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 Prescott and Russell
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 88,265 18,590 10,080 59,520 80
Single responses 86,290 18,415 10,030 57,765 80
Official languages 83,595 16,930 9,945 56,705 10
English 27,980 16,750 30 11,190 5
French 55,615 170 9,920 45,520 5
Non-official languages 2,695 1,485 80 1,060 70
Aboriginal languages 15 10 5 0 0
Algonquian languages 5 5 0 5 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 0 0 0 0
Woods Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 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 0 5 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 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 5 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 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 10 10 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 10 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages 5 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 2,675 1,470 75 1,055 70
Afro-Asiatic languages 175 90 10 80 5
Berber languages 0 0 0 5 0
Kabyle 5 0 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 170 90 10 75 5
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 170 85 5 70 5
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 0 0 0 0
Maltese 5 0 0 5 0
Tigrigna 5 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 15 10 5 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 15 10 5 5 0
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 85 75 0 15 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 5 5 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 0 5 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 5 0 0 0
Malagasy 5 0 0 5 0
Malay 10 5 0 5 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 60 50 0 5 0
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Creole languages 85 10 20 55 0
Haitian Creole 5 0 0 5 0
Creole, n.o.s. 75 5 15 55 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 40 25 0 15 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0 0
Tamil 35 20 0 15 5
Telugu 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 1,980 1,105 30 805 40
Albanian 5 5 0 0 0
Armenian 10 0 0 10 0
Balto-Slavic languages 365 210 5 135 10
Baltic languages 10 5 0 5 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 10 5 0 5 0
Slavic languages 350 205 10 135 5
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 10 5 0 5 0
Croatian 20 10 0 5 5
Czech 25 15 0 10 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 110 70 0 40 0
Russian 85 50 5 30 0
Serbian 35 20 0 15 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0 0
Slovak 10 5 0 10 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 5 0 0 5 0
Ukrainian 50 20 0 20 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 840 515 5 305 10
Afrikaans 5 0 0 0 0
Danish 15 10 0 0 0
Dutch 215 155 0 65 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 575 340 5 220 10
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 20 5 0 10 0
Yiddish 0 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 95 40 0 50 5
Indo-Iranian languages 180 135 0 40 5
Indo-Aryan languages 165 125 0 35 0
Bengali 60 50 0 10 0
Gujarati 15 10 0 0 5
Hindi 10 10 0 0 0
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 5 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 15 5 0 5 0
Sindhi 5 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 45 35 0 15 0
Iranian languages 15 15 0 5 0
Kurdish 5 5 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 10 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 500 190 20 265 25
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 170 45 5 120 5
Portuguese 95 45 5 50 0
Romanian 35 5 0 20 0
Spanish 190 95 10 75 10
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 15 10 0 0 0
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 5 5 0 0 0
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 65 10 20 35 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 5 0 0 0
Lingala 10 0 5 10 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 15 0 5 10 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 5 0 0 0 0
Swahili 15 0 5 10 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 0 5 5 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Dinka 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages 10 0 5 0 5
American Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 10 0 0 5 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 10 0 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 85 65 0 10 10
Chinese languages 90 65 0 10 10
Cantonese 25 25 0 5 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 45 35 0 5 5
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 5 0 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 5 5 0 0 0
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0
Karenic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Tibetan 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 15 10 0 10 0
Lao 5 0 0 5 0
Thai 10 5 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 35 25 0 5 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 30 20 0 10 5
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 5 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Uralic languages 60 40 0 20 0
Estonian 0 5 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 5 0
Hungarian 55 35 0 20 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Multiple responses 1,980 175 50 1,750 5
English and French 1,630 55 25 1,555 0
English and non-official language 175 120 0 60 0
French and non-official language 120 0 25 85 5
English, French and non-official language 55 0 0 55 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) – Prescott and Russell

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 3.9%.
  • 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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