Data tables, 2016 Census

Mother Tongue (269), Knowledge of Official Languages (5) and Sex (3) for the Population Excluding Institutional Residents of Canada, Provinces and Territories, Census Divisions, Census Subdivisions and Dissemination Areas, 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 and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Welland, CY
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 51,700 43,655 180 7,655 215
Single responses 50,855 43,260 175 7,210 215
Official languages 45,805 38,725 160 6,915 5
English 41,040 38,480 0 2,555 5
French 4,760 245 165 4,355 0
Non-official languages 5,050 4,540 10 295 210
Aboriginal languages 5 5 0 5 0
Algonquian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 0 0 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 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 0 5 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 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 5 0 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 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 0 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 5,045 4,535 15 290 210
Afro-Asiatic languages 195 140 0 40 15
Berber languages 0 0 0 0 0
Kabyle 0 0 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 10 5 0 0 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 10 5 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 185 135 0 35 15
Amharic 0 5 0 0 0
Arabic 155 105 0 35 10
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0 0
Maltese 10 10 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 10 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 45 40 0 5 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0 0
Vietnamese 40 35 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 75 70 0 0 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 10 5 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 0 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 5 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 0 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 60 55 0 0 0
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Creole languages 70 15 5 50 0
Haitian Creole 20 5 0 15 5
Creole, n.o.s. 45 5 0 40 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 50 55 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 35 35 0 0 5
Tamil 15 15 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 3,575 3,285 5 165 120
Albanian 5 5 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 840 800 0 30 15
Baltic languages 25 25 0 0 0
Latvian 5 10 0 0 0
Lithuanian 15 15 0 0 0
Slavic languages 820 770 0 25 15
Belarusan 5 0 0 5 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 0 0 0 0
Croatian 195 195 0 5 0
Czech 20 25 0 0 0
Macedonian 10 10 0 0 0
Polish 270 255 0 5 10
Russian 40 40 0 0 0
Serbian 15 15 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 5 0
Slovak 85 85 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 20 20 0 0 0
Ukrainian 140 125 0 10 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 0 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 520 500 0 20 0
Afrikaans 10 10 0 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 0 0
Dutch 210 205 0 0 0
Frisian 5 0 0 0 0
German 270 255 0 15 0
Icelandic 5 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0 0
Swedish 10 10 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 5 5 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 50 50 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 210 195 0 10 5
Indo-Aryan languages 190 175 0 10 5
Bengali 5 5 0 0 0
Gujarati 45 40 0 5 5
Hindi 25 30 0 5 0
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 45 40 0 5 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 5 0 0 0
Urdu 55 50 0 5 5
Iranian languages 25 20 0 5 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 15 20 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 1,945 1,745 5 100 100
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 1,425 1,305 5 55 70
Portuguese 90 75 0 5 5
Romanian 25 20 0 0 0
Spanish 410 345 5 40 20
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 15 10 0 0 5
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 225 210 0 5 15
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 50 30 0 15 5
Akan (Twi) 5 0 0 5 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 0 0 0 0 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 0 0 0 0 0
Lingala 5 0 0 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 5 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 15 15 0 0 0
Swahili 5 5 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 5 5 5 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 0 5 0 0 0
Dinka 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages 15 10 0 0 5
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 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 270 240 0 5 25
Chinese languages 270 240 0 5 30
Cantonese 55 50 0 0 5
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 190 165 0 0 20
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 5 5 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 20 15 0 5 0
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0
Karenic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Tibetan 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 10 5 0 5 5
Lao 5 0 0 0 0
Thai 10 10 0 0 5
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 10 5 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 15 10 0 0 0
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Uralic languages 440 415 0 10 15
Estonian 5 10 0 0 0
Finnish 10 10 0 0 0
Hungarian 425 400 0 10 15
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 845 395 5 445 0
English and French 470 70 0 400 5
English and non-official language 345 320 0 25 0
French and non-official language 25 5 0 15 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 10 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) – Welland, CY

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 3.5%.
  • 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-X2016055.

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