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 St. John's, 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 1 107,645 97,235 35 9,890 485
Single responses 106,840 96,675 35 9,655 480
Official languages 100,660 91,370 25 9,230 25
English 100,010 91,330 5 8,650 30
French 650 45 20 585 0
Non-official languages 6,180 5,300 5 420 450
Aboriginal languages 25 25 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 5 5 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) 5 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 0 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 25 20 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 15 15 0 5 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 5 5 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 6,150 5,275 10 415 455
Afro-Asiatic languages 1,000 700 0 50 245
Berber languages 5 5 0 0 0
Kabyle 0 0 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 35 35 0 0 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 5
Oromo 30 30 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 960 665 5 55 240
Amharic 20 15 0 0 0
Arabic 865 580 5 50 235
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 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 70 60 0 5 10
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 40 40 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 40 35 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 470 460 0 5 0
Bikol 0 5 0 0 0
Cebuano 20 25 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 5 5 0 0 0
Ilocano 15 15 0 0 0
Malagasy 5 5 0 0 0
Malay 25 20 0 5 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 5 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 400 390 0 10 5
Waray-Waray 5 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Creole languages 25 20 0 10 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 15 0 0 10 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 170 165 0 5 5
Kannada 15 10 0 0 0
Malayalam 50 50 0 0 0
Tamil 80 75 0 0 5
Telugu 30 25 0 5 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 2,605 2,265 0 260 80
Albanian 80 70 0 0 10
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 365 310 0 50 5
Baltic languages 5 5 0 5 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 360 310 0 45 5
Belarusan 5 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 10 15 0 0 0
Bulgarian 40 35 0 5 0
Croatian 15 15 0 0 0
Czech 25 20 0 5 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0 0
Polish 60 50 0 5 5
Russian 155 130 0 20 5
Serbian 15 15 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 5 0
Slovak 5 0 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 5 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 20 20 0 5 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 15 5 0 5 0
Scottish Gaelic 5 0 0 0 0
Welsh 5 0 0 5 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 5 0
Germanic languages 295 240 0 55 0
Afrikaans 15 15 0 0 0
Danish 20 20 0 0 0
Dutch 45 35 0 15 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 150 110 0 35 0
Icelandic 20 25 0 0 0
Norwegian 35 30 0 0 0
Swedish 10 10 0 5 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 0 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Greek 30 30 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages 1,250 1,165 0 45 40
Indo-Aryan languages 970 910 0 40 25
Bengali 305 290 0 5 5
Gujarati 50 45 0 5 5
Hindi 110 110 0 0 0
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 20 15 0 5 0
Nepali 135 120 0 5 10
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 85 80 0 10 5
Sindhi 5 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 50 45 0 0 0
Urdu 205 190 0 10 5
Iranian languages 245 225 0 5 15
Kurdish 10 5 0 0 5
Pashto 25 25 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 210 195 0 5 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 30 25 0 0 5
Italic (Romance) languages 570 445 0 105 20
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 45 30 0 10 0
Portuguese 90 65 0 15 10
Romanian 30 15 0 10 0
Spanish 405 325 0 60 15
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Japanese 30 25 0 5 0
Kartvelian languages 0 5 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 95 85 0 0 10
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 245 190 0 30 25
Akan (Twi) 25 25 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 5 0 0 0 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 5 0 0 0
Ganda 5 5 0 0 0
Igbo 20 25 0 0 0
Lingala 5 5 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 10 5 0 5 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 5 0 0 5 0
Shona 15 15 0 0 0
Swahili 55 20 5 5 25
Wolof 0 0 0 5 0
Yoruba 50 45 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 55 50 0 10 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 40 30 0 0 5
Dinka 10 10 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 0 5
Sign languages 35 25 0 0 10
American Sign Language 20 10 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 15 10 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,260 1,160 0 25 75
Chinese languages 1,235 1,135 0 25 70
Cantonese 195 165 0 15 20
Hakka 5 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 875 825 0 10 45
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 30 25 0 0 5
Wu (Shanghainese) 10 10 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 110 105 0 5 5
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 20 25 0 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0 0
Karenic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Tibetan 5 5 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 25 20 0 0 0
Lao 5 5 0 0 0
Thai 20 15 0 5 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 50 50 0 5 0
Azerbaijani 10 5 0 0 0
Turkish 35 30 0 5 0
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 10 5 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Uralic languages 40 35 0 5 0
Estonian 5 5 0 0 0
Finnish 5 0 0 5 0
Hungarian 35 30 0 5 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 0
Multiple responses 805 560 5 235 5
English and French 185 30 0 155 0
English and non-official language 575 520 0 45 5
French and non-official language 35 5 5 30 0
English, French and non-official language 15 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) – St. John's, CY

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 4.0%.
  • 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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