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 Perth
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 75,630 72,000 15 3,005 605
Single responses 75,070 71,540 10 2,920 605
Official languages 67,520 64,790 10 2,710 15
English 67,125 64,735 5 2,375 10
French 390 55 10 330 0
Non-official languages 7,555 6,750 5 215 590
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 5 5 0 0 0
Woods Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 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 0 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 5 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) 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 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 7,555 6,745 5 215 590
Afro-Asiatic languages 95 60 0 5 35
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 0 0 0 0 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 5 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 95 60 0 5 30
Amharic 5 5 0 0 0
Arabic 70 40 0 5 30
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0 0
Maltese 5 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 10 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 20 20 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 5 0 0 0
Vietnamese 20 20 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 105 105 0 0 0
Bikol 5 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 5 5 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 5 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 0 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 90 90 0 0 0
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Creole languages 10 10 0 0 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 5 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 5 0 0 5 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 50 50 0 0 0
Kannada 5 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 25 25 0 0 0
Tamil 10 10 0 0 0
Telugu 10 10 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 6,695 6,020 0 185 490
Albanian 10 10 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 330 305 0 25 5
Baltic languages 10 10 0 5 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 5 0 0 0
Slavic languages 320 295 0 25 0
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0 0
Croatian 25 20 0 5 0
Czech 15 10 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 5 0 0 0
Polish 135 115 0 10 5
Russian 35 35 0 0 0
Serbian 30 25 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0 0
Slovak 15 15 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 25 20 0 0 0
Ukrainian 35 30 0 5 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages 10 10 0 5 0
Scottish Gaelic 5 5 0 5 0
Welsh 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 5,330 4,805 0 100 425
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0 0
Danish 30 30 0 0 0
Dutch 1,110 1,060 0 35 15
Frisian 25 20 0 0 0
German 4,075 3,615 0 50 415
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 5 0 0 0
Swedish 15 15 0 0 5
Vlaams (Flemish) 65 55 0 10 0
Yiddish 0 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Greek 80 70 0 5 5
Indo-Iranian languages 290 265 0 10 20
Indo-Aryan languages 270 250 0 5 20
Bengali 10 10 0 0 0
Gujarati 80 65 0 0 5
Hindi 40 40 0 0 5
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 5 0 0 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 5 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 105 95 0 0 10
Sindhi 5 10 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 25 20 0 0 0
Iranian languages 25 15 0 5 5
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 20 10 0 5 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 645 555 5 50 35
Catalan 5 0 0 0 0
Italian 215 190 5 20 5
Portuguese 130 110 0 5 15
Romanian 30 20 0 0 0
Spanish 265 235 0 20 15
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Japanese 55 35 0 0 10
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 65 60 0 0 5
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 20 20 0 5 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 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 0 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 0 5 0 0 0
Swahili 5 5 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 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 15 5 0 5 5
American Sign Language 5 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 10 5 0 5 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 165 130 0 10 25
Chinese languages 165 125 0 5 25
Cantonese 65 45 0 5 15
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 80 65 0 5 10
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 5 5 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 15 15 0 0 0
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 5 5 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0
Karenic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Tibetan 5 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 155 130 0 5 15
Lao 120 105 0 5 10
Thai 30 20 0 0 5
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0 0
Uyghur 5 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Uralic languages 85 80 0 5 0
Estonian 5 0 0 0 0
Finnish 10 10 0 0 0
Hungarian 70 65 0 0 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 555 465 0 90 5
English and French 75 25 0 50 0
English and non-official language 460 435 0 25 0
French and non-official language 10 0 0 10 0
English, French and non-official language 10 0 0 5 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) – Perth

  • 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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