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. 2
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 1 167,820 158,980 105 6,360 2,375
Single responses 165,300 156,795 100 6,055 2,355
Official languages 133,435 127,950 50 5,405 25
English 131,980 127,745 0 4,210 25
French 1,455 205 50 1,200 0
Non-official languages 31,870 28,845 50 650 2,330
Aboriginal languages 325 325 0 5 0
Algonquian languages 305 300 0 5 0
Blackfoot 265 260 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 40 35 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 5 5 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 25 25 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 5 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 10 10 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 5 5 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. 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 5 0 0 0
Haida 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages 5 10 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 5 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages 5 5 0 0 0
Cayuga 0 0 0 0 0
Mohawk 0 0 0 0 0
Oneida 5 0 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Kutenai 0 0 0 0 0
Michif 5 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 5 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 5 0 0 0
Gitxsan (Gitksan) 0 0 0 0 0
Nisga'a 5 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 31,540 28,515 45 650 2,325
Afro-Asiatic languages 1,965 1,555 5 60 345
Berber languages 10 5 0 10 0
Kabyle 5 0 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 5 0
Cushitic languages 1,055 900 5 10 140
Bilen 15 10 0 0 0
Oromo 460 400 0 0 60
Somali 590 490 5 10 80
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 890 645 0 40 205
Amharic 150 145 0 0 10
Arabic 620 405 0 35 175
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 10 0 0 0 5
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 10 5 0 0 0
Hebrew 10 5 0 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 95 80 0 0 15
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 355 305 0 5 45
Khmer (Cambodian) 115 100 0 0 15
Vietnamese 235 205 0 5 30
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 2,600 2,570 0 20 15
Bikol 15 15 0 0 0
Cebuano 215 210 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 25 25 0 0 0
Ilocano 70 70 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 15 20 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 35 30 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 2,165 2,140 0 10 15
Waray-Waray 30 35 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0 0
Creole languages 35 15 0 15 5
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 25 10 0 15 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 5 0
Dravidian languages 90 85 0 0 5
Kannada 0 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 55 45 0 0 5
Tamil 15 15 0 0 0
Telugu 25 20 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 23,110 21,070 15 390 1,630
Albanian 60 60 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 1,625 1,540 0 55 35
Baltic languages 25 30 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 20 20 0 0 0
Slavic languages 1,595 1,510 0 50 35
Belarusan 5 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 70 60 0 0 10
Bulgarian 10 10 0 5 0
Croatian 205 200 0 0 0
Czech 75 70 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 5 0 0 0
Polish 500 475 0 15 10
Russian 180 160 0 15 5
Serbian 50 40 0 5 5
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0 0
Slovak 80 75 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 40 40 0 0 0
Ukrainian 355 345 0 5 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 25 25 0 5 0
Celtic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 10 10 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 16,395 15,235 10 110 1,035
Afrikaans 125 120 0 0 0
Danish 90 90 0 0 0
Dutch 2,475 2,430 0 35 15
Frisian 55 50 0 5 0
German 13,555 12,465 10 60 1,015
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 30 35 0 0 0
Swedish 20 15 0 5 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 25 25 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Greek 45 35 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages 2,185 1,840 0 40 300
Indo-Aryan languages 1,835 1,530 0 35 275
Bengali 95 95 0 0 5
Gujarati 160 145 0 0 10
Hindi 85 80 0 0 5
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 5 5 0 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 5 0
Nepali 975 730 0 10 230
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 220 195 0 5 20
Sindhi 20 15 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 45 45 0 0 0
Urdu 225 205 0 5 10
Iranian languages 335 300 0 10 25
Kurdish 20 20 0 0 0
Pashto 65 60 0 0 5
Persian (Farsi) 245 225 0 10 20
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 2,795 2,345 5 180 260
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 295 270 0 10 10
Portuguese 95 80 0 10 5
Romanian 90 55 0 25 0
Spanish 2,315 1,935 5 125 245
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 5 0
Japanese 445 420 0 5 20
Kartvelian languages 0 5 0 0 0
Georgian 0 5 0 0 0
Korean 260 240 0 0 15
Mongolic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Mongolian 10 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 470 315 20 125 5
Akan (Twi) 35 25 0 5 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 5 5 0 0 0
Ewe 25 20 0 0 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Ganda 5 0 0 0 0
Igbo 15 10 0 0 0
Lingala 10 0 5 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 30 0 0 25 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 5 0 0 5 0
Shona 15 20 0 0 0
Swahili 165 105 10 45 5
Wolof 5 0 0 5 0
Yoruba 50 55 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 105 70 10 25 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 280 270 0 0 10
Dinka 195 190 0 0 5
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 90 85 0 0 0
Sign languages 25 15 0 0 15
American Sign Language 5 5 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 20 5 0 0 15
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,270 1,045 0 15 210
Chinese languages 1,235 1,015 5 20 205
Cantonese 525 415 0 5 105
Hakka 5 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 570 470 0 10 85
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 20 20 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 5 5 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 115 95 0 5 15
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 35 30 0 0 5
Burmese 5 5 0 0 0
Karenic languages 25 25 0 0 5
Tibetan 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 105 95 0 0 0
Lao 35 35 0 0 0
Thai 70 65 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 10 5 0 5 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 0 0 5 0
Uyghur 5 5 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Uralic languages 480 470 0 10 0
Estonian 10 5 0 5 0
Finnish 30 30 0 0 0
Hungarian 440 435 0 5 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 35 30 0 5 5
Multiple responses 2,525 2,190 15 300 20
English and French 245 70 5 175 0
English and non-official language 2,150 2,085 0 45 20
French and non-official language 95 25 10 55 0
English, French and non-official language 35 5 0 25 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. 2

  • 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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