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. 8
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 1 206,260 195,625 105 9,500 1,035
Single responses 203,635 193,430 100 9,085 1,020
Official languages 183,055 174,470 70 8,490 25
English 180,560 174,145 5 6,380 25
French 2,500 325 65 2,110 0
Non-official languages 20,580 18,960 30 595 995
Aboriginal languages 1,015 1,000 0 15 0
Algonquian languages 980 960 0 10 0
Blackfoot 5 5 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 950 940 0 10 5
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 70 70 0 0 0
Southern East Cree 0 5 0 0 0
Swampy Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Woods Cree 15 15 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 865 855 0 10 5
Eastern Algonquian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 20 20 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 25 20 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 15 15 0 0 0
Northern Athabaskan languages 10 15 0 0 0
Babine (Wetsuwet'en) 0 0 0 0 0
Beaver 0 0 0 0 0
Carrier 0 5 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 5 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 5 5 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 0 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 0 0 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Kutenai 0 0 0 0 0
Michif 5 0 0 5 0
Salish languages 5 5 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) 5 0 0 0 0
Salish languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Siouan languages 15 15 0 0 0
Dakota 15 10 0 0 0
Stoney 5 5 0 0 0
Siouan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tlingit 0 0 0 0 0
Tsimshian languages 0 5 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) 5 5 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 19,560 17,960 30 580 990
Afro-Asiatic languages 760 485 10 55 215
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 75 65 0 5 10
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 10 10 0 0 5
Somali 65 55 0 0 5
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 680 415 5 55 205
Amharic 25 25 0 0 0
Arabic 595 340 5 55 190
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 10 5 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 55 45 0 0 10
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 340 295 0 10 40
Khmer (Cambodian) 65 65 0 0 5
Vietnamese 275 235 0 5 35
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 5,390 5,325 5 25 35
Bikol 30 25 0 0 0
Cebuano 155 155 0 0 0
Fijian 10 10 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 50 50 0 0 0
Ilocano 290 285 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 25 20 0 0 5
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 45 50 0 0 0
Pangasinan 20 25 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 4,715 4,650 5 25 30
Waray-Waray 20 20 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 35 30 0 0 0
Creole languages 45 15 0 25 0
Haitian Creole 15 0 0 10 0
Creole, n.o.s. 25 5 0 20 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 185 175 0 5 10
Kannada 5 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 85 75 0 0 5
Tamil 65 65 0 0 0
Telugu 30 25 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 10,630 9,800 15 375 440
Albanian 10 5 0 0 0
Armenian 50 40 0 0 10
Balto-Slavic languages 2,055 1,930 0 55 75
Baltic languages 35 30 0 0 0
Latvian 20 20 0 0 0
Lithuanian 15 15 0 0 0
Slavic languages 2,025 1,895 5 50 75
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 75 70 0 5 5
Bulgarian 30 25 0 5 0
Croatian 55 60 0 0 0
Czech 65 65 0 5 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0 0
Polish 270 255 0 5 0
Russian 510 465 0 20 25
Serbian 70 65 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 20 20 0 0 0
Slovak 45 40 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 5 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 880 825 0 10 45
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages 30 30 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 10 10 0 0 0
Welsh 20 20 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 5 5
Germanic languages 4,370 4,165 0 130 75
Afrikaans 210 205 0 5 0
Danish 155 150 0 5 0
Dutch 1,595 1,550 0 40 5
Frisian 55 55 0 0 0
German 2,270 2,125 0 80 65
Icelandic 5 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 40 40 0 5 0
Swedish 35 35 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 10 5 0 5 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Greek 80 75 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages 1,520 1,420 0 15 85
Indo-Aryan languages 1,125 1,060 0 15 50
Bengali 55 45 0 5 5
Gujarati 110 105 0 0 5
Hindi 245 235 0 5 5
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 5 0 0 0
Marathi 0 5 0 0 0
Nepali 50 45 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 285 260 0 0 25
Sindhi 10 10 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 65 60 0 0 5
Urdu 310 295 0 0 10
Iranian languages 380 345 0 0 35
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 5
Pashto 90 85 0 0 5
Persian (Farsi) 290 255 0 5 30
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 2,510 2,145 15 160 185
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 110 100 0 10 5
Portuguese 100 85 5 15 5
Romanian 155 140 0 10 10
Spanish 2,140 1,820 15 130 175
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 55 55 0 0 0
Kartvelian languages 0 5 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 430 385 0 5 40
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 260 225 0 30 5
Akan (Twi) 35 40 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 5 0 0 0 0
Ewe 10 5 0 5 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 30 30 0 0 0
Lingala 10 0 0 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 5 0 5 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 5 5 0 0 0
Shona 15 15 0 0 0
Swahili 35 35 0 0 5
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 20 20 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 85 70 0 15 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 35 30 0 0 0
Dinka 30 25 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Sign languages 40 25 0 0 20
American Sign Language 10 10 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 35 15 0 0 15
Sino-Tibetan languages 960 770 0 20 170
Chinese languages 935 750 0 20 165
Cantonese 520 395 0 10 105
Hakka 5 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 320 265 0 10 45
Min Dong 5 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 20 20 0 0 5
Wu (Shanghainese) 5 5 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 70 55 0 0 10
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 25 25 0 0 5
Burmese 5 0 0 0 0
Karenic languages 15 15 0 0 0
Tibetan 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 135 110 0 0 25
Lao 50 45 0 5 5
Thai 75 60 0 0 15
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 30 30 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 10 10 0 0 0
Uyghur 0 5 0 0 0
Uzbek 15 10 0 0 5
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Uralic languages 225 205 0 15 0
Estonian 15 15 0 5 0
Finnish 65 60 0 5 0
Hungarian 145 135 0 15 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 25 25 0 0 0
Multiple responses 2,625 2,195 5 415 15
English and French 420 120 0 295 0
English and non-official language 2,120 2,055 0 55 10
French and non-official language 45 10 0 35 0
English, French and non-official language 35 10 0 30 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. 8

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 5.1%.
  • 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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