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 Cowichan 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 82,910 77,715 15 4,975 210
Single responses 82,260 77,220 10 4,820 205
Official languages 76,855 72,320 10 4,515 10
English 75,860 72,205 5 3,645 10
French 995 120 5 870 0
Non-official languages 5,400 4,900 5 300 195
Aboriginal languages 380 370 0 5 0
Algonquian languages 5 0 0 5 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. 0 5 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 5 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 5 0 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 5 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 5 0 0 0 0
Salish languages 350 350 0 5 0
Comox 0 0 0 0 0
Halkomelem 320 315 0 0 0
Lillooet 0 0 0 0 0
Okanagan 0 0 0 0 0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 0 0 0 0 0
Squamish 5 0 0 0 0
Straits 0 0 0 0 0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 0 0 0 0 0
Salish languages, n.i.e. 30 30 0 0 0
Siouan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Dakota 0 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 5 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 5 0 0 0
Tsimshian 0 0 0 0 0
Wakashan languages 10 10 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) 5 5 0 0 0
Wakashan languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 5,020 4,525 0 295 200
Afro-Asiatic languages 75 40 0 10 25
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 0 5 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. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 75 45 0 10 25
Amharic 5 5 0 0 0
Arabic 60 25 0 10 30
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 10 10 0 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 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 95 80 0 5 10
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0 5
Vietnamese 90 75 0 5 10
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 310 305 0 5 5
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 20 20 0 0 0
Fijian 5 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 10 10 0 0 0
Ilocano 25 25 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 250 245 0 0 0
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Creole languages 5 0 0 5 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 40 40 0 0 5
Kannada 0 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 30 25 0 0 0
Tamil 10 10 0 0 0
Telugu 5 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 3,655 3,320 5 250 80
Albanian 0 5 0 0 0
Armenian 5 0 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 510 475 0 35 0
Baltic languages 15 10 0 5 0
Latvian 10 10 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 5 0
Slavic languages 490 460 0 30 5
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0 0
Croatian 55 50 0 5 0
Czech 70 70 0 5 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 105 100 0 5 0
Russian 75 70 0 5 0
Serbian 15 15 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 0 0
Slovak 20 20 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 10 10 0 0 0
Ukrainian 125 120 0 5 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages 25 20 0 5 0
Scottish Gaelic 10 10 0 0 0
Welsh 10 15 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 2,005 1,855 0 140 5
Afrikaans 60 55 0 0 0
Danish 145 145 0 5 0
Dutch 645 605 0 45 5
Frisian 10 10 0 0 0
German 1,015 935 0 75 5
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 55 55 0 0 0
Swedish 50 45 0 5 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 10 5 0 5 0
Yiddish 5 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Greek 40 35 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 605 525 0 5 65
Indo-Aryan languages 575 500 0 5 65
Bengali 5 5 0 0 0
Gujarati 10 15 0 0 0
Hindi 25 25 0 0 0
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Nepali 10 10 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 500 435 0 5 60
Sindhi 5 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0 0
Urdu 15 10 0 0 5
Iranian languages 30 35 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 30 25 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 470 405 0 65 5
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 155 135 0 15 0
Portuguese 55 50 0 5 0
Romanian 35 25 0 10 0
Spanish 230 185 0 35 5
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 80 70 0 5 5
Kartvelian languages 5 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 125 105 0 0 25
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 10 10 0 0 0
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 0 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 0 0 0 0 0
Swahili 5 5 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Dinka 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages 20 10 0 0 10
American Sign Language 10 10 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 10 0 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 355 310 0 10 40
Chinese languages 350 300 0 10 40
Cantonese 130 110 0 5 15
Hakka 5 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 155 135 0 5 20
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 15 15 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 40 40 0 5 5
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 10 10 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0
Karenic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Tibetan 10 5 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 20 20 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 20 20 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 5 5 0 5 0
Azerbaijani 0 5 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 5 0
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Uralic languages 210 200 0 10 5
Estonian 10 10 0 0 0
Finnish 90 85 0 0 0
Hungarian 115 105 0 5 5
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 655 500 5 155 0
English and French 140 45 5 95 0
English and non-official language 470 440 5 25 0
French and non-official language 25 5 0 20 0
English, French and non-official language 30 5 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) – Cowichan Valley

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 5.7%.
  • 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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