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 Okanagan-Similkameen
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 81,675 76,020 40 4,960 650
Single responses 80,890 75,415 40 4,785 650
Official languages 71,145 66,755 30 4,345 15
English 69,600 66,580 5 3,005 10
French 1,545 180 25 1,340 0
Non-official languages 9,745 8,660 10 445 635
Aboriginal languages 140 135 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 15 15 0 0 0
Blackfoot 5 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 10 5 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 5 0 0 0 0
Woods Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 5 0 0 0
Eastern Algonquian languages 5 0 0 0 0
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 5 5 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 5 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 5 0 0 0
Northern Athabaskan languages 0 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 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 5 0 0 0 0
North Slavey (Hare) 0 0 0 0 0
South Slavey 0 0 0 0 0
Slavey, n.o.s. 5 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 5 0 0 0
Northern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0
Southern Tutchone 5 5 0 0 0
Athabaskan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Haida 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages 5 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 115 110 0 5 0
Comox 0 0 0 0 0
Halkomelem 0 0 0 0 0
Lillooet 0 0 0 0 0
Okanagan 105 105 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. 5 0 0 0 0
Siouan languages 5 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) 5 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 9,605 8,525 5 445 635
Afro-Asiatic languages 100 55 0 10 30
Berber languages 0 0 0 0 0
Kabyle 0 0 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 5
Cushitic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 95 55 0 10 35
Amharic 5 5 0 0 0
Arabic 70 30 0 10 30
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 20 20 0 0 0
Maltese 5 5 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 95 80 0 5 15
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 5 5
Vietnamese 85 70 0 0 15
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 355 355 5 0 5
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 10 15 0 0 0
Fijian 0 5 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 5 10 0 0 0
Ilocano 15 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) 310 305 5 5 0
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0 0
Creole languages 5 0 0 5 0
Haitian Creole 5 5 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 5 0 0 0 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 25 20 0 5 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 10 5 0 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 5 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 8,105 7,180 5 395 520
Albanian 25 20 0 0 5
Armenian 5 0 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 1,025 960 0 45 15
Baltic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Latvian 0 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 10 0 0 0
Slavic languages 1,015 945 0 50 15
Belarusan 5 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0 0
Croatian 115 105 0 5 0
Czech 135 130 0 5 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0 0
Polish 165 145 0 15 5
Russian 160 145 0 10 5
Serbian 35 30 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0 0
Slovak 60 55 0 0 5
Slovene (Slovenian) 45 40 0 5 0
Ukrainian 270 265 0 10 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Celtic languages 20 20 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 10 5 0 0 0
Welsh 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 3,035 2,850 0 165 15
Afrikaans 95 90 0 5 0
Danish 125 125 0 0 0
Dutch 590 550 0 35 5
Frisian 10 10 0 0 0
German 2,090 1,965 0 120 10
Icelandic 5 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 40 35 0 0 0
Swedish 70 65 0 0 5
Vlaams (Flemish) 15 10 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 5 0
Greek 75 65 0 10 0
Indo-Iranian languages 2,440 1,975 5 45 420
Indo-Aryan languages 2,380 1,915 0 45 415
Bengali 10 10 0 5 0
Gujarati 10 10 0 0 0
Hindi 65 60 0 0 10
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 5 0 0 0 0
Marathi 5 0 0 0 0
Nepali 10 15 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 2,265 1,810 0 40 410
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 10 0 0 0
Urdu 10 10 0 0 0
Iranian languages 60 55 0 5 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 60 55 0 5 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 1,485 1,290 5 120 75
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 320 290 0 30 5
Portuguese 775 675 0 50 50
Romanian 35 20 0 10 0
Spanish 345 300 0 35 20
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 105 100 0 0 5
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 110 95 0 5 10
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 15 15 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 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 5 0 0 0 0
Igbo 0 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 0 0 0 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 5 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 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 10 0 0 5
American Sign Language 5 5 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 15 5 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 260 225 0 5 30
Chinese languages 255 220 0 5 25
Cantonese 140 120 0 0 15
Hakka 5 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 65 60 0 0 5
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 10 10 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 40 35 0 0 5
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 0 5 0 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0 0
Karenic languages 0 5 0 0 0
Tibetan 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 40 35 0 0 5
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 40 30 0 0 5
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 10 10 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 360 340 0 10 0
Estonian 10 5 0 5 0
Finnish 80 75 0 5 0
Hungarian 265 260 0 5 5
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 780 605 0 175 5
English and French 170 45 0 130 0
English and non-official language 570 550 0 25 0
French and non-official language 20 5 0 10 0
English, French and non-official language 20 5 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) – Okanagan-Similkameen

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 6.6%.
  • 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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