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 Division No. 6
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 1 259,835 242,605 210 14,315 2,700
Single responses 255,050 238,560 195 13,615 2,675
Official languages 215,805 203,235 155 12,360 55
English 212,935 202,900 5 9,970 55
French 2,865 330 150 2,385 0
Non-official languages 39,245 35,325 40 1,255 2,620
Aboriginal languages 670 645 0 25 0
Algonquian languages 515 495 0 20 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 395 380 0 15 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 70 70 0 0 0
Southern East Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Swampy Cree 10 10 0 0 0
Woods Cree 20 25 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 285 275 0 10 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 120 115 0 5 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 120 115 0 5 5
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Ottawa (Odawa) 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Athabaskan languages 10 10 0 0 0
Northern Athabaskan languages 10 10 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 10 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 5 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 5 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 5 5 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 25 20 0 5 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 110 110 0 0 0
Dakota 95 100 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0 0
Siouan languages, n.i.e. 10 10 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. 5 0 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 38,575 34,680 40 1,235 2,615
Afro-Asiatic languages 2,645 1,925 5 125 595
Berber languages 10 0 0 5 0
Kabyle 0 0 0 5 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Cushitic languages 580 500 0 10 70
Bilen 25 20 0 0 0
Oromo 45 35 0 0 10
Somali 500 435 0 10 55
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 5
Semitic languages 2,055 1,420 5 105 525
Amharic 130 130 0 0 5
Arabic 1,580 995 0 100 480
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 20 25 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 40 35 0 5 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 280 240 0 0 45
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 1,195 990 0 35 165
Khmer (Cambodian) 45 40 0 0 5
Vietnamese 1,150 950 0 30 160
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 6,365 6,240 0 80 50
Bikol 20 25 0 0 0
Cebuano 485 480 0 0 5
Fijian 5 5 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 65 60 0 0 5
Ilocano 345 340 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 25 25 0 0 5
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 50 50 0 0 0
Pangasinan 15 20 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 5,260 5,145 0 75 40
Waray-Waray 10 10 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 80 80 0 0 5
Creole languages 70 25 0 40 0
Haitian Creole 5 5 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 40 5 0 25 5
Creole languages, n.i.e. 30 15 0 10 0
Dravidian languages 640 620 0 5 15
Kannada 20 20 0 0 0
Malayalam 315 305 0 0 5
Tamil 155 145 0 5 5
Telugu 150 140 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 19,740 18,305 0 650 780
Albanian 200 190 0 5 10
Armenian 15 15 0 5 5
Balto-Slavic languages 3,915 3,690 0 125 100
Baltic languages 60 55 0 5 0
Latvian 25 20 0 5 0
Lithuanian 35 35 0 0 0
Slavic languages 3,860 3,635 0 125 100
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 65 65 0 0 0
Bulgarian 20 20 0 0 0
Croatian 200 190 0 5 5
Czech 45 40 0 5 0
Macedonian 10 5 0 0 0
Polish 535 505 0 25 10
Russian 1,045 945 0 40 60
Serbian 145 140 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 25 25 0 0 0
Slovak 30 25 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 35 35 0 0 0
Ukrainian 1,690 1,620 0 40 25
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Celtic languages 10 10 0 5 0
Scottish Gaelic 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages 3,470 3,365 0 90 15
Afrikaans 165 165 0 5 0
Danish 45 45 0 0 0
Dutch 295 280 0 15 0
Frisian 0 5 0 0 0
German 2,870 2,785 0 65 15
Icelandic 15 15 0 0 0
Norwegian 40 40 0 0 0
Swedish 15 20 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 10 5 0 5 0
Yiddish 5 10 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 550 515 0 20 10
Indo-Iranian languages 9,500 8,720 0 195 585
Indo-Aryan languages 8,620 7,930 0 175 515
Bengali 995 900 0 45 45
Gujarati 1,235 1,165 0 0 65
Hindi 755 720 0 10 20
Kashmiri 10 10 0 0 0
Konkani 20 20 0 5 0
Marathi 60 60 0 5 5
Nepali 395 295 0 5 95
Oriya (Odia) 5 10 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 2,500 2,310 0 35 160
Sindhi 20 20 0 5 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 40 40 0 0 0
Urdu 2,580 2,385 0 70 130
Iranian languages 780 700 0 20 60
Kurdish 70 60 0 0 10
Pashto 220 195 0 5 20
Persian (Farsi) 490 445 0 20 30
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 100 90 0 0 5
Italic (Romance) languages 2,070 1,805 0 205 65
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 395 355 0 35 0
Portuguese 125 110 0 15 0
Romanian 280 245 0 25 5
Spanish 1,275 1,095 0 125 55
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 105 95 0 5 5
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 615 555 0 15 50
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 1,010 765 30 150 70
Akan (Twi) 55 50 0 0 5
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 30 25 0 5 0
Ewe 30 30 0 0 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 5 0 0 5 0
Ga 10 5 0 0 0
Ganda 25 25 0 0 0
Igbo 120 120 0 0 0
Lingala 15 5 0 10 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 100 15 5 45 35
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 45 20 5 20 0
Shona 25 25 0 0 0
Swahili 200 130 15 25 30
Wolof 20 5 5 15 0
Yoruba 165 160 0 5 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 165 145 0 15 5
Nilo-Saharan languages 130 120 0 0 10
Dinka 60 60 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 70 60 0 0 10
Sign languages 35 20 0 0 15
American Sign Language 10 5 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 25 10 0 0 10
Sino-Tibetan languages 5,065 4,145 5 100 825
Chinese languages 4,570 3,750 0 95 725
Cantonese 1,335 1,045 0 30 260
Hakka 15 10 0 0 5
Mandarin 2,715 2,285 0 60 370
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 105 80 0 5 15
Wu (Shanghainese) 25 10 0 0 15
Chinese, n.o.s. 380 320 0 5 60
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 500 395 0 0 105
Burmese 50 45 0 5 0
Karenic languages 420 325 0 0 90
Tibetan 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0 5
Tai-Kadai languages 235 215 0 5 15
Lao 165 150 0 5 10
Thai 70 65 0 0 5
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 155 140 0 5 10
Azerbaijani 5 0 0 5 0
Turkish 135 120 5 5 5
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 10 10 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Uralic languages 520 500 0 10 10
Estonian 0 5 0 0 0
Finnish 35 30 0 0 0
Hungarian 485 470 0 15 10
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 40 30 0 5 5
Multiple responses 4,785 4,050 10 695 25
English and French 545 140 0 405 0
English and non-official language 4,055 3,880 5 155 20
French and non-official language 100 15 10 70 5
English, French and non-official language 85 15 0 70 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) – Division No. 6

  • 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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