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 Gatineau, 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 1 273,270 19,180 77,415 174,885 1,785
Single responses 265,275 18,715 76,420 168,390 1,750
Official languages 236,000 12,960 69,865 153,130 45
English 30,660 12,810 110 17,730 5
French 205,340 150 69,755 135,395 35
Non-official languages 29,275 5,750 6,550 15,260 1,710
Aboriginal languages 335 225 10 90 5
Algonquian languages 305 215 10 85 5
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 285 210 10 65 5
Atikamekw 10 0 5 5 0
Montagnais (Innu) 5 0 0 5 0
Moose Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Naskapi 0 5 0 0 0
Northern East Cree 40 25 0 10 5
Plains Cree 5 0 0 0 0
Southern East Cree 5 5 0 0 0
Swampy Cree 5 5 0 0 0
Woods Cree 5 0 0 5 0
Cree, n.o.s. 220 165 0 50 5
Eastern Algonquian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 25 10 0 10 0
Algonquin 20 5 0 10 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 5 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 15 5 0 5 0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 15 5 0 10 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 0 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 28,945 5,525 6,545 15,170 1,710
Afro-Asiatic languages 7,785 1,260 1,705 4,270 545
Berber languages 540 5 270 255 15
Kabyle 365 0 200 155 10
Berber languages, n.i.e. 175 5 70 100 0
Cushitic languages 285 30 95 145 15
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 10 5 0 5 0
Somali 270 25 90 140 20
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 5 0 0
Semitic languages 6,930 1,220 1,330 3,860 515
Amharic 60 40 0 20 5
Arabic 6,805 1,150 1,330 3,815 515
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 15 5 0 5 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 15 5 0 10 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 35 20 5 10 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 20 0 10 15 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 605 155 60 320 60
Khmer (Cambodian) 210 50 25 125 15
Vietnamese 390 110 35 195 45
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 5 0 0 5 0
Austronesian languages 320 185 20 110 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 15 10 0 5 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 5 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 10 10 0 0 0
Malagasy 50 0 10 35 0
Malay 35 10 5 20 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 195 155 0 40 0
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 5 0
Creole languages 1,190 20 535 615 30
Haitian Creole 110 0 50 60 5
Creole, n.o.s. 1,060 5 485 545 20
Creole languages, n.i.e. 20 10 5 5 0
Dravidian languages 50 30 0 20 5
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0 0
Tamil 40 25 0 20 0
Telugu 5 0 0 5 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 13,295 2,600 2,780 7,190 720
Albanian 45 15 0 25 0
Armenian 60 15 5 35 5
Balto-Slavic languages 2,795 705 435 1,525 135
Baltic languages 15 10 0 10 0
Latvian 10 5 0 5 0
Lithuanian 10 0 0 5 0
Slavic languages 2,780 700 430 1,515 135
Belarusan 10 0 0 5 0
Bosnian 165 30 50 80 10
Bulgarian 210 60 20 125 5
Croatian 165 30 25 110 5
Czech 60 20 5 35 5
Macedonian 10 0 0 5 0
Polish 385 140 30 215 5
Russian 655 235 100 260 55
Serbian 565 80 115 350 30
Serbo-Croatian 355 35 70 230 15
Slovak 35 10 0 20 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 10 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 145 35 20 85 10
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 5 0
Celtic languages 5 0 0 5 0
Scottish Gaelic 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 5 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 605 220 15 365 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 5 0
Danish 15 10 0 5 0
Dutch 135 55 0 80 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 395 140 5 240 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 10 5 0 0 0
Swedish 15 5 5 5 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 20 0 0 20 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Greek 130 50 0 75 5
Indo-Iranian languages 1,025 525 60 380 60
Indo-Aryan languages 350 220 5 120 10
Bengali 85 50 0 30 0
Gujarati 15 0 5 5 0
Hindi 50 35 0 15 0
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 5 0 0 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 5 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 60 40 0 20 5
Sindhi 0 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 15 5 0 10 5
Urdu 115 75 0 40 5
Iranian languages 670 300 55 265 50
Kurdish 80 45 0 30 10
Pashto 25 20 0 10 5
Persian (Farsi) 565 240 50 225 40
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 8,635 1,075 2,260 4,785 520
Catalan 5 0 0 5 0
Italian 385 60 25 295 0
Portuguese 2,555 230 635 1,505 190
Romanian 975 85 175 690 30
Spanish 4,710 700 1,420 2,290 300
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 5 0
Japanese 105 40 5 50 5
Kartvelian languages 5 0 0 5 0
Georgian 5 0 0 5 0
Korean 130 55 0 55 20
Mongolic languages 5 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 5 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 3,120 135 1,200 1,705 75
Akan (Twi) 30 10 0 15 0
Bamanankan 75 0 40 30 0
Edo 5 0 5 5 0
Ewe 90 0 40 40 5
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 160 0 75 85 0
Ga 0 5 0 0 0
Ganda 15 10 0 5 0
Igbo 20 15 0 5 0
Lingala 185 5 65 110 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 655 0 245 400 5
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 495 15 115 360 10
Shona 10 5 0 0 0
Swahili 475 30 220 200 30
Wolof 195 0 70 120 5
Yoruba 30 15 5 15 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 675 20 325 305 25
Nilo-Saharan languages 30 5 15 15 0
Dinka 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 35 5 15 15 0
Sign languages 50 5 15 15 15
American Sign Language 5 5 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 25 0 10 5 5
Sign languages, n.i.e 20 5 0 10 10
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,785 880 155 550 205
Chinese languages 1,775 875 155 545 205
Cantonese 285 125 10 105 35
Hakka 0 0 0 5 0
Mandarin 1,350 695 120 380 150
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 50 10 5 30 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 10 0 0 5 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 85 35 10 25 10
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 10 0 0 5 0
Burmese 5 0 0 5 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 160 40 15 80 15
Lao 115 15 15 70 15
Thai 50 25 0 15 5
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 125 55 10 45 10
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 90 50 5 35 5
Uyghur 10 5 0 0 5
Uzbek 15 0 5 10 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 5 0 0
Uralic languages 140 50 0 90 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 20 10 0 5 0
Hungarian 120 40 0 80 5
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 50 0 15 35 0
Multiple responses 7,990 465 1,000 6,495 30
English and French 4,635 90 115 4,430 5
English and non-official language 680 355 5 310 10
French and non-official language 2,100 10 855 1,230 15
English, French and non-official language 580 20 30 525 5

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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) – Gatineau, V

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 3.4%.
  • 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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