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 Columbia-Shuswap
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 50,925 47,245 10 3,550 110
Single responses 50,510 46,935 10 3,450 110
Official languages 46,805 43,540 10 3,250 5
English 45,815 43,435 0 2,380 5
French 985 110 10 870 0
Non-official languages 3,705 3,390 0 205 105
Aboriginal languages 45 40 0 5 0
Algonquian languages 10 10 0 0 0
Blackfoot 5 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 10 5 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 5 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. 5 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 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 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 5 0 0 0
Northern Athabaskan languages 5 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 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 5 0 0 0
Cayuga 0 0 0 0 0
Mohawk 0 5 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 30 30 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) 25 25 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 3,660 3,355 0 200 105
Afro-Asiatic languages 20 10 0 5 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 5 0 0 0 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 5 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 20 10 0 5 10
Amharic 5 0 0 0 0
Arabic 20 5 0 5 5
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 0 0 0 0
Maltese 5 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 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 10 10 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 10 10 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 195 190 0 5 5
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 10 10 0 0 0
Fijian 5 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 0 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 5 5 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 175 170 0 5 0
Waray-Waray 5 5 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Creole languages 5 5 0 0 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 5 0 0 0 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 20 20 0 0 0
Kannada 5 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 15 10 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0 0
Telugu 5 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 2,950 2,715 0 185 60
Albanian 0 0 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 485 445 0 30 10
Baltic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 480 440 0 30 10
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0 0
Croatian 25 20 0 0 0
Czech 100 85 0 10 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 90 80 0 5 0
Russian 75 65 0 5 5
Serbian 0 5 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0 0
Slovak 20 15 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 15 10 0 0 0
Ukrainian 150 150 0 5 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages 10 5 0 5 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 1,845 1,715 0 115 15
Afrikaans 40 35 0 0 0
Danish 50 50 0 0 0
Dutch 340 325 0 20 0
Frisian 10 5 0 5 0
German 1,340 1,235 0 90 15
Icelandic 0 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 25 25 0 0 0
Swedish 30 30 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 5 5 0 5 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 10 15 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 220 185 0 5 30
Indo-Aryan languages 210 180 0 5 25
Bengali 0 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 0 5 0 0 0
Hindi 20 20 0 0 0
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 160 130 0 10 25
Sindhi 5 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 5 0 0 0
Urdu 20 20 0 0 0
Iranian languages 5 0 0 0 5
Kurdish 5 0 0 0 5
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 380 350 0 25 5
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 235 220 0 10 5
Portuguese 45 40 0 5 0
Romanian 10 10 0 0 0
Spanish 90 80 0 10 0
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 5 0
Japanese 65 65 0 0 0
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 80 70 0 0 5
Mongolic languages 0 5 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 5 5 0 5 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 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 0 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 0 0 0 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 5 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Dinka 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Sign languages 15 5 0 0 10
American Sign Language 5 5 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 10 0 0 0 10
Sino-Tibetan languages 130 110 0 0 25
Chinese languages 130 110 0 5 20
Cantonese 60 50 0 5 10
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 35 25 0 0 10
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 0 0 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 35 35 0 0 5
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0
Karenic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Tibetan 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 10 10 0 0 0
Lao 0 5 0 0 0
Thai 5 10 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 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 140 140 0 0 5
Estonian 5 5 0 0 0
Finnish 65 65 0 0 0
Hungarian 70 65 0 0 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Multiple responses 420 310 0 100 0
English and French 110 35 0 75 0
English and non-official language 280 265 0 15 5
French and non-official language 10 5 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 15 5 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) – Columbia-Shuswap

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 6.6%.
  • 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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