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 West Vancouver, DM
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 42,055 35,685 20 4,695 1,650
Single responses 41,275 35,085 20 4,535 1,640
Official languages 25,835 22,450 10 3,345 30
English 25,360 22,420 0 2,905 30
French 475 30 5 440 0
Non-official languages 15,445 12,635 10 1,185 1,610
Aboriginal languages 0 5 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 0 0 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 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. 5 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 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) 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 15,440 12,630 10 1,190 1,610
Afro-Asiatic languages 185 140 0 40 10
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 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 180 140 0 40 10
Amharic 5 5 0 0 0
Arabic 155 110 0 40 10
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 10 5 0 5 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 5 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 15 15 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 35 35 0 5 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 40 35 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 335 340 0 0 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 5 10 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 5 5 0 0 0
Ilocano 10 10 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 25 20 0 5 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 295 290 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 5 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 5 0
Dravidian languages 10 10 0 5 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0 0
Tamil 10 5 0 5 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 7,465 6,340 10 875 235
Albanian 5 0 0 0 0
Armenian 60 45 0 20 5
Balto-Slavic languages 1,040 885 0 125 30
Baltic languages 20 20 0 5 0
Latvian 20 15 0 5 0
Lithuanian 5 10 0 0 0
Slavic languages 1,015 865 0 125 30
Belarusan 10 10 0 0 0
Bosnian 15 10 0 5 5
Bulgarian 25 20 0 5 0
Croatian 65 60 0 5 0
Czech 125 105 0 20 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 210 175 0 25 5
Russian 335 265 0 40 20
Serbian 60 55 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 5 0 0 0
Slovak 60 55 0 5 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 15 15 0 0 0
Ukrainian 95 90 0 10 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 1,335 1,085 0 250 0
Afrikaans 75 70 0 10 0
Danish 110 100 0 10 0
Dutch 180 125 0 55 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 835 690 0 150 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 50 45 0 10 0
Swedish 65 55 0 5 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 5 0 0 5 0
Yiddish 0 5 0 5 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 60 55 0 10 0
Indo-Iranian languages 4,135 3,625 5 310 200
Indo-Aryan languages 350 315 0 30 5
Bengali 5 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 115 105 0 5 0
Hindi 45 40 0 5 0
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 5 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 75 70 0 5 0
Sindhi 60 50 0 15 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0 0
Urdu 40 35 0 0 0
Iranian languages 3,785 3,310 5 280 195
Kurdish 15 15 0 5 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 3,765 3,290 5 275 190
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 805 635 0 165 10
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 275 205 5 60 5
Portuguese 75 60 0 20 0
Romanian 55 35 0 15 0
Spanish 400 330 0 65 5
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Japanese 250 230 0 10 10
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 615 535 0 25 55
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 10 5 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 0 5 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 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 0 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Dinka 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages 5 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 6,180 4,715 5 175 1,290
Chinese languages 6,185 4,710 5 175 1,290
Cantonese 885 760 0 40 85
Hakka 20 15 0 0 0
Mandarin 4,960 3,690 5 125 1,140
Min Dong 5 0 0 0 5
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 105 85 0 5 15
Wu (Shanghainese) 75 60 0 0 10
Chinese, n.o.s. 120 90 0 5 25
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 5
Tibeto-Burman languages 0 0 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. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 20 20 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 20 20 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 140 110 0 20 10
Azerbaijani 25 20 0 0 0
Turkish 110 85 0 20 5
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Uralic languages 180 150 0 30 5
Estonian 30 25 0 5 0
Finnish 55 50 0 5 0
Hungarian 95 80 0 20 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 775 600 5 160 10
English and French 75 15 0 60 0
English and non-official language 650 575 0 65 10
French and non-official language 25 5 0 20 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) – West Vancouver, DM

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 4.0%.
  • 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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