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 New Westminster, CY
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 70,230 62,930 40 5,425 1,835
Single responses 68,080 61,095 40 5,130 1,820
Official languages 43,710 39,670 20 4,000 20
English 42,925 39,585 0 3,325 20
French 785 85 20 680 0
Non-official languages 24,370 21,425 20 1,125 1,805
Aboriginal languages 25 20 0 5 0
Algonquian languages 5 5 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 5 5 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 5 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 5 0 5 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 0 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 5 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 5 0 0 0
Northern Athabaskan languages 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 24,345 21,400 15 1,125 1,810
Afro-Asiatic languages 820 655 0 90 70
Berber languages 5 0 0 5 0
Kabyle 5 0 0 5 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 40 40 0 0 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 30 25 0 0 0
Somali 10 10 0 0 5
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 770 610 5 90 70
Amharic 115 110 0 0 5
Arabic 550 410 0 85 55
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 5 0 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 10 10 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 85 80 0 5 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 290 260 0 15 20
Khmer (Cambodian) 15 10 0 0 0
Vietnamese 280 250 0 15 20
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 3,710 3,635 0 35 35
Bikol 10 10 0 0 0
Cebuano 175 175 0 0 0
Fijian 10 10 0 0 5
Hiligaynon 55 55 0 0 5
Ilocano 160 150 0 5 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 145 135 0 5 5
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 35 35 0 0 0
Pangasinan 15 15 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 3,075 3,025 5 25 25
Waray-Waray 5 10 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 0 0
Creole languages 30 20 0 10 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 5 0 0 5 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 5 0
Dravidian languages 145 140 0 5 5
Kannada 0 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 15 15 0 0 0
Tamil 100 95 0 5 0
Telugu 25 30 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 11,230 9,765 10 755 700
Albanian 75 70 0 0 0
Armenian 10 10 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 2,980 2,635 0 220 125
Baltic languages 30 30 0 0 0
Latvian 20 20 0 0 0
Lithuanian 15 10 0 0 0
Slavic languages 2,955 2,605 0 220 125
Belarusan 5 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 70 70 0 5 0
Bulgarian 225 175 0 40 10
Croatian 185 165 0 10 5
Czech 95 95 0 0 0
Macedonian 20 20 0 0 0
Polish 455 415 0 35 5
Russian 1,040 905 0 65 65
Serbian 455 390 0 55 10
Serbo-Croatian 95 85 0 5 10
Slovak 100 95 0 0 5
Slovene (Slovenian) 5 5 0 5 5
Ukrainian 185 170 0 5 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Celtic languages 15 10 0 5 0
Scottish Gaelic 5 5 0 5 0
Welsh 5 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages 990 890 0 95 5
Afrikaans 30 25 0 0 0
Danish 55 50 0 0 0
Dutch 240 215 0 30 0
Frisian 5 5 0 0 0
German 585 530 0 50 5
Icelandic 5 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 25 25 0 0 0
Swedish 40 40 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 10 5 0 5 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 90 80 0 10 0
Indo-Iranian languages 4,275 3,720 5 95 455
Indo-Aryan languages 3,435 3,020 5 65 345
Bengali 130 115 0 10 5
Gujarati 140 135 0 5 5
Hindi 540 520 0 15 10
Kashmiri 5 5 0 0 0
Konkani 5 0 0 0 0
Marathi 15 15 0 5 0
Nepali 20 20 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 10 10 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 2,410 2,050 0 30 320
Sindhi 15 15 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 50 40 0 0 5
Urdu 100 90 0 5 0
Iranian languages 830 690 0 30 110
Kurdish 55 45 0 0 10
Pashto 45 40 0 0 5
Persian (Farsi) 720 600 0 30 90
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 2,795 2,350 10 330 110
Catalan 0 5 0 0 0
Italian 325 295 5 25 0
Portuguese 460 420 0 30 15
Romanian 740 535 0 165 35
Spanish 1,265 1,095 5 110 60
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Japanese 495 470 0 5 20
Kartvelian languages 10 10 0 0 0
Georgian 10 10 0 0 0
Korean 1,245 1,055 0 25 160
Mongolic languages 10 15 0 0 0
Mongolian 10 10 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 160 140 0 20 0
Akan (Twi) 45 40 0 5 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 5 5 0 0 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Ganda 10 10 0 0 0
Igbo 10 15 0 0 0
Lingala 5 0 0 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 5 5 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 5 5 0 0 0
Swahili 25 25 0 5 5
Wolof 5 0 0 5 0
Yoruba 5 10 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 40 35 0 5 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 20 20 0 0 0
Dinka 10 10 0 5 5
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 0
Sign languages 25 15 0 0 15
American Sign Language 20 10 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 15 10 0 0 10
Sino-Tibetan languages 5,560 4,660 0 125 770
Chinese languages 5,515 4,615 5 130 770
Cantonese 2,100 1,750 0 45 310
Hakka 40 40 0 0 5
Mandarin 3,015 2,530 0 60 420
Min Dong 5 5 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 140 120 0 0 15
Wu (Shanghainese) 80 60 0 5 15
Chinese, n.o.s. 130 115 0 5 5
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 50 45 0 0 5
Burmese 10 10 0 0 0
Karenic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Tibetan 40 35 0 0 5
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 95 90 0 0 5
Lao 10 5 0 0 0
Thai 85 80 0 0 5
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 5 5 0 0 0
Turkic languages 125 115 5 5 0
Azerbaijani 30 25 0 0 0
Turkish 75 70 0 5 5
Uyghur 5 5 0 0 0
Uzbek 10 10 5 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Uralic languages 335 305 0 25 5
Estonian 15 20 0 0 0
Finnish 60 55 0 5 0
Hungarian 260 235 0 15 5
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 30 25 0 0 5
Multiple responses 2,145 1,840 5 295 10
English and French 155 40 0 115 0
English and non-official language 1,895 1,775 0 115 10
French and non-official language 60 15 0 40 0
English, French and non-official language 45 10 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) – New Westminster, CY

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 5.0%.
  • 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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