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 Sherbrooke, V
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 1 159,195 2,190 86,730 69,185 1,085
Single responses 157,130 2,140 86,230 67,695 1,070
Official languages 146,875 1,410 81,830 63,605 30
English 6,215 1,390 85 4,735 5
French 140,665 25 81,745 58,875 20
Non-official languages 10,250 725 4,395 4,090 1,045
Aboriginal languages 5 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 5 0 0 5 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 5 0 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 0 0 0 0 0
Woods Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 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 5 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 0 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 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 0 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 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. 0 0 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 10,245 720 4,395 4,085 1,045
Afro-Asiatic languages 1,925 100 790 770 265
Berber languages 145 5 85 55 5
Kabyle 100 0 60 35 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 45 0 25 20 5
Cushitic languages 10 0 5 5 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 10 0 5 5 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 1,730 100 685 695 255
Amharic 5 0 0 0 0
Arabic 1,685 95 680 685 230
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 5 5 0 0 5
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 0 0 10 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 0 0 5 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 25 0 0 5 20
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 35 0 20 10 10
Austro-Asiatic languages 235 10 90 110 25
Khmer (Cambodian) 55 0 25 25 5
Vietnamese 175 10 60 90 20
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 5 0 5 0 0
Austronesian languages 65 15 15 40 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 10 5 0 10 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 0 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 20 0 10 5 0
Malay 5 0 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 25 10 0 15 0
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Creole languages 130 0 75 50 5
Haitian Creole 10 0 5 5 0
Creole, n.o.s. 115 0 65 45 5
Creole languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Dravidian languages 25 20 0 10 0
Kannada 10 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 10 5 0 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 5 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 6,325 395 2,760 2,590 580
Albanian 20 0 5 15 0
Armenian 10 0 0 10 0
Balto-Slavic languages 1,335 35 655 585 65
Baltic languages 5 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 1,335 30 655 585 60
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 190 5 115 65 5
Bulgarian 25 0 15 10 0
Croatian 50 0 15 25 5
Czech 15 0 5 15 0
Macedonian 5 0 0 0 0
Polish 115 5 40 65 0
Russian 155 5 60 80 5
Serbian 385 5 200 165 25
Serbo-Croatian 340 5 185 130 20
Slovak 15 5 10 5 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 5 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 35 0 10 20 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 15 0 5 5 0
Celtic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 0 0
Germanic languages 185 30 15 145 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0 0
Dutch 35 5 5 25 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 130 20 10 105 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 0 0 5 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 5 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 60 5 5 50 5
Indo-Iranian languages 1,570 260 420 505 385
Indo-Aryan languages 265 55 35 100 80
Bengali 15 10 0 10 0
Gujarati 5 0 5 0 0
Hindi 15 5 5 5 0
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0 0
Nepali 185 15 30 70 75
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 10 10 0 5 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0 0
Urdu 25 10 0 5 0
Iranian languages 1,300 200 380 405 305
Kurdish 25 0 15 5 5
Pashto 50 15 0 5 25
Persian (Farsi) 1,225 185 370 400 275
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 3,130 70 1,660 1,285 120
Catalan 10 0 5 5 0
Italian 145 5 45 95 0
Portuguese 225 15 85 115 5
Romanian 155 5 50 100 0
Spanish 2,600 45 1,470 965 115
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 40 15 0 15 5
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 30 15 5 10 5
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 970 15 545 300 110
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 20 0 15 10 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 20 0 10 10 5
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 10 0 0 5 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 5 0 0 5 0
Lingala 50 0 35 15 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 175 0 90 50 30
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 110 0 50 55 5
Shona 0 0 0 0 0
Swahili 200 5 120 45 25
Wolof 85 5 30 50 5
Yoruba 0 0 0 5 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 290 5 195 50 40
Nilo-Saharan languages 40 0 25 10 5
Dinka 0 0 0 5 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 35 0 30 5 5
Sign languages 20 0 10 0 10
American Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 10 0 10 0 5
Sign languages, n.i.e 15 0 5 5 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 335 145 40 115 35
Chinese languages 340 145 40 115 35
Cantonese 50 20 5 20 5
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 250 105 35 80 30
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 0 0 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 5 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 35 15 0 15 5
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 5 5 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 25 0 10 15 0
Lao 15 0 5 10 0
Thai 10 0 5 5 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 50 5 25 20 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 5 0
Turkish 45 0 20 20 5
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 5 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Uralic languages 30 0 5 20 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 5 0
Hungarian 20 0 5 20 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 5 0
Multiple responses 2,065 55 505 1,490 15
English and French 1,175 10 90 1,075 0
English and non-official language 115 40 5 65 5
French and non-official language 700 5 410 280 10
English, French and non-official language 75 0 10 70 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) – Sherbrooke, V

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 4.2%.
  • 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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