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 Cambridge, 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 1 128,600 119,370 35 7,135 2,060
Single responses 126,285 117,480 30 6,720 2,050
Official languages 103,260 97,435 20 5,780 20
English 101,675 97,305 0 4,355 20
French 1,580 135 20 1,430 0
Non-official languages 23,025 20,045 15 940 2,030
Aboriginal languages 5 5 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 5 5 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 5 0 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 5 0 0 0
Woods Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0
Eastern Algonquian languages 5 0 0 0 0
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 5 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 5 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 5 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 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 0 0 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 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 23,020 20,040 15 940 2,030
Afro-Asiatic languages 965 790 0 75 95
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 60 60 0 0 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 60 60 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 900 730 0 75 95
Amharic 45 40 0 5 0
Arabic 770 615 0 70 90
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 40 30 0 0 5
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 5 5 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 10 5 0 0 0
Maltese 25 30 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 10 0 0 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 800 670 5 10 120
Khmer (Cambodian) 15 10 0 0 5
Vietnamese 790 660 0 10 115
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 720 705 0 5 5
Bikol 5 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 45 45 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 15 15 0 0 0
Ilocano 40 45 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 35 35 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 5 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 565 555 0 5 5
Waray-Waray 5 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Creole languages 35 25 0 10 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 20 15 0 5 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 355 330 0 10 10
Kannada 5 10 0 0 0
Malayalam 155 150 0 5 5
Tamil 140 130 0 5 5
Telugu 45 45 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 10 10 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 18,035 15,665 5 755 1,605
Albanian 55 55 0 0 5
Armenian 290 240 0 40 10
Balto-Slavic languages 2,255 2,045 0 105 110
Baltic languages 35 35 0 0 0
Latvian 15 10 0 0 0
Lithuanian 20 20 0 0 0
Slavic languages 2,220 2,010 0 100 105
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 35 35 0 0 0
Bulgarian 25 25 0 0 0
Croatian 275 260 0 15 5
Czech 150 135 0 10 5
Macedonian 100 90 0 0 10
Polish 970 885 0 45 40
Russian 195 165 0 10 20
Serbian 165 155 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 20 20 0 0 0
Slovak 95 90 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 20 25 0 0 0
Ukrainian 165 130 0 5 35
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 5 5 0 0 0
Welsh 0 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 1,485 1,395 0 95 0
Afrikaans 40 35 0 0 0
Danish 20 25 0 0 0
Dutch 455 425 0 30 0
Frisian 15 10 0 0 0
German 920 865 0 55 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 10 5 0 0 0
Swedish 15 15 0 5 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 10 10 0 5 0
Yiddish 5 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 205 190 0 10 5
Indo-Iranian languages 5,420 4,700 5 180 530
Indo-Aryan languages 4,440 3,845 5 145 455
Bengali 60 60 0 0 0
Gujarati 1,295 1,085 0 25 190
Hindi 265 240 0 15 10
Kashmiri 0 5 0 0 0
Konkani 10 10 0 0 0
Marathi 20 20 0 5 0
Nepali 20 20 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 5 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 1,570 1,305 0 65 200
Sindhi 15 10 0 5 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 25 25 0 0 0
Urdu 1,150 1,055 0 35 60
Iranian languages 970 850 0 35 80
Kurdish 20 20 0 0 0
Pashto 710 620 0 20 65
Persian (Farsi) 235 205 0 15 15
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 8,325 7,045 0 325 945
Catalan 5 5 0 0 0
Italian 770 675 0 75 20
Portuguese 5,740 4,785 5 115 840
Romanian 380 315 0 50 15
Spanish 1,425 1,270 0 90 65
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 100 70 0 0 25
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 170 160 0 0 10
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 70 60 0 5 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 5 5 0 0 0
Ewe 5 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 5 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 5 0 0 0 0
Shona 15 15 0 0 0
Swahili 10 10 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 15 15 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 35 40 0 0 0
Dinka 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 40 40 0 0 0
Sign languages 35 30 0 0 5
American Sign Language 30 25 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 10 5 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 915 770 0 25 120
Chinese languages 910 765 0 25 120
Cantonese 340 285 0 10 40
Hakka 10 5 0 5 0
Mandarin 440 370 0 10 60
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 55 45 0 0 10
Wu (Shanghainese) 10 10 0 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 50 40 0 0 5
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 5 5 0 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0 0
Karenic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Tibetan 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 260 235 0 5 20
Lao 235 210 0 5 20
Thai 25 25 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 60 55 0 5 5
Azerbaijani 0 5 0 0 0
Turkish 50 45 0 5 0
Uyghur 10 10 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Uralic languages 460 430 0 20 10
Estonian 30 25 0 5 5
Finnish 50 45 0 5 0
Hungarian 380 360 0 10 5
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 2,315 1,890 0 410 5
English and French 310 60 0 250 0
English and non-official language 1,910 1,800 0 105 5
French and non-official language 45 15 0 20 0
English, French and non-official language 45 15 0 35 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) – Cambridge, CY

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 3.2%.
  • 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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