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 Bruce
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 67,190 63,370 10 3,485 325
Single responses 66,790 63,085 10 3,375 325
Official languages 62,170 58,965 5 3,190 5
English 61,545 58,910 5 2,625 5
French 625 55 5 565 0
Non-official languages 4,625 4,115 0 185 320
Aboriginal languages 215 205 0 5 0
Algonquian languages 210 210 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 0 5 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 5 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 210 205 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 210 205 0 5 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 0 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 5 0 0 5 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 4,410 3,910 0 180 325
Afro-Asiatic languages 45 45 0 5 5
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 0 0 0 0 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 5 5 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 50 45 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 40 40 0 5 5
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 0 0 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 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 10 5 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 10 10 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 130 125 0 0 5
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 10 10 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 0 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 5 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 115 115 0 0 0
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Creole languages 5 0 0 0 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 40 35 0 0 0
Kannada 5 10 0 0 0
Malayalam 15 15 0 0 0
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 3,815 3,365 0 165 290
Albanian 0 5 0 0 0
Armenian 5 5 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 390 360 0 20 10
Baltic languages 15 20 0 0 0
Latvian 10 10 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 10 0 0 0
Slavic languages 370 340 0 25 10
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0 0
Croatian 35 35 0 0 0
Czech 40 40 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0 0
Polish 135 125 0 10 0
Russian 55 50 0 0 5
Serbian 25 25 0 5 5
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0 0
Slovak 20 20 0 5 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 5 10 0 0 0
Ukrainian 40 35 0 5 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 10 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 2,695 2,355 0 70 270
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0 0
Danish 20 15 0 0 0
Dutch 615 565 0 20 20
Frisian 10 10 0 0 0
German 2,040 1,745 0 45 245
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0 0
Swedish 5 0 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 15 10 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 35 35 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages 360 330 0 20 15
Indo-Aryan languages 325 300 0 10 15
Bengali 25 20 0 5 0
Gujarati 75 70 0 5 5
Hindi 35 35 0 5 0
Kashmiri 5 5 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 10 10 0 0 0
Nepali 5 0 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 45 45 0 0 5
Sindhi 5 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 125 120 0 5 0
Iranian languages 30 25 0 5 5
Kurdish 0 5 0 0 0
Pashto 5 10 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 25 20 0 5 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 325 270 0 55 0
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 110 95 0 15 0
Portuguese 65 60 0 5 0
Romanian 45 30 0 10 0
Spanish 100 80 0 20 0
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 70 70 0 0 0
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 5 5 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 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 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 0 0 0 0 0
Swahili 0 5 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 0 0 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 0
American Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 15 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 140 120 0 0 15
Chinese languages 140 120 0 5 15
Cantonese 40 30 0 0 10
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 75 65 0 0 5
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 0 0 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 30 25 0 0 5
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 5 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 5 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 10 5 0 5 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 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 110 110 0 0 0
Estonian 10 5 0 0 0
Finnish 30 30 0 0 0
Hungarian 70 70 0 0 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 395 285 0 110 5
English and French 105 30 0 75 0
English and non-official language 270 250 0 25 0
French and non-official language 10 5 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 5 5 0 5 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) – Bruce

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 6.0%.
  • 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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