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 Hamilton, C
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 1 530,635 489,910 375 30,525 9,815
Single responses 519,070 480,230 335 28,745 9,760
Official languages 396,540 372,605 210 23,595 130
English 389,870 371,970 15 17,760 125
French 6,670 635 200 5,835 5
Non-official languages 122,530 107,625 125 5,150 9,635
Aboriginal languages 75 70 0 5 0
Algonquian languages 30 30 0 5 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 5 5 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 5 5 0 5 0
Malecite 5 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 5 0 0 0 0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 20 20 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 20 20 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Ottawa (Odawa) 0 5 0 0 0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Athabaskan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Northern Athabaskan languages 0 0 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 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 0 5 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages 25 25 0 5 0
Cayuga 10 10 0 0 0
Mohawk 10 10 0 5 0
Oneida 0 5 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Kutenai 0 0 0 0 0
Michif 0 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. 5 5 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 122,465 107,560 120 5,145 9,635
Afro-Asiatic languages 12,840 10,155 25 620 2,035
Berber languages 15 0 0 15 0
Kabyle 0 0 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 15 0 0 15 0
Cushitic languages 1,040 840 0 10 190
Bilen 5 0 0 0 0
Oromo 45 35 0 0 10
Somali 995 805 0 10 185
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 11,740 9,280 20 590 1,845
Amharic 195 185 0 5 5
Arabic 8,585 6,600 20 540 1,425
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 2,225 1,855 5 25 345
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 215 170 0 5 35
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 145 135 0 15 0
Maltese 125 120 0 0 0
Tigrigna 125 115 0 5 10
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 115 90 0 0 20
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 45 40 5 5 5
Austro-Asiatic languages 3,980 3,280 0 80 620
Khmer (Cambodian) 810 680 0 20 115
Vietnamese 3,170 2,600 0 60 505
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 5,015 4,910 0 35 65
Bikol 25 25 0 0 0
Cebuano 190 185 0 5 0
Fijian 5 5 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 40 40 0 5 0
Ilocano 300 290 0 0 5
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 110 95 0 5 15
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 30 35 0 0 0
Pangasinan 5 10 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 4,240 4,175 0 30 40
Waray-Waray 10 10 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 45 50 0 0 0
Creole languages 295 135 15 135 10
Haitian Creole 25 10 0 15 0
Creole, n.o.s. 170 30 10 120 10
Creole languages, n.i.e. 100 95 0 5 0
Dravidian languages 1,280 1,185 0 50 45
Kannada 45 45 0 5 0
Malayalam 660 630 0 15 15
Tamil 470 415 0 30 20
Telugu 100 90 0 10 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 83,865 74,915 55 3,575 5,325
Albanian 1,275 1,135 5 20 115
Armenian 275 230 0 25 15
Balto-Slavic languages 25,235 23,140 10 855 1,220
Baltic languages 690 645 0 35 10
Latvian 285 270 0 15 5
Lithuanian 405 380 0 20 5
Slavic languages 24,540 22,505 10 815 1,215
Belarusan 5 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 935 820 0 35 80
Bulgarian 130 120 0 10 5
Croatian 4,685 4,360 0 110 210
Czech 940 805 0 30 105
Macedonian 485 455 0 10 10
Polish 7,280 6,750 0 240 280
Russian 1,465 1,305 0 70 90
Serbian 5,465 4,925 0 185 355
Serbo-Croatian 375 340 0 15 25
Slovak 455 430 0 15 5
Slovene (Slovenian) 560 545 0 10 5
Ukrainian 1,645 1,550 0 70 30
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 105 95 0 5 0
Celtic languages 35 30 0 5 0
Scottish Gaelic 20 20 0 5 0
Welsh 10 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages 7,020 6,625 0 380 15
Afrikaans 130 120 0 10 0
Danish 160 150 0 10 0
Dutch 2,660 2,555 0 110 5
Frisian 70 70 0 5 0
German 3,830 3,590 0 230 10
Icelandic 5 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 15 15 0 0 0
Swedish 50 50 0 5 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 55 45 0 10 0
Yiddish 35 25 0 5 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Greek 1,600 1,465 0 70 65
Indo-Iranian languages 16,280 14,435 10 535 1,300
Indo-Aryan languages 12,440 11,105 5 360 970
Bengali 1,165 1,085 0 50 30
Gujarati 1,415 1,270 0 25 115
Hindi 960 910 5 25 25
Kashmiri 10 5 0 0 0
Konkani 55 50 0 0 0
Marathi 65 65 0 0 0
Nepali 185 85 0 40 60
Oriya (Odia) 10 10 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 4,585 3,915 5 105 555
Sindhi 95 95 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 230 215 0 10 5
Urdu 3,675 3,400 0 100 185
Iranian languages 3,780 3,280 5 170 325
Kurdish 1,035 870 5 45 115
Pashto 245 220 0 5 25
Persian (Farsi) 2,500 2,190 0 120 190
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 60 55 0 0 5
Italic (Romance) languages 32,145 27,835 30 1,685 2,590
Catalan 10 15 0 5 0
Italian 15,380 13,665 0 680 1,030
Portuguese 7,275 6,100 5 245 925
Romanian 1,735 1,405 0 245 85
Spanish 7,725 6,630 25 510 555
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 0 0
Japanese 265 250 0 5 5
Kartvelian languages 15 10 0 0 0
Georgian 15 15 0 0 0
Korean 1,380 1,230 0 35 115
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 1,360 1,080 30 215 45
Akan (Twi) 195 180 0 10 5
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 15 15 0 0 0
Ewe 30 25 0 5 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 5 5 0 5 0
Ga 25 25 0 0 0
Ganda 30 35 0 0 0
Igbo 65 60 0 0 0
Lingala 25 0 5 20 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 55 5 5 35 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 70 25 0 45 0
Shona 170 170 0 0 5
Swahili 310 235 5 40 25
Wolof 5 0 0 5 0
Yoruba 85 85 0 5 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 260 205 10 45 5
Nilo-Saharan languages 130 90 5 30 5
Dinka 15 15 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 115 75 5 30 5
Sign languages 115 55 0 0 60
American Sign Language 40 25 0 5 15
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 75 30 0 0 45
Sino-Tibetan languages 8,085 6,770 5 190 1,125
Chinese languages 7,750 6,495 0 185 1,065
Cantonese 2,775 2,195 0 80 495
Hakka 35 30 0 5 5
Mandarin 4,350 3,795 0 100 455
Min Dong 5 0 0 0 5
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 180 135 0 5 35
Wu (Shanghainese) 65 60 0 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 345 275 0 5 65
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 5
Tibeto-Burman languages 335 270 0 0 60
Burmese 65 55 0 0 10
Karenic languages 250 205 0 0 50
Tibetan 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 5
Tai-Kadai languages 485 410 0 15 65
Lao 305 265 0 15 20
Thai 185 140 0 5 40
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 685 605 0 15 60
Azerbaijani 35 35 0 0 0
Turkish 605 540 0 15 50
Uyghur 5 5 0 5 0
Uzbek 0 5 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 35 25 0 0 5
Uralic languages 2,610 2,425 0 120 60
Estonian 140 130 0 10 0
Finnish 85 70 0 10 0
Hungarian 2,390 2,220 0 105 60
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 65 50 0 5 10
Multiple responses 11,560 9,680 40 1,780 55
English and French 1,190 280 0 910 0
English and non-official language 9,750 9,255 0 440 50
French and non-official language 400 85 35 275 5
English, French and non-official language 220 60 0 160 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) – Hamilton, C

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 3.8%.
  • 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-X2016055.

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