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 Wellington
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 1 220,565 201,040 90 17,060 2,375
Single responses 217,550 198,695 85 16,410 2,360
Official languages 181,200 166,405 55 14,700 35
English 178,735 166,245 10 12,440 35
French 2,465 160 45 2,260 0
Non-official languages 36,355 32,290 30 1,710 2,325
Aboriginal languages 15 15 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 15 10 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 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 10 10 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 10 15 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 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 36,340 32,280 30 1,705 2,320
Afro-Asiatic languages 1,510 1,300 5 80 125
Berber languages 0 0 0 0 0
Kabyle 0 0 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 80 80 0 0 5
Bilen 15 10 0 0 5
Oromo 5 5 0 0 0
Somali 60 55 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 1,420 1,220 5 75 125
Amharic 200 185 0 0 10
Arabic 835 680 0 65 85
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 10 5 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 30 30 0 5 0
Maltese 75 70 0 0 0
Tigrigna 275 250 0 5 25
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 1,860 1,535 5 40 290
Khmer (Cambodian) 145 120 0 5 20
Vietnamese 1,720 1,415 5 35 265
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 1,995 1,950 0 35 10
Bikol 5 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 90 90 0 0 5
Fijian 5 5 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 35 30 0 0 0
Ilocano 65 65 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 70 70 0 5 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 20 20 0 5 0
Pangasinan 5 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 1,690 1,650 0 30 10
Waray-Waray 5 5 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Creole languages 25 20 0 5 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 5 5 0 5 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 600 550 0 25 20
Kannada 40 40 0 0 0
Malayalam 175 160 0 10 10
Tamil 355 330 0 15 10
Telugu 25 30 0 0 5
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 5 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 24,105 21,560 20 1,280 1,245
Albanian 60 45 0 0 5
Armenian 85 70 0 10 5
Balto-Slavic languages 3,860 3,505 0 230 120
Baltic languages 100 85 0 5 5
Latvian 40 40 0 0 0
Lithuanian 55 50 0 5 0
Slavic languages 3,760 3,425 0 220 120
Belarusan 5 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 80 70 0 0 10
Bulgarian 25 20 0 5 0
Croatian 315 295 0 10 5
Czech 180 170 0 10 0
Macedonian 50 50 0 0 5
Polish 1,685 1,555 0 75 50
Russian 345 300 0 35 10
Serbian 540 480 0 30 30
Serbo-Croatian 65 60 0 5 0
Slovak 100 90 0 10 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 80 65 0 10 0
Ukrainian 290 255 0 30 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages 25 25 0 5 0
Scottish Gaelic 10 10 0 0 0
Welsh 15 15 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages 8,685 7,950 5 305 425
Afrikaans 40 40 0 0 0
Danish 140 135 0 5 0
Dutch 2,245 2,135 0 85 25
Frisian 65 65 0 0 0
German 6,085 5,490 5 185 400
Icelandic 10 10 0 5 0
Norwegian 10 10 0 5 0
Swedish 40 35 0 5 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 35 25 0 15 0
Yiddish 10 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Greek 285 255 0 20 15
Indo-Iranian languages 5,550 4,790 10 275 480
Indo-Aryan languages 4,275 3,680 10 205 380
Bengali 300 285 0 10 10
Gujarati 670 610 0 15 45
Hindi 390 360 0 20 10
Kashmiri 5 0 0 0 0
Konkani 10 10 0 0 0
Marathi 45 40 0 0 0
Nepali 285 170 5 60 45
Oriya (Odia) 20 20 0 5 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 1,770 1,445 0 80 250
Sindhi 35 30 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 140 135 0 5 0
Urdu 600 570 0 15 15
Iranian languages 1,255 1,090 0 70 95
Kurdish 80 65 0 5 15
Pashto 155 135 0 15 10
Persian (Farsi) 1,020 890 0 50 75
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 5,565 4,915 5 440 205
Catalan 0 5 0 0 0
Italian 2,740 2,480 0 155 110
Portuguese 785 695 0 50 35
Romanian 400 315 5 70 15
Spanish 1,635 1,420 0 165 45
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 155 135 0 5 10
Kartvelian languages 10 5 0 0 0
Georgian 10 10 0 0 0
Korean 320 290 0 5 20
Mongolic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 180 145 0 25 5
Akan (Twi) 25 25 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 5 0
Edo 5 5 0 0 0
Ewe 5 5 0 0 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Ganda 5 5 0 0 0
Igbo 10 5 0 0 0
Lingala 5 0 0 10 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 10 0 5 10 0
Shona 15 10 0 0 0
Swahili 35 25 0 5 10
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 30 30 0 5 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 30 30 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 35 35 0 5 5
Dinka 5 5 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 35 30 0 5 0
Sign languages 55 40 0 0 20
American Sign Language 25 20 0 5 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 30 15 0 0 10
Sino-Tibetan languages 3,690 3,125 0 120 445
Chinese languages 3,680 3,120 0 120 450
Cantonese 1,225 975 0 45 215
Hakka 25 25 0 0 0
Mandarin 2,125 1,860 0 65 205
Min Dong 5 5 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 135 115 0 5 15
Wu (Shanghainese) 30 25 0 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 140 120 0 5 10
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 5 5 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 5 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 240 190 0 5 40
Lao 155 130 0 5 15
Thai 80 60 0 5 20
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 430 360 0 25 45
Azerbaijani 5 5 0 0 0
Turkish 70 60 0 5 5
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 335 280 0 15 35
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0 5
Uralic languages 1,120 1,040 0 45 30
Estonian 40 35 0 0 0
Finnish 75 75 0 0 0
Hungarian 1,000 925 0 40 25
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Multiple responses 3,010 2,340 5 650 15
English and French 495 125 0 375 0
English and non-official language 2,385 2,190 0 180 15
French and non-official language 55 5 5 40 0
English, French and non-official language 75 15 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) – Wellington

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 3.8%.
  • 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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