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 West Vancouver, DM
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 42,050 35,690 20 4,695 1,650
Single responses 41,275 35,085 20 4,535 1,635
Official languages 25,835 22,450 10 3,345 30
English 25,360 22,420 0 2,905 30
French 475 30 10 440 0
Non-official languages 15,445 12,635 10 1,190 1,610
Aboriginal languages 5 5 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 0 0 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 0 0 0 0 0
Woods Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 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 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 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 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) 0 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 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 15,440 12,630 10 1,190 1,610
Afro-Asiatic languages 185 135 0 40 10
Berber languages 0 0 0 0 0
Kabyle 0 0 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
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 185 135 0 40 10
Amharic 5 0 0 0 0
Arabic 155 110 0 40 5
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 10 5 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 5 0 5 0
Hebrew 15 15 0 0 0
Maltese 5 0 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 35 30 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 35 35 0 5 0
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 340 335 0 0 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 10 10 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 5 5 0 0 0
Ilocano 10 10 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 25 20 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 5 5 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 290 295 0 0 0
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Creole languages 5 0 0 5 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 5 0 0 0 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 15 10 0 5 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0 0
Tamil 10 5 0 5 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 7,465 6,345 5 875 235
Albanian 5 5 0 0 0
Armenian 60 45 0 15 0
Balto-Slavic languages 1,045 890 0 125 30
Baltic languages 25 20 0 5 0
Latvian 20 15 0 5 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0 0
Slavic languages 1,020 865 0 120 30
Belarusan 5 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 15 10 0 5 0
Bulgarian 25 20 0 0 0
Croatian 65 55 0 5 5
Czech 125 100 0 20 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 205 175 0 25 5
Russian 335 265 0 40 20
Serbian 60 50 0 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0 0
Slovak 60 60 0 5 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 15 15 0 0 0
Ukrainian 95 90 0 10 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 5 0 0 0 0
Welsh 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages 1,335 1,085 0 250 0
Afrikaans 80 70 0 10 0
Danish 110 100 0 10 0
Dutch 180 125 0 60 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 835 685 0 150 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 50 45 0 5 0
Swedish 65 55 0 5 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 5 5 0 5 0
Yiddish 5 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Greek 65 55 0 10 0
Indo-Iranian languages 4,135 3,625 5 310 200
Indo-Aryan languages 350 315 0 35 5
Bengali 10 5 0 5 0
Gujarati 115 110 0 5 0
Hindi 45 40 0 5 0
Kashmiri 0 5 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 5 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 75 75 0 5 5
Sindhi 60 50 0 10 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0 0
Urdu 40 40 0 0 0
Iranian languages 3,785 3,310 5 275 195
Kurdish 20 15 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 3,765 3,295 5 280 195
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 810 630 5 165 10
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 270 205 0 65 5
Portuguese 80 55 0 15 0
Romanian 55 40 0 15 5
Spanish 400 335 0 65 0
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Japanese 250 235 0 10 5
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 615 535 0 20 55
Mongolic languages 0 5 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 10 5 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 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 5 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 5 0 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Dinka 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages 0 0 0 0 0
American Sign Language 5 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 6,185 4,710 5 175 1,290
Chinese languages 6,185 4,715 5 175 1,295
Cantonese 885 760 0 40 85
Hakka 15 15 0 0 0
Mandarin 4,965 3,690 5 125 1,145
Min Dong 5 0 0 0 5
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 105 85 0 5 15
Wu (Shanghainese) 75 60 0 5 15
Chinese, n.o.s. 120 90 0 5 25
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 15 5 0 5 5
Tibeto-Burman languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 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 20 20 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 20 20 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 140 110 0 20 5
Azerbaijani 20 20 0 0 0
Turkish 110 85 0 20 5
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Uralic languages 180 150 0 35 0
Estonian 30 25 0 5 0
Finnish 55 50 0 5 0
Hungarian 95 75 0 20 5
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Multiple responses 775 600 0 165 10
English and French 70 15 0 55 0
English and non-official language 650 575 0 65 10
French and non-official language 25 5 5 20 0
English, French and non-official language 25 5 0 20 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) – West Vancouver, DM

  • 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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