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 Comox 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 65,930 59,655 50 6,055 170
Single responses 65,395 59,335 45 5,845 165
Official languages 61,145 55,525 50 5,560 10
English 59,560 55,425 0 4,125 10
French 1,585 105 45 1,430 0
Non-official languages 4,255 3,805 5 285 155
Aboriginal languages 35 30 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 10 10 0 0 5
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 0 5 0 0 0
Southern East Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Swampy Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Woods Cree 0 5 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0
Eastern Algonquian languages 5 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 5 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 5 0 0 0
Northern Athabaskan languages 0 5 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 5 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 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 5 0 0 0
Comox 5 5 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 0 0 0 0
Siouan languages 5 5 0 0 0
Dakota 5 5 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 10 10 0 0 0
Haisla 0 0 0 0 0
Heiltsuk 0 0 0 0 0
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala) 5 5 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. 0 0 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 4,220 3,775 0 290 150
Afro-Asiatic languages 25 20 5 5 5
Berber languages 0 0 0 0 0
Kabyle 5 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 25 25 0 0 5
Amharic 5 0 0 0 0
Arabic 15 10 0 5 5
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0 0
Maltese 0 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 165 130 0 5 25
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 165 130 0 5 25
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 250 245 0 0 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 35 40 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 5 5 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 5 5 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 185 185 0 0 0
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Creole languages 5 5 0 5 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 10 10 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 0 0 0 0
Tamil 10 10 0 0 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 2,830 2,560 0 240 25
Albanian 5 5 0 0 0
Armenian 10 10 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 430 395 0 35 5
Baltic languages 10 10 0 5 0
Latvian 5 5 0 5 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 425 390 0 35 5
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 10 10 0 5 0
Croatian 20 20 0 0 0
Czech 55 50 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 105 95 0 10 0
Russian 70 55 0 10 5
Serbian 5 10 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 5 0 0 0
Slovak 20 20 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 10 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 115 110 0 5 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages 15 10 0 5 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 1,745 1,595 0 145 5
Afrikaans 60 55 0 0 0
Danish 105 100 0 5 0
Dutch 390 355 0 30 0
Frisian 5 5 0 5 0
German 1,090 985 0 100 5
Icelandic 0 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 30 30 0 0 0
Swedish 50 45 0 5 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 10 5 0 0 0
Yiddish 5 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 20 15 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages 200 190 0 5 10
Indo-Aryan languages 160 155 0 0 5
Bengali 5 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 20 20 0 5 5
Hindi 35 35 0 0 5
Kashmiri 5 5 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 5 0 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 80 80 0 0 0
Sindhi 5 5 0 0 5
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0 0
Urdu 10 5 0 0 0
Iranian languages 35 30 0 0 0
Kurdish 5 5 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 30 30 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 405 350 0 45 10
Catalan 5 0 0 0 0
Italian 105 90 0 15 0
Portuguese 65 55 0 5 5
Romanian 20 10 0 5 0
Spanish 220 190 0 25 5
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 110 95 0 10 5
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 160 135 0 0 25
Mongolic languages 0 5 0 0 0
Mongolian 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 35 30 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 5 5 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 5 5 0 0 0
Lingala 5 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 5 5 0 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 0 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 15 10 0 0 5
American Sign Language 5 5 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 10 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 405 340 0 5 60
Chinese languages 405 340 0 5 60
Cantonese 205 170 0 5 30
Hakka 10 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 150 125 0 0 20
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 15 10 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 5 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 25 25 0 0 0
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
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 35 30 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 5
Thai 35 30 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 15 15 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 5 0 0 0 0
Turkish 10 10 0 5 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 150 135 0 15 0
Estonian 10 10 0 5 0
Finnish 75 70 0 5 0
Hungarian 60 55 0 5 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 535 320 0 205 0
English and French 190 35 0 155 0
English and non-official language 320 285 0 30 5
French and non-official language 15 0 0 15 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 5 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) – Comox Valley

  • 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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