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 Whitehorse, 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 24,780 20,890 65 3,700 130
Single responses 24,325 20,635 60 3,505 130
Official languages 21,500 18,135 60 3,310 5
English 20,440 18,085 0 2,345 5
French 1,060 45 55 955 0
Non-official languages 2,830 2,500 5 200 130
Aboriginal languages 150 140 0 10 0
Algonquian languages 10 5 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 10 5 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 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. 10 5 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 105 100 0 10 0
Northern Athabaskan languages 105 100 0 5 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 5 5 0 0 0
Dogrib (Tlicho) 0 0 0 0 0
Gwich'in 45 35 0 0 0
Sarsi (Sarcee) 0 0 0 0 0
Sekani 0 0 0 0 0
Slavey-Hare languages 0 5 0 0 0
North Slavey (Hare) 5 0 0 0 0
South Slavey 0 0 0 0 0
Slavey, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0
Tahltan languages 10 15 0 0 0
Kaska (Nahani) 10 10 0 0 0
Tahltan 0 0 0 0 0
Tutchone languages 45 45 0 0 0
Northern Tutchone 20 20 0 0 0
Southern Tutchone 25 20 0 0 0
Athabaskan languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Haida 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages 15 15 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 5 5 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 5 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 5 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 5 0 0 5 0
Salish languages 0 0 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. 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 15 15 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 2,675 2,360 0 190 125
Afro-Asiatic languages 45 30 0 5 15
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 5 10 0 0 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 5 0 0 0 0
Somali 5 5 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 35 15 0 5 10
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 30 10 0 5 10
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 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 55 45 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 55 45 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 890 855 0 25 10
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 70 65 0 5 0
Fijian 10 10 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 30 30 0 0 0
Ilocano 30 35 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 15 15 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 5 5 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 725 700 0 20 10
Waray-Waray 5 5 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Creole languages 20 10 0 15 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 15 0 0 15 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 50 50 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 20 20 0 5 0
Tamil 20 20 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 1,065 935 0 110 10
Albanian 10 10 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 205 185 0 20 5
Baltic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Latvian 5 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0 0
Slavic languages 200 180 0 20 5
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 0 0 0 0
Croatian 10 5 0 5 0
Czech 30 30 0 5 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 35 35 0 5 0
Russian 65 55 0 5 5
Serbian 5 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0 0
Slovak 5 5 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 10 10 0 5 0
Ukrainian 30 30 0 5 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 450 385 5 65 0
Afrikaans 10 5 0 5 0
Danish 10 10 0 0 0
Dutch 65 60 0 5 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 345 295 0 45 0
Icelandic 5 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0 0
Swedish 10 5 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 0 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 5 5 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages 205 195 0 5 5
Indo-Aryan languages 175 165 0 5 5
Bengali 20 15 0 5 0
Gujarati 15 15 0 0 0
Hindi 30 35 0 0 0
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 5 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 75 75 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0 0
Urdu 20 25 0 5 0
Iranian languages 25 20 0 5 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 25 20 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 185 155 0 25 0
Catalan 5 0 0 0 0
Italian 15 15 0 5 0
Portuguese 10 10 0 5 0
Romanian 15 10 0 0 0
Spanish 140 125 0 15 5
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 85 80 0 5 5
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 45 45 0 0 0
Mongolic languages 5 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 5 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 15 15 0 5 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 0 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 5 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 5 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 10 5 0 0 5
American Sign Language 5 10 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 5 0 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 310 220 0 15 80
Chinese languages 315 220 0 15 80
Cantonese 195 125 0 5 65
Hakka 5 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 90 70 0 5 15
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 15 15 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 0 5 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 10 10 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 15 15 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 20 15 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 5 0 0 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 55 50 0 5 0
Estonian 0 5 0 0 0
Finnish 15 15 0 0 0
Hungarian 40 35 0 5 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 450 255 5 190 0
English and French 170 20 5 150 0
English and non-official language 255 230 0 20 0
French and non-official language 15 0 0 10 0
English, French and non-official language 15 5 0 10 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) – Whitehorse, CY

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 5.1%.
  • Short-form income data quality flag
    Data quality index showing a short-form income non-response rate higher than or equal to 10%, but lower than 20%.

Source: Statistics Canada, 2016 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-400-X2016054.

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