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 Victoria, 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 83,030 71,575 30 10,755 670
Single responses 81,605 70,565 30 10,350 665
Official languages 70,065 60,640 20 9,385 15
English 68,475 60,515 0 7,935 20
French 1,595 125 20 1,450 0
Non-official languages 11,540 9,920 5 965 650
Aboriginal languages 45 40 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 10 10 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 10 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 5 5 0 0 0
Southern East Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Swampy Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Woods Cree 5 5 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 5 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 5 5 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 5 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 5 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 10 10 0 5 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 10 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) 5 0 0 0 0
Nisga'a 5 0 0 0 0
Tsimshian 0 0 0 0 0
Wakashan languages 10 10 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) 10 10 0 0 0
Wakashan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.o.s. 5 0 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 11,495 9,885 5 960 650
Afro-Asiatic languages 595 450 5 70 80
Berber languages 5 0 0 0 5
Kabyle 5 5 0 0 5
Berber languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 35 40 0 0 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 10 15 0 0 0
Somali 25 25 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 555 410 0 65 80
Amharic 50 45 0 0 5
Arabic 440 305 0 60 75
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 30 25 0 5 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 30 30 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 235 215 0 10 10
Khmer (Cambodian) 30 30 0 0 0
Vietnamese 205 190 0 5 10
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 1,205 1,170 0 25 10
Bikol 5 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 80 75 0 0 0
Fijian 5 5 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 15 10 0 5 0
Ilocano 70 65 0 0 5
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 30 25 0 5 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 5 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 995 965 0 25 5
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Creole languages 15 5 0 5 0
Haitian Creole 5 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 10 5 0 0 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 100 90 0 0 0
Kannada 0 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 35 35 0 0 0
Tamil 35 30 0 0 0
Telugu 25 20 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 5,440 4,610 0 730 100
Albanian 40 35 0 0 0
Armenian 15 5 0 5 0
Balto-Slavic languages 1,215 1,045 0 145 30
Baltic languages 30 25 0 5 0
Latvian 15 15 0 0 0
Lithuanian 15 10 0 5 0
Slavic languages 1,180 1,020 0 135 30
Belarusan 5 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 10 10 0 0 0
Bulgarian 30 25 0 5 5
Croatian 70 65 0 5 0
Czech 100 85 0 15 0
Macedonian 5 0 0 0 0
Polish 330 285 0 40 10
Russian 330 280 0 35 15
Serbian 55 50 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 30 20 0 5 0
Slovak 35 35 0 5 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 15 15 0 0 0
Ukrainian 160 140 0 25 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages 20 15 0 5 0
Scottish Gaelic 10 10 0 0 0
Welsh 10 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages 1,635 1,365 0 270 0
Afrikaans 30 25 0 0 0
Danish 80 80 0 5 0
Dutch 395 320 0 75 0
Frisian 5 0 0 0 0
German 990 825 0 165 5
Icelandic 10 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 45 45 0 0 0
Swedish 65 50 0 10 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 5 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 15 10 0 5 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 5 0
Greek 75 60 0 10 0
Indo-Iranian languages 1,005 930 0 55 25
Indo-Aryan languages 655 605 0 30 20
Bengali 25 25 0 0 0
Gujarati 35 30 0 5 0
Hindi 125 125 0 0 0
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0 0
Nepali 20 15 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 315 290 0 15 10
Sindhi 25 20 0 5 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 20 20 0 5 0
Urdu 80 75 0 5 0
Iranian languages 330 300 0 20 5
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 15 15 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 310 280 0 20 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 1,430 1,160 0 235 40
Catalan 5 0 0 0 0
Italian 210 170 0 35 0
Portuguese 265 225 0 35 10
Romanian 80 55 0 30 0
Spanish 870 710 0 135 30
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Japanese 475 445 0 20 15
Kartvelian languages 0 5 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 430 390 0 10 30
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 85 70 0 10 0
Akan (Twi) 5 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) 5 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 5 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 5 5 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 10 5 0 5 0
Shona 10 10 0 0 0
Swahili 15 10 0 0 0
Wolof 5 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 30 25 0 5 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 0 5 0 0 0
Dinka 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages 25 15 0 5 10
American Sign Language 15 10 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 15 5 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 2,460 2,020 5 50 390
Chinese languages 2,445 2,000 0 45 390
Cantonese 1,140 860 0 25 250
Hakka 5 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 1,105 975 0 20 110
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 35 35 0 5 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 25 20 0 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 135 110 0 0 20
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 15 15 0 0 0
Burmese 10 10 0 0 0
Karenic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Tibetan 5 5 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 105 100 0 0 5
Lao 0 5 0 0 0
Thai 100 95 0 0 5
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 65 55 0 10 5
Azerbaijani 5 5 0 0 0
Turkish 60 50 0 10 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 245 225 0 20 5
Estonian 15 10 0 5 0
Finnish 55 50 0 5 0
Hungarian 175 160 0 15 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 5 0
Multiple responses 1,420 1,010 5 405 5
English and French 295 45 0 250 0
English and non-official language 1,040 945 0 90 5
French and non-official language 50 5 0 40 0
English, French and non-official language 40 10 0 30 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) – Victoria, CY

  • 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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