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 Medicine Hat, 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 61,980 59,360 10 2,330 280
Single responses 61,440 58,910 10 2,235 280
Official languages 56,400 54,275 10 2,110 5
English 55,700 54,165 5 1,535 5
French 700 115 10 575 0
Non-official languages 5,035 4,630 0 130 275
Aboriginal languages 35 35 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 30 30 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 20 20 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 5 0 0 0 0
Southern East Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Swampy Cree 5 0 0 0 0
Woods Cree 0 5 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 15 15 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 5 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 10 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 5 5 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 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 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. 5 5 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 5,000 4,595 0 130 275
Afro-Asiatic languages 435 315 0 10 110
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 35 30 0 0 5
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 25 25 0 0 0
Somali 10 5 0 0 5
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 400 290 0 10 105
Amharic 15 10 0 0 0
Arabic 370 260 0 10 100
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 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 10 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 85 75 0 0 10
Khmer (Cambodian) 30 25 0 0 5
Vietnamese 60 55 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 555 550 0 5 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 40 35 0 0 0
Fijian 5 5 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 0 5 0 5 0
Ilocano 20 20 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 0 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 5 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 485 490 0 0 0
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Creole languages 10 10 0 0 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 5 0 0 5 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 90 80 0 0 5
Kannada 5 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 55 50 0 0 0
Tamil 20 20 0 0 0
Telugu 10 10 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 3,160 3,000 0 100 65
Albanian 35 35 0 0 0
Armenian 5 0 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 445 430 0 10 5
Baltic languages 0 5 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 5 0 0 0
Slavic languages 440 430 0 10 5
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 70 65 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0 0
Croatian 35 40 0 0 0
Czech 15 10 0 5 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 75 75 0 5 0
Russian 50 50 0 0 0
Serbian 15 20 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 20 25 0 0 0
Slovak 15 15 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 5 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 115 115 0 5 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 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 1,605 1,570 0 35 5
Afrikaans 50 45 0 5 0
Danish 15 15 0 0 0
Dutch 185 180 0 5 0
Frisian 5 5 0 0 0
German 1,325 1,305 0 25 5
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 10 10 0 0 0
Swedish 5 5 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 30 30 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 370 335 0 10 25
Indo-Aryan languages 340 310 0 5 20
Bengali 5 5 0 0 0
Gujarati 50 50 0 0 0
Hindi 45 40 0 5 5
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 5 0
Nepali 70 55 0 0 15
Oriya (Odia) 10 5 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 85 80 0 0 5
Sindhi 10 10 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 5 0 0 0
Urdu 55 50 0 0 5
Iranian languages 25 25 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 25 20 0 0 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 670 590 0 50 35
Catalan 5 0 0 0 0
Italian 65 60 0 5 0
Portuguese 35 30 0 5 0
Romanian 30 20 0 10 0
Spanish 540 485 0 30 30
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 35 35 0 5 5
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 40 40 0 0 0
Mongolic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Mongolian 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 70 65 0 5 5
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 5 5 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 10 10 0 0 0
Swahili 10 5 0 5 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 25 25 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 45 45 0 0 0
Dinka 20 20 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 30 30 0 0 0
Sign languages 5 5 0 0 0
American Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 5 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 345 285 0 5 60
Chinese languages 325 265 0 5 55
Cantonese 165 130 0 0 35
Hakka 5 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 135 115 0 0 20
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 0 5 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 5 5 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 20 15 0 0 0
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 20 20 0 0 0
Burmese 5 0 0 0 0
Karenic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Tibetan 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 50 20 0 0 30
Lao 5 10 0 0 0
Thai 45 15 0 0 30
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 5 0 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0 0
Uyghur 5 5 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Uralic languages 65 65 0 5 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 15 15 0 0 0
Hungarian 50 50 0 5 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 540 450 0 90 5
English and French 115 40 0 70 0
English and non-official language 415 400 0 10 5
French and non-official language 10 5 0 0 0
English, French and non-official language 10 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) – Medicine Hat, CY

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 4.7%.
  • 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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