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 Elgin
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 87,940 83,780 5 3,540 615
Single responses 87,230 83,165 5 3,445 615
Official languages 75,820 72,560 5 3,240 15
English 75,000 72,450 0 2,540 15
French 820 110 5 700 0
Non-official languages 11,410 10,605 0 205 600
Aboriginal languages 5 5 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 5 5 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 0 0 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 5 0 0 0
Woods Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 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 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 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 0 0 0 0 0
Oneida 0 5 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 11,405 10,605 0 200 600
Afro-Asiatic languages 150 115 0 15 20
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 0 0 0 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 5 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 150 110 0 15 25
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 100 60 0 10 25
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 5 0 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0 0
Maltese 45 45 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 240 200 0 0 40
Khmer (Cambodian) 150 120 0 5 30
Vietnamese 85 75 0 0 10
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 90 85 0 5 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 5 5 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 0 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 10 10 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 70 65 0 0 0
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Creole languages 5 5 0 0 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 5 0 0 5 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 10 5 0 0 5
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 15 10 0 0 5
Tamil 0 0 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 10,460 9,785 0 170 505
Albanian 70 60 0 5 5
Armenian 15 5 0 10 0
Balto-Slavic languages 795 755 0 25 15
Baltic languages 35 40 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 35 35 0 0 0
Slavic languages 755 715 0 30 15
Belarusan 5 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 10 10 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0 0
Croatian 195 185 0 10 0
Czech 40 45 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 305 280 0 10 10
Russian 30 25 0 0 5
Serbian 25 25 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0 0
Slovak 35 35 0 5 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 15 15 0 0 0
Ukrainian 80 75 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 0 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 8,515 7,990 0 90 435
Afrikaans 20 15 0 5 0
Danish 25 25 0 0 0
Dutch 1,060 1,030 0 35 0
Frisian 20 20 0 0 0
German 7,230 6,750 0 45 430
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 5 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 135 125 0 10 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 0 0
Greek 50 50 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages 135 140 0 0 5
Indo-Aryan languages 120 120 0 5 5
Bengali 0 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 35 35 0 0 5
Hindi 15 10 0 0 0
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 45 50 0 0 0
Sindhi 5 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0 0
Urdu 15 15 0 0 0
Iranian languages 20 20 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 20 15 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 880 785 0 40 55
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 205 190 0 15 5
Portuguese 330 285 0 5 35
Romanian 25 25 0 0 0
Spanish 315 285 0 15 15
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 15 10 0 0 0
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 60 60 0 0 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 5 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 5 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 5 5 0 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 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 15 0 0 5
American Sign Language 15 15 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 10 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 90 75 0 5 15
Chinese languages 85 65 0 5 10
Cantonese 40 25 0 0 10
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 35 35 0 5 0
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 0 5 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 5 5 0 0 0
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 10 5 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0
Karenic languages 5 10 0 0 0
Tibetan 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 30 30 0 0 5
Lao 20 20 0 0 0
Thai 10 10 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 10 10 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 210 200 0 10 0
Estonian 5 5 0 0 0
Finnish 15 10 0 0 0
Hungarian 190 180 0 10 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 710 610 0 95 0
English and French 130 50 0 75 0
English and non-official language 570 560 0 10 5
French and non-official language 5 5 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 0 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) – Elgin

  • 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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