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 Abbotsford, 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 1 139,250 125,175 35 6,155 7,890
Single responses 135,815 122,125 30 5,810 7,855
Official languages 90,585 85,715 15 4,805 45
English 89,550 85,550 5 3,955 45
French 1,030 170 10 850 0
Non-official languages 45,235 36,405 15 1,005 7,805
Aboriginal languages 25 25 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 15 20 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 15 10 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 5 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 10 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 5 0 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 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 5 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 0 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 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 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) 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 5 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 45,205 36,385 15 1,005 7,805
Afro-Asiatic languages 400 280 0 40 85
Berber languages 0 5 0 0 0
Kabyle 5 0 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 5 5 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 385 265 0 40 80
Amharic 5 5 0 0 0
Arabic 340 230 0 30 80
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 10 5 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 20 15 0 5 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 885 720 0 10 150
Khmer (Cambodian) 35 25 0 0 5
Vietnamese 850 695 0 15 140
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 1,075 1,060 0 10 10
Bikol 10 10 0 0 0
Cebuano 55 50 0 0 0
Fijian 15 15 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 15 10 0 0 0
Ilocano 55 60 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 40 40 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 875 855 0 10 5
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 10 15 0 0 0
Creole languages 50 25 0 25 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 35 10 0 25 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 135 125 0 0 5
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 70 65 0 0 0
Tamil 20 25 0 0 0
Telugu 40 35 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 5 5 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 38,820 30,875 15 810 7,125
Albanian 65 70 0 0 0
Armenian 25 25 0 0 5
Balto-Slavic languages 1,295 1,180 0 55 60
Baltic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Latvian 10 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0 0
Slavic languages 1,285 1,170 0 50 65
Belarusan 5 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 45 35 0 0 5
Bulgarian 25 25 0 0 0
Croatian 60 55 0 0 5
Czech 85 85 0 5 0
Macedonian 5 0 0 0 0
Polish 305 285 0 15 5
Russian 415 365 0 10 35
Serbian 40 35 0 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 10 5 0 0 5
Slovak 45 40 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 15 15 0 0 0
Ukrainian 235 210 0 10 10
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 5 5 0 0 0
Welsh 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 6,280 6,115 0 135 25
Afrikaans 115 105 0 10 5
Danish 130 130 0 5 0
Dutch 1,285 1,255 0 35 0
Frisian 35 30 0 5 0
German 4,585 4,485 5 75 25
Icelandic 10 10 0 0 0
Norwegian 45 45 0 0 0
Swedish 50 50 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 10 5 0 5 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 5 0
Greek 65 55 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages 29,305 21,940 5 445 6,915
Indo-Aryan languages 29,010 21,695 5 430 6,875
Bengali 15 10 0 5 0
Gujarati 75 70 0 0 5
Hindi 590 540 0 10 35
Kashmiri 5 0 0 0 0
Konkani 5 5 0 0 0
Marathi 10 10 0 0 0
Nepali 15 15 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 28,055 20,810 10 405 6,825
Sindhi 10 10 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 30 30 0 0 0
Urdu 210 200 0 5 5
Iranian languages 280 225 0 15 35
Kurdish 55 40 0 5 15
Pashto 5 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 215 185 0 15 20
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 1,775 1,485 5 170 115
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 180 155 5 20 5
Portuguese 180 165 0 15 0
Romanian 235 190 5 30 15
Spanish 1,170 970 5 100 100
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Japanese 205 185 0 0 15
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 1,135 980 0 25 130
Mongolic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Mongolian 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 105 95 0 10 5
Akan (Twi) 15 10 0 5 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 5 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) 5 0 0 5 0
Shona 0 5 0 0 0
Swahili 35 30 0 5 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 15 20 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 30 30 0 0 5
Nilo-Saharan languages 25 25 0 0 0
Dinka 15 10 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 0
Sign languages 45 25 0 0 20
American Sign Language 15 10 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 25 15 0 0 15
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,640 1,365 0 40 240
Chinese languages 1,635 1,355 0 40 235
Cantonese 520 440 0 10 75
Hakka 25 20 0 0 5
Mandarin 955 790 0 25 140
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 55 40 0 5 5
Wu (Shanghainese) 10 5 0 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 75 65 0 5 10
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 5 5 0 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0 0
Karenic languages 0 5 0 0 0
Tibetan 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 250 215 0 15 15
Lao 205 170 0 10 15
Thai 45 45 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 55 40 0 10 5
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 50 40 0 10 5
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Uralic languages 360 350 0 5 0
Estonian 15 10 0 0 0
Finnish 95 95 0 0 0
Hungarian 255 245 0 5 5
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 15 5 0 0 5
Multiple responses 3,435 3,055 0 345 40
English and French 200 55 0 140 0
English and non-official language 3,135 2,965 0 130 35
French and non-official language 55 15 5 35 0
English, French and non-official language 50 10 0 40 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) – Abbotsford, CY

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 4.1%.
  • 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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