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 Kelowna, 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 1 125,970 116,105 40 9,100 725
Single responses 124,520 114,980 40 8,785 715
Official languages 108,545 100,400 35 8,085 25
English 106,510 100,170 10 6,310 25
French 2,035 230 25 1,775 0
Non-official languages 15,975 14,580 5 705 690
Aboriginal languages 30 25 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 15 10 0 0 0
Blackfoot 5 5 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 10 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 5 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 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 5 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 10 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 5 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 5 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 5 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 5 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 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 5 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 15,945 14,550 10 700 685
Afro-Asiatic languages 325 225 0 35 65
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 320 220 0 35 65
Amharic 20 15 0 0 0
Arabic 270 175 0 30 65
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 5 5 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 15 15 0 0 0
Maltese 10 10 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 235 200 0 10 30
Khmer (Cambodian) 10 10 0 0 0
Vietnamese 230 190 0 10 25
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 1,065 1,030 0 25 10
Bikol 5 5 0 0 0
Cebuano 60 55 0 0 0
Fijian 5 5 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 10 10 0 0 0
Ilocano 65 65 0 0 0
Malagasy 5 5 0 0 0
Malay 40 40 0 5 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 5 5 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 860 830 0 20 10
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 5
Creole languages 20 20 0 5 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 5 0 0 0 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 50 50 0 0 0
Kannada 5 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 25 25 0 0 0
Tamil 20 20 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 11,525 10,590 5 555 375
Albanian 30 25 0 0 5
Armenian 5 5 0 5 0
Balto-Slavic languages 2,495 2,345 0 105 45
Baltic languages 35 30 0 0 0
Latvian 15 20 0 0 0
Lithuanian 20 20 0 5 0
Slavic languages 2,460 2,310 0 100 45
Belarusan 5 5 0 5 0
Bosnian 45 40 0 0 0
Bulgarian 25 20 0 5 0
Croatian 215 210 0 5 0
Czech 180 170 0 10 5
Macedonian 10 5 0 0 0
Polish 485 445 0 35 5
Russian 545 505 0 20 20
Serbian 135 125 0 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 40 45 0 5 0
Slovak 75 75 0 5 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 60 55 0 5 0
Ukrainian 620 590 0 15 10
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 25 25 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 5 0 0 0 0
Welsh 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 4,470 4,245 0 210 20
Afrikaans 110 110 0 0 0
Danish 105 105 0 5 0
Dutch 605 560 0 50 0
Frisian 5 5 0 0 0
German 3,510 3,345 0 145 20
Icelandic 10 10 0 0 0
Norwegian 50 45 0 0 0
Swedish 55 50 0 5 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 10 10 0 5 0
Yiddish 5 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 95 85 0 10 0
Indo-Iranian languages 2,535 2,230 5 50 255
Indo-Aryan languages 2,210 1,935 0 30 240
Bengali 100 95 0 0 5
Gujarati 40 35 0 0 0
Hindi 175 170 0 0 0
Kashmiri 5 5 0 0 0
Konkani 0 5 0 0 0
Marathi 10 10 0 0 0
Nepali 35 25 0 0 5
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 1,745 1,500 5 20 220
Sindhi 5 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 25 20 0 0 5
Urdu 75 70 0 0 0
Iranian languages 325 290 0 20 15
Kurdish 20 20 0 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 295 265 0 20 15
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 1,890 1,650 0 180 55
Catalan 5 0 0 0 0
Italian 650 575 0 60 15
Portuguese 285 245 0 30 10
Romanian 175 145 5 20 5
Spanish 775 680 0 65 30
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Japanese 305 285 0 10 5
Kartvelian languages 5 10 0 0 0
Georgian 5 5 0 0 0
Korean 395 340 0 0 45
Mongolic languages 5 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 5 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 50 40 0 5 0
Akan (Twi) 0 5 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 5 5 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 5 5 0 5 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 0 5 0 0 0
Shona 10 5 0 0 0
Swahili 10 10 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 10 5 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. 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages 30 25 0 0 10
American Sign Language 15 15 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 15 10 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,240 1,080 0 20 135
Chinese languages 1,230 1,080 0 20 135
Cantonese 430 365 0 5 50
Hakka 15 15 0 0 0
Mandarin 650 585 0 10 55
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 45 35 0 0 10
Wu (Shanghainese) 10 5 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 95 75 0 0 15
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 0 5 0 0 0
Burmese 5 0 0 0 5
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 75 75 0 0 0
Lao 5 10 0 0 0
Thai 70 65 0 0 5
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 45 35 0 5 0
Azerbaijani 5 5 0 0 0
Turkish 30 35 0 0 0
Uyghur 5 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Uralic languages 570 530 0 35 5
Estonian 10 10 0 0 0
Finnish 110 110 0 5 0
Hungarian 440 410 0 25 5
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,450 1,125 5 315 10
English and French 275 65 0 210 0
English and non-official language 1,110 1,040 0 60 5
French and non-official language 45 10 5 30 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) – Kelowna, CY

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 4.9%.
  • 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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