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 St. Catharines, 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 1 130,630 120,150 105 9,395 970
Single responses 128,590 118,665 100 8,860 970
Official languages 107,530 99,650 70 7,795 20
English 104,760 99,395 0 5,350 20
French 2,770 255 70 2,445 0
Non-official languages 21,060 19,015 35 1,070 950
Aboriginal languages 20 15 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 10 10 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 0 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 10 10 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 10 10 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 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 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 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 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 5 5 0 0 0
Cayuga 0 0 0 0 0
Mohawk 0 5 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 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. 0 0 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 21,040 18,995 30 1,065 945
Afro-Asiatic languages 1,550 1,290 5 145 110
Berber languages 5 0 0 5 0
Kabyle 0 0 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Cushitic languages 40 40 0 5 0
Bilen 0 5 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 35 30 0 0 5
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages 1,505 1,255 5 140 105
Amharic 35 30 0 0 0
Arabic 1,365 1,125 5 135 100
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 20 20 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 30 30 0 5 0
Maltese 25 25 0 5 0
Tigrigna 25 20 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 5
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 375 310 0 20 40
Khmer (Cambodian) 135 115 0 10 10
Vietnamese 235 195 0 10 35
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 815 805 0 10 0
Bikol 5 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 20 25 0 0 0
Fijian 0 5 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 10 10 0 0 0
Ilocano 65 60 0 5 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 15 10 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 5 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 700 685 0 5 0
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Creole languages 40 20 10 15 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 35 5 5 15 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 160 155 0 5 0
Kannada 5 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 85 85 0 0 0
Tamil 45 45 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 14,185 12,905 15 735 525
Albanian 120 115 0 0 0
Armenian 175 145 0 20 10
Balto-Slavic languages 4,100 3,750 5 195 150
Baltic languages 105 95 0 5 5
Latvian 50 50 0 5 5
Lithuanian 55 50 0 5 0
Slavic languages 3,995 3,655 0 185 150
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 5
Bosnian 140 135 0 0 10
Bulgarian 70 55 0 10 5
Croatian 210 205 0 5 5
Czech 135 125 0 5 5
Macedonian 45 35 0 0 5
Polish 1,760 1,610 0 65 85
Russian 480 420 0 35 25
Serbian 120 110 5 5 5
Serbo-Croatian 30 30 0 0 0
Slovak 140 135 0 5 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 150 150 0 0 0
Ukrainian 700 640 0 50 10
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages 10 10 0 5 0
Scottish Gaelic 5 5 0 0 0
Welsh 10 10 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 3,460 3,315 5 130 15
Afrikaans 25 20 0 5 0
Danish 50 50 0 5 0
Dutch 1,100 1,060 0 40 5
Frisian 25 25 0 0 0
German 2,200 2,110 0 70 15
Icelandic 5 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 15 15 0 0 0
Swedish 25 20 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 10 10 0 0 0
Yiddish 10 10 0 5 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 285 260 0 15 15
Indo-Iranian languages 1,250 1,155 0 40 55
Indo-Aryan languages 870 820 0 20 25
Bengali 105 100 0 0 0
Gujarati 140 115 0 10 15
Hindi 120 115 0 0 0
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 5 0 0 0
Marathi 25 20 0 0 0
Nepali 15 15 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 100 100 0 5 5
Sindhi 10 10 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 30 30 0 0 0
Urdu 320 310 0 0 5
Iranian languages 375 330 0 15 25
Kurdish 150 125 0 5 20
Pashto 25 20 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 200 185 5 10 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 4,780 4,150 10 335 280
Catalan 5 5 0 0 0
Italian 2,270 2,025 10 115 125
Portuguese 275 240 0 30 5
Romanian 145 115 0 25 5
Spanish 2,080 1,765 0 170 145
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Japanese 75 75 0 0 5
Kartvelian languages 5 5 0 0 0
Georgian 5 5 0 0 0
Korean 475 430 0 10 35
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 300 245 0 45 5
Akan (Twi) 45 35 0 5 5
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 5 5 0 0 0
Ewe 5 5 0 0 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 5 5 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 10 5 0 0 0
Lingala 5 0 0 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 10 5 0 5 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 5 0 0 5 0
Shona 75 75 0 5 0
Swahili 65 50 0 15 5
Wolof 0 5 0 0 0
Yoruba 30 35 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 35 30 0 5 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 10 10 0 0 0
Dinka 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0 0
Sign languages 20 10 0 0 5
American Sign Language 5 5 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 10 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 2,230 2,005 0 40 185
Chinese languages 2,225 2,005 0 40 180
Cantonese 370 315 0 5 40
Hakka 5 10 0 0 0
Mandarin 1,685 1,525 0 30 130
Min Dong 5 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 30 30 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 15 15 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 115 110 0 0 5
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 5 0 0 0 10
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0
Karenic languages 5 0 0 0 5
Tibetan 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 225 195 0 5 25
Lao 200 175 0 5 25
Thai 25 25 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 95 85 0 10 0
Azerbaijani 5 5 0 0 0
Turkish 80 65 0 5 0
Uyghur 5 0 0 5 0
Uzbek 5 10 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Uralic languages 450 425 0 20 5
Estonian 55 55 0 0 0
Finnish 55 55 0 0 0
Hungarian 345 320 0 20 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Multiple responses 2,035 1,485 5 535 5
English and French 425 100 0 325 0
English and non-official language 1,475 1,370 0 105 10
French and non-official language 80 10 5 60 0
English, French and non-official language 50 5 0 50 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) – St. Catharines, CY

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 4.1%.
  • 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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