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 Thunder Bay
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 1 144,190 131,125 240 12,340 490
Single responses 142,290 129,670 235 11,895 485
Official languages 127,475 115,830 235 11,390 25
English 122,600 115,470 5 7,100 25
French 4,875 360 230 4,290 0
Non-official languages 14,810 13,840 5 510 460
Aboriginal languages 1,895 1,840 0 20 35
Algonquian languages 1,885 1,825 5 25 35
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 105 100 0 10 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Montagnais (Innu) 0 0 0 0 0
Moose Cree 5 5 0 0 0
Naskapi 0 0 0 0 0
Northern East Cree 5 5 0 0 0
Plains Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Southern East Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Swampy Cree 25 25 0 0 0
Woods Cree 5 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 60 55 0 5 0
Eastern Algonquian languages 5 5 0 0 0
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 5 5 0 0 0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 1,775 1,725 0 15 30
Algonquin 5 5 0 0 0
Ojibway 1,345 1,305 0 20 20
Oji-Cree 430 415 0 0 10
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 5 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 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. 10 5 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 12,915 12,000 0 485 430
Afro-Asiatic languages 290 240 0 30 20
Berber languages 0 0 0 5 0
Kabyle 5 0 0 5 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 5 5 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 280 235 0 25 20
Amharic 5 5 0 0 0
Arabic 260 220 0 25 20
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 5 5 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 0 0 5 0
Maltese 0 0 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 135 130 0 5 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 5 0 0 0
Vietnamese 135 125 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 270 265 0 0 5
Bikol 5 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 20 15 0 0 0
Fijian 5 5 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 0 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 10 10 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 15 15 0 5 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 215 215 0 0 5
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Creole languages 20 15 0 0 0
Haitian Creole 5 0 0 5 0
Creole, n.o.s. 5 0 5 0 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 200 200 0 0 5
Kannada 10 10 0 0 0
Malayalam 125 130 0 0 0
Tamil 40 35 0 0 0
Telugu 25 20 0 0 5
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 8,495 7,910 0 335 245
Albanian 0 0 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 2,405 2,275 0 90 45
Baltic languages 30 25 0 0 0
Latvian 20 20 0 5 0
Lithuanian 5 10 0 0 0
Slavic languages 2,385 2,250 0 85 45
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0 0
Croatian 280 265 0 5 5
Czech 45 45 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0 0
Polish 955 895 0 30 30
Russian 105 95 0 10 5
Serbian 35 35 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 5 0 0 0
Slovak 160 150 0 5 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 85 85 0 0 0
Ukrainian 665 630 0 25 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 25 25 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 10 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 5 5 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 5 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 1,360 1,300 0 65 0
Afrikaans 10 10 0 0 0
Danish 75 70 0 0 0
Dutch 375 370 0 10 0
Frisian 5 5 0 0 0
German 810 770 0 45 0
Icelandic 5 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 15 15 0 0 0
Swedish 50 45 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 5 5 0 5 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 135 135 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 660 610 0 25 20
Indo-Aryan languages 535 495 0 25 15
Bengali 70 70 0 5 0
Gujarati 110 105 0 0 0
Hindi 125 115 0 0 5
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 10 5 0 0 0
Nepali 20 20 0 5 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 90 75 0 5 0
Sindhi 0 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0 0
Urdu 95 95 0 0 0
Iranian languages 125 110 0 0 5
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 115 105 0 5 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 3,915 3,580 0 155 175
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 3,055 2,815 5 100 145
Portuguese 445 410 0 15 20
Romanian 55 45 0 5 5
Spanish 355 310 0 35 10
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Japanese 40 35 0 0 0
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 85 75 0 5 5
Mongolic languages 0 5 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 65 50 0 15 0
Akan (Twi) 20 20 0 5 0
Bamanankan 5 0 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 0 0 0 0 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 0 0 5 0
Ga 0 5 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 0 0
Shona 5 5 0 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0 0
Wolof 5 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 5 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 10 10 0 0 0
Dinka 5 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0 0
Sign languages 40 30 0 0 10
American Sign Language 25 20 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 15 5 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 805 705 0 15 85
Chinese languages 565 500 0 15 50
Cantonese 195 160 0 5 30
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 320 290 0 10 20
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 15 15 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 35 35 0 0 0
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 235 210 0 0 35
Burmese 25 25 0 0 0
Karenic languages 205 175 0 0 25
Tibetan 5 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 20 20 0 0 0
Lao 0 5 0 0 0
Thai 20 20 0 0 5
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 15 10 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 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 2,415 2,300 0 65 50
Estonian 40 40 0 0 0
Finnish 2,225 2,125 0 50 50
Hungarian 150 140 0 15 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,905 1,455 0 440 5
English and French 460 105 0 350 0
English and non-official language 1,380 1,325 0 50 0
French and non-official language 35 15 0 20 0
English, French and non-official language 25 10 0 15 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) – Thunder Bay

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 5.3%.
  • 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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