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 Chilliwack, CY
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 83,055 78,695 15 3,865 475
Single responses 82,215 78,030 15 3,695 475
Official languages 73,110 69,715 15 3,365 15
English 72,120 69,560 5 2,540 15
French 995 155 15 825 0
Non-official languages 9,100 8,310 0 330 460
Aboriginal languages 45 45 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 10 15 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 5 10 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 0 0 0 0 0
Woods Cree 5 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 5 0 0 0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 0 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 10 5 0 0 0
Babine (Wetsuwet'en) 0 0 0 0 0
Beaver 0 0 0 0 0
Carrier 5 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. 5 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 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 10 10 0 0 0
Comox 5 5 0 0 0
Halkomelem 5 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 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 5 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) 5 5 0 0 0
Wakashan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.o.s. 5 5 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 9,060 8,270 0 335 460
Afro-Asiatic languages 140 100 0 15 30
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 5 5 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 140 100 0 15 30
Amharic 15 10 0 0 0
Arabic 105 70 0 15 30
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 5 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 240 190 0 5 50
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0 0
Vietnamese 235 190 0 5 45
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 455 450 0 5 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 25 30 0 0 0
Fijian 5 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 0 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 30 25 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 15 10 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 5 0 0 0
Pangasinan 5 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 370 365 0 5 0
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Creole languages 15 10 0 10 0
Haitian Creole 5 5 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 5 5 0 5 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 25 25 0 5 0
Kannada 5 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 10 10 0 0 0
Tamil 10 5 0 0 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 6,715 6,265 0 245 205
Albanian 55 50 0 0 0
Armenian 5 0 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 715 675 0 35 5
Baltic languages 10 5 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0 0
Slavic languages 710 665 0 35 10
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 10 15 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0 0
Croatian 45 50 0 0 0
Czech 70 65 0 5 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 180 155 0 15 5
Russian 165 150 0 5 0
Serbian 25 25 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 5 0
Slovak 35 35 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 15 15 0 0 0
Ukrainian 145 145 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 0 5 0 0 0
Welsh 10 10 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 4,105 3,965 0 100 35
Afrikaans 105 100 0 0 5
Danish 110 115 0 0 0
Dutch 1,420 1,380 0 30 10
Frisian 25 25 0 0 0
German 2,360 2,270 0 60 25
Icelandic 5 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 40 35 0 0 0
Swedish 30 25 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 10 5 0 5 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Greek 55 50 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages 820 730 0 20 75
Indo-Aryan languages 710 620 0 15 75
Bengali 0 5 0 0 0
Gujarati 25 20 0 0 5
Hindi 120 120 0 0 0
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 5 0 0 0
Nepali 10 10 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 495 410 0 10 65
Sindhi 5 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 15 0 0 0
Urdu 40 40 0 0 5
Iranian languages 110 105 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 105 110 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 950 785 0 90 80
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 95 80 0 10 0
Portuguese 105 95 0 10 0
Romanian 185 145 0 30 15
Spanish 570 460 0 35 70
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 95 90 0 0 0
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 370 310 0 15 40
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 30 30 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 5 0 0 0
Igbo 0 0 0 0 0
Lingala 5 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 0 5 0 0 0
Swahili 10 5 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 10 10 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 5 5 0 0 5
Dinka 0 5 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 5
Sign languages 20 10 0 5 5
American Sign Language 5 5 0 5 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 5 5 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 685 540 0 20 125
Chinese languages 670 525 0 15 120
Cantonese 175 150 0 5 25
Hakka 5 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 420 315 0 15 90
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 30 30 0 0 5
Wu (Shanghainese) 15 10 0 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 25 20 0 0 0
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 20 15 0 0 5
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0
Karenic languages 15 10 0 0 5
Tibetan 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 35 30 0 0 0
Lao 10 10 0 0 0
Thai 25 25 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 220 200 0 15 0
Estonian 5 5 0 0 0
Finnish 70 65 0 5 0
Hungarian 145 130 0 10 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 840 670 0 170 0
English and French 170 50 0 120 0
English and non-official language 645 600 0 35 5
French and non-official language 10 5 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 15 10 0 10 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) – Chilliwack, CY

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 4.7%.
  • 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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