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 Division No. 16
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 73,945 68,100 150 5,060 640
Single responses 72,640 67,025 140 4,845 630
Official languages 57,310 53,065 110 4,115 25
English 55,430 52,885 0 2,525 20
French 1,880 180 105 1,595 0
Non-official languages 15,330 13,960 30 725 610
Aboriginal languages 1,345 1,305 0 15 20
Algonquian languages 975 940 0 15 20
Blackfoot 5 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 945 920 0 10 20
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 10 5 0 0 0
Southern East Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Swampy Cree 5 5 0 0 0
Woods Cree 180 175 0 0 5
Cree, n.o.s. 760 730 0 10 15
Eastern Algonquian languages 10 10 0 0 0
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 5 5 0 0 0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 15 15 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 15 10 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 5 0 0 0 0
Ottawa (Odawa) 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Athabaskan languages 365 360 0 10 0
Northern Athabaskan languages 370 360 0 5 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 360 350 0 10 0
Dogrib (Tlicho) 5 5 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 5 0 0 0
North Slavey (Hare) 0 5 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 0 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 5 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 5 0 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 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 13,985 12,655 35 710 590
Afro-Asiatic languages 2,665 2,250 15 240 160
Berber languages 10 5 0 10 0
Kabyle 10 5 0 10 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Cushitic languages 800 690 0 45 65
Bilen 5 5 0 0 0
Oromo 60 55 0 0 5
Somali 725 620 0 45 60
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages 1,840 1,555 15 180 95
Amharic 450 425 0 20 10
Arabic 1,275 1,025 10 155 80
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 5 5 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 10 10 0 5 0
Harari 5 5 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0 0
Maltese 5 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 90 75 0 5 10
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 70 60 0 5 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 15 10 0 0 0
Vietnamese 60 50 0 5 0
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 3,195 3,080 0 60 60
Bikol 10 10 0 0 0
Cebuano 80 75 0 5 0
Fijian 5 5 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 20 20 0 0 0
Ilocano 75 70 0 0 5
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 25 25 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 5 0 0 0
Pangasinan 5 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 2,915 2,810 5 55 55
Waray-Waray 5 5 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 50 45 0 5 5
Creole languages 40 25 0 15 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 20 5 0 15 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 360 335 0 5 15
Kannada 15 15 0 0 0
Malayalam 150 140 0 0 5
Tamil 125 115 0 5 5
Telugu 75 65 0 0 5
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 5,715 5,175 5 275 260
Albanian 20 20 0 0 0
Armenian 10 5 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 570 510 0 40 15
Baltic languages 20 20 0 0 0
Latvian 15 10 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0 0
Slavic languages 550 490 0 40 20
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 10 10 0 0 0
Bulgarian 30 25 5 0 0
Croatian 20 15 0 5 0
Czech 15 20 0 0 0
Macedonian 10 5 0 0 0
Polish 135 125 0 10 5
Russian 160 145 0 10 5
Serbian 65 50 0 5 5
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0 0
Slovak 15 15 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 10 10 0 0 0
Ukrainian 75 70 0 5 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 0 5 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 410 380 0 25 5
Afrikaans 170 160 0 5 5
Danish 10 10 0 0 0
Dutch 70 60 0 5 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 155 140 0 15 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0 0
Swedish 15 10 0 5 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 0 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 25 25 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 3,595 3,325 5 80 185
Indo-Aryan languages 3,365 3,115 0 70 175
Bengali 240 215 0 15 10
Gujarati 1,070 1,005 0 10 50
Hindi 420 390 0 5 15
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 5 0 0 0 0
Marathi 70 60 0 0 10
Nepali 35 30 0 0 5
Oriya (Odia) 5 5 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 425 395 0 5 25
Sindhi 15 15 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 50 50 0 0 0
Urdu 1,035 945 0 25 65
Iranian languages 215 190 5 15 10
Kurdish 10 10 0 0 0
Pashto 80 70 0 0 10
Persian (Farsi) 125 110 0 10 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 15 20 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 1,085 905 0 125 45
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 35 20 0 10 0
Portuguese 135 115 0 15 0
Romanian 115 80 0 30 5
Spanish 805 690 0 75 40
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 25 25 0 0 0
Kartvelian languages 25 25 0 0 5
Georgian 25 25 0 0 0
Korean 160 150 0 5 10
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 785 685 5 65 35
Akan (Twi) 70 65 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 5 0 0 0
Edo 10 5 0 0 0
Ewe 20 20 0 5 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 5 0 0 5 0
Ganda 15 15 0 5 0
Igbo 50 45 0 0 0
Lingala 5 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 30 10 0 15 0
Shona 115 110 0 5 5
Swahili 70 55 0 10 10
Wolof 10 5 0 5 0
Yoruba 100 100 0 5 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 285 250 0 15 15
Nilo-Saharan languages 80 70 0 5 0
Dinka 30 35 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 50 40 0 0 5
Sign languages 5 5 0 0 5
American Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 5 5 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 685 620 0 20 40
Chinese languages 675 610 0 15 40
Cantonese 125 115 0 10 5
Hakka 5 10 0 0 0
Mandarin 335 300 0 10 30
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 5 5 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 195 185 0 0 10
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 10 10 0 5 0
Burmese 0 5 0 0 0
Karenic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Tibetan 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 50 50 0 0 0
Lao 10 10 0 5 5
Thai 40 40 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 35 30 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 5 0 0 0
Turkish 20 25 0 0 0
Uyghur 5 5 0 0 0
Uzbek 5 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Uralic languages 60 55 0 10 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 10 10 0 0 0
Hungarian 55 40 0 5 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 30 20 0 5 0
Multiple responses 1,305 1,075 10 220 5
English and French 145 40 0 100 0
English and non-official language 1,060 1,010 0 45 5
French and non-official language 70 20 5 45 0
English, French and non-official language 30 5 0 20 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) – Division No. 16

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 14.3%.
  • 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-X2016054.

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