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. 16
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 73,945 68,100 150 5,060 640
Single responses 72,640 67,025 140 4,845 635
Official languages 57,310 53,065 110 4,115 20
English 55,430 52,885 5 2,520 20
French 1,880 180 105 1,595 0
Non-official languages 15,330 13,960 35 725 610
Aboriginal languages 1,345 1,305 0 20 20
Algonquian languages 970 935 0 10 20
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 950 915 0 10 20
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 5 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 180 180 0 0 5
Cree, n.o.s. 755 730 0 15 15
Eastern Algonquian languages 10 10 0 0 0
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 5 10 0 0 0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 15 10 0 5 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 15 10 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 365 360 0 5 0
Northern Athabaskan languages 365 360 0 5 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 360 355 0 10 0
Dogrib (Tlicho) 5 5 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 5 5 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 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 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 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 13,985 12,655 30 705 585
Afro-Asiatic languages 2,665 2,250 15 240 165
Berber languages 15 0 0 10 0
Kabyle 5 0 0 5 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Cushitic languages 800 690 0 45 65
Bilen 10 5 0 0 0
Oromo 65 55 0 5 5
Somali 725 620 0 45 60
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages 1,845 1,550 15 180 95
Amharic 455 420 0 20 10
Arabic 1,270 1,025 15 150 80
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 5 5 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 10 10 0 5 0
Harari 5 5 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 90 75 0 5 10
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 70 60 0 5 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 15 10 0 0 0
Vietnamese 55 50 0 5 0
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 3,195 3,075 0 60 60
Bikol 10 10 0 0 0
Cebuano 80 80 0 5 0
Fijian 0 5 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 25 25 0 0 0
Ilocano 70 70 0 0 5
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 25 25 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 5 5 0 0 0
Pangasinan 10 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 2,920 2,810 0 50 55
Waray-Waray 10 5 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 50 50 0 0 0
Creole languages 40 25 0 15 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 20 5 5 15 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 15 20 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 360 340 0 10 20
Kannada 15 15 0 0 0
Malayalam 145 140 0 0 10
Tamil 125 115 0 5 5
Telugu 75 65 0 0 5
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 5,710 5,180 5 270 255
Albanian 20 15 0 0 0
Armenian 5 5 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 565 510 5 35 20
Baltic languages 20 20 0 0 0
Latvian 10 10 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0 0
Slavic languages 550 495 5 40 15
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 10 10 0 0 0
Bulgarian 25 25 5 0 0
Croatian 20 20 0 0 0
Czech 15 20 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0 0
Polish 135 125 0 10 5
Russian 160 145 0 10 5
Serbian 60 50 0 10 5
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 5 0
Slovak 15 15 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 10 10 0 0 0
Ukrainian 80 70 0 5 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 5 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 410 380 0 25 5
Afrikaans 165 160 0 5 5
Danish 5 5 0 0 0
Dutch 65 60 0 5 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 150 140 0 10 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 5 0 0 0
Swedish 10 10 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 5 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 25 25 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 3,595 3,325 5 85 185
Indo-Aryan languages 3,365 3,115 0 70 175
Bengali 240 215 5 10 10
Gujarati 1,070 1,010 0 10 50
Hindi 420 395 0 5 15
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 5 0 0 0 0
Marathi 70 55 0 0 5
Nepali 30 30 0 0 5
Oriya (Odia) 5 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 425 390 0 10 25
Sindhi 15 20 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 50 50 0 0 5
Urdu 1,035 945 0 25 60
Iranian languages 215 190 0 15 10
Kurdish 10 10 0 0 0
Pashto 75 70 0 0 5
Persian (Farsi) 125 110 0 10 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 15 20 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 1,085 905 0 130 45
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 35 25 0 10 0
Portuguese 135 115 0 15 0
Romanian 115 85 0 30 5
Spanish 805 690 0 75 40
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Japanese 25 25 0 0 0
Kartvelian languages 25 25 0 5 5
Georgian 25 25 0 0 5
Korean 160 150 0 0 5
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 790 685 10 70 30
Akan (Twi) 70 65 0 5 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 10 10 0 0 0
Ewe 20 20 0 5 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 5 0 0 0 0
Ganda 15 10 0 0 0
Igbo 50 40 5 5 0
Lingala 0 0 0 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 25 15 5 10 0
Shona 115 105 0 5 10
Swahili 70 55 0 10 5
Wolof 10 0 0 5 0
Yoruba 105 100 0 5 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 285 250 5 15 15
Nilo-Saharan languages 80 70 0 0 0
Dinka 30 30 5 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 45 40 0 5 5
Sign languages 10 0 0 0 5
American Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 10 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 680 625 0 20 40
Chinese languages 670 615 0 20 45
Cantonese 125 115 0 5 5
Hakka 10 10 0 0 0
Mandarin 335 300 0 10 30
Min Dong 0 5 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 5 10 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 195 180 0 5 10
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 10 10 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0
Karenic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Tibetan 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 50 45 0 0 0
Lao 10 5 0 0 0
Thai 40 40 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 35 35 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 20 25 0 0 0
Uyghur 5 5 0 0 0
Uzbek 5 5 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Uralic languages 60 50 0 10 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 10 5 0 0 0
Hungarian 50 45 0 5 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 25 15 0 10 0
Multiple responses 1,305 1,075 5 215 10
English and French 140 35 0 105 0
English and non-official language 1,065 1,010 0 45 10
French and non-official language 70 20 5 50 0
English, French and non-official language 30 5 0 20 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. 16

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 14.3%.
  • Short-form income data quality flag
    Data quality index showing a short-form income non-response rate higher than or equal to 10%, but lower than 20%.

Source: Statistics Canada, 2016 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-400-X2016055.

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