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 Oxford
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 1 109,720 104,695 30 4,570 435
Single responses 108,875 104,000 30 4,415 430
Official languages 99,290 95,185 20 4,075 15
English 98,190 95,025 0 3,150 15
French 1,100 160 20 920 0
Non-official languages 9,585 8,815 10 345 420
Aboriginal languages 15 10 0 5 0
Algonquian languages 5 5 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 0 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 5 5 0 0 0
Southern East Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Swampy Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Woods Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 5 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 5 5 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 0 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) 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. 5 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 5 0 0 0
Cayuga 0 0 0 0 0
Mohawk 0 0 0 0 0
Oneida 5 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 9,575 8,805 10 340 415
Afro-Asiatic languages 125 100 0 10 10
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 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 120 100 0 10 15
Amharic 5 0 0 0 0
Arabic 100 75 0 5 10
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 5 5 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 5 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 5 0 0 0
Maltese 10 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 5 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 180 165 0 0 10
Khmer (Cambodian) 15 15 0 0 5
Vietnamese 165 150 0 0 10
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 150 145 0 5 0
Bikol 5 5 0 0 0
Cebuano 10 10 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 0 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 15 15 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 10 10 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 110 110 0 5 0
Waray-Waray 5 5 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Creole languages 15 15 0 5 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 5 5 0 0 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 50 45 0 0 5
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 35 35 0 0 5
Tamil 10 10 0 0 0
Telugu 5 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 5 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 8,040 7,435 10 275 320
Albanian 20 15 0 0 5
Armenian 5 0 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 1,105 1,030 0 50 25
Baltic languages 45 45 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 35 30 0 5 5
Slavic languages 1,060 990 0 50 25
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 30 35 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 0 0 0 0
Croatian 55 50 0 0 0
Czech 20 20 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0 0
Polish 705 650 0 30 20
Russian 50 40 0 0 5
Serbian 50 45 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 5 0 0 0
Slovak 25 25 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 15 20 0 0 0
Ukrainian 90 80 0 5 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Celtic languages 15 10 0 0 5
Scottish Gaelic 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 10 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages 5,155 4,860 5 135 155
Afrikaans 5 0 0 0 0
Danish 30 25 0 5 0
Dutch 2,685 2,595 0 65 25
Frisian 65 60 0 5 0
German 2,160 1,980 10 50 130
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0 0
Swedish 10 5 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 190 175 0 10 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 0
Greek 95 90 0 0 5
Indo-Iranian languages 380 340 0 10 30
Indo-Aryan languages 345 310 0 10 25
Bengali 10 10 0 0 0
Gujarati 90 80 0 0 5
Hindi 25 25 0 0 0
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 145 125 0 5 15
Sindhi 5 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 0 0 0 0
Urdu 65 60 0 5 0
Iranian languages 35 30 0 0 5
Kurdish 5 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 30 25 0 0 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 1,275 1,080 0 80 115
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 335 305 0 25 5
Portuguese 505 465 0 15 25
Romanian 90 75 0 15 5
Spanish 330 230 0 25 75
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 60 50 0 5 10
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 130 110 0 5 10
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 45 35 0 5 0
Akan (Twi) 0 5 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 0 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 5 10 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 5 0 0 5 0
Shona 0 0 0 0 0
Swahili 5 5 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 5 10 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 10 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 25 10 0 5 15
American Sign Language 15 10 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 10 0 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 200 170 0 15 15
Chinese languages 190 160 0 15 15
Cantonese 65 60 0 5 5
Hakka 5 5 0 0 5
Mandarin 85 70 0 10 10
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 0 5 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 25 25 0 0 0
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 15 5 0 5 5
Burmese 5 0 0 0 0
Karenic languages 5 0 0 0 5
Tibetan 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 40 30 0 0 0
Lao 30 30 0 0 5
Thai 5 10 0 0 5
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 25 20 0 5 0
Azerbaijani 0 5 0 0 0
Turkish 15 20 0 0 0
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Uralic languages 485 465 0 15 10
Estonian 10 5 0 0 0
Finnish 15 10 0 5 0
Hungarian 470 450 0 10 10
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 850 690 0 155 5
English and French 145 45 0 100 0
English and non-official language 675 635 0 35 5
French and non-official language 15 5 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 10 0 0 10 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) – Oxford

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 3.7%.
  • 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-X2016055.

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