Data tables, 2016 Census

Mother Tongue (269), Knowledge of Official Languages (5) and Sex (3) for the Population Excluding Institutional Residents of Canada, Provinces and Territories, Census Divisions, Census Subdivisions and Dissemination Areas, 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 and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Halifax
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 1 399,570 347,435 340 49,585 2,210
Single responses 394,425 344,320 330 47,585 2,190
Official languages 363,560 318,155 290 45,045 75
English 353,415 317,530 5 35,810 70
French 10,140 625 275 9,240 0
Non-official languages 30,860 26,165 35 2,540 2,115
Aboriginal languages 75 70 0 10 0
Algonquian languages 60 55 0 5 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 5 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 0 0 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. 0 5 0 0 0
Eastern Algonquian languages 55 45 0 5 0
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 50 45 0 5 0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 5 5 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 0 0 0 0 0
Northern Athabaskan languages 5 0 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 5 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 10 10 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 10 10 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 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 30,790 26,100 35 2,535 2,115
Afro-Asiatic languages 7,020 5,325 15 710 975
Berber languages 5 5 0 5 0
Kabyle 5 5 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Cushitic languages 115 100 0 5 10
Bilen 5 0 0 0 0
Oromo 55 50 0 5 0
Somali 50 45 0 0 5
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages 6,890 5,220 10 695 965
Amharic 105 105 0 0 0
Arabic 6,425 4,825 10 675 920
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 5 5 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 5 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 5 0 0 0
Hebrew 195 175 0 10 10
Maltese 5 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 140 95 5 10 30
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 5
Austro-Asiatic languages 405 335 0 30 40
Khmer (Cambodian) 10 5 0 5 0
Vietnamese 395 325 0 25 40
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 1,660 1,630 0 20 10
Bikol 5 5 0 0 0
Cebuano 105 105 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 20 15 0 5 0
Ilocano 45 45 0 0 0
Malagasy 5 0 0 0 0
Malay 35 35 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 15 10 0 0 0
Pangasinan 5 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 1,415 1,390 0 15 10
Waray-Waray 5 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 5 0
Creole languages 55 30 0 25 0
Haitian Creole 5 0 0 5 0
Creole, n.o.s. 30 20 5 15 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 25 15 0 10 0
Dravidian languages 875 820 0 30 20
Kannada 30 25 0 0 0
Malayalam 310 295 0 5 5
Tamil 255 245 0 15 10
Telugu 265 250 0 10 10
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 12,665 10,765 10 1,395 500
Albanian 250 225 0 5 15
Armenian 30 20 0 10 0
Balto-Slavic languages 2,790 2,420 5 275 90
Baltic languages 55 50 0 5 0
Latvian 25 20 0 0 0
Lithuanian 30 30 0 5 0
Slavic languages 2,730 2,365 5 270 90
Belarusan 10 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 115 105 0 10 5
Bulgarian 40 35 0 5 0
Croatian 190 160 0 20 0
Czech 140 110 0 30 5
Macedonian 15 15 0 0 0
Polish 590 510 0 70 5
Russian 1,150 1,000 0 85 65
Serbian 110 100 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 80 70 0 10 0
Slovak 85 70 0 15 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 20 20 0 0 0
Ukrainian 190 160 5 25 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 45 40 0 10 0
Scottish Gaelic 25 25 0 0 0
Welsh 15 15 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages 2,075 1,680 0 390 5
Afrikaans 75 75 0 5 0
Danish 95 90 0 10 0
Dutch 490 400 0 95 0
Frisian 5 5 0 0 0
German 1,200 960 0 240 5
Icelandic 35 25 0 5 0
Norwegian 75 60 0 10 0
Swedish 60 55 0 10 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 20 5 0 10 0
Yiddish 10 10 0 5 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 5 0
Greek 660 570 0 60 30
Indo-Iranian languages 4,300 3,845 0 160 290
Indo-Aryan languages 2,945 2,675 0 75 200
Bengali 440 420 0 15 5
Gujarati 170 165 0 5 0
Hindi 655 635 0 20 5
Kashmiri 10 5 0 0 0
Konkani 5 10 0 0 0
Marathi 60 65 0 0 0
Nepali 530 375 0 0 155
Oriya (Odia) 10 5 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 475 450 0 10 10
Sindhi 15 15 0 5 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 145 130 0 10 0
Urdu 440 405 0 15 20
Iranian languages 1,330 1,150 5 85 90
Kurdish 115 90 0 5 20
Pashto 70 60 0 5 5
Persian (Farsi) 1,145 1,000 0 75 70
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 2,510 1,960 5 485 65
Catalan 10 0 0 0 0
Italian 555 425 0 120 10
Portuguese 385 325 0 45 15
Romanian 190 115 0 65 5
Spanish 1,375 1,090 5 250 35
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Japanese 250 230 0 15 10
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 5 0 0 0 0
Korean 900 805 0 40 55
Mongolic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Mongolian 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 535 410 10 95 20
Akan (Twi) 35 35 0 0 0
Bamanankan 5 0 0 5 0
Edo 5 5 0 0 0
Ewe 35 25 0 10 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 5 0 0 0 0
Ga 5 10 0 0 0
Ganda 20 20 0 0 0
Igbo 30 30 0 0 0
Lingala 5 0 0 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 15 0 0 5 5
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 50 15 0 30 5
Shona 25 25 0 0 0
Swahili 120 85 5 20 15
Wolof 5 5 0 5 0
Yoruba 55 50 0 5 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 120 100 5 15 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 65 60 0 5 0
Dinka 15 10 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 55 50 0 5 0
Sign languages 115 70 0 0 45
American Sign Language 55 40 0 0 15
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 60 30 0 0 25
Sino-Tibetan languages 5,500 4,965 5 115 420
Chinese languages 5,480 4,945 0 110 415
Cantonese 930 775 0 35 120
Hakka 20 20 0 0 0
Mandarin 3,945 3,620 0 65 260
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 95 85 0 5 5
Wu (Shanghainese) 40 35 0 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 430 405 0 5 20
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 5
Tibeto-Burman languages 20 15 0 5 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0 0
Karenic languages 0 5 0 0 0
Tibetan 10 10 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 5 0
Tai-Kadai languages 90 85 0 5 0
Lao 5 0 0 5 0
Thai 85 85 0 5 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 390 340 0 30 20
Azerbaijani 10 15 0 0 0
Turkish 250 215 0 25 10
Uyghur 5 5 0 0 0
Uzbek 110 100 0 0 10
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Uralic languages 240 205 0 35 0
Estonian 30 25 0 5 0
Finnish 40 30 0 10 0
Hungarian 175 155 0 25 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0 5
Multiple responses 5,155 3,120 15 2,000 15
English and French 1,780 285 0 1,490 0
English and non-official language 3,040 2,755 0 265 20
French and non-official language 175 45 15 120 0
English, French and non-official language 160 30 0 125 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) – Halifax

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 3.7%.
  • 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-X2016055.

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