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 Northwest Territories / Territoires du Nord-Ouest
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 41,375 36,845 60 4,280 195
Single responses 40,560 36,205 55 4,105 195
Official languages 32,940 29,090 55 3,795 5
English 31,765 29,020 0 2,740 5
French 1,170 65 55 1,055 0
Non-official languages 7,625 7,120 5 310 190
Aboriginal languages 4,635 4,475 0 55 105
Algonquian languages 145 145 0 5 0
Blackfoot 5 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 130 125 0 5 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 5 5 0 0 0
Woods Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 120 120 0 5 0
Eastern Algonquian languages 5 5 0 0 0
Malecite 5 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 15 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 3,880 3,735 0 40 105
Northern Athabaskan languages 3,875 3,730 5 35 105
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 440 425 0 15 5
Dogrib (Tlicho) 1,600 1,540 0 0 55
Gwich'in 145 145 0 0 0
Sarsi (Sarcee) 0 0 0 0 0
Sekani 0 0 0 0 0
Slavey-Hare languages 1,690 1,625 0 20 45
North Slavey (Hare) 745 715 0 10 20
South Slavey 770 745 0 10 20
Slavey, n.o.s. 175 165 0 0 10
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 5 0 0 0
Haida 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages 595 585 0 10 5
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 470 465 0 5 5
Inuktitut 110 105 0 5 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages 0 5 0 0 0
Cayuga 0 0 0 0 0
Mohawk 5 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 10 5 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) 5 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 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 2,990 2,645 5 255 85
Afro-Asiatic languages 215 175 5 30 0
Berber languages 0 5 0 5 0
Kabyle 0 0 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 50 45 0 0 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 50 45 0 5 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 165 125 5 30 0
Amharic 25 20 0 0 0
Arabic 120 90 0 25 0
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 20 20 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 165 135 0 5 15
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 160 135 0 5 20
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 910 890 0 15 5
Bikol 5 5 0 0 0
Cebuano 60 60 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 15 15 0 5 0
Ilocano 75 65 0 0 5
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 5 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 5 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 745 730 0 10 10
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Creole languages 45 15 5 25 0
Haitian Creole 5 5 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 25 0 0 25 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 5 0
Dravidian languages 60 50 0 10 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 25 20 0 5 0
Tamil 20 15 0 5 0
Telugu 15 15 0 5 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 1,045 900 0 125 20
Albanian 5 5 0 0 0
Armenian 45 40 0 0 5
Balto-Slavic languages 220 190 0 25 5
Baltic languages 5 0 0 5 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 220 190 0 25 5
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 0 0 0 5
Bulgarian 10 5 0 0 5
Croatian 20 15 0 5 0
Czech 15 10 0 10 0
Macedonian 10 10 0 0 0
Polish 45 45 0 0 0
Russian 40 30 0 5 5
Serbian 10 10 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 5 0 0 0
Slovak 25 20 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 5 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 30 25 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 10 5 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 5 0 0 0 0
Welsh 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 270 235 0 35 0
Afrikaans 15 15 0 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 0 0
Dutch 55 50 0 10 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 170 150 0 20 0
Icelandic 5 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0 0
Swedish 10 5 0 5 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 20 20 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 285 260 0 25 5
Indo-Aryan languages 250 225 0 15 0
Bengali 70 65 0 5 0
Gujarati 15 10 0 0 0
Hindi 40 40 0 0 0
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 5 0 0 0 0
Nepali 20 15 0 0 5
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 50 45 0 5 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0 0
Urdu 45 40 0 5 0
Iranian languages 35 25 0 5 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 30 25 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 190 145 0 35 10
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 55 40 0 10 0
Portuguese 25 15 0 15 0
Romanian 10 5 0 5 0
Spanish 110 85 0 10 5
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 65 50 0 5 5
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 40 30 0 5 5
Mongolic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Mongolian 5 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 140 120 0 15 0
Akan (Twi) 15 15 0 5 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 10 10 0 0 0
Igbo 0 0 0 0 0
Lingala 5 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 5 5 0 0 0
Shona 35 35 0 0 0
Swahili 5 5 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 55 50 0 5 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 5 0 0 0 0
Dinka 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Sign languages 5 0 0 0 5
American Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 5 0 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 250 215 0 15 20
Chinese languages 250 215 0 10 20
Cantonese 110 100 0 0 5
Hakka 0 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 60 50 0 5 5
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 0 5 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 70 55 0 5 10
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 5 5 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 10 5 0 5 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0 0
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 5 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Uralic languages 35 30 0 5 0
Estonian 5 0 0 0 0
Finnish 10 10 0 0 0
Hungarian 20 15 0 0 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 815 640 5 175 0
English and French 145 25 5 115 0
English and non-official language 630 595 0 30 0
French and non-official language 40 15 5 20 0
English, French and non-official language 10 5 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) – Northwest Territories / Territoires du Nord-Ouest

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 7.5%.
  • 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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