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 Wood Buffalo, SM
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 71,545 65,735 145 5,040 625
Single responses 70,335 64,755 140 4,825 615
Official languages 55,890 51,660 110 4,100 20
English 54,020 51,480 5 2,510 20
French 1,875 180 110 1,590 0
Non-official languages 14,445 13,095 35 720 590
Aboriginal languages 465 445 0 10 5
Algonquian languages 290 280 0 10 5
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 270 265 0 5 5
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 5 0 0 0
Woods Cree 5 5 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 255 245 0 10 5
Eastern Algonquian languages 5 10 0 0 0
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 5 10 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 5 0
Ottawa (Odawa) 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Athabaskan languages 165 160 0 5 0
Northern Athabaskan languages 165 160 0 5 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 165 155 0 5 0
Dogrib (Tlicho) 0 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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. 0 0 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 13,975 12,650 30 710 590
Afro-Asiatic languages 2,665 2,250 15 240 160
Berber languages 15 5 0 15 0
Kabyle 10 5 0 10 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Cushitic languages 800 690 0 45 65
Bilen 5 5 0 0 0
Oromo 65 55 0 0 5
Somali 725 620 0 45 60
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0 0
Semitic languages 1,845 1,550 15 180 95
Amharic 450 420 0 20 10
Arabic 1,275 1,030 15 155 80
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 10 5 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 5 5 0 5 0
Harari 5 5 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 90 75 0 5 10
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 70 65 0 5 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 10 10 0 0 0
Vietnamese 55 50 0 0 5
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 3,195 3,080 0 60 60
Bikol 10 10 0 0 0
Cebuano 80 80 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 25 20 0 0 0
Ilocano 75 70 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 25 25 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 5 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 2,915 2,810 0 55 55
Waray-Waray 5 5 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 50 45 0 0 5
Creole languages 40 25 0 15 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 25 5 0 15 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 360 335 0 5 15
Kannada 15 15 0 0 0
Malayalam 145 140 0 0 10
Tamil 125 115 0 5 5
Telugu 70 65 0 5 5
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 5,710 5,175 5 275 255
Albanian 20 20 0 5 0
Armenian 5 10 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 565 510 5 35 15
Baltic languages 20 20 0 0 0
Latvian 15 10 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 10 0 0 0
Slavic languages 550 490 0 35 15
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 10 10 0 0 0
Bulgarian 25 25 5 0 0
Croatian 20 20 0 0 0
Czech 15 15 0 5 0
Macedonian 5 10 0 0 0
Polish 135 125 0 10 5
Russian 160 145 0 10 5
Serbian 60 50 0 10 5
Serbo-Croatian 10 5 0 5 0
Slovak 15 15 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 10 10 0 0 0
Ukrainian 75 70 0 5 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 5 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 410 385 0 25 5
Afrikaans 165 160 0 5 5
Danish 5 10 0 0 0
Dutch 70 60 0 5 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 150 140 0 15 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0 0
Swedish 10 10 0 5 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 0 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 25 25 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 3,595 3,325 0 80 185
Indo-Aryan languages 3,365 3,120 0 70 175
Bengali 240 215 5 15 10
Gujarati 1,075 1,010 0 10 50
Hindi 420 395 0 5 20
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 5 5 0 0 0
Marathi 65 60 0 0 5
Nepali 35 30 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 5 5 0 0 5
Punjabi (Panjabi) 425 395 0 5 30
Sindhi 20 15 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 50 50 0 0 5
Urdu 1,035 945 0 30 65
Iranian languages 210 190 0 15 10
Kurdish 10 10 0 0 0
Pashto 75 70 0 0 5
Persian (Farsi) 130 105 0 10 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 15 20 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 1,085 905 0 130 45
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 35 25 0 10 0
Portuguese 135 115 0 15 0
Romanian 110 80 0 30 5
Spanish 805 690 5 75 40
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 25 25 0 0 0
Kartvelian languages 25 25 0 0 5
Georgian 25 25 0 0 0
Korean 160 150 0 0 10
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 790 680 5 70 30
Akan (Twi) 70 70 0 5 0
Bamanankan 0 5 5 0 0
Edo 5 5 0 0 0
Ewe 25 20 0 5 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Ganda 20 15 0 0 0
Igbo 50 40 5 5 5
Lingala 5 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 30 10 0 15 0
Shona 115 110 0 5 5
Swahili 75 55 0 10 5
Wolof 10 5 5 10 0
Yoruba 100 100 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 285 250 0 15 20
Nilo-Saharan languages 75 70 0 5 5
Dinka 30 30 5 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 45 35 0 5 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 5 0 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 685 620 0 20 40
Chinese languages 675 615 0 15 40
Cantonese 120 115 0 5 5
Hakka 5 10 0 0 0
Mandarin 340 300 0 5 30
Min Dong 5 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 10 10 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 195 180 0 5 10
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 10 10 0 5 0
Burmese 5 0 0 0 0
Karenic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Tibetan 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 5 0
Tai-Kadai languages 50 50 0 5 0
Lao 10 10 0 0 0
Thai 40 40 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 35 35 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 20 20 0 5 0
Uyghur 5 5 0 0 0
Uzbek 5 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Uralic languages 65 50 0 5 5
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 10 5 0 0 0
Hungarian 55 45 0 5 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 30 15 0 10 0
Multiple responses 1,210 980 5 215 10
English and French 140 35 0 100 0
English and non-official language 970 915 0 45 5
French and non-official language 75 20 5 50 0
English, French and non-official language 30 10 0 20 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) – Wood Buffalo, SM

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 14.4%.
  • 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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