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 Brant
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 1 133,350 126,460 35 6,025 825
Single responses 131,940 125,290 35 5,790 820
Official languages 118,520 113,195 30 5,270 25
English 117,235 113,065 5 4,135 30
French 1,290 130 20 1,135 0
Non-official languages 13,425 12,095 10 525 790
Aboriginal languages 40 40 0 5 0
Algonquian languages 15 10 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 5 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. 5 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 10 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 10 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 5 0 0 0 0
Northern Athabaskan languages 0 5 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 20 20 0 5 0
Cayuga 10 5 0 0 0
Mohawk 15 15 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 5 0 5 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 13,380 12,060 5 520 795
Afro-Asiatic languages 375 315 0 35 20
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 15 15 0 5 5
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 15 10 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 360 300 0 30 20
Amharic 5 5 0 0 0
Arabic 285 235 0 30 20
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 5 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 55 55 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 5 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 655 555 5 5 90
Khmer (Cambodian) 25 20 0 0 0
Vietnamese 625 530 5 10 90
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 5 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 485 480 0 10 5
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 15 20 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 10 5 0 0 0
Ilocano 20 20 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 10 10 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 5 0 0 0
Pangasinan 5 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 420 415 0 5 5
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 5 0
Creole languages 35 20 0 10 0
Haitian Creole 5 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 15 0 0 10 5
Creole languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 105 100 0 5 5
Kannada 5 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 30 25 0 0 0
Tamil 35 35 0 0 0
Telugu 45 40 0 5 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 10,020 9,105 0 410 510
Albanian 35 30 0 0 5
Armenian 25 20 0 5 5
Balto-Slavic languages 2,585 2,405 0 100 80
Baltic languages 35 30 0 0 0
Latvian 15 10 0 5 0
Lithuanian 20 20 0 0 0
Slavic languages 2,555 2,375 0 100 75
Belarusan 0 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 15 15 0 0 0
Bulgarian 15 15 0 5 0
Croatian 110 105 0 5 5
Czech 45 40 0 5 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0 0
Polish 1,725 1,610 5 55 60
Russian 120 105 0 5 10
Serbian 110 100 0 15 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0 0
Slovak 85 80 0 5 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 30 25 0 0 0
Ukrainian 270 255 0 10 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 5 5 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 2,025 1,940 0 70 10
Afrikaans 25 20 0 5 0
Danish 35 30 0 5 0
Dutch 1,050 1,030 0 15 5
Frisian 35 35 0 0 0
German 815 765 0 45 10
Icelandic 5 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 5 0 0 0
Swedish 10 10 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 45 40 0 5 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Greek 165 155 0 5 5
Indo-Iranian languages 2,295 1,985 0 60 250
Indo-Aryan languages 2,195 1,905 0 50 240
Bengali 55 55 0 0 0
Gujarati 255 225 0 5 25
Hindi 165 155 0 0 5
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 5 5 0 5 0
Marathi 25 20 0 5 0
Nepali 15 15 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 1,345 1,120 0 30 205
Sindhi 15 15 0 5 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 15 0 0 0
Urdu 295 280 0 0 10
Iranian languages 95 75 0 10 5
Kurdish 5 0 0 0 0
Pashto 5 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 90 70 0 10 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 2,885 2,555 0 165 160
Catalan 0 5 0 0 0
Italian 1,310 1,180 0 80 60
Portuguese 835 755 0 20 50
Romanian 145 120 0 20 5
Spanish 590 495 5 45 45
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 55 35 0 5 15
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 195 165 0 5 25
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 70 60 0 5 0
Akan (Twi) 30 25 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 5 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 5 0 0 0 0
Shona 20 20 0 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 5 5 0 0 0
Dinka 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages 40 10 0 0 25
American Sign Language 10 5 0 0 10
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 25 5 0 0 15
Sino-Tibetan languages 610 510 0 25 80
Chinese languages 600 505 0 20 80
Cantonese 215 180 0 5 30
Hakka 0 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 320 270 0 15 40
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 10 10 0 0 5
Wu (Shanghainese) 5 5 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 40 40 0 0 5
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 10 10 0 0 0
Burmese 5 10 0 0 0
Karenic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Tibetan 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 70 60 0 0 10
Lao 60 50 0 0 10
Thai 15 10 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 20 20 0 0 5
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 15 15 0 0 0
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 10 0 0 0 5
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Uralic languages 645 630 0 10 5
Estonian 20 20 0 0 0
Finnish 20 20 0 5 0
Hungarian 600 585 0 10 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,415 1,170 5 235 5
English and French 225 85 0 140 0
English and non-official language 1,120 1,065 5 55 5
French and non-official language 30 10 0 20 0
English, French and non-official language 30 10 0 20 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) – Brant

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Excludes census data for one or more incompletely enumerated Indian reserves or Indian settlements.
  • 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-X2016055.

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