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 Halifax, RGM
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 1 399,315 347,190 345 49,575 2,210
Single responses 394,165 344,070 330 47,575 2,190
Official languages 363,305 317,910 285 45,035 75
English 353,170 317,290 10 35,795 70
French 10,135 620 280 9,235 5
Non-official languages 30,855 26,160 40 2,545 2,115
Aboriginal languages 75 65 0 10 0
Algonquian languages 55 50 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 5 0 0 0 0
Woods Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 5 0 0 0
Eastern Algonquian languages 55 40 0 5 0
Malecite 5 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 50 45 0 10 0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 0 5 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 5 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 5 0 0 0
North Slavey (Hare) 0 0 0 0 0
South Slavey 0 5 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 15 10 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 10 10 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 5 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. 0 5 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 30,785 26,095 40 2,535 2,115
Afro-Asiatic languages 7,020 5,320 15 710 975
Berber languages 10 5 0 5 0
Kabyle 0 5 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 5 0
Cushitic languages 115 100 0 5 10
Bilen 5 5 0 0 0
Oromo 55 50 0 5 5
Somali 50 45 0 0 5
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 6,895 5,220 15 695 965
Amharic 110 105 0 5 0
Arabic 6,425 4,825 10 670 920
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 5 5 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 5 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 195 170 0 10 15
Maltese 5 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 140 95 0 10 30
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 400 335 5 25 40
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0 0
Vietnamese 395 325 0 25 40
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 1,665 1,630 0 25 10
Bikol 5 5 0 0 0
Cebuano 105 110 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 20 20 0 5 0
Ilocano 45 45 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 40 35 0 0 5
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 10 10 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 1,420 1,395 0 20 5
Waray-Waray 0 5 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 20 10 0 5 0
Creole languages 55 30 0 25 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 5 0
Creole, n.o.s. 30 20 0 15 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 25 15 0 5 0
Dravidian languages 870 820 0 30 20
Kannada 25 30 0 5 0
Malayalam 310 295 0 5 5
Tamil 255 245 0 10 5
Telugu 270 250 0 10 5
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 12,660 10,760 10 1,395 500
Albanian 250 225 0 5 15
Armenian 30 20 0 10 0
Balto-Slavic languages 2,790 2,420 5 280 95
Baltic languages 55 50 0 10 0
Latvian 25 25 0 0 0
Lithuanian 30 30 0 5 0
Slavic languages 2,730 2,370 0 270 90
Belarusan 5 10 0 0 0
Bosnian 115 105 0 5 5
Bulgarian 45 35 0 5 0
Croatian 190 165 0 20 0
Czech 145 110 0 30 5
Macedonian 10 10 0 5 0
Polish 590 510 0 70 5
Russian 1,155 1,000 0 90 65
Serbian 110 100 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 80 70 0 10 0
Slovak 85 70 0 15 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 25 20 0 0 0
Ukrainian 190 160 0 25 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 45 40 0 5 0
Scottish Gaelic 25 20 0 5 0
Welsh 15 15 0 5 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages 2,075 1,675 5 390 10
Afrikaans 75 70 0 5 0
Danish 95 90 0 10 0
Dutch 490 400 0 90 0
Frisian 5 5 0 0 0
German 1,200 955 0 235 10
Icelandic 35 25 0 10 0
Norwegian 75 65 0 10 0
Swedish 65 55 0 10 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 15 5 0 10 0
Yiddish 15 10 0 5 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Greek 660 575 0 60 30
Indo-Iranian languages 4,300 3,845 5 160 290
Indo-Aryan languages 2,945 2,675 5 70 195
Bengali 440 420 0 15 5
Gujarati 175 165 0 5 0
Hindi 660 635 0 15 10
Kashmiri 5 5 0 0 0
Konkani 5 5 0 0 0
Marathi 60 60 0 0 0
Nepali 530 375 0 0 150
Oriya (Odia) 5 5 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 475 450 0 10 10
Sindhi 15 15 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 140 130 0 10 5
Urdu 435 405 0 15 15
Iranian languages 1,330 1,155 0 85 90
Kurdish 115 90 0 5 20
Pashto 65 60 0 5 5
Persian (Farsi) 1,145 1,000 0 75 70
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 0 5
Italic (Romance) languages 2,510 1,955 0 485 70
Catalan 10 5 0 5 0
Italian 555 420 0 120 10
Portuguese 390 325 0 45 15
Romanian 185 115 0 70 5
Spanish 1,375 1,090 0 250 30
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 250 230 0 10 10
Kartvelian languages 5 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 905 805 0 40 55
Mongolic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Mongolian 5 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 535 410 10 95 20
Akan (Twi) 35 30 0 0 0
Bamanankan 5 0 0 10 0
Edo 5 5 0 0 0
Ewe 35 25 0 10 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 5 0 0 5 0
Ga 10 10 0 0 0
Ganda 20 20 0 0 0
Igbo 30 35 0 0 5
Lingala 10 0 0 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 15 5 0 10 5
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 45 15 0 30 5
Shona 25 25 0 0 0
Swahili 120 85 5 20 15
Wolof 5 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 55 50 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 120 100 0 15 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 65 60 0 0 0
Dinka 10 10 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 50 50 0 5 0
Sign languages 115 70 0 0 45
American Sign Language 55 35 0 0 20
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 60 35 0 0 25
Sino-Tibetan languages 5,500 4,965 5 115 415
Chinese languages 5,480 4,945 5 110 415
Cantonese 930 770 0 35 120
Hakka 20 20 0 0 5
Mandarin 3,950 3,620 5 65 255
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 95 85 0 5 5
Wu (Shanghainese) 45 40 0 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 430 405 0 0 25
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 15 5 0 0 5
Tibeto-Burman languages 20 15 0 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0 0
Karenic languages 0 5 0 0 0
Tibetan 5 10 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 90 85 0 0 0
Lao 5 0 0 0 0
Thai 80 85 0 5 5
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 390 340 0 30 20
Azerbaijani 15 10 0 0 5
Turkish 250 220 0 25 10
Uyghur 5 5 0 0 0
Uzbek 110 100 0 0 10
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Uralic languages 235 205 0 35 0
Estonian 25 25 0 0 0
Finnish 35 30 0 5 0
Hungarian 175 150 0 25 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 25 15 0 0 0
Multiple responses 5,155 3,120 15 1,995 15
English and French 1,780 285 0 1,490 0
English and non-official language 3,045 2,755 0 265 20
French and non-official language 175 45 15 120 0
English, French and non-official language 160 35 0 125 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) – Halifax, RGM

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 3.7%.
  • 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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