Data tables, 2016 Census

Mother Tongue (269), Knowledge of Official Languages (5), Age (15A) and Sex (3) for the Population Excluding Institutional Residents of Canada, Provinces and Territories, Census Divisions and Census Subdivisions, 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 , age and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Niagara
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 1 440,960 403,820 400 33,855 2,890
Single responses 434,580 399,340 385 31,975 2,880
Official languages 373,840 344,515 315 28,940 60
English 361,355 343,555 10 17,725 65
French 12,480 955 305 11,220 0
Non-official languages 60,740 54,825 65 3,035 2,815
Aboriginal languages 70 60 0 10 0
Algonquian languages 40 30 0 5 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 5 5 0 0 0
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 5 5 0 0 0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 25 20 0 5 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 25 20 0 5 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 5 5 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages 25 20 0 0 0
Cayuga 5 5 0 0 0
Mohawk 15 15 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 5 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 5 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 60,670 54,760 65 3,025 2,815
Afro-Asiatic languages 2,855 2,380 5 285 180
Berber languages 5 0 0 5 0
Kabyle 0 0 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Cushitic languages 170 155 0 5 10
Bilen 5 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 5 0 0 0
Somali 160 145 0 5 10
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages 2,675 2,225 5 280 165
Amharic 55 45 0 5 0
Arabic 2,305 1,880 5 260 160
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 60 55 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 5 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 70 60 0 10 0
Maltese 125 125 0 0 0
Tigrigna 45 40 0 0 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 5
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 945 805 0 35 105
Khmer (Cambodian) 190 165 0 15 15
Vietnamese 755 640 0 20 90
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 2,225 2,190 0 25 15
Bikol 10 10 0 0 0
Cebuano 95 90 0 5 5
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 30 30 0 0 0
Ilocano 90 90 0 5 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 45 45 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 20 15 0 0 0
Pangasinan 5 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 1,920 1,890 0 15 15
Waray-Waray 5 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Creole languages 230 80 20 125 10
Haitian Creole 35 5 5 20 0
Creole, n.o.s. 170 40 15 105 5
Creole languages, n.i.e. 30 30 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 480 470 0 10 10
Kannada 15 10 0 0 0
Malayalam 290 280 0 5 5
Tamil 140 135 0 5 0
Telugu 40 40 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 5 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 44,305 40,395 30 2,180 1,700
Albanian 180 170 5 0 5
Armenian 230 180 0 35 10
Balto-Slavic languages 11,480 10,560 5 555 360
Baltic languages 265 240 0 20 5
Latvian 120 110 0 10 0
Lithuanian 140 130 0 10 5
Slavic languages 11,210 10,320 5 530 355
Belarusan 15 10 0 0 5
Bosnian 200 190 0 5 10
Bulgarian 320 280 0 25 15
Croatian 1,125 1,070 0 35 15
Czech 320 300 0 15 5
Macedonian 105 90 0 5 5
Polish 3,885 3,600 5 150 135
Russian 1,150 1,010 0 80 55
Serbian 1,455 1,290 5 85 80
Serbo-Croatian 140 120 0 10 5
Slovak 445 435 0 10 5
Slovene (Slovenian) 380 370 0 10 0
Ukrainian 1,635 1,510 0 100 30
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 35 35 0 0 0
Celtic languages 35 30 0 5 0
Scottish Gaelic 20 15 0 5 0
Welsh 10 10 0 5 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 10,710 10,225 0 410 80
Afrikaans 120 115 0 5 0
Danish 165 160 0 5 0
Dutch 4,125 4,000 0 120 5
Frisian 85 85 0 5 0
German 6,040 5,710 0 255 80
Icelandic 5 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 30 30 0 0 0
Swedish 80 70 0 5 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 45 35 0 5 0
Yiddish 15 15 0 5 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 5 0
Greek 835 775 0 35 30
Indo-Iranian languages 3,875 3,550 5 140 185
Indo-Aryan languages 3,130 2,890 5 100 140
Bengali 175 170 0 5 0
Gujarati 600 525 0 25 55
Hindi 465 430 0 20 5
Kashmiri 10 5 0 0 0
Konkani 5 5 0 0 0
Marathi 55 50 0 0 0
Nepali 45 40 0 0 5
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 685 620 0 10 50
Sindhi 35 30 0 5 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 75 75 0 5 0
Urdu 985 930 0 30 20
Iranian languages 710 625 0 35 40
Kurdish 210 175 0 10 25
Pashto 45 40 0 0 5
Persian (Farsi) 450 405 5 25 15
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 40 35 0 5 0
Italic (Romance) languages 16,955 14,905 20 1,000 1,030
Catalan 5 5 0 0 0
Italian 10,735 9,700 15 500 520
Portuguese 1,080 960 5 70 45
Romanian 470 365 0 85 15
Spanish 4,650 3,865 5 335 440
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 5 0
Japanese 335 305 0 15 15
Kartvelian languages 10 10 0 0 0
Georgian 10 5 0 0 0
Korean 1,285 1,150 0 35 100
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 540 445 5 80 10
Akan (Twi) 80 70 0 10 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 5 10 0 0 0
Ewe 5 5 0 5 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 10 10 0 0 0
Ganda 5 5 0 0 0
Igbo 15 15 0 0 0
Lingala 10 5 0 10 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 20 5 0 15 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 10 0 0 10 0
Shona 120 120 0 0 0
Swahili 105 80 0 15 5
Wolof 5 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 55 55 0 5 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 95 65 0 15 5
Nilo-Saharan languages 15 15 0 0 0
Dinka 5 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Sign languages 90 65 0 0 25
American Sign Language 45 40 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 45 25 0 0 15
Sino-Tibetan languages 4,665 3,980 0 110 570
Chinese languages 4,635 3,960 0 105 565
Cantonese 1,255 990 5 40 230
Hakka 15 15 0 0 5
Mandarin 2,930 2,580 0 60 290
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 90 80 0 0 15
Wu (Shanghainese) 45 40 0 0 10
Chinese, n.o.s. 290 255 0 10 25
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 30 25 0 0 10
Burmese 5 5 0 0 0
Karenic languages 5 0 0 0 5
Tibetan 20 15 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 340 290 0 10 35
Lao 255 220 0 10 20
Thai 85 70 0 0 10
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 355 310 0 30 15
Azerbaijani 20 20 0 0 0
Turkish 310 270 0 25 10
Uyghur 10 10 0 5 0
Uzbek 10 5 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Uralic languages 1,965 1,845 0 85 35
Estonian 130 125 0 5 0
Finnish 145 135 0 10 0
Hungarian 1,695 1,590 0 65 35
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 25 15 0 0 0
Multiple responses 6,385 4,480 15 1,875 10
English and French 1,715 375 5 1,335 0
English and non-official language 4,335 4,045 0 285 10
French and non-official language 185 35 15 135 0
English, French and non-official language 145 30 0 120 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) – Niagara

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 4.0%.
  • 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-X2016054.

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