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 Esquimalt, 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 17,470 15,120 30 2,255 65
Single responses 17,230 14,975 35 2,160 65
Official languages 15,585 13,525 25 2,025 0
English 14,875 13,475 0 1,400 0
French 710 50 25 630 0
Non-official languages 1,645 1,445 0 130 65
Aboriginal languages 20 15 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 5 10 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 0 0 0 0 0
Woods Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 5 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 5 0 0 0 0
Northern Athabaskan languages 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 0 0 0 0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 0 0 0 0 0
Salish languages, n.i.e. 0 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 5 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. 0 0 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 1,630 1,435 5 130 65
Afro-Asiatic languages 80 55 0 10 5
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 75 55 0 10 10
Amharic 10 10 0 0 0
Arabic 50 30 0 10 5
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 10 10 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 5 0 0 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 105 90 0 10 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 30 20 0 5 5
Vietnamese 70 65 0 5 5
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 240 235 0 0 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 15 15 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 0 5 0 0 0
Ilocano 10 5 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 5 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 5 5 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 200 195 0 5 5
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Creole languages 5 0 0 5 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 5 0 0 5 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 5 5 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0 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 775 685 0 70 20
Albanian 10 10 0 0 0
Armenian 5 5 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 190 160 0 20 10
Baltic languages 0 5 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 190 160 5 20 10
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 5 0 0 0
Croatian 15 15 0 0 0
Czech 15 15 0 5 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 60 55 0 5 0
Russian 70 50 0 10 5
Serbian 10 5 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 5 0 0 0
Slovak 5 5 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 5 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 15 15 0 5 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 260 240 0 20 0
Afrikaans 0 5 0 0 0
Danish 20 20 0 0 0
Dutch 65 60 0 0 0
Frisian 0 5 0 0 0
German 160 140 0 20 0
Icelandic 5 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 0 5 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 5 5 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 90 80 0 0 0
Indo-Aryan languages 70 65 0 0 0
Bengali 5 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 0 5 0 0 0
Hindi 0 0 0 0 0
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 40 40 0 5 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 10 10 0 0 0
Iranian languages 20 20 0 0 0
Kurdish 5 5 0 0 0
Pashto 0 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 15 15 0 0 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 215 185 0 25 5
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 35 30 0 5 0
Portuguese 40 35 0 5 0
Romanian 15 10 0 0 5
Spanish 130 110 0 15 0
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 45 45 0 0 0
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 50 45 0 10 0
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 25 15 0 5 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 5 0 0 5 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 0 5 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 5 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 10 5 0 5 0
Shona 5 0 0 0 0
Swahili 10 10 0 5 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 5 0 0 0
American Sign Language 5 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 215 185 0 10 25
Chinese languages 200 165 0 10 25
Cantonese 90 75 0 0 10
Hakka 0 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 90 75 0 5 15
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 5 0 0 5 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 10 10 0 0 0
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 15 15 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0
Karenic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Tibetan 20 20 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 30 30 0 0 5
Lao 5 5 0 0 0
Thai 30 30 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 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 40 35 0 10 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 10 10 0 0 0
Hungarian 30 25 0 5 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 245 140 0 100 0
English and French 85 20 0 70 0
English and non-official language 135 130 0 10 0
French and non-official language 5 0 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 15 0 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) – Esquimalt, DM

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 7.4%.
  • 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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