 190 45
Bulgarian 225 0 115 100 5
Croatian 95 0 40 45 5
Czech 30 5 5 20 0
Macedonian 10 0 0 5 0
Polish 245 10 90 150 0
Russian 605 20 275 290 25
Serbian 155 0 75 70 0
Serbo-Croatian 270 5 130 125 15
Slovak 15 0 5 5 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 5 0 0 5 0
Ukrainian 105 5 50 55 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 5
Celtic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 5 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 580 30 50 495 10
Afrikaans 5 0 0 5 0
Danish 10 0 0 5 0
Dutch 105 0 10 90 5
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 410 20 35 350 10
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 0 0 0 0
Swedish 25 5 0 25 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 20 0 5 10 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 5 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 10 0 0 5 0
Greek 85 0 20 70 0
Indo-Iranian languages 1,605 170 560 540 335
Indo-Aryan languages 1,030 85 400 260 275
Bengali 70 25 10 20 10
Gujarati 20 0 5 10 5
Hindi 40 15 0 20 0
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 5 0 5 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0 0
Nepali 850 35 385 170 260
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 5 0 0 5 0
Sindhi 5 0 0 5 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 0 5 5 0
Urdu 25 10 0 15 0
Iranian languages 490 70 120 265 30
Kurdish 50 5 20 5 15
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 440 60 105 255 15
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 95 10 35 25 30
Italic (Romance) languages 9,445 85 5,100 3,865 395
Catalan 15 0 0 10 0
Italian 520 0 220 295 0
Portuguese 1,515 20 770 650 65
Romanian 790 5 325 440 20
Spanish 6,605 55 3,780 2,455 305
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 5 0
Japanese 140 25 25 85 5
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 5 0 0 5 0
Korean 25 5 0 20 5
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 2,680 25 1,605 945 105
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 70 0 45 25 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 45 0 30 20 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 155 0 105 45 5
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 0 0 0 0 0
Lingala 115 0 75 35 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 465 0 280 150 25
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 300 5 140 145 10
Shona 0 0 0 0 0
Swahili 490 5 320 150 20
Wolof 280 5 130 145 5
Yoruba 10 0 0 5 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 755 5 480 235 35
Nilo-Saharan languages 30 0 20 10 5
Dinka 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 35 0 15 5 5
Sign languages 100 0 45 10 40
American Sign Language 5 0 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 55 0 20 10 25
Sign languages, n.i.e 45 0 25 5 15
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,215 160 345 510 205
Chinese languages 1,115 155 315 495 150
Cantonese 250 30 55 115 40
Hakka 0 0 0 5 0
Mandarin 735 110 225 310 90
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 35 0 5 20 5
Wu (Shanghainese) 20 5 0 10 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 75 10 15 40 15
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 100 5 30 15 55
Burmese 10 5 0 0 5
Karenic languages 70 5 20 5 45
Tibetan 5 0 0 5 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 15 0 10 0 5
Tai-Kadai languages 145 5 55 70 10
Lao 85 5 45 40 5
Thai 55 5 10 35 10
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 75 5 15 50 5
Azerbaijani 15 0 0 10 0
Turkish 55 5 15 35 0
Uyghur 5 0 0 5 0
Uzbek 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 5 0
Uralic languages 120 5 35 70 5
Estonian 0 0 0 5 0
Finnish 10 0 0 5 0
Hungarian 105 5 35 65 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 60 0 25 25 10
Multiple responses 6,015 65 2,140 3,785 30
English and French 2,780 10 315 2,455 0
English and non-official language 205 50 10 140 0
French and non-official language 2,775 5 1,790 950 25
English, French and non-official language 260 0 20 235 5

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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) – Québec

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 4.2%.
  • 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-X2016054.

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