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 Grey
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 92,560 86,730 25 5,255 550
Single responses 92,055 86,360 25 5,130 545
Official languages 85,395 80,515 25 4,845 20
English 84,575 80,410 5 4,145 15
French 820 100 15 700 0
Non-official languages 6,660 5,845 0 285 530
Aboriginal languages 15 10 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 5 5 0 0 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. 5 0 0 0 0
Eastern Algonquian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 5 0 0 0 0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 0 5 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 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 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 5 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 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 0 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 6,645 5,835 0 285 525
Afro-Asiatic languages 105 70 0 5 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 5
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 105 75 0 5 20
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 75 50 0 5 20
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0 0
Maltese 15 15 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 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 20 20 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 20 25 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 85 85 0 5 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 5 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 0 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 75 70 0 0 0
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Creole languages 0 5 0 0 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 45 40 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 30 30 0 0 0
Tamil 15 15 0 0 0
Telugu 0 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 5,890 5,165 0 250 475
Albanian 10 5 0 0 0
Armenian 5 0 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 700 640 0 45 15
Baltic languages 45 40 0 5 0
Latvian 30 25 0 5 0
Lithuanian 20 15 0 5 0
Slavic languages 650 605 0 45 10
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 15 10 0 0 0
Bulgarian 10 10 0 0 0
Croatian 70 65 0 5 5
Czech 80 80 0 5 0
Macedonian 20 15 0 5 0
Polish 215 200 0 10 0
Russian 70 70 0 0 0
Serbian 35 35 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0 0
Slovak 30 30 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 20 20 0 0 0
Ukrainian 85 70 0 10 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages 10 10 0 5 0
Scottish Gaelic 5 5 0 0 0
Welsh 0 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages 4,300 3,760 0 130 410
Afrikaans 15 15 0 0 0
Danish 65 65 0 0 0
Dutch 905 840 0 35 35
Frisian 10 10 0 0 0
German 3,255 2,800 0 80 375
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 15 10 0 0 0
Swedish 20 15 0 10 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 5 5 0 5 0
Yiddish 0 5 0 5 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 65 60 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages 205 175 0 10 15
Indo-Aryan languages 170 145 0 10 15
Bengali 10 10 0 0 0
Gujarati 30 25 0 0 10
Hindi 25 20 0 0 0
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 65 60 0 0 0
Sindhi 5 5 0 0 5
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0 0
Urdu 20 20 0 0 0
Iranian languages 40 30 0 5 0
Kurdish 5 5 0 0 5
Pashto 5 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 30 20 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 595 515 0 50 30
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 225 200 0 10 5
Portuguese 180 160 0 5 15
Romanian 40 25 0 15 0
Spanish 160 135 0 15 10
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 25 25 0 0 0
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 90 80 0 5 5
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 0 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 10 5 0 0 5
American Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 10 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 125 105 0 0 20
Chinese languages 130 105 0 5 15
Cantonese 70 60 0 0 5
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 40 30 0 0 10
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 0 0 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 15 15 0 0 0
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0
Karenic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Tibetan 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 5 5 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0 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 220 195 0 15 0
Estonian 30 30 0 0 0
Finnish 60 50 0 10 0
Hungarian 130 115 5 10 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 505 375 0 125 5
English and French 145 50 0 95 0
English and non-official language 345 320 0 20 0
French and non-official language 10 5 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 10 0 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) – Grey

  • 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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