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 Nanaimo
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 1 153,155 142,505 15 10,015 620
Single responses 151,630 141,375 15 9,625 610
Official languages 137,690 128,780 10 8,880 15
English 135,570 128,510 5 7,045 15
French 2,120 270 10 1,840 0
Non-official languages 13,940 12,595 5 740 595
Aboriginal languages 135 135 0 5 5
Algonquian languages 20 20 0 0 0
Blackfoot 5 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 15 20 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 5 5 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 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 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 5 5 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 5 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 5 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 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 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 5 0 0 0 0
Salish languages 35 30 0 0 0
Comox 0 0 0 0 0
Halkomelem 30 25 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. 5 5 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 10 5 0 0 0
Gitxsan (Gitksan) 0 0 0 0 0
Nisga'a 0 5 0 0 0
Tsimshian 5 5 0 0 0
Wakashan languages 35 40 0 0 0
Haisla 0 0 0 0 0
Heiltsuk 5 0 0 0 0
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala) 20 15 0 5 0
Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka) 20 20 0 0 0
Wakashan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.o.s. 20 15 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 13,800 12,465 0 740 595
Afro-Asiatic languages 365 300 0 15 50
Berber languages 0 5 0 0 0
Kabyle 0 0 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 5 5 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages 355 290 0 15 50
Amharic 10 5 0 0 5
Arabic 305 245 0 15 45
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 30 30 0 0 0
Maltese 10 10 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 520 440 0 20 60
Khmer (Cambodian) 90 80 0 0 10
Vietnamese 425 360 0 15 50
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 820 805 0 5 10
Bikol 5 5 0 0 0
Cebuano 40 40 0 0 0
Fijian 5 5 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 15 15 0 0 0
Ilocano 40 35 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 30 30 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 5 5 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 650 640 0 5 5
Waray-Waray 5 5 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 30 30 0 0 5
Creole languages 15 0 0 10 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 10 0 0 10 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 50 50 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 30 30 0 0 0
Tamil 10 15 0 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 8,570 7,815 0 595 160
Albanian 5 10 0 0 0
Armenian 10 10 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 1,540 1,430 0 95 20
Baltic languages 45 35 0 10 0
Latvian 30 25 0 5 0
Lithuanian 15 15 0 0 0
Slavic languages 1,495 1,395 0 85 20
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 25 25 0 5 0
Croatian 185 170 0 10 5
Czech 155 145 0 5 0
Macedonian 20 20 0 0 0
Polish 325 300 0 20 0
Russian 275 255 0 15 5
Serbian 60 55 0 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 20 15 0 0 0
Slovak 75 70 0 5 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 30 30 0 0 0
Ukrainian 295 290 0 10 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 20 25 0 0 0
Celtic languages 35 35 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 10 10 0 0 0
Welsh 25 25 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages 4,265 3,945 0 315 10
Afrikaans 110 110 0 5 0
Danish 370 350 0 15 0
Dutch 1,085 990 0 100 0
Frisian 10 10 0 0 0
German 2,350 2,180 0 165 10
Icelandic 15 15 0 0 0
Norwegian 130 130 0 5 5
Swedish 140 130 0 10 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 40 25 0 15 0
Yiddish 10 10 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Greek 90 85 0 10 5
Indo-Iranian languages 1,385 1,255 0 35 95
Indo-Aryan languages 1,220 1,105 0 30 85
Bengali 30 25 0 0 5
Gujarati 45 50 0 0 5
Hindi 140 125 0 5 0
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 5 0 0 0
Nepali 10 10 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 940 840 0 15 80
Sindhi 5 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 10 0 0 0
Urdu 45 40 0 5 0
Iranian languages 165 145 0 10 10
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 160 140 0 10 10
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 1,230 1,050 0 145 35
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 350 295 0 50 0
Portuguese 200 170 0 15 10
Romanian 60 35 0 25 5
Spanish 625 550 0 55 10
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 370 340 0 10 15
Kartvelian languages 5 5 0 0 0
Georgian 5 5 0 0 0
Korean 475 410 0 5 50
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 90 80 0 10 0
Akan (Twi) 10 10 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 5 0 0 0 0
Ewe 0 5 0 0 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 5 0 0 0 0
Ga 5 0 0 0 0
Ganda 5 5 0 0 0
Igbo 5 5 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 5 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 5 0 0 5 0
Shona 5 5 0 0 0
Swahili 10 5 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 15 15 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 30 25 0 0 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 20 5 0 0 15
American Sign Language 10 5 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 15 5 0 0 10
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,920 1,675 0 25 225
Chinese languages 1,920 1,670 5 30 225
Cantonese 505 455 0 0 45
Hakka 5 10 0 0 0
Mandarin 1,235 1,055 5 20 155
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 35 35 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 15 15 0 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 125 110 0 0 15
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 5 5 0 0 0
Burmese 0 5 0 0 0
Karenic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Tibetan 5 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 100 95 0 5 0
Lao 5 5 0 0 0
Thai 95 85 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 35 30 0 5 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 30 25 0 5 0
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 5 5 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Uralic languages 440 415 0 20 5
Estonian 30 30 0 0 0
Finnish 135 125 0 5 0
Hungarian 280 260 0 15 5
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,530 1,130 0 390 5
English and French 385 95 0 290 0
English and non-official language 1,085 1,020 0 60 5
French and non-official language 35 5 0 25 0
English, French and non-official language 25 10 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) – Nanaimo

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 5.0%.
  • 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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