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 Fraser Valley
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 1 291,110 268,855 65 13,175 9,015
Single responses 286,090 264,530 65 12,530 8,965
Official languages 224,045 213,040 40 10,895 75
English 221,235 212,590 5 8,565 75
French 2,815 455 30 2,330 5
Non-official languages 62,040 51,490 20 1,635 8,890
Aboriginal languages 215 210 0 5 0
Algonquian languages 50 50 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 35 30 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 5 5 0 0 0
Southern East Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Swampy Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Woods Cree 5 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 20 20 0 0 0
Eastern Algonquian languages 5 5 0 0 0
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 5 0 0 0 0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 15 15 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 15 10 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 15 15 0 0 0
Northern Athabaskan languages 15 10 0 0 0
Babine (Wetsuwet'en) 0 0 0 0 0
Beaver 0 0 0 0 0
Carrier 5 5 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0
Dene 5 5 0 0 0
Dogrib (Tlicho) 0 0 0 0 0
Gwich'in 0 5 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 5 0 0 0
Inuit languages 0 5 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 5 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages 5 0 0 0 0
Cayuga 0 0 0 0 0
Mohawk 5 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 5 5 0 0 0
Salish languages 120 120 0 0 0
Comox 0 0 0 0 0
Halkomelem 35 35 0 0 0
Lillooet 55 55 0 0 0
Okanagan 0 0 0 0 0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 10 10 0 0 0
Squamish 0 0 0 0 0
Straits 0 0 0 0 0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 15 10 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 5 0 0 0 0
Gitxsan (Gitksan) 0 0 0 0 0
Nisga'a 0 0 0 0 0
Tsimshian 0 5 0 0 0
Wakashan languages 5 5 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 5 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 61,830 51,280 25 1,635 8,890
Afro-Asiatic languages 595 420 0 65 110
Berber languages 5 5 0 0 0
Kabyle 5 0 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 15 10 0 0 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 5 10 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 580 405 0 65 110
Amharic 15 15 0 0 0
Arabic 490 325 0 55 110
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 5 5 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 30 30 0 5 0
Maltese 10 10 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 10 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 1,230 990 0 20 220
Khmer (Cambodian) 40 30 0 5 10
Vietnamese 1,190 960 5 20 210
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 1,745 1,715 0 15 10
Bikol 10 10 0 0 0
Cebuano 90 90 0 0 0
Fijian 20 20 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 20 20 0 0 0
Ilocano 85 85 0 0 0
Malagasy 5 0 0 5 0
Malay 60 55 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 5 5 0 0 0
Pangasinan 5 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 1,415 1,395 0 15 10
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 20 25 0 0 0
Creole languages 75 40 0 30 0
Haitian Creole 10 5 0 5 0
Creole, n.o.s. 50 20 0 30 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 185 175 0 0 5
Kannada 5 10 0 0 0
Malayalam 90 85 0 0 5
Tamil 40 35 0 0 0
Telugu 45 45 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 10 10 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 51,725 42,560 15 1,310 7,845
Albanian 130 130 0 0 5
Armenian 35 30 0 5 5
Balto-Slavic languages 2,770 2,550 0 130 85
Baltic languages 30 30 0 0 0
Latvian 20 20 0 5 0
Lithuanian 10 15 0 0 0
Slavic languages 2,740 2,525 0 130 85
Belarusan 5 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 65 60 0 5 5
Bulgarian 40 35 0 0 0
Croatian 140 135 0 0 5
Czech 240 235 0 5 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 710 650 0 50 15
Russian 745 665 0 35 45
Serbian 80 75 0 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 20 15 0 5 0
Slovak 135 120 0 10 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 40 40 0 0 0
Ukrainian 505 475 0 20 15
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 15 0 0 0
Celtic languages 20 20 0 5 0
Scottish Gaelic 10 5 0 0 0
Welsh 15 15 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 12,500 12,085 5 345 70
Afrikaans 250 235 0 10 0
Danish 320 315 0 5 0
Dutch 3,415 3,300 0 100 15
Frisian 75 70 0 5 0
German 8,155 7,895 5 205 55
Icelandic 15 20 0 5 0
Norwegian 120 115 0 5 0
Swedish 115 115 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 20 10 0 10 0
Yiddish 5 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 5 0
Greek 150 140 0 5 5
Indo-Iranian languages 32,635 24,675 10 500 7,455
Indo-Aryan languages 32,155 24,255 10 480 7,410
Bengali 30 25 0 5 0
Gujarati 110 105 0 0 5
Hindi 775 720 0 15 40
Kashmiri 5 5 0 0 0
Konkani 5 5 0 0 0
Marathi 10 10 0 0 0
Nepali 25 25 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 30,845 23,030 5 450 7,350
Sindhi 15 15 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 50 50 0 5 0
Urdu 285 265 0 10 10
Iranian languages 455 400 0 15 40
Kurdish 65 45 0 0 15
Pashto 10 10 0 5 0
Persian (Farsi) 380 340 0 15 25
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 3,480 2,925 5 320 230
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 430 380 0 40 5
Portuguese 385 340 0 40 5
Romanian 580 465 0 85 30
Spanish 2,085 1,735 0 150 190
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Japanese 390 360 0 5 20
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 1,725 1,490 0 40 195
Mongolic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Mongolian 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 175 150 5 15 10
Akan (Twi) 10 10 0 5 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 5 0 0 0 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 5 0 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 5 0
Igbo 5 5 0 0 0
Lingala 5 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 5 0 0 5 0
Shona 5 5 0 0 0
Swahili 55 40 5 10 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 30 30 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 50 45 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 35 30 0 0 5
Dinka 10 10 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 0 0
Sign languages 80 50 0 0 30
American Sign Language 25 20 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 50 25 0 0 25
Sino-Tibetan languages 2,610 2,145 5 60 400
Chinese languages 2,585 2,130 5 60 395
Cantonese 770 655 0 10 110
Hakka 25 20 0 0 10
Mandarin 1,515 1,230 0 40 245
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 100 80 0 5 15
Wu (Shanghainese) 30 20 0 5 10
Chinese, n.o.s. 150 125 0 5 15
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 25 15 0 0 5
Burmese 5 5 0 0 0
Karenic languages 15 15 0 0 5
Tibetan 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 305 270 0 15 20
Lao 220 195 0 10 15
Thai 80 80 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 75 55 0 15 5
Azerbaijani 5 0 0 0 0
Turkish 60 50 0 5 5
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 5 0
Uralic languages 850 810 0 30 10
Estonian 25 25 0 5 0
Finnish 250 245 0 5 5
Hungarian 575 540 0 25 10
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0 5
Multiple responses 5,015 4,325 5 645 45
English and French 500 160 5 345 0
English and non-official language 4,360 4,115 0 195 45
French and non-official language 75 20 0 50 5
English, French and non-official language 80 25 0 55 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) – Fraser Valley

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 4.9%.
  • 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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