Mother Tongue (263), Single and Multiple Mother Tongue Responses (3), Age (7) and Sex (3) for the Population Excluding Institutional Residents of Canada, Provinces and Territories, Census Divisions and Census Subdivisions, 2016 Census - 100% Data

• Age (7): Total - Age
• Sex (3): Total - Sex

This table details mother tongue , single and multiple mother tongue responses , age and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Cowichan Valley

Mother Tongue (263)	Single and multiple mother tongue responses (3)
	Total - Single and multiple mother tongue responses^Footnote 1	Single mother tongue responses^Footnote 2	Multiple mother tongue responses^Footnote 3
Total - Mother tongue^Footnote 4	82,915	82,255	655
Official languages	77,515	76,855	655
English	76,495	75,860	635
French	1,185	995	190
Non-official languages	5,920	5,400	515
Aboriginal languages	445	380	65
Algonquian languages	5	5	0
Blackfoot	0	0	0
Cree-Montagnais languages	5	5	0
Atikamekw	0	0	0
Montagnais (Innu)	0	0	0
Moose Cree	0	0	0
Naskapi	0	0	0
Northern East Cree	0	0	0
Plains Cree	0	0	0
Southern East Cree	0	0	0
Swampy Cree	0	0	0
Woods Cree	0	0	0
Cree, n.o.s.	5	5	0
Eastern Algonquian languages	0	0	0
Malecite	0	0	0
Mi'kmaq	0	0	0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages	0	5	0
Algonquin	0	0	0
Ojibway	0	0	0
Oji-Cree	0	0	0
Ottawa (Odawa)	0	0	0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Athabaskan languages	0	0	0
Northern Athabaskan languages	0	0	0
Babine (Wetsuwet'en)	0	0	0
Beaver	0	0	0
Carrier	0	0	0
Chilcotin	0	0	0
Dene	0	0	0
Dogrib (Tlicho)	0	0	0
Gwich'in	0	0	0
Sarsi (Sarcee)	0	0	0
Sekani	0	0	0
Slavey-Hare languages	0	0	0
North Slavey (Hare)	0	0	0
South Slavey	0	0	0
Slavey, n.o.s.	0	0	0
Tahltan languages	0	0	0
Kaska (Nahani)	0	0	0
Tahltan	0	0	0
Tutchone languages	0	0	0
Northern Tutchone	0	0	0
Southern Tutchone	0	0	0
Athabaskan languages, n.i.e.	5	0	0
Haida	0	0	0
Inuit languages	10	5	0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun)	0	0	0
Inuktitut	5	5	0
Inuit languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Iroquoian languages	0	0	0
Cayuga	0	0	0
Mohawk	0	0	5
Oneida	0	0	0
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Kutenai	0	0	0
Michif	0	0	0
Salish languages	410	350	60
Comox	0	0	0
Halkomelem	370	320	50
Lillooet	0	0	0
Okanagan	0	0	0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin)	0	0	0
Squamish	0	0	0
Straits	0	0	5
Thompson (Ntlakapamux)	0	0	0
Salish languages, n.i.e.	30	30	0
Siouan languages	5	0	0
Dakota	0	0	0
Stoney	0	0	0
Siouan languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Tlingit	0	0	0
Tsimshian languages	5	5	0
Gitxsan (Gitksan)	0	0	0
Nisga'a	5	0	0
Tsimshian	0	0	0
Wakashan languages	15	10	0
Haisla	0	0	0
Heiltsuk	0	0	0
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala)	0	0	0
Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka)	5	5	0
Wakashan languages, n.i.e.	10	10	0
Aboriginal languages, n.o.s.	0	0	0
Non-Aboriginal languages	5,470	5,020	450
Afro-Asiatic languages	85	80	5
Berber languages	0	0	0
Kabyle	0	0	0
Berber languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Cushitic languages	5	0	0
Bilen	0	0	0
Oromo	5	0	0
Somali	5	0	0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Semitic languages	85	75	5
Amharic	0	0	0
Arabic	65	60	10
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic	0	0	0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic	0	0	0
Harari	0	0	0
Hebrew	10	10	0
Maltese	5	5	0
Tigrigna	0	0	0
Semitic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Austro-Asiatic languages	105	95	10
Khmer (Cambodian)	5	5	0
Vietnamese	100	85	5
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e	0	0	0
Austronesian languages	355	310	45
Bikol	5	0	0
Cebuano	20	20	5
Fijian	0	5	0
Hiligaynon	5	5	0
Ilocano	25	25	0
Malagasy	0	0	0
Malay	5	5	0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango)	0	0	0
Pangasinan	0	0	0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)	290	250	35
Waray-Waray	0	0	0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Creole languages	0	0	0
Haitian Creole	0	0	0
Creole, n.o.s.	5	5	0
Creole languages, n.i.e.	5	0	0
Dravidian languages	45	40	0
Kannada	0	0	0
Malayalam	30	25	5
Tamil	10	10	0
Telugu	5	0	0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Hmong-Mien languages	0	0	0
