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 1 268,180 249,715 55 17,860 555
Single responses 267,090 249,005 55 17,485 545
Official languages 259,805 242,735 45 16,985 45
English 258,705 242,635 5 16,015 45
French 1,100 95 35 970 0
Non-official languages 7,280 6,275 10 500 495
Aboriginal languages 45 45 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 5 5 0 5 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 10 5 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Montagnais (Innu) 5 5 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 0 0 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 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 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. 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 40 40 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 30 30 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 5 10 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. 0 0 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 7,235 6,230 10 495 500
Afro-Asiatic languages 1,065 750 0 60 250
Berber languages 5 5 0 0 0
Kabyle 0 0 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 35 35 0 0 0
Bilen 5 5 0 0 5
Oromo 35 30 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 5
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 1,025 715 0 60 250
Amharic 25 25 0 0 0
Arabic 930 625 5 60 235
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 10 0 0 0
Maltese 5 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 70 60 0 0 10
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 50 45 0 10 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 50 45 0 10 0
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 575 560 0 10 5
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 30 30 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 5 10 0 0 0
Ilocano 15 15 0 0 0
Malagasy 5 0 0 0 0
Malay 25 20 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 485 475 0 5 0
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Creole languages 30 15 0 10 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 15 5 0 10 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 195 190 0 5 0
Kannada 10 15 0 0 0
Malayalam 70 70 0 0 0
Tamil 85 80 0 5 0
Telugu 30 25 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 3,195 2,785 0 320 95
Albanian 85 70 0 5 15
Armenian 0 5 0 0 5
Balto-Slavic languages 470 405 0 55 10
Baltic languages 10 5 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 460 395 0 55 10
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 15 15 0 0 0
Bulgarian 55 50 0 5 0
Croatian 20 20 0 5 0
Czech 30 30 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 80 65 0 10 0
Russian 195 165 0 20 5
Serbian 20 15 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 5 0 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 5 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 25 20 0 5 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 10 10 0 5 0
Scottish Gaelic 5 0 0 0 0
Welsh 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 5 0
Germanic languages 475 405 0 70 5
Afrikaans 30 30 0 0 0
Danish 45 40 0 0 0
Dutch 75 60 0 15 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 240 190 0 50 0
Icelandic 30 30 0 0 0
Norwegian 45 40 0 0 0
Swedish 10 5 0 5 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 5 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Greek 45 40 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages 1,355 1,270 0 45 45
Indo-Aryan languages 1,070 1,000 0 40 30
Bengali 305 295 0 10 5
Gujarati 60 60 0 0 0
Hindi 135 130 0 5 0
Kashmiri 5 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 25 20 0 0 0
Nepali 135 120 0 5 15
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 120 110 0 10 5
Sindhi 5 5 0 5 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 60 55 0 0 0
Urdu 220 205 0 10 5
Iranian languages 255 235 0 5 15
Kurdish 10 5 0 0 5
Pashto 25 25 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 220 205 0 5 10
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 30 30 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 745 585 0 130 30
Catalan 0 0 0 5 0
Italian 80 65 0 20 0
Portuguese 125 100 0 20 5
Romanian 30 20 0 15 0
Spanish 495 400 0 75 20
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Japanese 40 35 0 5 5
Kartvelian languages 5 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 120 110 0 0 10
Mongolic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Mongolian 5 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 275 215 5 30 25
Akan (Twi) 30 25 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 5 5 0 5 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Ganda 10 10 0 0 0
Igbo 25 25 0 0 0
Lingala 5 0 0 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 10 0 0 5 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 5 0 0 5 0
Shona 15 15 0 0 0
Swahili 55 25 0 5 20
Wolof 10 5 0 0 0
Yoruba 55 50 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 60 55 0 10 5
Nilo-Saharan languages 35 30 0 5 5
Dinka 10 5 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 0 0
Sign languages 75 40 0 0 30
American Sign Language 35 25 0 0 10
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 40 15 0 0 20
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,410 1,300 0 30 80
Chinese languages 1,390 1,280 0 25 80
Cantonese 245 210 0 15 25
Hakka 5 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 945 890 0 10 45
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 30 30 0 0 5
Wu (Shanghainese) 10 15 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 135 130 0 0 5
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 20 20 0 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0 0
Karenic languages 10 5 0 0 0
Tibetan 5 5 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 5
Tai-Kadai languages 35 30 0 0 0
Lao 5 5 0 0 0
Thai 25 25 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 65 55 0 10 5
Azerbaijani 10 5 0 0 0
Turkish 40 40 0 5 0
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 15 5 0 5 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Uralic languages 60 55 0 5 0
Estonian 15 10 0 0 5
Finnish 15 10 0 5 0
Hungarian 35 35 0 5 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 5 0
Multiple responses 1,095 705 0 380 5
English and French 330 60 0 265 0
English and non-official language 695 635 0 55 10
French and non-official language 40 5 0 35 0
English, French and non-official language 25 5 0 20 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: 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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