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 Thompson-Nicola
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 1 131,010 123,690 30 6,780 510
Single responses 129,720 122,665 25 6,530 510
Official languages 118,835 112,650 20 6,125 35
English 117,315 112,405 0 4,870 35
French 1,520 245 20 1,250 0
Non-official languages 10,890 10,010 5 405 475
Aboriginal languages 660 645 0 15 0
Algonquian languages 55 50 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 5 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 45 45 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 5 0 0 0 0
Plains Cree 10 10 0 5 0
Southern East Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Swampy Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Woods Cree 5 5 0 5 0
Cree, n.o.s. 30 25 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 0 0 5 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 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 35 35 0 5 0
Northern Athabaskan languages 30 35 0 0 0
Babine (Wetsuwet'en) 0 0 0 0 0
Beaver 0 0 0 0 0
Carrier 10 15 0 0 0
Chilcotin 15 20 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 5 0 0 0 0
Slavey-Hare languages 0 0 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 5 0 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 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 540 535 0 10 0
Comox 0 0 0 0 0
Halkomelem 0 0 0 0 0
Lillooet 10 5 0 0 0
Okanagan 60 60 0 0 0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 185 180 0 5 0
Squamish 0 0 0 0 0
Straits 0 0 0 0 0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 280 280 0 0 0
Salish languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Siouan languages 0 5 0 0 0
Dakota 0 5 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 15 15 0 0 0
Gitxsan (Gitksan) 15 15 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) 5 0 0 5 0
Wakashan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.o.s. 5 10 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 10,230 9,365 0 390 475
Afro-Asiatic languages 225 190 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 5 0 0 0 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 225 190 0 10 25
Amharic 5 5 0 0 0
Arabic 210 180 0 10 25
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 5 0 0 0
Maltese 0 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 115 110 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0 0
Vietnamese 105 105 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 620 615 0 5 5
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 25 20 0 0 0
Fijian 5 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 10 10 0 0 0
Ilocano 35 35 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 15 15 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 5 5 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 520 515 0 0 0
Waray-Waray 5 5 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Creole languages 15 10 0 5 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 10 5 0 0 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 80 80 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 40 40 0 0 0
Tamil 20 15 0 0 0
Telugu 20 20 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 7,175 6,560 0 330 285
Albanian 5 5 0 0 0
Armenian 5 0 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 1,175 1,110 0 55 15
Baltic languages 15 15 0 0 0
Latvian 10 10 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 1,160 1,100 0 50 10
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 10 10 0 0 0
Bulgarian 15 10 0 5 0
Croatian 120 110 0 10 0
Czech 85 75 0 10 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 240 230 0 10 5
Russian 245 235 0 10 5
Serbian 30 25 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 20 20 0 5 0
Slovak 45 45 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 25 30 0 0 0
Ukrainian 315 305 0 10 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 5 5 0 0 0
Welsh 5 10 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 2,425 2,270 0 140 25
Afrikaans 90 85 0 5 0
Danish 90 85 0 0 0
Dutch 435 415 0 20 0
Frisian 10 5 0 0 0
German 1,675 1,555 0 100 20
Icelandic 5 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 65 65 0 0 0
Swedish 45 45 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 15 5 0 10 0
Yiddish 5 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Greek 65 65 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 1,900 1,655 0 50 195
Indo-Aryan languages 1,835 1,600 0 50 190
Bengali 55 45 0 5 0
Gujarati 40 35 0 0 0
Hindi 180 165 0 5 5
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 5 0 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0 0
Nepali 15 15 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 1,475 1,255 0 35 180
Sindhi 0 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 15 10 0 0 0
Urdu 55 55 0 0 0
Iranian languages 60 55 0 0 5
Kurdish 5 0 0 0 5
Pashto 5 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 55 50 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 1,585 1,445 0 80 60
Catalan 5 0 0 0 0
Italian 1,020 950 0 30 35
Portuguese 175 170 0 5 0
Romanian 30 25 0 0 5
Spanish 355 295 0 45 20
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 250 230 0 5 15
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 295 255 0 5 35
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 75 70 0 5 5
Akan (Twi) 10 10 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 0 5 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 15 15 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 10 10 0 0 0
Swahili 5 5 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 15 15 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 10 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 30 15 0 5 15
American Sign Language 10 10 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 15 5 0 5 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,010 905 0 20 85
Chinese languages 1,010 905 0 20 85
Cantonese 330 290 0 10 40
Hakka 5 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 520 480 0 10 25
Min Dong 5 5 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 25 15 0 0 10
Wu (Shanghainese) 10 5 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 120 105 0 0 10
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 5 5 0 0 0
Burmese 5 5 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 35 35 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 35 35 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 20 20 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 5 0 0 0 0
Turkish 15 15 0 0 0
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 5 5 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Uralic languages 270 260 0 5 0
Estonian 20 15 0 0 0
Finnish 90 90 0 0 0
Hungarian 165 155 0 5 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 20 10 0 5 0
Multiple responses 1,290 1,035 0 250 5
English and French 260 80 0 180 0
English and non-official language 1,000 945 0 45 5
French and non-official language 15 0 0 10 0
English, French and non-official language 15 5 0 10 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) – Thompson-Nicola

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 6.0%.
  • 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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