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 Whitby, T
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 1 127,525 115,740 90 10,620 1,080
Single responses 124,960 113,745 85 10,060 1,075
Official languages 105,190 96,320 70 8,765 30
English 103,135 96,200 5 6,905 35
French 2,050 125 65 1,865 0
Non-official languages 19,770 17,425 15 1,295 1,040
Aboriginal languages 10 5 0 5 0
Algonquian languages 5 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 0 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. 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 5 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 5 0 0 5 0
Cayuga 0 0 0 0 0
Mohawk 5 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 19,760 17,415 15 1,295 1,040
Afro-Asiatic languages 950 785 0 130 35
Berber languages 0 0 0 0 0
Kabyle 0 0 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Cushitic languages 20 15 0 0 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 10 5 0 0 0
Somali 10 10 0 5 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 930 770 0 125 30
Amharic 35 30 0 0 0
Arabic 750 600 5 125 30
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 5 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 5 5 0 0 0
Harari 10 10 0 0 0
Hebrew 15 10 0 0 0
Maltese 85 80 0 0 0
Tigrigna 15 20 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 5
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 205 175 5 5 25
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0 0
Vietnamese 200 165 5 5 20
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 1,095 1,070 0 15 10
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 30 30 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 10 10 0 0 0
Ilocano 25 25 0 5 5
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 25 30 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 10 10 0 0 0
Pangasinan 5 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 985 965 0 10 10
Waray-Waray 10 5 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Creole languages 80 40 0 45 5
Haitian Creole 5 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 35 5 0 30 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 45 35 0 10 0
Dravidian languages 1,085 975 0 55 50
Kannada 20 20 0 0 0
Malayalam 125 120 0 5 0
Tamil 875 770 0 50 50
Telugu 60 60 0 0 5
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 13,085 11,655 5 880 550
Albanian 45 40 0 5 0
Armenian 95 80 0 15 0
Balto-Slavic languages 2,415 2,190 5 165 60
Baltic languages 45 45 0 5 0
Latvian 20 25 0 0 0
Lithuanian 25 20 0 5 0
Slavic languages 2,370 2,145 0 160 60
Belarusan 0 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 5 0
Bulgarian 40 30 0 10 0
Croatian 155 140 0 10 0
Czech 75 70 0 5 0
Macedonian 420 395 0 10 10
Polish 785 705 0 60 25
Russian 275 245 0 15 10
Serbian 180 160 0 20 5
Serbo-Croatian 10 10 0 0 0
Slovak 80 75 0 10 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 80 70 0 10 5
Ukrainian 245 225 0 20 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 5
Celtic languages 20 20 0 5 0
Scottish Gaelic 5 10 0 0 0
Welsh 10 10 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 1,420 1,335 0 75 5
Afrikaans 40 45 0 0 0
Danish 30 25 0 0 0
Dutch 550 520 0 25 0
Frisian 20 15 0 0 0
German 720 675 0 50 0
Icelandic 5 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 10 5 0 0 0
Swedish 30 30 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 5 10 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 610 560 0 35 20
Indo-Iranian languages 4,305 3,905 0 165 240
Indo-Aryan languages 3,145 2,900 0 110 135
Bengali 280 260 0 15 5
Gujarati 385 345 0 10 30
Hindi 315 295 0 10 10
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 10 5 0 5 0
Marathi 40 40 0 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 5 5
Oriya (Odia) 5 10 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 435 395 0 10 35
Sindhi 65 60 0 5 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 100 95 0 0 0
Urdu 1,510 1,395 0 55 60
Iranian languages 1,145 990 0 55 105
Kurdish 15 15 0 0 0
Pashto 95 80 0 0 10
Persian (Farsi) 1,035 895 0 50 95
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 5 0
Italic (Romance) languages 4,175 3,530 5 415 225
Catalan 5 5 0 0 0
Italian 1,595 1,410 0 120 65
Portuguese 800 710 0 65 20
Romanian 375 265 5 90 20
Spanish 1,405 1,140 0 145 125
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Japanese 70 65 0 5 0
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 5 0 0 0 0
Korean 200 180 0 10 10
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 285 220 5 55 0
Akan (Twi) 50 45 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 5 5 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 5 0 0 0
Igbo 25 25 0 0 0
Lingala 15 0 0 10 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 20 0 0 20 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 15 5 0 10 0
Shona 25 20 0 0 0
Swahili 35 35 0 5 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 50 45 0 5 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 30 25 0 5 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 5 0 0 0 0
Dinka 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages 20 15 0 0 5
American Sign Language 10 10 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 10 5 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 2,115 1,740 5 80 290
Chinese languages 2,105 1,730 0 75 295
Cantonese 790 660 0 30 100
Hakka 25 25 0 0 0
Mandarin 1,160 940 0 45 180
Min Dong 5 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 25 25 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 35 25 0 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 65 50 0 5 5
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 10 10 0 0 0
Burmese 5 0 0 0 0
Karenic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Tibetan 5 5 0 5 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 95 45 0 0 50
Lao 5 10 0 0 0
Thai 85 35 0 0 45
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 70 70 0 0 5
Azerbaijani 5 5 0 0 0
Turkish 60 60 0 0 0
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Uralic languages 395 375 0 15 10
Estonian 40 40 0 0 0
Finnish 60 55 0 0 0
Hungarian 300 280 0 15 5
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 5 0
Multiple responses 2,565 2,000 0 555 5
English and French 355 50 0 300 0
English and non-official language 2,070 1,920 0 140 10
French and non-official language 70 5 5 60 0
English, French and non-official language 65 20 0 50 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) – Whitby, T

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 2.8%.
  • 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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