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 Saanich, DM
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 1 112,875 101,080 30 9,895 1,865
Single responses 110,895 99,535 30 9,475 1,855
Official languages 88,580 80,195 15 8,350 30
English 87,270 80,105 0 7,135 30
French 1,320 90 15 1,215 0
Non-official languages 22,310 19,340 20 1,130 1,825
Aboriginal languages 30 25 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 10 10 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 5 5 0 5 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 5 5 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 5 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 5 5 0 0 0
Algonquin 5 5 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 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 5 0 0 0
Dogrib (Tlicho) 0 0 0 0 0
Gwich'in 5 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 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 10 10 0 0 0
Comox 5 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 5 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 5 10 0 0 0
Haisla 0 0 0 0 0
Heiltsuk 0 5 0 0 0
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala) 0 0 0 0 0
Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka) 0 5 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 22,285 19,310 15 1,125 1,825
Afro-Asiatic languages 745 595 0 90 60
Berber languages 10 0 0 10 0
Kabyle 0 0 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 10 0 5 5 0
Cushitic languages 35 40 0 0 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 10 10 0 0 0
Somali 30 30 0 5 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 695 555 0 80 60
Amharic 35 35 0 0 0
Arabic 570 445 5 70 50
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 5 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 45 40 0 5 0
Maltese 15 15 0 0 0
Tigrigna 30 25 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 510 470 0 10 35
Khmer (Cambodian) 50 50 0 0 0
Vietnamese 460 420 5 10 30
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 1,465 1,435 0 20 10
Bikol 10 5 0 0 0
Cebuano 85 85 0 0 5
Fijian 5 5 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 10 10 0 0 0
Ilocano 75 70 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 35 35 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 5 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 1,225 1,200 0 15 5
Waray-Waray 5 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 15 20 0 0 0
Creole languages 15 5 0 10 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 10 0 0 5 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 170 160 0 10 0
Kannada 5 10 0 0 0
Malayalam 40 40 0 0 0
Tamil 75 65 0 5 0
Telugu 50 45 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 9,850 8,645 5 740 455
Albanian 45 40 0 0 0
Armenian 15 5 0 10 5
Balto-Slavic languages 1,445 1,295 0 115 40
Baltic languages 30 30 0 5 0
Latvian 10 10 0 0 0
Lithuanian 20 20 0 0 0
Slavic languages 1,415 1,265 0 105 40
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 45 40 0 5 0
Croatian 230 220 0 10 0
Czech 90 90 0 5 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0 0
Polish 315 290 0 25 0
Russian 315 270 0 30 20
Serbian 100 80 0 15 5
Serbo-Croatian 40 40 0 0 0
Slovak 35 25 0 10 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 35 30 0 5 0
Ukrainian 185 165 0 10 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Celtic languages 25 20 0 10 0
Scottish Gaelic 10 5 0 5 0
Welsh 15 10 0 5 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages 2,265 1,995 5 265 10
Afrikaans 60 50 0 5 0
Danish 105 95 0 10 0
Dutch 600 525 0 75 0
Frisian 5 5 0 0 0
German 1,355 1,190 5 160 5
Icelandic 10 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 65 60 0 5 0
Swedish 45 40 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 10 10 0 0 5
Yiddish 15 10 0 5 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 105 95 0 10 5
Indo-Iranian languages 3,700 3,275 0 95 340
Indo-Aryan languages 3,305 2,920 5 65 315
Bengali 100 90 0 5 0
Gujarati 65 60 0 0 0
Hindi 295 285 0 5 10
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 5 5 0 0 0
Marathi 20 20 0 5 0
Nepali 40 40 0 5 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 2,615 2,275 0 45 295
Sindhi 20 15 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 35 30 0 0 0
Urdu 115 110 0 0 10
Iranian languages 395 350 0 25 20
Kurdish 5 5 0 0 0
Pashto 20 20 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 370 325 0 25 20
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 2,250 1,925 5 250 70
Catalan 0 0 0 5 0
Italian 450 390 0 50 5
Portuguese 685 615 0 45 20
Romanian 130 85 0 40 5
Spanish 985 825 0 115 40
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 635 580 0 20 30
Kartvelian languages 5 5 0 0 5
Georgian 0 0 0 0 5
Korean 785 665 0 40 80
Mongolic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 105 75 0 20 5
Akan (Twi) 0 5 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 0 0 0 5 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 5 0 0 0 0
Ganda 0 5 0 0 0
Igbo 5 5 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 10 0 0 5 0
Shona 5 0 0 0 0
Swahili 30 30 0 5 0
Wolof 10 0 0 5 0
Yoruba 10 10 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 30 25 0 5 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 5 10 0 0 0
Dinka 5 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Sign languages 30 15 0 0 10
American Sign Language 10 5 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 20 10 0 0 10
Sino-Tibetan languages 7,500 6,225 0 140 1,130
Chinese languages 7,455 6,190 5 140 1,130
Cantonese 3,290 2,625 0 50 615
Hakka 35 30 0 0 0
Mandarin 3,605 3,070 0 85 450
Min Dong 5 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 140 120 0 0 20
Wu (Shanghainese) 80 70 0 0 10
Chinese, n.o.s. 300 270 0 5 30
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 5
Tibeto-Burman languages 40 40 0 0 0
Burmese 20 15 0 0 5
Karenic languages 10 5 0 0 0
Tibetan 10 10 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 85 85 0 5 0
Lao 5 5 0 0 0
Thai 80 80 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 5 5 0 0 0
Turkic languages 55 45 0 5 0
Azerbaijani 5 5 0 0 0
Turkish 50 40 0 5 0
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Uralic languages 320 295 0 15 5
Estonian 10 10 0 0 0
Finnish 80 70 0 0 0
Hungarian 230 210 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 1,980 1,550 0 420 10
English and French 295 55 0 245 0
English and non-official language 1,600 1,480 5 110 10
French and non-official language 50 10 0 40 5
English, French and non-official language 30 5 0 30 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) – Saanich, DM

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 4.0%.
  • 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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