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 Fraser Valley
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 1 291,110 268,855 65 13,175 9,015
Single responses 286,090 264,530 60 12,530 8,965
Official languages 224,045 213,040 40 10,895 75
English 221,230 212,590 5 8,560 75
French 2,815 455 30 2,330 0
Non-official languages 62,045 51,495 20 1,640 8,890
Aboriginal languages 210 210 0 5 0
Algonquian languages 55 50 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 30 30 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Montagnais (Innu) 0 0 0 0 0
Moose Cree 0 5 0 0 0
Naskapi 0 0 0 0 0
Northern East Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Plains Cree 5 5 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. 25 20 0 0 0
Eastern Algonquian languages 5 5 0 0 0
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 15 15 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 15 15 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 10 15 0 0 0
Northern Athabaskan languages 15 15 0 0 0
Babine (Wetsuwet'en) 5 0 0 0 0
Beaver 0 0 0 0 0
Carrier 5 5 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 5 0 0 0
Dene 5 5 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 5 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 5 5 0 0 0
Salish languages 120 120 0 0 0
Comox 0 5 0 0 0
Halkomelem 40 35 0 0 0
Lillooet 55 55 0 0 0
Okanagan 0 0 0 0 0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 5 10 0 0 0
Squamish 0 0 0 0 0
Straits 0 0 0 0 0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 10 15 0 0 0
Salish languages, n.i.e. 0 5 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 5 0 0 0 0
Wakashan languages 5 5 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. 10 10 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 61,830 51,280 25 1,635 8,890
Afro-Asiatic languages 595 420 0 65 115
Berber languages 0 5 0 0 0
Kabyle 5 5 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 15 10 0 0 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 5 5 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages 580 410 0 65 110
Amharic 20 20 0 0 0
Arabic 495 330 0 60 110
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 10 10 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 30 25 0 5 0
Maltese 15 15 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 1,230 990 5 20 220
Khmer (Cambodian) 45 30 0 5 10
Vietnamese 1,190 965 0 20 210
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 1,745 1,715 0 20 10
Bikol 10 10 0 0 0
Cebuano 90 90 0 0 0
Fijian 20 20 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 20 20 0 0 0
Ilocano 90 85 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 5 0
Malay 60 60 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 5 5 0 0 0
Pangasinan 5 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 1,415 1,395 0 15 10
Waray-Waray 5 5 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 25 25 0 0 0
Creole languages 70 40 0 35 0
Haitian Creole 5 5 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 50 20 0 30 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 15 20 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 180 170 0 5 10
Kannada 10 10 0 0 0
Malayalam 90 85 0 5 5
Tamil 40 35 0 0 0
Telugu 45 40 0 0 5
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 10 5 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 51,725 42,555 10 1,305 7,845
Albanian 130 125 0 0 5
Armenian 35 30 0 5 0
Balto-Slavic languages 2,770 2,550 0 130 85
Baltic languages 30 30 0 5 0
Latvian 15 20 0 0 0
Lithuanian 10 10 0 0 0
Slavic languages 2,735 2,525 0 130 85
Belarusan 5 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 70 60 0 0 0
Bulgarian 40 35 0 0 0
Croatian 140 135 0 5 0
Czech 245 235 0 5 0
Macedonian 0 5 0 0 0
Polish 710 650 0 50 15
Russian 740 665 0 35 45
Serbian 85 75 0 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 20 15 0 0 0
Slovak 135 120 0 10 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 40 40 0 0 0
Ukrainian 505 475 0 20 10
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 5
Celtic languages 20 25 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 5 10 0 0 0
Welsh 15 10 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 12,495 12,080 0 345 70
Afrikaans 250 235 0 10 0
Danish 320 315 0 5 0
Dutch 3,415 3,305 0 105 10
Frisian 75 70 0 0 0
German 8,155 7,895 0 200 55
Icelandic 15 20 0 0 0
Norwegian 120 120 0 5 0
Swedish 120 115 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 20 10 0 10 0
Yiddish 5 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Greek 150 140 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages 32,635 24,675 10 500 7,450
Indo-Aryan languages 32,155 24,255 10 485 7,410
Bengali 30 25 0 5 0
Gujarati 115 105 0 0 10
Hindi 775 725 0 15 40
Kashmiri 5 5 0 0 0
Konkani 10 10 0 0 0
Marathi 15 15 0 0 0
Nepali 25 20 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 30,845 23,030 10 455 7,355
Sindhi 15 10 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 55 50 0 5 0
Urdu 285 265 0 5 10
Iranian languages 455 395 0 15 40
Kurdish 65 50 0 0 15
Pashto 10 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 380 345 0 15 30
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 25 25 0 0 5
Italic (Romance) languages 3,480 2,925 5 320 230
Catalan 5 5 0 0 0
Italian 425 380 0 45 5
Portuguese 385 340 0 40 5
Romanian 580 465 0 80 35
Spanish 2,080 1,735 0 155 185
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Japanese 390 360 0 10 20
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 1,720 1,490 0 40 190
Mongolic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Mongolian 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 175 150 5 15 5
Akan (Twi) 15 15 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 0 5 0 0 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 5
Ganda 0 5 0 0 0
Igbo 5 5 0 0 0
Lingala 5 5 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 5 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 0 0 0 5 0
Shona 5 5 0 0 0
Swahili 55 35 5 10 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 30 25 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 45 45 0 0 5
Nilo-Saharan languages 35 30 0 0 0
Dinka 10 15 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0 0
Sign languages 80 50 0 0 30
American Sign Language 30 20 0 5 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 55 30 0 0 25
Sino-Tibetan languages 2,610 2,145 0 65 405
Chinese languages 2,585 2,130 0 60 390
Cantonese 770 655 0 10 105
Hakka 30 25 0 0 10
Mandarin 1,510 1,230 0 40 245
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 100 80 0 5 15
Wu (Shanghainese) 30 20 0 0 10
Chinese, n.o.s. 145 130 5 5 10
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 25 15 0 0 10
Burmese 5 0 0 0 5
Karenic languages 15 10 0 0 5
Tibetan 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 305 270 0 15 15
Lao 225 195 0 10 15
Thai 80 75 0 0 5
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 70 55 0 15 5
Azerbaijani 0 5 0 0 0
Turkish 60 50 0 5 5
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Uralic languages 850 815 0 30 10
Estonian 30 25 0 5 0
Finnish 250 245 0 0 0
Hungarian 575 540 0 25 10
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 25 15 0 0 10
Multiple responses 5,020 4,325 5 640 50
English and French 505 160 0 340 0
English and non-official language 4,355 4,115 5 195 45
French and non-official language 75 25 0 50 0
English, French and non-official language 80 25 0 60 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) – Fraser Valley

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 4.9%.
  • 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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