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 Division No. 1
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 81,210 77,805 15 2,725 665
Single responses 80,540 77,245 15 2,620 660
Official languages 71,455 68,960 20 2,475 10
English 70,625 68,825 0 1,785 10
French 830 130 15 685 0
Non-official languages 9,085 8,285 5 150 650
Aboriginal languages 35 40 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 30 35 0 0 0
Blackfoot 5 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 20 20 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 5 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 15 15 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 10 10 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 10 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 5 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 5 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. 5 5 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 9,050 8,245 0 150 650
Afro-Asiatic languages 445 325 0 10 110
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 40 30 0 0 5
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 25 25 0 0 0
Somali 15 5 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 410 295 0 10 100
Amharic 15 15 0 0 0
Arabic 375 265 0 10 105
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 10 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 85 75 0 0 10
Khmer (Cambodian) 30 25 0 0 5
Vietnamese 55 55 0 0 5
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 615 610 0 5 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 40 35 0 0 0
Fijian 5 5 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 0 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 20 20 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 540 535 0 5 0
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Creole languages 15 10 0 5 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 5 0 0 5 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 90 85 0 0 5
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 55 55 0 0 0
Tamil 25 25 0 0 5
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 7,060 6,530 0 120 410
Albanian 35 35 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 495 480 0 15 5
Baltic languages 0 5 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 495 480 0 10 5
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 75 75 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0 0
Croatian 45 40 0 0 0
Czech 15 15 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 95 85 0 5 0
Russian 65 60 0 0 0
Serbian 20 20 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 20 25 0 0 0
Slovak 20 15 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 5 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 125 125 0 5 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 0 5 0 0 0
Welsh 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 5,325 4,950 0 45 335
Afrikaans 75 65 0 5 0
Danish 15 15 0 0 0
Dutch 345 340 0 5 0
Frisian 10 5 0 0 0
German 4,845 4,480 0 30 335
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 15 15 0 0 0
Swedish 10 5 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 10 5 0 5 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Greek 35 35 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 410 380 0 10 25
Indo-Aryan languages 385 350 0 5 20
Bengali 5 5 0 0 0
Gujarati 55 50 0 5 5
Hindi 45 45 0 0 0
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 5 0 0 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0 0
Nepali 75 60 0 0 15
Oriya (Odia) 5 10 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 100 105 0 5 0
Sindhi 5 10 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0 0
Urdu 70 60 0 0 5
Iranian languages 25 20 0 0 5
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 25 20 0 0 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 745 645 5 50 45
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 75 65 0 5 0
Portuguese 40 35 0 5 5
Romanian 35 25 0 5 0
Spanish 600 520 0 30 45
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Japanese 45 40 0 5 0
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 55 50 0 0 0
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 75 65 0 0 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 5 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 5 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 10 10 0 0 0
Swahili 10 10 0 5 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 25 25 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 50 45 0 0 0
Dinka 20 20 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 30 30 0 0 0
Sign languages 10 5 0 0 5
American Sign Language 5 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 5 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 360 295 0 5 55
Chinese languages 340 280 0 5 55
Cantonese 175 140 0 0 35
Hakka 5 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 140 115 0 5 20
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 0 0 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 0 5 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 20 20 0 0 0
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 15 20 0 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0 0
Karenic languages 10 15 0 0 0
Tibetan 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 85 30 0 0 50
Lao 5 5 0 0 0
Thai 75 20 0 0 55
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 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 65 70 0 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 15 15 0 0 0
Hungarian 55 50 0 0 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 670 560 0 105 0
English and French 130 45 0 85 0
English and non-official language 520 505 0 10 5
French and non-official language 10 0 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 10 5 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) – Division No. 1

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 4.6%.
  • 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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