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 Waterloo
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 1 529,425 485,285 220 34,620 9,300
Single responses 519,345 477,125 205 32,745 9,265
Official languages 395,355 368,245 135 26,855 120
English 389,410 367,710 10 21,575 120
French 5,940 535 125 5,280 0
Non-official languages 123,990 108,880 75 5,890 9,140
Aboriginal languages 35 30 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 20 20 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 5 10 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 5 5 0 0 0
Woods Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0
Eastern Algonquian languages 0 5 0 0 0
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 10 5 0 0 0
Algonquin 5 5 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 10 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 0 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) 5 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 5 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 5 5 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 123,960 108,855 75 5,890 9,145
Afro-Asiatic languages 9,930 7,920 15 570 1,425
Berber languages 25 10 0 15 0
Kabyle 20 5 0 10 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 1,215 1,040 5 25 145
Bilen 100 70 0 0 25
Oromo 85 75 0 0 10
Somali 990 865 0 15 105
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 40 35 0 0 0
Semitic languages 8,685 6,870 5 530 1,275
Amharic 800 740 0 20 40
Arabic 6,560 4,940 5 490 1,120
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 280 245 0 0 30
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 35 35 0 0 0
Harari 10 10 0 0 0
Hebrew 115 105 0 5 0
Maltese 60 65 0 0 0
Tigrigna 780 695 0 15 70
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 40 35 0 0 5
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 3,955 3,300 5 100 550
Khmer (Cambodian) 265 225 0 10 30
Vietnamese 3,690 3,070 5 95 520
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 5 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 2,220 2,180 0 25 15
Bikol 10 10 0 0 0
Cebuano 110 110 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 45 45 0 0 0
Ilocano 115 120 0 0 0
Malagasy 5 0 0 0 0
Malay 170 160 0 0 5
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 10 10 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 1,710 1,680 0 20 5
Waray-Waray 10 10 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 35 30 0 5 0
Creole languages 155 100 5 55 5
Haitian Creole 5 5 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 80 35 0 45 5
Creole languages, n.i.e. 70 60 0 5 0
Dravidian languages 1,775 1,660 0 50 60
Kannada 85 80 0 5 5
Malayalam 620 585 0 10 25
Tamil 735 685 0 30 20
Telugu 320 295 0 10 10
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 485 435 0 10 40
Indo-European languages 84,715 75,075 45 4,320 5,270
Albanian 990 875 0 15 100
Armenian 650 505 0 85 60
Balto-Slavic languages 18,400 16,590 5 980 825
Baltic languages 165 155 0 15 5
Latvian 85 70 0 10 0
Lithuanian 85 80 0 5 0
Slavic languages 18,230 16,435 5 965 820
Belarusan 15 10 0 5 0
Bosnian 535 475 0 30 30
Bulgarian 145 130 0 20 0
Croatian 2,090 1,960 0 55 70
Czech 735 680 0 55 5
Macedonian 255 235 0 10 10
Polish 5,270 4,900 0 195 170
Russian 1,775 1,480 0 180 120
Serbian 5,065 4,440 0 305 325
Serbo-Croatian 515 465 0 25 25
Slovak 575 545 0 20 10
Slovene (Slovenian) 255 245 0 10 0
Ukrainian 785 675 0 55 50
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 210 195 0 5 5
Celtic languages 25 30 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 10 5 0 5 0
Welsh 15 15 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages 18,005 16,640 5 665 685
Afrikaans 110 100 0 5 0
Danish 180 170 0 5 0
Dutch 2,090 1,915 0 135 45
Frisian 35 35 0 0 0
German 15,400 14,270 5 485 640
Icelandic 5 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 35 30 0 0 0
Swedish 70 60 0 10 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 70 50 0 15 0
Yiddish 5 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 5 0
Greek 1,330 1,205 0 80 50
Indo-Iranian languages 19,605 17,280 15 750 1,565
Indo-Aryan languages 14,205 12,610 10 520 1,070
Bengali 915 840 0 40 30
Gujarati 2,770 2,425 0 75 265
Hindi 1,565 1,465 0 60 35
Kashmiri 5 5 0 0 0
Konkani 45 40 0 0 0
Marathi 155 145 0 5 5
Nepali 255 180 5 35 40
Oriya (Odia) 20 15 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 4,740 4,030 0 170 540
Sindhi 240 225 0 10 5
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 250 230 0 10 10
Urdu 3,240 2,995 0 105 135
Iranian languages 5,190 4,490 5 225 480
Kurdish 640 540 0 10 85
Pashto 1,015 900 5 35 75
Persian (Farsi) 3,540 3,050 5 170 315
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 210 185 0 15 15
Italic (Romance) languages 25,700 21,955 20 1,740 1,985
Catalan 15 15 0 0 0
Italian 1,915 1,675 0 200 30
Portuguese 9,780 8,280 10 280 1,210
Romanian 5,560 4,515 5 760 280
Spanish 8,435 7,465 5 495 465
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Japanese 425 365 0 20 45
Kartvelian languages 5 5 0 0 0
Georgian 5 5 0 0 5
Korean 2,090 1,865 0 70 160
Mongolic languages 5 5 0 5 0
Mongolian 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 660 540 10 105 10
Akan (Twi) 65 60 0 5 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 10 10 0 0 0
Ewe 20 10 0 5 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 5 10 0 0 0
Ganda 10 15 0 0 0
Igbo 35 35 0 0 0
Lingala 5 0 0 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 20 0 0 10 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 40 25 0 10 0
Shona 90 90 0 0 0
Swahili 145 105 0 30 10
Wolof 5 5 0 5 0
Yoruba 75 80 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 135 105 5 30 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 290 275 0 5 10
Dinka 10 10 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 285 265 0 5 10
Sign languages 120 80 5 5 35
American Sign Language 70 60 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 50 20 0 0 30
Sino-Tibetan languages 13,055 11,340 5 375 1,340
Chinese languages 12,680 11,030 0 370 1,280
Cantonese 2,200 1,905 0 80 225
Hakka 80 60 0 5 15
Mandarin 9,395 8,210 0 265 930
Min Dong 5 0 0 0 5
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 240 205 0 10 30
Wu (Shanghainese) 105 80 0 5 15
Chinese, n.o.s. 640 565 0 10 65
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 375 310 0 5 60
Burmese 140 125 0 5 15
Karenic languages 125 85 0 5 35
Tibetan 5 5 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 105 95 0 5 5
Tai-Kadai languages 1,150 1,030 0 30 90
Lao 1,025 910 0 30 85
Thai 125 120 0 0 5
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 910 825 0 45 45
Azerbaijani 70 65 0 0 5
Turkish 785 705 0 40 35
Uyghur 15 15 0 0 0
Uzbek 15 15 0 5 5
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 30 25 0 0 5
Uralic languages 1,960 1,810 0 100 50
Estonian 100 90 0 15 5
Finnish 150 140 0 10 0
Hungarian 1,705 1,580 0 80 45
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 60 55 0 5 0
Multiple responses 10,075 8,155 10 1,875 35
English and French 1,255 290 0 955 0
English and non-official language 8,365 7,745 0 580 35
French and non-official language 230 65 10 155 0
English, French and non-official language 230 45 5 185 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) – Waterloo

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 3.6%.
  • 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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