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 Okanagan-Similkameen
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 81,670 76,025 40 4,965 645
Single responses 80,890 75,415 40 4,785 645
Official languages 71,145 66,755 35 4,345 15
English 69,600 66,575 10 3,005 10
French 1,540 180 25 1,340 0
Non-official languages 9,745 8,660 5 445 630
Aboriginal languages 140 140 0 5 0
Algonquian languages 15 15 0 0 0
Blackfoot 5 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 5 10 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 0 0 0 0
Southern East Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Swampy Cree 5 0 0 0 0
Woods Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 0 0 0 0
Eastern Algonquian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 5 0 0 0 0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 0 5 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 5 0 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 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 5 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 115 115 0 0 0
Comox 0 0 0 0 0
Halkomelem 0 0 0 0 0
Lillooet 5 0 0 0 0
Okanagan 105 105 0 5 0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 0 0 0 0 0
Squamish 0 0 0 0 0
Straits 0 0 0 0 0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 5 5 0 0 0
Salish languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Siouan languages 5 5 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 5 0 0 0 0
Haisla 0 0 0 0 0
Heiltsuk 0 0 0 0 0
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala) 0 5 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 9,605 8,525 10 445 630
Afro-Asiatic languages 100 60 0 10 30
Berber languages 5 0 0 0 0
Kabyle 0 0 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 5
Cushitic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 100 60 0 10 35
Amharic 0 5 0 0 0
Arabic 70 25 0 10 30
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 20 20 0 0 0
Maltese 5 5 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 95 75 0 5 15
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0 5
Vietnamese 85 70 0 0 15
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 355 355 0 5 5
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 10 15 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 10 5 0 0 0
Ilocano 10 10 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 10 10 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 310 300 5 0 5
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Creole languages 5 0 0 5 0
Haitian Creole 0 5 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 0 0 0 5 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 20 20 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 10 10 0 5 0
Tamil 10 5 0 5 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 8,105 7,180 5 400 525
Albanian 25 25 0 0 0
Armenian 5 0 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 1,025 960 0 50 15
Baltic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 10 0 0 0
Slavic languages 1,015 950 0 45 15
Belarusan 5 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 10 0 0 0
Croatian 115 105 0 10 5
Czech 135 130 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0 0
Polish 165 145 0 15 5
Russian 160 145 0 5 0
Serbian 35 30 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 5 0 0 0
Slovak 60 60 0 5 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 40 35 0 0 0
Ukrainian 275 260 0 10 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Celtic languages 20 15 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 10 10 0 0 0
Welsh 10 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 3,040 2,855 0 170 10
Afrikaans 95 90 0 5 0
Danish 130 125 0 0 0
Dutch 585 550 0 35 5
Frisian 10 10 0 0 0
German 2,090 1,965 0 115 10
Icelandic 5 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 35 35 0 0 0
Swedish 70 65 5 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 15 10 0 5 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 5 0
Greek 70 65 0 10 0
Indo-Iranian languages 2,440 1,970 0 50 415
Indo-Aryan languages 2,380 1,920 0 40 420
Bengali 10 10 0 0 0
Gujarati 5 10 0 0 0
Hindi 65 60 0 0 10
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Nepali 10 15 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 2,260 1,810 0 40 410
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0 0
Urdu 5 10 0 0 0
Iranian languages 60 55 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 55 50 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 1,485 1,285 0 125 75
Catalan 0 5 0 0 0
Italian 325 290 0 30 5
Portuguese 775 675 0 50 50
Romanian 35 20 0 10 0
Spanish 345 300 0 35 20
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 105 100 0 5 5
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 110 95 0 5 5
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 15 15 0 5 0
Akan (Twi) 0 5 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 5 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 0 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 5 0 0 0 0
Dinka 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages 20 10 0 0 10
American Sign Language 5 0 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 15 10 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 260 225 0 5 30
Chinese languages 255 225 0 5 30
Cantonese 140 120 0 5 15
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 70 55 0 5 10
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 10 10 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 35 30 0 0 5
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 5 5 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0
Karenic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Tibetan 0 5 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 40 35 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 40 35 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 10 5 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 355 340 0 15 5
Estonian 10 10 0 5 0
Finnish 80 75 0 5 0
Hungarian 270 260 0 10 5
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 780 605 0 175 0
English and French 175 45 0 130 0
English and non-official language 570 550 0 25 0
French and non-official language 15 5 0 15 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) – Okanagan-Similkameen

  • 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-X2016054.

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