Indo-European languages	3,960	3,655	305
Albanian	5	0	0
Armenian	5	0	0
Balto-Slavic languages	550	510	40
Baltic languages	15	20	0
Latvian	10	10	0
Lithuanian	5	5	0
Slavic languages	535	490	45
Belarusan	0	0	0
Bosnian	10	10	0
Bulgarian	5	5	0
Croatian	60	50	10
Czech	70	65	5
Macedonian	0	0	0
Polish	125	110	15
Russian	80	75	5
Serbian	15	15	0
Serbo-Croatian	5	5	0
Slovak	20	15	0
Slovene (Slovenian)	5	10	0
Ukrainian	135	125	15
Slavic languages, n.i.e.	5	10	0
Celtic languages	30	20	10
Scottish Gaelic	15	5	5
Welsh	15	15	0
Celtic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Germanic languages	2,130	2,005	125
Afrikaans	65	60	10
Danish	155	150	5
Dutch	680	650	40
Frisian	10	10	0
German	1,085	1,015	70
Icelandic	0	0	0
Norwegian	60	55	5
Swedish	55	55	0
Vlaams (Flemish)	15	15	0
Yiddish	5	0	0
Germanic languages, n.i.e.	5	5	0
Greek	40	40	5
Indo-Iranian languages	675	605	70
Indo-Aryan languages	635	575	65
Bengali	5	5	0
Gujarati	20	15	5
Hindi	30	25	5
Kashmiri	0	0	0
Konkani	0	0	0
Marathi	0	0	0
Nepali	10	5	0
Oriya (Odia)	0	0	0
Punjabi (Panjabi)	550	500	45
Sindhi	0	0	0
Sinhala (Sinhalese)	5	0	0
Urdu	20	15	0
Iranian languages	40	30	10
Kurdish	0	0	0
Pashto	10	5	0
Persian (Farsi)	35	30	5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.	5	0	0
Italic (Romance) languages	525	475	50
Catalan	0	0	0
Italian	180	155	25
Portuguese	70	60	10
Romanian	30	30	0
Spanish	250	230	20
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Japanese	100	85	20
Kartvelian languages	5	0	0
Georgian	0	0	0
Korean	145	130	20
Mongolic languages	0	0	0
Mongolian	0	0	0
Niger-Congo languages	20	5	10
Akan (Twi)	5	0	0
Bamanankan	0	0	0
Edo	0	0	0
Ewe	0	0	0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde)	0	0	0
Ga	0	0	0
Ganda	0	0	0
Igbo	5	0	0
Lingala	0	0	0
Rundi (Kirundi)	0	0	0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda)	0	0	0
Shona	0	5	0
Swahili	10	5	10
Wolof	0	0	0
Yoruba	0	0	0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Nilo-Saharan languages	0	0	0
Dinka	0	0	0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Sign languages	30	20	10
American Sign Language	10	10	5
Quebec Sign Language	0	0	0
Sign languages, n.i.e	15	10	5
Sino-Tibetan languages	365	355	10
Chinese languages	360	350	10
Cantonese	135	125	5
Hakka	0	5	0
Mandarin	160	160	0
Min Dong	0	0	0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese)	15	15	0
Wu (Shanghainese)	0	0	0
Chinese, n.o.s.	45	40	5
Chinese languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Tibeto-Burman languages	10	10	0
Burmese	0	0	0
Karenic languages	0	0	0
Tibetan	10	10	0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Tai-Kadai languages	20	20	0
Lao	0	0	0
Thai	20	25	0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e	0	0	0
Turkic languages	5	5	0
Azerbaijani	0	0	0
Turkish	5	5	0
Uyghur	0	0	0
Uzbek	0	0	0
Turkic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	5
Uralic languages	220	210	10
Estonian	10	5	0
Finnish	95	90	5
Hungarian	120	115	0
Uralic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Other languages, n.i.e.	5	5	0

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not applicable

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too unreliable to be published

Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

The category 'Total - Single and multiple mother tongue responses' indicates the number of respondents who reported each language, either as their only response, or in combination with another language. Total responses represent the sum of single mother tongue responses and multiple mother tongue responses received in the census.

Footnote 2

A single mother tongue response occurs when a respondent provides one language only.

Footnote 3

A multiple mother tongue response occurs when a respondent provides two or more languages.

Footnote 4

This is a total population count. The sum of the languages in this table is greater than the total population count because a person may report more than one language in the census.

n.i.e. = not included elsewhere
n.o.s. = not otherwise specified

Data quality note(s) – Cowichan Valley

• Incomplete enumeration flag
  Default. Not applicable.
• Short-form data quality flag
  Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 5.7%.
• 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-X2016060.