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 Yukon
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 35,560 30,425 85 4,900 140
Single responses 34,885 29,995 80 4,665 140
Official languages 30,675 26,245 80 4,350 0
English 29,110 26,175 0 2,930 0
French 1,565 70 80 1,420 0
Non-official languages 4,210 3,755 0 315 135
Aboriginal languages 675 655 0 20 0
Algonquian languages 25 25 0 5 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 25 20 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. 20 20 0 5 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 5 5 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 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 560 550 0 10 0
Northern Athabaskan languages 545 535 0 10 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 5 5 0 0 0
Dogrib (Tlicho) 0 0 0 0 0
Gwich'in 80 80 0 5 0
Sarsi (Sarcee) 0 0 0 0 0
Sekani 0 0 0 0 0
Slavey-Hare languages 0 5 0 0 0
North Slavey (Hare) 0 5 0 0 0
South Slavey 0 0 0 0 0
Slavey, n.o.s. 5 5 0 0 0
Tahltan languages 170 170 0 0 0
Kaska (Nahani) 160 165 0 0 0
Tahltan 5 5 0 0 0
Tutchone languages 280 280 0 5 0
Northern Tutchone 210 210 0 5 0
Southern Tutchone 70 65 0 0 0
Athabaskan languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 5 0
Haida 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages 15 20 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 10 5 0 0 0
Inuktitut 10 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 5 0 0 0 0
Salish languages 5 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 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 65 60 0 5 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. 5 10 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 3,530 3,095 5 295 135
Afro-Asiatic languages 50 30 0 5 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 5 10 0 0 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 5 5 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 45 25 0 5 10
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 30 15 0 5 10
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 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. 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 50 45 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 50 45 0 5 0
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 995 955 0 25 10
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 75 70 0 5 0
Fijian 10 10 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 40 35 0 0 0
Ilocano 35 35 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 15 10 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 5 5 0 0 0
Pangasinan 5 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 805 770 0 20 10
Waray-Waray 5 5 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0 0
Creole languages 30 10 0 15 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 15 0 0 15 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 55 55 0 5 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 25 25 0 0 0
Tamil 20 25 0 0 0
Telugu 0 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 1,715 1,485 5 205 15
Albanian 5 10 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 300 260 0 30 5
Baltic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Latvian 5 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 290 255 0 30 5
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0 0
Croatian 5 10 0 0 0
Czech 55 50 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 0 0 0 0
Polish 65 55 0 10 0
Russian 75 65 5 10 5
Serbian 5 5 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0 0
Slovak 5 5 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 15 15 0 5 0
Ukrainian 45 40 0 10 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 0 5 0 5 0
Welsh 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 945 810 0 130 5
Afrikaans 10 5 0 0 0
Danish 20 15 0 0 0
Dutch 115 100 0 15 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 770 655 0 110 5
Icelandic 0 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 15 10 0 0 0
Swedish 15 15 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 5 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 5 0
Greek 10 10 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages 220 210 0 5 0
Indo-Aryan languages 190 185 0 0 5
Bengali 20 20 0 5 0
Gujarati 20 20 0 0 0
Hindi 35 35 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) 90 80 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0 0
Urdu 25 20 0 0 0
Iranian languages 25 25 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 25 20 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 220 185 0 35 5
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 20 20 0 5 0
Portuguese 15 10 0 0 0
Romanian 10 10 0 0 0
Spanish 170 140 0 20 5
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 95 80 0 5 5
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 45 45 0 5 0
Mongolic languages 0 5 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 20 20 0 10 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 0 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 0 0 5 0
Shona 5 5 0 0 0
Swahili 0 5 0 0 0
Wolof 5 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 0 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 5 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 15 10 0 0 5
American Sign Language 10 10 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 5 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 350 250 0 20 85
Chinese languages 345 245 0 15 80
Cantonese 220 145 0 10 70
Hakka 5 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 95 75 0 10 15
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 15 15 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 0 5 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 15 10 0 0 0
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
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 30 30 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 25 25 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 0 0 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 75 65 0 10 0
Estonian 5 5 0 5 0
Finnish 25 30 0 0 0
Hungarian 50 40 0 5 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 5 0
Multiple responses 675 430 5 235 0
English and French 220 25 0 190 0
English and non-official language 425 395 0 25 5
French and non-official language 15 0 0 10 0
English, French and non-official language 15 5 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) – Yukon

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 6.7%.
  • 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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