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 Iqaluit, 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 7,600 6,400 45 1,060 90
Single responses 7,425 6,265 45 1,035 85
Official languages 3,920 2,950 45 920 5
English 3,455 2,935 0 515 5
French 460 15 45 405 0
Non-official languages 3,510 3,305 0 115 80
Aboriginal languages 3,060 2,930 5 50 80
Algonquian languages 5 5 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 5 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 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 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 3,055 2,925 0 55 75
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 5 5 0 0 0
Inuktitut 3,040 2,915 5 50 75
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 5 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 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 450 380 0 65 5
Afro-Asiatic languages 60 55 0 10 0
Berber languages 5 0 0 0 0
Kabyle 5 0 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 10 15 0 0 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 5 0 0 0
Somali 10 10 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 45 40 0 10 0
Amharic 20 20 0 0 0
Arabic 25 15 0 5 0
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0 0
Maltese 5 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 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 5 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 115 115 0 0 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 5 5 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 5 10 0 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 100 95 0 5 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 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 15 15 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0 0
Tamil 15 15 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 150 110 5 35 5
Albanian 0 0 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 20 15 0 5 0
Baltic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 20 15 0 0 0
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0 0
Croatian 0 0 0 0 0
Czech 0 5 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 5 0 0 0 0
Russian 5 5 0 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 0 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 0 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 45 30 0 10 0
Afrikaans 5 0 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0 0
Dutch 10 5 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 20 10 0 10 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 5 0
Swedish 5 0 0 5 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 5 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 5 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 45 35 0 5 0
Indo-Aryan languages 40 30 0 0 0
Bengali 10 5 0 5 0
Gujarati 0 5 0 0 0
Hindi 10 5 0 0 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) 0 0 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 15 15 0 0 0
Iranian languages 5 0 0 0 0
Kurdish 5 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 5 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 45 25 0 15 5
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 5 5 0 5 0
Portuguese 5 5 0 0 0
Romanian 5 5 0 0 0
Spanish 25 20 0 10 0
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 0 5 0 0 0
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 5 5 0 0 0
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 50 40 0 10 0
Akan (Twi) 0 5 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 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 10 10 0 0 0
Swahili 0 5 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 10 10 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 25 15 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 5 0 0 0 5
American Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 0 5 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 35 30 0 5 5
Chinese languages 35 30 0 0 5
Cantonese 15 10 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 10 5 0 5 0
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 0 0 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 15 10 0 0 0
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 5 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 5 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 0 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 5 5 0 5 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 5 5 0 5 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 175 140 0 25 5
English and French 20 0 0 15 0
English and non-official language 145 135 0 5 5
French and non-official language 5 0 0 0 0
English, French and non-official language 10 5 0 0 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) – Iqaluit, CY

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 8.3%.
  • 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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