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 Burnaby, 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 1 230,935 202,685 115 12,150 15,985
Single responses 222,230 194,940 100 11,265 15,925
Official languages 93,495 85,810 45 7,500 135
English 91,850 85,670 0 6,040 135
French 1,640 135 45 1,460 5
Non-official languages 128,735 109,130 60 3,770 15,785
Aboriginal languages 65 70 0 5 0
Algonquian languages 25 25 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 20 20 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 5 0 0 0 0
Woods Cree 5 5 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 15 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 10 10 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 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 20 15 0 0 0
Northern Athabaskan languages 20 15 0 0 0
Babine (Wetsuwet'en) 0 0 0 0 0
Beaver 0 0 0 0 0
Carrier 5 5 0 0 0
Chilcotin 5 0 0 0 0
Dene 5 5 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 5 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 5 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 10 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) 5 0 0 0 0
Salish languages, n.i.e. 5 5 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 5 0 0 0
Gitxsan (Gitksan) 0 0 0 0 0
Nisga'a 0 5 0 0 0
Tsimshian 0 0 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) 5 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 5 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 128,670 109,065 55 3,770 15,785
Afro-Asiatic languages 2,575 1,960 10 215 385
Berber languages 25 0 0 15 5
Kabyle 15 0 0 10 5
Berber languages, n.i.e. 10 0 0 10 0
Cushitic languages 175 145 5 5 20
Bilen 5 5 0 0 0
Oromo 25 25 0 0 5
Somali 135 115 0 5 15
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages 2,370 1,805 10 190 365
Amharic 265 240 5 10 10
Arabic 1,775 1,290 5 175 300
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 35 15 0 0 15
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 90 80 0 5 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 200 155 0 0 40
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 5 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 2,445 2,045 5 70 325
Khmer (Cambodian) 70 55 0 5 5
Vietnamese 2,370 1,980 0 65 315
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 9,335 9,150 0 105 85
Bikol 30 30 0 0 0
Cebuano 360 350 0 0 5
Fijian 35 35 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 170 165 0 0 5
Ilocano 420 415 0 0 5
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 660 630 0 15 20
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 80 80 0 5 0
Pangasinan 10 15 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 7,435 7,305 5 75 55
Waray-Waray 40 40 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 85 85 0 0 0
Creole languages 55 25 0 25 5
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 5
Creole, n.o.s. 30 10 0 25 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 5 0
Dravidian languages 845 780 5 25 40
Kannada 60 50 0 0 5
Malayalam 165 155 0 5 5
Tamil 430 390 5 10 25
Telugu 195 180 0 5 5
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 5 5 0 0 5
Indo-European languages 37,805 33,700 25 2,065 2,010
Albanian 235 200 0 15 15
Armenian 145 115 0 15 15
Balto-Slavic languages 8,895 7,975 5 515 405
Baltic languages 30 25 0 5 0
Latvian 15 15 0 0 0
Lithuanian 15 15 0 0 0
Slavic languages 8,870 7,945 0 515 405
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 330 310 0 5 20
Bulgarian 195 160 0 25 5
Croatian 1,540 1,460 0 40 40
Czech 275 250 0 20 0
Macedonian 45 45 0 5 0
Polish 1,010 940 0 35 25
Russian 2,655 2,245 5 210 190
Serbian 1,855 1,645 0 120 90
Serbo-Croatian 235 215 0 15 5
Slovak 200 190 0 5 5
Slovene (Slovenian) 60 60 0 5 0
Ukrainian 440 395 0 25 15
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 30 30 0 0 0
Celtic languages 15 15 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 10 10 0 0 0
Welsh 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages 2,160 1,965 5 180 10
Afrikaans 55 55 0 0 0
Danish 125 115 0 5 5
Dutch 330 300 0 25 0
Frisian 5 5 0 0 0
German 1,505 1,370 0 135 5
Icelandic 5 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 50 45 0 0 0
Swedish 75 70 0 10 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 5 10 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Greek 480 430 0 30 15
Indo-Iranian languages 15,070 13,590 5 370 1,105
Indo-Aryan languages 10,405 9,510 0 195 695
Bengali 480 445 0 15 20
Gujarati 1,515 1,420 5 40 60
Hindi 2,040 1,940 0 35 70
Kashmiri 5 5 0 0 0
Konkani 15 15 0 5 0
Marathi 135 135 0 0 5
Nepali 80 70 0 0 5
Oriya (Odia) 20 20 0 5 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 4,995 4,415 0 70 510
Sindhi 440 420 0 10 15
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 125 120 0 0 5
Urdu 550 520 0 20 15
Iranian languages 4,640 4,050 0 175 415
Kurdish 420 360 0 10 55
Pashto 145 115 0 5 25
Persian (Farsi) 4,080 3,570 0 165 340
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 25 30 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 10,805 9,405 15 940 445
Catalan 10 5 0 5 5
Italian 3,975 3,585 5 260 125
Portuguese 1,825 1,595 5 130 95
Romanian 830 575 5 220 35
Spanish 4,160 3,645 10 325 180
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Japanese 2,285 2,050 0 60 180
Kartvelian languages 15 10 0 0 0
Georgian 10 10 0 0 0
Korean 7,005 5,915 5 100 990
Mongolic languages 55 40 0 0 20
Mongolian 60 40 0 5 20
Niger-Congo languages 365 275 5 85 10
Akan (Twi) 40 35 0 10 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 5 5 0 5 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 5 0 5 0
Ga 5 5 0 0 0
Ganda 10 10 0 0 0
Igbo 15 15 0 0 0
Lingala 15 0 0 10 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 5 0 5 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 15 5 0 10 0
Shona 30 25 0 5 0
Swahili 100 80 0 15 0
Wolof 5 5 0 5 0
Yoruba 25 20 0 5 5
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 90 65 0 25 5
Nilo-Saharan languages 60 60 0 5 0
Dinka 35 40 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 0 0
Sign languages 75 30 0 5 35
American Sign Language 35 15 0 0 15
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 5 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 35 15 0 0 20
Sino-Tibetan languages 64,125 51,535 5 945 11,630
Chinese languages 63,975 51,400 10 945 11,615
Cantonese 27,380 21,910 5 365 5,100
Hakka 380 310 0 10 55
Mandarin 32,295 26,075 5 525 5,695
Min Dong 40 30 0 0 5
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 1,745 1,375 0 15 355
Wu (Shanghainese) 785 555 0 15 215
Chinese, n.o.s. 1,320 1,110 0 15 190
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 35 25 0 0 10
Tibeto-Burman languages 150 130 5 0 15
Burmese 75 75 0 0 5
Karenic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Tibetan 50 40 0 0 5
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 25 15 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 285 270 0 10 5
Lao 45 40 0 0 0
Thai 235 225 0 5 5
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 465 410 0 15 35
Azerbaijani 65 55 0 5 5
Turkish 275 250 0 5 20
Uyghur 70 55 0 0 10
Uzbek 15 15 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 35 35 0 0 0
Uralic languages 830 775 0 40 15
Estonian 45 45 0 0 5
Finnish 180 175 0 5 5
Hungarian 605 555 0 30 15
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 50 45 0 0 5
Multiple responses 8,700 7,745 5 880 60
English and French 375 80 0 295 0
English and non-official language 8,000 7,585 5 350 60
French and non-official language 165 45 5 115 5
English, French and non-official language 160 40 0 120 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) – Burnaby, 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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