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 Division No. 6
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 1 259,835 242,610 210 14,315 2,705
Single responses 255,050 238,555 195 13,620 2,680
Official languages 215,810 203,235 155 12,365 60
English 212,940 202,900 5 9,970 60
French 2,870 330 150 2,390 0
Non-official languages 39,245 35,325 40 1,255 2,620
Aboriginal languages 670 645 0 20 5
Algonquian languages 515 500 0 20 5
Blackfoot 5 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 395 380 0 15 5
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 70 70 0 0 0
Southern East Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Swampy Cree 10 10 0 0 0
Woods Cree 25 20 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 290 275 0 15 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 120 115 0 0 5
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 120 115 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Ottawa (Odawa) 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Athabaskan languages 10 10 0 0 0
Northern Athabaskan languages 10 10 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 10 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 10 5 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 5 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 5 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 25 20 0 5 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) 5 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 110 110 0 0 0
Dakota 95 95 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0 0
Siouan languages, n.i.e. 10 10 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 38,570 34,680 40 1,235 2,620
Afro-Asiatic languages 2,645 1,925 5 125 600
Berber languages 10 0 0 5 0
Kabyle 0 0 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Cushitic languages 580 495 0 10 75
Bilen 25 20 0 0 5
Oromo 45 35 0 0 10
Somali 500 435 0 10 60
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Semitic languages 2,055 1,420 5 105 525
Amharic 130 130 0 0 5
Arabic 1,580 1,000 5 100 480
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 25 25 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 40 30 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 285 240 0 0 40
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 1,195 990 0 35 170
Khmer (Cambodian) 45 40 0 0 5
Vietnamese 1,150 955 0 30 165
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 6,365 6,235 0 80 45
Bikol 25 20 0 0 0
Cebuano 490 485 0 0 5
Fijian 5 5 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 65 65 0 0 5
Ilocano 340 345 0 0 5
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 25 25 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 50 50 0 0 0
Pangasinan 20 15 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 5,260 5,145 0 75 40
Waray-Waray 10 10 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 75 80 0 0 0
Creole languages 70 20 0 40 0
Haitian Creole 5 0 0 5 0
Creole, n.o.s. 35 5 0 30 5
Creole languages, n.i.e. 25 15 0 10 0
Dravidian languages 635 615 0 5 15
Kannada 20 20 0 0 0
Malayalam 310 305 0 0 10
Tamil 155 145 0 0 5
Telugu 150 140 0 0 5
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 19,740 18,305 0 650 785
Albanian 200 190 0 5 10
Armenian 20 15 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 3,915 3,690 0 130 100
Baltic languages 60 60 0 5 0
Latvian 20 20 0 0 0
Lithuanian 40 35 0 0 0
Slavic languages 3,860 3,635 0 125 100
Belarusan 5 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 70 70 0 0 5
Bulgarian 25 20 0 0 0
Croatian 200 195 0 5 0
Czech 45 45 0 5 0
Macedonian 10 10 0 0 0
Polish 535 505 0 25 10
Russian 1,040 945 0 40 60
Serbian 145 135 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 30 30 0 0 0
Slovak 30 25 0 5 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 35 35 0 0 0
Ukrainian 1,685 1,625 0 35 25
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Celtic languages 15 10 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages 3,470 3,365 0 90 20
Afrikaans 170 165 0 0 0
Danish 45 45 0 0 0
Dutch 300 280 0 15 5
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 2,870 2,790 0 65 15
Icelandic 15 10 0 0 0
Norwegian 40 40 0 0 0
Swedish 20 15 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 5 10 0 5 0
Yiddish 10 10 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 555 515 0 25 10
Indo-Iranian languages 9,495 8,720 0 200 580
Indo-Aryan languages 8,620 7,930 0 175 510
Bengali 990 905 0 45 40
Gujarati 1,235 1,165 0 5 65
Hindi 755 720 0 10 25
Kashmiri 10 10 0 0 0
Konkani 25 20 0 5 0
Marathi 60 60 0 5 5
Nepali 395 295 0 5 95
Oriya (Odia) 5 5 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 2,495 2,305 0 35 155
Sindhi 20 20 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 40 35 0 0 5
Urdu 2,585 2,380 0 70 130
Iranian languages 780 700 0 25 60
Kurdish 70 60 0 0 10
Pashto 220 195 0 5 15
Persian (Farsi) 490 445 0 20 30
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 100 90 0 0 10
Italic (Romance) languages 2,070 1,805 0 205 65
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 395 355 0 35 5
Portuguese 130 110 0 15 5
Romanian 280 245 0 30 5
Spanish 1,270 1,095 0 125 50
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 105 95 0 0 0
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 5 0 0 0 0
Korean 615 555 0 15 50
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 1,015 760 25 150 70
Akan (Twi) 60 55 0 0 5
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 30 25 0 0 0
Ewe 30 30 0 5 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 5 0 0 5 0
Ga 10 10 0 5 0
Ganda 25 25 0 0 0
Igbo 120 120 0 0 0
Lingala 15 5 0 10 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 95 15 5 45 30
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 45 15 0 20 0
Shona 25 25 0 0 0
Swahili 200 135 15 30 30
Wolof 20 0 5 15 0
Yoruba 165 160 0 5 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 170 150 5 15 5
Nilo-Saharan languages 130 120 0 0 10
Dinka 60 60 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 70 60 0 0 10
Sign languages 35 15 0 0 20
American Sign Language 10 5 0 5 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 25 10 0 0 10
Sino-Tibetan languages 5,070 4,140 5 95 825
Chinese languages 4,570 3,745 0 95 720
Cantonese 1,330 1,040 0 30 260
Hakka 15 10 0 0 5
Mandarin 2,715 2,280 0 55 370
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 100 80 0 5 10
Wu (Shanghainese) 25 10 0 0 15
Chinese, n.o.s. 380 320 0 0 55
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 500 395 0 5 100
Burmese 55 45 0 5 0
Karenic languages 420 330 0 0 95
Tibetan 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0 5
Tai-Kadai languages 235 215 0 10 15
Lao 165 150 0 10 10
Thai 70 60 0 0 5
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 160 140 0 10 5
Azerbaijani 5 0 0 0 0
Turkish 135 125 0 10 5
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 10 10 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Uralic languages 525 505 0 10 5
Estonian 5 5 0 0 0
Finnish 30 30 0 0 0
Hungarian 485 470 0 10 10
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 40 35 0 5 5
Multiple responses 4,785 4,050 15 695 25
English and French 545 140 0 405 0
English and non-official language 4,060 3,875 0 155 25
French and non-official language 100 15 10 70 0
English, French and non-official language 85 15 0 70 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. 6

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 4.0%.
  • 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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