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 Delta, DM
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 1 101,415 90,605 25 7,190 3,585
Single responses 98,530 88,105 20 6,825 3,580
Official languages 67,940 62,105 10 5,790 35
English 67,085 62,020 0 5,030 35
French 845 75 10 760 0
Non-official languages 30,595 26,010 15 1,030 3,545
Aboriginal languages 15 15 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 0 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 5 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 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 5 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 0 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 5 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 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) 5 5 0 0 0
Squamish 0 0 0 0 0
Straits 0 0 0 0 0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 5 5 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 5 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 30,580 25,990 15 1,025 3,545
Afro-Asiatic languages 305 200 5 25 80
Berber languages 10 0 0 5 0
Kabyle 5 0 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Cushitic languages 15 15 0 0 5
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 5 0 0 0
Somali 15 10 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 290 190 5 20 75
Amharic 15 10 0 0 5
Arabic 225 135 5 20 70
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 5 5 0 0 5
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 5 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 30 30 0 0 0
Maltese 5 10 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 5 0 0 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 200 180 0 0 20
Khmer (Cambodian) 30 30 0 0 0
Vietnamese 170 150 0 0 20
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 1,860 1,830 0 15 20
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 85 85 0 5 0
Fijian 30 25 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 35 35 0 0 0
Ilocano 75 75 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 55 50 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 15 10 0 0 0
Pangasinan 5 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 1,555 1,525 0 15 15
Waray-Waray 5 5 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Creole languages 20 5 0 15 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 10 0 0 10 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Dravidian languages 415 395 0 0 20
Kannada 10 10 0 0 0
Malayalam 270 255 0 5 10
Tamil 90 85 0 0 5
Telugu 50 45 0 0 5
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 20,625 17,380 10 795 2,440
Albanian 50 45 0 5 5
Armenian 15 15 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 1,395 1,260 0 95 40
Baltic languages 20 20 0 5 0
Latvian 10 10 0 0 0
Lithuanian 15 10 0 5 0
Slavic languages 1,375 1,245 0 90 40
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 10 10 0 0 5
Bulgarian 15 10 0 0 0
Croatian 135 130 0 5 5
Czech 135 125 0 10 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 315 285 0 30 5
Russian 365 310 0 30 20
Serbian 105 90 0 5 5
Serbo-Croatian 15 20 0 0 0
Slovak 90 80 0 5 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 45 45 0 5 0
Ukrainian 140 130 0 5 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages 20 20 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 10 10 0 0 0
Welsh 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 2,235 2,055 0 175 5
Afrikaans 55 50 0 5 0
Danish 120 120 0 5 0
Dutch 480 435 0 45 0
Frisian 5 5 0 0 0
German 1,435 1,325 0 115 0
Icelandic 5 10 0 0 0
Norwegian 50 45 0 0 0
Swedish 75 70 0 10 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 5 5 0 5 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 285 255 0 20 10
Indo-Iranian languages 14,715 12,120 5 320 2,270
Indo-Aryan languages 14,490 11,925 0 305 2,260
Bengali 100 95 0 5 0
Gujarati 250 230 0 10 10
Hindi 1,620 1,500 0 35 85
Kashmiri 5 0 0 0 0
Konkani 15 15 0 5 0
Marathi 10 10 0 0 0
Nepali 15 10 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 5
Punjabi (Panjabi) 11,795 9,430 0 240 2,125
Sindhi 55 55 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 55 55 0 5 0
Urdu 580 530 0 10 35
Iranian languages 200 180 0 10 10
Kurdish 20 20 0 0 0
Pashto 30 25 0 0 5
Persian (Farsi) 150 130 0 10 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 25 25 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 1,905 1,605 10 175 115
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 420 385 0 30 10
Portuguese 335 310 0 15 10
Romanian 140 90 0 40 5
Spanish 1,005 815 10 90 95
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Japanese 365 340 0 10 20
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 305 270 0 5 30
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 35 30 0 5 0
Akan (Twi) 5 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 0 0 0 5 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 5 5 0 0 0
Lingala 5 0 0 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 5 5 0 0 0
Shona 0 0 0 0 0
Swahili 5 5 0 0 0
Wolof 5 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 5 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 5 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 0 5 0 0 0
Dinka 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Sign languages 35 20 0 5 10
American Sign Language 15 10 0 0 10
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 15 15 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 6,010 4,980 0 125 910
Chinese languages 5,965 4,935 0 120 905
Cantonese 1,980 1,655 0 25 300
Hakka 65 65 0 0 5
Mandarin 3,490 2,870 0 90 530
Min Dong 10 10 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 250 205 0 5 45
Wu (Shanghainese) 65 50 0 0 15
Chinese, n.o.s. 95 80 0 0 10
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 45 40 0 0 0
Burmese 30 30 0 0 0
Karenic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Tibetan 10 5 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 55 50 0 5 5
Lao 10 5 0 0 0
Thai 40 40 0 5 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 10 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 55 55 0 5 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 55 50 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 265 245 0 15 0
Estonian 15 15 0 0 0
Finnish 85 80 0 0 0
Hungarian 165 150 0 15 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 15 20 0 0 0
Multiple responses 2,880 2,500 0 370 10
English and French 195 45 0 150 0
English and non-official language 2,585 2,430 0 140 10
French and non-official language 40 15 0 25 5
English, French and non-official language 60 10 0 50 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) – Delta, DM

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 3.3%.
  • 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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