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 Division No. 2
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 1 167,820 158,980 110 6,360 2,375
Single responses 165,300 156,790 95 6,055 2,355
Official languages 133,430 127,950 45 5,405 30
English 131,980 127,745 0 4,210 30
French 1,455 205 45 1,195 0
Non-official languages 31,870 28,845 50 655 2,330
Aboriginal languages 330 325 0 5 0
Algonquian languages 305 300 0 0 0
Blackfoot 260 265 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 35 35 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 5 5 0 0 0
Southern East Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Swampy Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Woods Cree 5 5 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 25 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 5 10 0 0 0
Northern Athabaskan languages 5 5 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 5 5 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. 5 5 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 10 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 5 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Cayuga 0 0 0 0 0
Mohawk 0 0 0 0 0
Oneida 5 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 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 5 5 0 0 0
Gitxsan (Gitksan) 0 0 0 0 0
Nisga'a 5 5 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 31,540 28,520 45 650 2,325
Afro-Asiatic languages 1,965 1,555 0 60 340
Berber languages 10 5 0 5 0
Kabyle 0 0 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 10 0 0 10 5
Cushitic languages 1,055 900 0 10 135
Bilen 10 10 0 0 0
Oromo 460 400 0 0 60
Somali 585 495 5 10 80
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 895 650 0 40 205
Amharic 150 140 0 0 10
Arabic 615 410 0 35 170
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 10 0 0 0 5
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 10 10 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 10 0 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 95 80 0 0 15
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 355 300 0 5 50
Khmer (Cambodian) 115 100 0 0 15
Vietnamese 240 200 5 5 30
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 2,605 2,570 0 15 20
Bikol 15 20 0 0 0
Cebuano 215 215 0 5 0
Fijian 0 5 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 25 25 0 0 0
Ilocano 75 75 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 15 15 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 30 30 0 0 0
Pangasinan 5 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 2,165 2,135 0 10 15
Waray-Waray 30 30 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 0 0
Creole languages 35 15 0 15 0
Haitian Creole 5 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 25 5 0 15 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 90 85 0 5 5
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 50 50 0 0 5
Tamil 15 15 0 0 0
Telugu 25 20 0 5 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 23,110 21,070 20 390 1,630
Albanian 60 65 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 1,625 1,535 0 50 35
Baltic languages 30 25 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 20 20 0 0 5
Slavic languages 1,600 1,510 0 50 35
Belarusan 5 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 65 60 0 0 10
Bulgarian 10 10 0 0 0
Croatian 205 205 0 0 0
Czech 75 70 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 500 475 0 15 10
Russian 180 160 0 10 10
Serbian 50 40 0 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 0 0
Slovak 75 80 0 5 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 40 45 0 0 0
Ukrainian 355 345 0 10 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 25 25 0 5 0
Celtic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 10 10 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 16,395 15,235 15 110 1,035
Afrikaans 125 120 0 0 5
Danish 90 85 0 0 0
Dutch 2,475 2,430 0 35 15
Frisian 55 55 0 5 5
German 13,555 12,465 10 60 1,015
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 35 30 0 5 0
Swedish 20 15 0 5 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 30 25 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Greek 45 35 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages 2,180 1,840 0 45 300
Indo-Aryan languages 1,840 1,530 0 35 275
Bengali 100 95 0 5 0
Gujarati 160 150 0 0 10
Hindi 85 80 0 5 0
Kashmiri 5 0 0 0 0
Konkani 5 5 0 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0 0
Nepali 975 730 0 10 230
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 215 195 0 0 20
Sindhi 15 20 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 45 45 0 0 0
Urdu 225 210 0 10 5
Iranian languages 335 300 0 5 25
Kurdish 20 20 0 0 0
Pashto 65 60 0 5 5
Persian (Farsi) 250 225 0 5 20
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 2,795 2,350 5 180 260
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 290 270 0 15 10
Portuguese 95 80 0 15 0
Romanian 85 55 0 25 5
Spanish 2,320 1,940 5 125 245
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 440 420 0 5 20
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 260 240 0 5 20
Mongolic languages 10 5 0 0 0
Mongolian 5 5 0 5 0
Niger-Congo languages 470 320 20 120 5
Akan (Twi) 35 30 0 5 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 5 5 0 0 0
Ewe 25 20 0 5 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Ganda 0 5 0 0 0
Igbo 10 10 0 0 0
Lingala 10 0 5 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 30 0 5 25 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 5 5 0 5 0
Shona 15 20 0 0 0
Swahili 165 105 10 45 5
Wolof 5 0 0 5 0
Yoruba 55 50 0 5 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 105 65 10 25 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 280 270 0 5 5
Dinka 195 190 0 0 10
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 90 85 0 0 0
Sign languages 30 10 0 0 15
American Sign Language 5 5 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 20 10 0 0 15
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,270 1,050 0 20 210
Chinese languages 1,235 1,020 0 15 205
Cantonese 525 420 0 5 105
Hakka 5 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 565 475 0 10 85
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 20 20 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 115 95 0 5 20
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 35 30 0 0 5
Burmese 5 5 0 0 0
Karenic languages 30 20 0 0 5
Tibetan 5 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 105 95 0 5 5
Lao 40 35 0 0 0
Thai 65 65 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 10 5 0 5 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 5 0
Uyghur 5 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Uralic languages 480 470 0 10 0
Estonian 10 10 0 0 0
Finnish 30 30 0 0 0
Hungarian 435 430 0 5 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 35 30 0 0 0
Multiple responses 2,520 2,190 10 300 20
English and French 245 70 0 175 0
English and non-official language 2,145 2,080 0 45 15
French and non-official language 95 30 10 60 0
English, French and non-official language 35 10 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) – Division No. 2

  • 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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