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 Greater Vancouver A, RDA
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 15,995 13,485 10 1,515 990
Single responses 15,485 13,065 10 1,420 990
Official languages 5,910 4,995 10 900 0
English 5,735 4,970 0 760 5
French 175 25 15 135 0
Non-official languages 9,570 8,065 0 525 980
Aboriginal languages 5 5 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 5 5 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 5 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. 0 0 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 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 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 0 0 0 0 0
Northern Athabaskan languages 0 0 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 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 0 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 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 9,570 8,060 0 525 985
Afro-Asiatic languages 325 280 0 30 15
Berber languages 5 0 0 0 0
Kabyle 0 0 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
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 320 275 0 30 15
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 265 225 0 25 20
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 55 50 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 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 25 20 0 5 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 25 20 0 5 0
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 125 120 0 0 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 0 5 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 0 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 65 60 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 55 50 0 0 0
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Creole languages 0 0 0 0 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 5
Dravidian languages 60 55 0 0 0
Kannada 10 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 15 15 0 0 0
Tamil 15 10 0 0 0
Telugu 20 15 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 1,955 1,670 0 250 40
Albanian 5 5 0 0 0
Armenian 5 5 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 285 245 0 35 10
Baltic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Latvian 5 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 285 240 0 30 10
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 10 10 0 0 0
Croatian 5 10 0 0 0
Czech 10 10 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 0 0 0 0
Polish 55 45 0 5 0
Russian 155 125 0 15 10
Serbian 10 10 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0 0
Slovak 5 5 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 5 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 15 15 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 5 0 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 265 195 0 70 0
Afrikaans 10 10 0 0 0
Danish 10 5 0 5 0
Dutch 50 35 0 20 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 175 125 0 40 0
Icelandic 5 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 5 0 0 5 0
Yiddish 5 5 0 5 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 25 25 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages 790 710 0 60 15
Indo-Aryan languages 335 310 0 20 0
Bengali 50 40 0 10 0
Gujarati 5 5 0 0 0
Hindi 130 125 0 5 0
Kashmiri 5 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 5 0 0 0
Marathi 5 0 0 0 0
Nepali 10 10 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 70 65 0 5 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 20 20 0 0 0
Urdu 50 40 0 5 0
Iranian languages 445 395 0 45 10
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 5 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 440 385 0 40 15
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 575 485 0 75 10
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 40 25 0 15 0
Portuguese 145 140 0 5 0
Romanian 25 15 0 10 0
Spanish 360 310 0 45 10
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 190 160 0 10 20
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 1,040 930 0 35 85
Mongolic languages 25 20 0 0 0
Mongolian 25 25 0 0 5
Niger-Congo languages 20 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 5 0 0 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Ganda 0 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 5 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Dinka 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Sign languages 0 0 0 0 0
American Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 5,595 4,610 0 170 815
Chinese languages 5,590 4,600 0 170 820
Cantonese 705 620 0 25 65
Hakka 10 10 0 0 0
Mandarin 4,450 3,630 0 110 715
Min Dong 5 5 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 50 45 0 0 5
Wu (Shanghainese) 70 55 0 5 10
Chinese, n.o.s. 290 240 0 25 20
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 5 5 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0
Karenic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Tibetan 0 5 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 55 55 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 50 55 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 75 60 0 10 5
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 70 55 0 5 5
Uyghur 5 5 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Uralic languages 75 60 0 10 0
Estonian 10 5 0 0 0
Finnish 45 40 0 5 0
Hungarian 20 15 0 5 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 5 0
Multiple responses 510 415 0 95 5
English and French 70 40 0 30 0
English and non-official language 410 370 0 40 0
French and non-official language 20 0 0 15 0
English, French and non-official language 10 0 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) – Greater Vancouver A, RDA

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 15.5%.
  • Short-form income data quality flag
    Data quality index showing a short-form income non-response rate higher than or equal to 20%, but lower than 30%.

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

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