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 Sarnia, CY
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 70,715 65,065 40 5,375 235
Single responses 69,915 64,550 40 5,090 235
Official languages 64,110 59,310 40 4,755 5
English 62,380 59,140 5 3,235 5
French 1,725 170 40 1,520 0
Non-official languages 5,805 5,235 0 335 230
Aboriginal languages 20 10 0 5 0
Algonquian languages 15 10 0 5 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 0 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 15 10 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 10 10 0 5 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 5 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 5,785 5,225 0 330 225
Afro-Asiatic languages 240 180 0 35 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 5 0 0 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 5 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 240 180 0 35 25
Amharic 5 5 0 0 0
Arabic 205 150 0 30 25
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 5 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 10 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 75 65 0 5 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0 0
Vietnamese 65 60 0 5 5
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 205 200 0 0 5
Bikol 5 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 10 5 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 0 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 10 10 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) 170 170 0 0 0
Waray-Waray 0 5 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Creole languages 10 0 0 5 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 10 0 0 5 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 130 130 0 0 0
Kannada 10 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 55 55 0 0 0
Tamil 35 30 0 0 0
Telugu 35 40 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 4,445 4,055 0 255 135
Albanian 10 10 0 0 0
Armenian 20 15 0 0 5
Balto-Slavic languages 700 650 0 40 5
Baltic languages 25 25 0 5 0
Latvian 15 15 0 0 0
Lithuanian 15 10 0 5 0
Slavic languages 675 625 0 40 10
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0 0
Croatian 50 50 0 0 0
Czech 50 50 0 0 0
Macedonian 10 10 0 0 0
Polish 285 265 0 10 10
Russian 55 45 0 10 0
Serbian 25 25 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 10 0 0 0
Slovak 75 70 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 10 10 0 0 0
Ukrainian 80 75 0 5 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages 10 5 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 5 0 0 0 0
Welsh 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 1,125 1,060 0 65 0
Afrikaans 10 10 0 0 0
Danish 30 30 0 0 0
Dutch 635 605 0 25 0
Frisian 25 25 0 5 0
German 385 360 0 25 0
Icelandic 5 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 0 0 0 0
Swedish 10 5 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 20 15 0 10 0
Yiddish 5 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 185 170 0 10 5
Indo-Iranian languages 735 680 0 20 40
Indo-Aryan languages 655 600 0 15 35
Bengali 25 25 0 0 0
Gujarati 265 235 0 5 25
Hindi 110 105 0 0 0
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 10 10 0 0 0
Marathi 25 20 0 5 0
Nepali 5 0 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 5 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 115 105 0 5 5
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 105 100 0 5 0
Iranian languages 80 75 0 5 0
Kurdish 10 10 0 0 0
Pashto 10 10 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 55 55 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 1,665 1,460 0 125 85
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 875 780 0 60 35
Portuguese 365 325 0 15 20
Romanian 45 35 0 10 0
Spanish 380 315 0 40 25
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Japanese 20 20 0 0 0
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 70 65 0 0 5
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 45 40 0 5 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 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 5 5 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 5 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 0 0 0 5 0
Shona 0 0 0 0 0
Swahili 5 5 0 5 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 20 20 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 5 0 0 0 0
Dinka 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages 20 5 0 0 10
American Sign Language 5 5 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 15 5 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 360 310 0 15 40
Chinese languages 340 290 0 15 35
Cantonese 135 125 0 0 5
Hakka 5 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 175 135 0 10 30
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 0 0 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 10 5 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 20 20 0 0 0
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 20 20 0 0 0
Burmese 25 15 0 0 5
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 10 5 0 0 0
Lao 5 0 0 5 0
Thai 5 5 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 25 20 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 10 5 0 0 0
Turkish 15 15 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 125 120 0 5 0
Estonian 5 5 0 0 0
Finnish 30 30 0 0 0
Hungarian 90 90 0 0 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 805 515 0 285 0
English and French 265 50 0 215 0
English and non-official language 500 465 0 35 0
French and non-official language 15 10 0 10 0
English, French and non-official language 30 5 0 25 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) – Sarnia, CY

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 3.6%.
  • 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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