Data tables, 2016 Census

Mother Tongue (269), Knowledge of Official Languages (5) and Sex (3) for the Population Excluding Institutional Residents of Canada, Provinces and Territories, Census Divisions, Census Subdivisions and Dissemination Areas, 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 and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Region 6
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 19,920 16,510 60 3,280 80
Single responses 19,375 16,115 55 3,135 75
Official languages 16,320 13,365 50 2,905 0
English 15,455 13,340 0 2,115 0
French 870 25 50 790 0
Non-official languages 3,055 2,745 0 220 80
Aboriginal languages 665 650 0 10 10
Algonquian languages 25 30 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 20 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 5 0 0 0 0
Southern East Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Swampy Cree 5 5 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 5 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 5 5 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 535 525 0 5 5
Northern Athabaskan languages 535 520 0 5 5
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 100 95 0 0 0
Dogrib (Tlicho) 305 305 0 0 5
Gwich'in 10 10 0 0 0
Sarsi (Sarcee) 0 0 0 0 0
Sekani 0 0 0 0 0
Slavey-Hare languages 115 110 0 0 0
North Slavey (Hare) 70 70 0 0 0
South Slavey 15 20 0 0 0
Slavey, n.o.s. 25 25 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 95 95 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 20 15 0 0 0
Inuktitut 75 70 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 5 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 0 5 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. 5 0 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 2,385 2,100 5 215 70
Afro-Asiatic languages 170 135 5 25 0
Berber languages 5 0 0 5 0
Kabyle 0 0 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 45 45 0 0 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 45 40 0 5 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 120 95 5 25 5
Amharic 20 20 0 0 0
Arabic 80 50 0 20 5
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 15 15 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 160 135 0 5 20
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 155 135 0 10 20
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 740 720 0 10 5
Bikol 5 5 0 0 0
Cebuano 55 55 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 5 10 0 0 0
Ilocano 70 65 0 5 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 5 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 595 580 0 10 5
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Creole languages 35 10 0 25 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 25 5 0 20 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 50 45 0 10 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 25 25 0 0 0
Tamil 20 10 0 5 0
Telugu 10 10 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 805 690 0 100 20
Albanian 10 5 0 0 0
Armenian 45 40 0 5 0
Balto-Slavic languages 165 140 0 15 5
Baltic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 165 140 0 15 5
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 10 5 0 0 0
Croatian 10 10 0 0 0
Czech 10 10 0 5 0
Macedonian 10 5 0 0 0
Polish 25 25 0 0 0
Russian 30 25 0 5 0
Serbian 10 10 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0 0
Slovak 15 15 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 5 5 0 5 0
Ukrainian 20 15 0 5 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 10 5 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages 205 170 0 35 0
Afrikaans 15 15 0 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 0 0
Dutch 45 40 0 5 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 125 110 0 15 0
Icelandic 5 5 0 5 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0 0
Swedish 10 5 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 5 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 20 20 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 215 200 0 20 0
Indo-Aryan languages 185 170 0 10 0
Bengali 50 50 0 5 0
Gujarati 10 10 0 0 0
Hindi 25 25 0 0 0
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Nepali 10 10 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 40 35 0 5 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0 0
Urdu 35 35 0 0 0
Iranian languages 30 25 0 5 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 30 25 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 145 105 0 25 10
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 35 25 0 10 5
Portuguese 10 5 0 5 0
Romanian 10 5 0 0 0
Spanish 80 70 0 10 5
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 55 45 0 5 5
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 25 20 0 5 5
Mongolic languages 0 5 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 115 105 0 15 0
Akan (Twi) 5 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 0 0 0 0 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Ganda 10 10 0 0 0
Igbo 0 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 5 0 0 5 0
Shona 35 35 0 5 0
Swahili 0 5 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 0 0 0 5 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 50 45 0 5 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 5 5 0 0 0
Dinka 5 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Sign languages 5 0 0 0 5
American Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 195 170 0 10 15
Chinese languages 195 170 0 15 15
Cantonese 95 90 0 5 5
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 55 50 0 5 0
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. 35 25 0 5 5
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 0 5 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 5 5 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 5 5 0 5 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0 0
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Uralic languages 25 20 0 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 10 5 0 5 0
Hungarian 10 10 0 5 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 545 400 5 145 5
English and French 120 15 0 100 0
English and non-official language 405 380 0 25 0
French and non-official language 15 0 0 10 0
English, French and non-official language 10 5 0 5 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) – Region 6

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 6.4%.
  • 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-X2016055.

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