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 Oshawa, 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 1 158,005 146,650 140 10,225 995
Single responses 155,620 144,885 130 9,625 980
Official languages 137,000 128,205 110 8,655 35
English 134,000 127,955 5 6,015 30
French 3,000 240 105 2,645 5
Non-official languages 18,615 16,685 20 970 945
Aboriginal languages 20 20 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 10 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 0 5 0 0 0
Southern East Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Swampy Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Woods Cree 5 5 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 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 5 5 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 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 0 0 0 0 0
Northern Athabaskan languages 0 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 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 5 5 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 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. 5 5 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 18,600 16,670 15 965 945
Afro-Asiatic languages 935 810 5 80 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 30 20 0 5 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 25 15 0 10 5
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 905 795 5 75 30
Amharic 30 25 0 0 0
Arabic 725 620 5 70 30
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 15 15 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 5 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 15 15 0 0 0
Maltese 115 115 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 235 195 0 15 25
Khmer (Cambodian) 20 20 0 0 0
Vietnamese 205 175 0 5 25
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 5 5 0 5 0
Austronesian languages 1,010 985 0 20 5
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 40 40 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 15 15 0 0 0
Ilocano 35 30 0 0 0
Malagasy 5 0 0 5 0
Malay 30 30 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 5 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 875 855 0 15 5
Waray-Waray 5 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Creole languages 75 30 5 40 0
Haitian Creole 15 5 0 15 0
Creole, n.o.s. 35 5 0 25 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 5 0
Dravidian languages 920 805 0 40 75
Kannada 15 15 0 0 0
Malayalam 110 110 0 0 0
Tamil 745 640 5 40 70
Telugu 45 45 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 12,925 11,720 5 680 515
Albanian 30 30 0 0 0
Armenian 30 25 0 5 0
Balto-Slavic languages 3,680 3,370 5 180 120
Baltic languages 55 50 0 5 0
Latvian 30 30 0 5 0
Lithuanian 25 20 0 5 0
Slavic languages 3,625 3,320 0 175 125
Belarusan 5 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 10 10 0 0 0
Bulgarian 20 15 0 5 0
Croatian 175 170 0 5 0
Czech 45 45 0 5 0
Macedonian 205 190 0 10 10
Polish 1,795 1,640 0 90 65
Russian 330 280 0 30 20
Serbian 175 155 0 10 5
Serbo-Croatian 20 20 0 0 0
Slovak 90 85 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 90 90 0 0 0
Ukrainian 650 605 0 15 25
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 5 0
Celtic languages 20 20 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 10 10 0 0 0
Welsh 5 10 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 1,545 1,465 0 80 0
Afrikaans 25 25 0 0 0
Danish 50 45 0 0 0
Dutch 545 515 0 30 0
Frisian 15 15 0 0 0
German 865 820 0 45 5
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 20 15 0 5 0
Swedish 20 15 0 5 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 15 15 0 0 0
Yiddish 5 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 430 410 0 10 10
Indo-Iranian languages 3,125 2,870 0 85 170
Indo-Aryan languages 2,460 2,265 0 70 120
Bengali 205 195 0 10 5
Gujarati 430 395 0 5 25
Hindi 230 215 0 10 10
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 5 5 0 5 0
Marathi 10 5 0 0 0
Nepali 10 5 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 5 5 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 305 270 0 5 35
Sindhi 25 20 0 5 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 80 75 0 0 0
Urdu 1,160 1,085 0 25 50
Iranian languages 660 590 0 15 50
Kurdish 20 15 0 0 0
Pashto 80 75 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 565 500 0 15 45
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 4,055 3,535 0 310 205
Catalan 5 5 0 0 0
Italian 1,520 1,340 0 105 80
Portuguese 975 850 0 55 70
Romanian 225 175 0 45 10
Spanish 1,330 1,170 0 110 50
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 30 25 0 0 5
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 150 135 0 5 15
Mongolic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Mongolian 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 220 190 0 25 5
Akan (Twi) 35 35 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 10 10 0 0 0
Ewe 5 0 0 0 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 10 0 0 5 0
Ga 5 10 0 0 0
Ganda 5 5 0 0 0
Igbo 30 30 0 0 0
Lingala 5 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 15 15 0 0 0
Swahili 35 30 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 25 30 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 50 30 0 15 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 5 5 0 0 5
Dinka 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0 0
Sign languages 55 30 0 5 25
American Sign Language 20 15 0 5 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 35 15 0 5 20
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,400 1,125 0 35 230
Chinese languages 1,390 1,125 0 40 230
Cantonese 555 435 0 15 105
Hakka 10 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 715 585 0 20 115
Min Dong 5 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 40 35 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 5 5 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 70 60 0 0 5
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 10 5 0 0 0
Burmese 0 5 0 0 0
Karenic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Tibetan 5 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 55 45 0 5 10
Lao 30 25 0 0 5
Thai 20 20 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 70 65 0 5 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 65 60 0 5 0
Uyghur 5 5 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Uralic languages 510 480 0 15 10
Estonian 25 25 0 0 0
Finnish 50 50 0 0 0
Hungarian 430 400 0 15 10
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 2,390 1,765 10 605 15
English and French 510 95 0 420 0
English and non-official language 1,750 1,645 5 90 10
French and non-official language 75 10 10 55 0
English, French and non-official language 50 10 0 40 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) – Oshawa, CY

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 3.6%.
  • 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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