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 Abbotsford, CY
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 1 139,250 125,175 35 6,160 7,890
Single responses 135,815 122,120 35 5,810 7,855
Official languages 90,580 85,715 15 4,805 50
English 89,555 85,545 5 3,950 50
French 1,025 165 10 850 0
Non-official languages 45,235 36,405 15 1,005 7,805
Aboriginal languages 25 25 0 5 0
Algonquian languages 20 15 0 5 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 15 15 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 0 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 10 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 5 5 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 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 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 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 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 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 5 5 0 0 0
Comox 0 0 0 0 0
Halkomelem 0 0 0 0 0
Lillooet 5 0 0 0 0
Okanagan 0 0 0 0 0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 0 5 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 5 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 45,210 36,385 15 1,005 7,805
Afro-Asiatic languages 400 275 0 40 85
Berber languages 5 0 0 0 0
Kabyle 0 5 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 10 5 0 0 5
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 10 10 0 0 0
Somali 0 5 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 390 265 0 40 85
Amharic 5 0 0 0 0
Arabic 340 225 0 30 80
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 5 10 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 20 15 0 5 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 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 885 720 5 15 145
Khmer (Cambodian) 30 25 0 0 10
Vietnamese 850 695 0 15 145
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 1,070 1,055 0 10 5
Bikol 10 10 0 0 0
Cebuano 50 55 0 0 0
Fijian 15 15 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 10 10 0 0 0
Ilocano 55 60 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 40 40 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 875 860 0 10 10
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Creole languages 55 25 0 25 0
Haitian Creole 5 0 0 5 0
Creole, n.o.s. 35 15 0 25 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 10 15 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 135 130 0 0 5
Kannada 5 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 70 65 0 0 0
Tamil 25 20 0 0 0
Telugu 40 35 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 5 5 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 38,825 30,880 10 810 7,125
Albanian 70 65 0 5 0
Armenian 25 20 0 5 5
Balto-Slavic languages 1,295 1,175 0 55 65
Baltic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 5 0
Lithuanian 5 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 1,280 1,165 0 50 65
Belarusan 5 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 45 40 0 0 5
Bulgarian 25 25 0 0 0
Croatian 60 55 0 0 0
Czech 85 85 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 0 0 0 0
Polish 305 280 0 15 10
Russian 415 365 0 10 40
Serbian 40 35 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 10 0 0 0
Slovak 45 40 0 5 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 15 15 0 0 0
Ukrainian 235 215 0 10 10
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 5 5 0 0 0
Welsh 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 6,280 6,120 0 135 25
Afrikaans 115 110 0 10 0
Danish 130 130 0 5 0
Dutch 1,290 1,250 0 35 0
Frisian 35 35 0 0 0
German 4,590 4,485 0 75 25
Icelandic 10 10 0 0 0
Norwegian 45 50 0 0 0
Swedish 50 45 0 5 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 10 5 0 5 0
Yiddish 0 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Greek 60 55 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages 29,305 21,940 5 445 6,915
Indo-Aryan languages 29,010 21,695 5 430 6,875
Bengali 15 10 0 5 0
Gujarati 75 70 0 0 5
Hindi 590 540 0 10 35
Kashmiri 5 0 0 0 0
Konkani 5 5 0 0 0
Marathi 10 10 0 0 0
Nepali 15 15 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 28,055 20,810 10 405 6,825
Sindhi 10 10 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 30 30 0 5 0
Urdu 210 200 0 5 5
Iranian languages 275 225 0 15 35
Kurdish 50 40 0 0 15
Pashto 10 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 215 185 0 15 20
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 1,780 1,485 5 175 115
Catalan 0 5 0 0 0
Italian 185 155 0 20 0
Portuguese 180 160 0 20 5
Romanian 235 190 0 30 15
Spanish 1,170 970 5 100 95
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Japanese 210 185 0 5 15
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 1,135 980 0 25 130
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 5 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 105 95 0 10 5
Akan (Twi) 10 10 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 5 5 0 0 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 5 0 0 0 0
Ganda 5 0 0 5 0
Igbo 0 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 5 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 5 0 0 0 0
Shona 5 0 0 0 0
Swahili 30 30 0 5 0
Wolof 5 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 15 15 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 35 30 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 25 20 0 0 0
Dinka 15 10 0 0 5
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Sign languages 45 30 0 0 20
American Sign Language 20 15 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 30 15 0 0 15
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,635 1,360 0 40 240
Chinese languages 1,630 1,355 0 40 235
Cantonese 520 440 0 5 75
Hakka 20 15 0 0 5
Mandarin 950 785 0 25 135
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 55 45 0 5 10
Wu (Shanghainese) 10 5 0 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 70 65 0 5 10
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 5 5 0 0 0
Burmese 5 5 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 245 215 0 10 15
Lao 205 170 0 15 15
Thai 40 45 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 55 40 0 15 5
Azerbaijani 5 5 0 0 0
Turkish 50 35 0 5 5
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 5 0
Uralic languages 365 355 0 5 5
Estonian 15 10 0 0 0
Finnish 95 95 0 0 5
Hungarian 255 245 0 5 5
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 5
Multiple responses 3,435 3,055 0 350 35
English and French 200 60 0 140 0
English and non-official language 3,140 2,965 0 130 35
French and non-official language 55 20 0 35 0
English, French and non-official language 50 10 0 35 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) – Abbotsford, CY

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 4.1%.
  • 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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