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 Dufferin
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 61,180 57,385 15 3,555 225
Single responses 60,520 56,885 15 3,400 225
Official languages 55,120 52,000 15 3,100 5
English 54,430 51,925 5 2,500 0
French 690 75 10 600 0
Non-official languages 5,405 4,885 0 295 225
Aboriginal languages 5 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 5 5 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 5 5 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 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 0 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages 0 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. 0 0 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 5,400 4,880 0 295 225
Afro-Asiatic languages 175 145 0 10 20
Berber languages 0 0 0 5 0
Kabyle 0 0 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 5 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 170 145 0 10 25
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 105 80 0 5 15
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 5 5 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0 0
Maltese 50 45 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 40 30 0 0 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 40 30 0 0 5
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 250 245 0 5 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 10 15 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 5 0
Hiligaynon 10 10 0 0 0
Ilocano 20 20 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 190 190 0 5 0
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0 0
Creole languages 10 5 0 0 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 40 40 0 0 5
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0 0
Tamil 30 30 0 0 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 4,415 3,980 0 260 180
Albanian 20 15 0 0 5
Armenian 5 0 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 825 745 0 60 20
Baltic languages 25 20 0 5 0
Latvian 15 10 0 5 0
Lithuanian 10 5 0 0 0
Slavic languages 800 725 0 55 20
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0 0
Croatian 110 105 0 5 0
Czech 35 35 0 5 0
Macedonian 15 15 0 0 0
Polish 435 390 0 30 15
Russian 55 50 0 5 5
Serbian 20 15 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0 0
Slovak 25 25 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 10 15 0 0 0
Ukrainian 70 65 0 5 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 10 5 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 1,240 1,130 0 70 35
Afrikaans 15 10 0 5 0
Danish 35 35 0 0 0
Dutch 410 385 0 20 5
Frisian 10 5 0 0 0
German 750 675 0 45 35
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 5 0 0 0
Swedish 20 10 0 5 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 5 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Greek 75 65 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages 670 570 0 35 60
Indo-Aryan languages 630 540 0 30 60
Bengali 15 10 0 0 0
Gujarati 35 40 0 5 5
Hindi 60 60 0 0 5
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 5 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 5 0 0 5
Punjabi (Panjabi) 420 345 0 25 55
Sindhi 5 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 10 0 0 0
Urdu 65 60 0 5 5
Iranian languages 45 30 0 5 5
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 45 35 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 1,575 1,435 0 90 50
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 525 485 0 25 10
Portuguese 610 565 0 20 25
Romanian 90 70 0 15 5
Spanish 350 315 0 25 15
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 20 20 0 0 0
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 60 55 0 0 5
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 60 55 0 5 0
Akan (Twi) 20 20 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 5 5 0 0 0
Ewe 5 0 0 0 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 5 0 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 5 0
Igbo 0 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 0 0 0 0 0
Swahili 10 10 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 15 15 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Dinka 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages 10 5 0 5 0
American Sign Language 0 5 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 0 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 125 115 0 5 10
Chinese languages 120 110 0 5 10
Cantonese 45 40 0 0 5
Hakka 5 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 60 60 0 0 0
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 0 0 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 10 10 0 0 5
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 0 5 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0
Karenic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Tibetan 5 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 5 5 0 0 0
Lao 0 5 0 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 20 15 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 15 15 0 0 0
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Uralic languages 170 165 0 5 0
Estonian 15 15 0 0 0
Finnish 35 35 0 0 0
Hungarian 120 115 0 5 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 660 495 5 155 5
English and French 125 25 0 100 0
English and non-official language 500 470 0 30 0
French and non-official language 15 0 0 10 0
English, French and non-official language 20 5 0 10 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) – Dufferin

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 3.5%.
  • 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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