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 Essex
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 1 395,110 348,270 430 38,305 8,105
Single responses 386,140 341,870 400 35,825 8,050
Official languages 299,180 268,210 260 30,615 95
English 288,485 266,910 5 21,480 85
French 10,695 1,300 255 9,135 10
Non-official languages 86,955 73,655 135 5,205 7,955
Aboriginal languages 60 50 0 5 5
Algonquian languages 30 25 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 15 15 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. 10 10 0 0 0
Eastern Algonquian languages 5 5 0 0 0
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 15 15 0 5 0
Algonquin 0 5 0 0 0
Ojibway 15 15 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 5 5 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 10 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 5 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. 15 15 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 86,900 73,605 135 5,205 7,950
Afro-Asiatic languages 18,530 14,235 50 1,630 2,620
Berber languages 10 5 0 5 0
Kabyle 10 5 0 5 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 580 490 5 10 75
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 50 40 0 5 5
Somali 530 445 0 10 65
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 17,930 13,735 45 1,610 2,540
Amharic 100 95 0 5 5
Arabic 14,435 10,895 45 1,510 1,990
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 460 390 0 15 55
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 2,425 1,905 5 70 450
Harari 5 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 25 25 0 5 0
Maltese 210 200 0 10 0
Tigrigna 125 120 0 0 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 135 105 0 0 30
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 2,400 2,040 5 60 295
Khmer (Cambodian) 425 370 0 10 45
Vietnamese 1,970 1,675 5 55 245
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 2,395 2,285 5 50 60
Bikol 5 10 0 0 0
Cebuano 85 80 0 5 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 30 30 0 0 5
Ilocano 95 95 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 5 0
Malay 95 80 0 0 10
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 15 15 0 0 0
Pangasinan 5 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 2,020 1,940 0 40 40
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 40 35 0 0 5
Creole languages 220 90 10 110 15
Haitian Creole 15 5 0 5 0
Creole, n.o.s. 165 45 10 95 10
Creole languages, n.i.e. 35 35 0 5 0
Dravidian languages 690 660 0 20 20
Kannada 30 30 0 0 0
Malayalam 180 180 0 0 0
Tamil 305 285 0 10 15
Telugu 155 155 0 5 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 5 5 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 51,345 45,010 40 2,720 3,575
Albanian 960 820 0 45 95
Armenian 210 165 0 35 10
Balto-Slavic languages 12,185 11,185 0 570 430
Baltic languages 75 70 0 5 5
Latvian 25 20 0 0 0
Lithuanian 55 50 0 5 0
Slavic languages 12,110 11,115 0 565 430
Belarusan 5 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 320 295 0 10 15
Bulgarian 110 95 0 15 5
Croatian 1,755 1,655 0 60 40
Czech 200 185 0 15 0
Macedonian 1,190 1,105 0 40 45
Polish 3,095 2,815 0 155 125
Russian 605 520 0 60 25
Serbian 2,850 2,585 0 140 135
Serbo-Croatian 215 195 0 10 10
Slovak 915 855 0 40 25
Slovene (Slovenian) 150 145 0 5 5
Ukrainian 620 590 0 20 10
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 85 80 0 5 0
Celtic languages 25 25 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 15 10 0 0 0
Welsh 10 10 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages 9,125 8,550 5 195 375
Afrikaans 40 35 0 0 0
Danish 65 60 0 5 0
Dutch 700 655 0 35 0
Frisian 10 10 0 5 0
German 8,180 7,685 0 120 370
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 10 5 0 5 0
Swedish 15 15 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 85 60 0 20 0
Yiddish 20 15 0 5 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Greek 1,045 980 5 30 35
Indo-Iranian languages 8,415 7,425 0 400 590
Indo-Aryan languages 7,540 6,665 5 340 535
Bengali 640 610 0 25 15
Gujarati 785 710 0 15 60
Hindi 700 660 0 25 20
Kashmiri 5 5 0 0 0
Konkani 10 5 0 0 0
Marathi 70 65 0 0 0
Nepali 460 275 5 85 95
Oriya (Odia) 5 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 2,470 2,105 0 95 275
Sindhi 35 30 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 110 100 0 10 0
Urdu 2,250 2,095 0 80 75
Iranian languages 825 720 0 55 50
Kurdish 135 120 0 0 20
Pashto 50 45 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 645 555 0 55 30
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 45 35 5 0 10
Italic (Romance) languages 19,370 15,855 30 1,450 2,040
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 9,595 8,555 0 540 495
Portuguese 2,355 1,985 5 125 245
Romanian 2,235 1,755 0 380 100
Spanish 5,145 3,530 20 400 1,200
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 30 25 0 10 0
Japanese 85 70 0 10 5
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 475 425 0 10 45
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 5 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 795 505 30 230 35
Akan (Twi) 80 80 0 5 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 15 15 0 0 0
Ewe 15 10 5 0 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 5 5 0 0 0
Ga 10 10 0 0 0
Ganda 20 15 0 5 0
Igbo 50 45 0 5 0
Lingala 25 0 5 20 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 35 10 0 20 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 60 20 0 35 0
Shona 10 10 0 0 0
Swahili 205 80 20 90 15
Wolof 10 0 0 5 5
Yoruba 135 130 0 10 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 115 75 10 30 5
Nilo-Saharan languages 195 185 5 10 5
Dinka 55 50 0 0 5
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 140 125 5 5 5
Sign languages 105 60 0 5 45
American Sign Language 50 35 0 0 10
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 55 20 0 0 30
Sino-Tibetan languages 7,225 5,905 0 260 1,055
Chinese languages 6,855 5,635 0 255 960
Cantonese 2,055 1,650 0 50 350
Hakka 30 20 0 5 0
Mandarin 4,045 3,350 0 185 510
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 100 90 0 5 10
Wu (Shanghainese) 65 45 0 5 15
Chinese, n.o.s. 555 485 0 10 65
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 365 265 0 0 95
Burmese 45 20 0 0 20
Karenic languages 300 225 0 0 75
Tibetan 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 430 305 5 10 115
Lao 230 195 0 15 30
Thai 195 110 0 0 85
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 460 395 0 35 30
Azerbaijani 20 15 0 0 0
Turkish 380 320 0 30 30
Uyghur 40 40 0 0 5
Uzbek 5 5 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0 0
Uralic languages 1,510 1,415 5 55 35
Estonian 15 15 0 0 0
Finnish 115 115 0 5 0
Hungarian 1,375 1,290 5 45 30
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 45 35 0 0 5
Multiple responses 8,970 6,400 30 2,485 60
English and French 1,855 465 5 1,385 0
English and non-official language 6,400 5,800 5 540 55
French and non-official language 410 90 20 305 0
English, French and non-official language 300 50 0 255 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) – Essex

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 4.2%.
  • 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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