Data tables, 2016 Census

Mother Tongue (269), Knowledge of Official Languages (5), Age (15A) and Sex (3) for the Population Excluding Institutional Residents of Canada, Provinces and Territories, Census Divisions and Census Subdivisions, 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 , age and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Thunder Bay
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 1 144,190 131,125 240 12,335 490
Single responses 142,285 129,670 235 11,900 490
Official languages 127,475 115,835 230 11,390 25
English 122,595 115,470 5 7,100 25
French 4,875 360 230 4,290 0
Non-official languages 14,815 13,835 5 510 460
Aboriginal languages 1,895 1,835 0 25 35
Algonquian languages 1,890 1,825 0 25 35
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 105 100 0 5 5
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Montagnais (Innu) 0 0 0 0 0
Moose Cree 10 5 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 30 25 0 0 5
Woods Cree 5 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 65 60 0 5 0
Eastern Algonquian languages 5 5 0 0 0
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 5 5 0 0 0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 1,775 1,720 0 15 35
Algonquin 0 5 0 0 0
Ojibway 1,340 1,305 0 20 20
Oji-Cree 430 420 0 0 15
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 5 0 0 0
Cayuga 5 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. 10 10 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 12,920 12,000 5 485 430
Afro-Asiatic languages 290 240 0 30 20
Berber languages 5 0 0 0 0
Kabyle 0 0 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 0 5 0 0 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 5 0 0 0
Somali 0 5 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 280 235 0 30 20
Amharic 10 10 0 0 0
Arabic 260 220 0 25 15
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 5 5 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 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 135 135 0 5 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 130 125 0 0 5
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 275 265 0 0 5
Bikol 5 5 0 0 0
Cebuano 15 15 0 0 0
Fijian 5 5 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 0 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 10 5 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 15 15 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 215 215 0 0 5
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Creole languages 20 10 0 5 0
Haitian Creole 5 0 0 5 0
Creole, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 200 195 0 0 5
Kannada 10 10 0 0 0
Malayalam 125 130 0 0 0
Tamil 35 35 0 0 5
Telugu 25 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 8,495 7,910 0 335 245
Albanian 0 5 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 2,405 2,275 0 90 45
Baltic languages 30 25 0 5 0
Latvian 20 15 0 0 0
Lithuanian 10 5 0 0 0
Slavic languages 2,385 2,250 0 85 45
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 10 5 0 0 0
Croatian 280 265 0 5 5
Czech 45 45 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0 0
Polish 955 895 0 30 25
Russian 105 95 0 10 5
Serbian 35 35 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 5 0 5 0
Slovak 155 150 0 5 5
Slovene (Slovenian) 85 85 0 0 0
Ukrainian 665 630 0 25 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 25 25 0 0 0
Celtic languages 10 5 0 5 0
Scottish Gaelic 10 5 0 0 0
Welsh 0 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 1,360 1,300 0 65 0
Afrikaans 15 10 0 0 0
Danish 70 70 0 5 0
Dutch 375 365 0 10 0
Frisian 10 5 0 0 0
German 815 770 0 45 0
Icelandic 5 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 15 15 0 0 0
Swedish 50 45 0 5 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 5 5 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 135 130 0 5 5
Indo-Iranian languages 660 615 0 25 25
Indo-Aryan languages 535 500 0 20 15
Bengali 75 65 0 5 0
Gujarati 110 105 0 0 5
Hindi 125 115 0 5 5
Kashmiri 5 5 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0 0
Nepali 25 20 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 90 75 0 10 5
Sindhi 5 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0 0
Urdu 95 90 0 0 5
Iranian languages 125 115 0 5 5
Kurdish 5 0 0 0 0
Pashto 5 10 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 120 105 0 5 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 3,915 3,580 0 155 175
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 3,055 2,815 0 100 140
Portuguese 445 405 0 15 20
Romanian 55 50 0 5 0
Spanish 355 310 0 35 10
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Japanese 40 35 0 0 5
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 85 80 0 5 5
Mongolic languages 0 5 0 0 0
Mongolian 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 65 50 0 10 0
Akan (Twi) 20 20 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) 5 0 0 5 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Ganda 5 5 0 0 0
Igbo 5 5 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 5 0 0 0 0
Swahili 0 5 0 0 0
Wolof 0 5 0 5 0
Yoruba 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 10 10 0 0 0
Dinka 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0 0
Sign languages 40 30 0 0 10
American Sign Language 25 20 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 15 10 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 810 705 0 15 80
Chinese languages 565 500 0 15 50
Cantonese 195 160 0 5 30
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 320 285 0 10 25
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 15 15 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 0 5 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 235 205 0 0 30
Burmese 25 25 0 0 5
Karenic languages 205 180 0 0 30
Tibetan 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 20 20 0 0 0
Lao 5 0 0 0 0
Thai 20 20 0 0 5
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 15 15 0 0 0
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Uralic languages 2,415 2,300 0 70 50
Estonian 40 40 0 0 0
Finnish 2,225 2,125 5 50 50
Hungarian 155 140 0 10 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 5 0
Multiple responses 1,900 1,455 0 440 0
English and French 460 105 5 355 0
English and non-official language 1,385 1,325 0 55 5
French and non-official language 35 15 0 20 0
English, French and non-official language 25 10 0 15 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) – Thunder Bay

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 5.3%.
  • 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-X2016054.

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