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, CY
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 88,705 82,185 15 5,975 535
Single responses 87,670 81,420 10 5,710 530
Official languages 78,125 72,855 10 5,245 15
English 76,930 72,695 0 4,220 15
French 1,195 155 5 1,025 0
Non-official languages 9,545 8,565 5 455 520
Aboriginal languages 95 95 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 15 15 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 15 10 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 0 0 0 0 0
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 5 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 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 5 0 0 0
North Slavey (Hare) 0 0 0 0 0
South Slavey 0 0 0 0 0
Slavey, n.o.s. 5 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 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 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 0 5 0 0 0
Salish languages 15 15 0 0 0
Comox 0 0 0 0 0
Halkomelem 10 5 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 30 30 0 0 0
Haisla 0 0 0 0 0
Heiltsuk 0 0 0 0 0
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala) 15 10 0 0 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. 15 15 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 9,450 8,475 5 455 520
Afro-Asiatic languages 330 275 0 15 50
Berber languages 0 0 0 0 0
Kabyle 0 0 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 320 265 0 10 45
Amharic 10 5 0 0 0
Arabic 290 235 0 10 40
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 15 15 0 0 0
Maltese 5 10 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 465 395 0 20 55
Khmer (Cambodian) 85 75 0 0 10
Vietnamese 375 315 0 15 45
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 605 595 0 0 5
Bikol 5 5 0 0 0
Cebuano 20 20 0 0 0
Fijian 5 5 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 15 15 0 0 0
Ilocano 30 30 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 25 25 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 480 470 0 5 0
Waray-Waray 0 5 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 30 25 0 0 5
Creole languages 15 0 0 10 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 15 5 0 10 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Dravidian languages 25 25 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 15 15 0 0 0
Tamil 10 10 0 0 0
Telugu 0 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 5,145 4,665 0 345 135
Albanian 5 0 0 0 0
Armenian 10 5 0 5 5
Balto-Slavic languages 945 865 0 65 15
Baltic languages 20 20 0 5 0
Latvian 10 10 0 5 0
Lithuanian 10 5 0 5 0
Slavic languages 925 845 0 60 15
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 15 10 0 5 0
Croatian 135 125 0 10 5
Czech 95 90 0 5 5
Macedonian 15 15 0 0 0
Polish 220 210 0 10 0
Russian 175 155 0 15 5
Serbian 35 30 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 10 0 0 0
Slovak 50 45 0 5 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 10 15 0 0 0
Ukrainian 140 135 0 5 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 5
Celtic languages 20 20 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 5 5 0 0 0
Welsh 10 10 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages 2,010 1,860 0 145 10
Afrikaans 70 75 0 5 0
Danish 180 175 0 10 0
Dutch 485 445 0 45 0
Frisian 5 5 0 0 0
German 1,085 1,000 0 80 5
Icelandic 15 10 0 0 0
Norwegian 70 65 0 5 0
Swedish 75 70 0 10 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 20 15 0 5 0
Yiddish 5 5 0 5 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 5 0
Greek 70 60 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages 1,250 1,135 0 30 90
Indo-Aryan languages 1,110 1,010 0 25 80
Bengali 25 25 0 0 0
Gujarati 45 40 0 0 0
Hindi 120 115 0 5 0
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 5 0 0 0
Nepali 10 5 0 0 5
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 860 775 0 15 75
Sindhi 5 10 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 5 0 0 0
Urdu 40 40 0 0 0
Iranian languages 140 125 0 10 10
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 140 125 0 10 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 835 710 5 100 20
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 210 180 0 25 0
Portuguese 120 100 5 10 10
Romanian 45 25 0 20 0
Spanish 460 405 0 50 5
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 275 255 0 10 10
Kartvelian languages 5 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 5 0 0 0
Korean 405 355 0 10 40
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 70 60 0 5 0
Akan (Twi) 10 10 0 0 0
Bamanankan 5 0 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 5 5 0 0 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 0 0 5 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 5
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 5 5 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 5 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 0 0 0 5 0
Shona 0 5 0 0 0
Swahili 5 5 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 5 0
Yoruba 5 10 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 20 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 15 5 0 0 10
American Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 5 0 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,740 1,505 5 25 210
Chinese languages 1,740 1,505 0 30 210
Cantonese 430 385 0 5 45
Hakka 5 10 0 0 0
Mandarin 1,155 985 0 20 150
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 30 25 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 10 10 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 100 90 0 0 15
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0
Karenic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Tibetan 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 70 65 0 0 0
Lao 5 5 0 0 0
Thai 65 60 0 5 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 30 25 0 5 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 20 20 0 5 0
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Uralic languages 250 240 0 10 5
Estonian 15 10 0 0 0
Finnish 75 70 0 0 5
Hungarian 165 155 0 5 5
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,035 760 5 265 5
English and French 250 60 0 195 0
English and non-official language 740 690 0 40 5
French and non-official language 25 5 0 15 0
English, French and non-official language 20 5 0 10 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, CY

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 4.9%.
  • 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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