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 Region 6
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 19,925 16,515 55 3,275 80
Single responses 19,375 16,115 55 3,135 80
Official languages 16,325 13,365 50 2,910 0
English 15,455 13,340 0 2,115 0
French 870 25 50 790 0
Non-official languages 3,055 2,750 5 225 80
Aboriginal languages 665 650 0 10 10
Algonquian languages 25 25 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 15 15 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 5 0 0 0
Plains Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Southern East Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Swampy Cree 5 0 0 0 0
Woods Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 10 10 0 0 0
Eastern Algonquian languages 0 5 0 0 0
Malecite 5 5 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 5 5 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 5 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 535 520 0 5 5
Northern Athabaskan languages 540 520 0 5 10
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 100 95 0 5 0
Dogrib (Tlicho) 305 300 0 5 5
Gwich'in 10 10 0 0 0
Sarsi (Sarcee) 0 0 0 0 0
Sekani 0 0 0 0 0
Slavey-Hare languages 115 115 0 0 0
North Slavey (Hare) 75 70 0 0 0
South Slavey 20 20 0 0 0
Slavey, n.o.s. 25 25 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 95 95 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 15 20 0 0 0
Inuktitut 70 70 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages 5 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 0 0 0 0 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 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. 5 5 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 2,385 2,100 5 215 70
Afro-Asiatic languages 170 140 5 25 5
Berber languages 5 5 0 0 0
Kabyle 0 0 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 5 0
Cushitic languages 45 45 0 5 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 45 45 0 5 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 120 90 0 20 5
Amharic 20 20 0 0 0
Arabic 80 55 0 25 5
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 5 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 20 15 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 160 135 0 5 20
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 155 135 0 5 15
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 740 720 0 10 5
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 55 55 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 10 5 0 5 0
Ilocano 70 70 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 5 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 595 580 0 5 5
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Creole languages 35 10 0 25 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 20 5 5 20 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 5 0
Dravidian languages 55 45 0 10 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 25 20 0 5 0
Tamil 20 15 0 5 0
Telugu 10 10 0 5 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 805 690 0 100 15
Albanian 5 5 0 0 0
Armenian 45 40 0 0 5
Balto-Slavic languages 165 145 0 15 5
Baltic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 165 140 0 20 5
Belarusan 5 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 10 10 0 0 0
Croatian 15 10 0 0 0
Czech 15 5 0 5 0
Macedonian 10 5 0 0 0
Polish 25 30 0 0 0
Russian 30 25 0 5 0
Serbian 10 10 0 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0 0
Slovak 20 15 0 0 5
Slovene (Slovenian) 5 5 0 5 0
Ukrainian 20 15 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 205 170 0 35 0
Afrikaans 15 15 0 0 0
Danish 5 0 0 0 0
Dutch 45 35 0 10 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 125 105 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 220 200 0 15 0
Indo-Aryan languages 185 175 0 10 5
Bengali 50 50 0 5 0
Gujarati 10 10 0 0 0
Hindi 25 25 0 0 0
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Nepali 15 10 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 35 35 0 0 0
Sindhi 5 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0 0
Urdu 35 35 0 0 0
Iranian languages 30 25 0 5 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 25 20 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Italic (Romance) languages 140 105 0 25 10
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 40 25 0 10 5
Portuguese 15 5 0 5 0
Romanian 10 5 0 0 0
Spanish 85 70 0 10 5
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 55 45 0 5 5
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 25 15 0 0 5
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 115 100 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) 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 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 5 0 0 5 0
Shona 35 35 0 5 0
Swahili 0 5 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 5 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 50 50 0 5 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 5 0 0 0 0
Dinka 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Sign languages 5 0 0 0 5
American Sign Language 0 5 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 195 170 0 10 10
Chinese languages 190 165 0 15 10
Cantonese 95 90 0 5 0
Hakka 5 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 55 45 0 5 5
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 5 5 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 35 25 0 5 5
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 5 5 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 0 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 25 15 0 5 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 10 5 0 0 0
Hungarian 15 10 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 545 400 5 145 0
English and French 120 15 0 100 0
English and non-official language 410 380 0 25 0
French and non-official language 10 0 0 10 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 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) – Region 6

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 6.4%.
  • 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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