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 Peterborough
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 1 135,995 126,475 25 9,210 285
Single responses 135,060 125,855 20 8,895 285
Official languages 127,770 119,320 20 8,400 30
English 126,325 119,170 5 7,125 30
French 1,445 155 15 1,275 0
Non-official languages 7,295 6,535 5 495 260
Aboriginal languages 115 110 0 10 0
Algonquian languages 105 100 0 10 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 15 15 0 0 0
Atikamekw 5 0 0 0 0
Montagnais (Innu) 0 0 0 0 0
Moose Cree 0 5 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 10 0 0 0
Eastern Algonquian languages 5 5 0 5 0
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 10 5 0 0 0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 85 80 0 5 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 85 85 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 5 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 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 5 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 5 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 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. 0 5 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 7,180 6,430 5 490 260
Afro-Asiatic languages 340 265 0 40 40
Berber languages 0 0 0 0 0
Kabyle 0 0 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 25 25 0 5 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 25 25 0 5 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 315 240 0 35 35
Amharic 10 10 0 0 0
Arabic 280 205 5 35 40
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 10 5 0 0 0
Maltese 20 20 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 190 160 0 10 20
Khmer (Cambodian) 65 55 0 0 10
Vietnamese 125 110 0 10 15
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 255 250 0 0 0
Bikol 5 5 0 0 0
Cebuano 45 45 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 5 5 0 0 0
Ilocano 15 15 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 185 175 0 5 0
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Creole languages 5 5 0 0 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 0 5 0 0 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 155 145 0 10 0
Kannada 5 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 40 35 0 5 0
Tamil 70 65 0 10 0
Telugu 35 30 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 4,955 4,490 0 365 100
Albanian 85 60 0 5 10
Armenian 5 0 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 1,075 985 0 70 20
Baltic languages 45 45 0 0 0
Latvian 30 30 0 0 0
Lithuanian 15 15 0 5 0
Slavic languages 1,035 940 0 70 20
Belarusan 0 0 0 5 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 20 25 0 5 0
Croatian 30 30 0 5 0
Czech 90 85 0 5 0
Macedonian 20 20 0 0 0
Polish 545 490 0 35 20
Russian 120 110 0 10 5
Serbian 30 25 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0 0
Slovak 25 25 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 20 25 0 0 0
Ukrainian 115 105 0 5 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 25 20 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 15 10 0 0 0
Welsh 10 10 0 5 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 1,795 1,685 0 105 0
Afrikaans 15 20 0 0 0
Danish 55 50 0 0 0
Dutch 660 620 0 35 0
Frisian 25 25 0 0 0
German 970 905 0 60 5
Icelandic 0 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 15 10 0 0 0
Swedish 35 30 0 5 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 15 10 0 5 0
Yiddish 10 10 0 5 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 120 105 0 10 5
Indo-Iranian languages 865 785 0 35 40
Indo-Aryan languages 690 640 0 30 25
Bengali 65 55 0 5 5
Gujarati 205 190 0 5 10
Hindi 115 115 0 0 0
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 15 15 0 0 0
Marathi 10 10 0 0 0
Nepali 5 10 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 140 125 0 10 5
Sindhi 10 5 0 5 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 10 0 5 0
Urdu 120 115 0 5 5
Iranian languages 175 145 0 10 15
Kurdish 10 10 0 0 0
Pashto 30 25 0 5 5
Persian (Farsi) 135 105 0 10 15
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 995 850 0 125 25
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 395 340 0 45 10
Portuguese 150 125 0 20 0
Romanian 75 55 0 15 0
Spanish 375 320 0 35 10
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Japanese 35 30 0 0 0
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 200 175 0 10 20
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 65 60 0 5 0
Akan (Twi) 0 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 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 5 10 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 10 15 0 0 0
Swahili 15 15 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 15 15 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 10 5 0 0 0
Dinka 5 5 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Sign languages 40 20 0 0 20
American Sign Language 20 10 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 25 5 0 0 20
Sino-Tibetan languages 625 545 0 25 60
Chinese languages 605 520 0 25 60
Cantonese 205 170 0 10 20
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 320 280 0 10 30
Min Dong 5 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 10 10 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 10 5 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 55 50 0 0 5
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 20 20 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0
Karenic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Tibetan 25 25 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 20 20 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 20 15 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 15 15 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 5 0 0 0 0
Turkish 10 10 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 265 240 0 20 0
Estonian 35 30 0 0 0
Finnish 90 85 0 5 0
Hungarian 140 125 0 15 5
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 930 620 5 310 0
English and French 320 80 0 230 0
English and non-official language 580 530 0 50 0
French and non-official language 20 5 0 15 0
English, French and non-official language 20 5 0 15 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) – Peterborough

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 4.6%.
  • 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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