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 Québec, V
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 1 523,310 1,350 309,965 210,160 1,840
Single responses 517,560 1,285 307,895 206,570 1,805
Official languages 491,185 590 294,955 195,600 45
English 7,400 550 295 6,550 0
French 483,790 35 294,660 189,050 40
Non-official languages 26,370 695 12,940 10,970 1,760
Aboriginal languages 450 10 345 80 10
Algonquian languages 440 10 345 80 5
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 435 10 345 70 5
Atikamekw 30 0 25 5 0
Montagnais (Innu) 400 5 320 65 5
Moose Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Naskapi 5 5 0 5 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 5 0 0 0 0
Algonquin 5 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 5 5
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 10 0 0 5 5
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. 5 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 25,920 690 12,590 10,895 1,755
Afro-Asiatic languages 5,445 60 2,655 2,355 375
Berber languages 680 0 410 250 20
Kabyle 360 0 235 115 10
Berber languages, n.i.e. 320 0 180 140 5
Cushitic languages 45 0 20 25 5
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 40 0 20 20 5
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 5 0
Semitic languages 4,690 55 2,200 2,080 350
Amharic 5 0 5 5 0
Arabic 4,665 55 2,195 2,070 350
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 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 5 0
Tigrigna 5 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 1,145 25 530 485 110
Khmer (Cambodian) 375 0 210 130 35
Vietnamese 770 20 315 360 75
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 5 0 5 0 0
Austronesian languages 315 35 95 175 5
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 15 5 0 10 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 0 0 0 5 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0 0
Malagasy 175 0 90 85 5
Malay 25 5 0 15 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 5 5 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 75 20 0 50 0
Waray-Waray 5 0 0 5 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 20 0 5 10 0
Creole languages 510 5 310 190 10
Haitian Creole 45 0 20 20 0
Creole, n.o.s. 465 0 285 160 10
Creole languages, n.i.e. 10 0 0 5 0
Dravidian languages 35 15 0 15 5
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 10 0 0 5 5
Tamil 15 5 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 13,950 335 6,855 5,905 855
Albanian 210 0 135 55 20
Armenian 65 0 10 50 0
Balto-Slavic languages 2,290 55 1,110 1,020 100
Baltic languages 15 5 0 10 0
Latvian 15 5 5 10 0
Lithuanian 10 0 0 5 0
Slavic languages 2,275 50 1,110 1,010 100
Belarusan 0 0 0 5 0
Bosnian 600 5 365 185 40
Bulgarian 220 0 115 100 5
Croatian 80 0 35 40 10
Czech 25 5 5 15 0
Macedonian 5 0 0 5 0
Polish 230 5 80 140 5
Russian 570 20 255 280 25
Serbian 150 5 75 70 0
Serbo-Croatian 260 5 130 115 15
Slovak 15 0 10 10 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 5 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 100 5 45 50 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 5
Celtic languages 5 0 0 5 0
Scottish Gaelic 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 5 0
Germanic languages 540 25 50 460 10
Afrikaans 5 0 0 5 0
Danish 5 0 0 5 0
Dutch 95 0 10 85 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 390 20 30 330 10
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 0 0 5 0
Swedish 20 0 0 15 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 15 0 5 10 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 10 0
Greek 90 0 20 70 0
Indo-Iranian languages 1,600 170 560 540 335
Indo-Aryan languages 1,020 90 400 260 275
Bengali 70 25 10 20 10
Gujarati 15 0 5 10 0
Hindi 40 15 0 25 0
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 5 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Nepali 845 30 385 175 260
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 5 0 0 5 0
Sindhi 5 0 0 5 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 0 0 5 0
Urdu 25 10 0 15 0
Iranian languages 485 70 120 265 35
Kurdish 45 10 20 10 15
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 435 65 100 250 15
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 95 10 40 20 30
Italic (Romance) languages 9,150 85 4,965 3,710 385
Catalan 15 0 0 10 0
Italian 485 0 215 275 5
Portuguese 1,465 20 750 630 65
Romanian 755 5 310 420 20
Spanish 6,425 60 3,695 2,375 300
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 5 0
Japanese 140 25 25 85 10
Kartvelian languages 5 0 5 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 30 0 0 20 0
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 2,655 25 1,590 935 105
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 70 0 40 25 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 45 0 30 15 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 155 0 105 40 5
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 5 0 0 0 0
Lingala 110 0 70 35 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 455 0 280 145 30
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 295 5 145 140 5
Shona 0 0 0 0 0
Swahili 490 5 315 150 15
Wolof 275 5 125 140 5
Yoruba 15 0 5 5 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 745 10 470 230 35
Nilo-Saharan languages 30 0 15 10 5
Dinka 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 30 0 15 5 5
Sign languages 100 0 45 10 45
American Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 60 0 25 10 25
Sign languages, n.i.e 45 0 25 5 15
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,180 155 325 490 200
Chinese languages 1,080 150 300 480 150
Cantonese 230 30 50 110 40
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 730 110 220 310 85
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 30 0 5 20 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 15 5 5 10 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 65 10 15 30 10
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 100 5 30 10 55
Burmese 15 0 0 5 10
Karenic languages 70 5 20 5 40
Tibetan 10 0 0 5 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 10 0 10 5 0
Tai-Kadai languages 140 5 55 70 10
Lao 90 0 50 35 5
Thai 50 0 15 35 10
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 80 5 15 50 5
Azerbaijani 15 0 0 15 0
Turkish 55 0 20 35 0
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 5 0
Uralic languages 115 10 35 65 0
Estonian 0 0 0 5 0
Finnish 10 5 0 0 0
Hungarian 100 5 35 65 5
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 55 0 25 20 10
Multiple responses 5,750 65 2,070 3,585 30
English and French 2,615 10 290 2,315 0
English and non-official language 200 45 15 140 0
French and non-official language 2,690 5 1,745 910 25
English, French and non-official language 250 0 20 225 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, V

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 4.3%.
  • 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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