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 Nanaimo
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 1 153,160 142,505 15 10,020 615
Single responses 151,630 141,375 15 9,625 610
Official languages 137,690 128,780 10 8,885 20
English 135,575 128,505 0 7,045 20
French 2,125 270 10 1,840 0
Non-official languages 13,935 12,595 5 740 595
Aboriginal languages 135 135 0 5 5
Algonquian languages 25 20 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 20 15 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 5 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 5 5 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 0 5 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 5 0 0 0
Northern Athabaskan languages 5 5 0 0 0
Babine (Wetsuwet'en) 0 0 0 0 0
Beaver 0 0 0 0 0
Carrier 5 0 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0
Dene 5 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 5 5 0 0 0
North Slavey (Hare) 0 0 0 0 0
South Slavey 0 0 0 0 0
Slavey, n.o.s. 0 5 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 5 5 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 5 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 5 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 5 0 0 0
Salish languages 35 35 0 0 0
Comox 0 0 0 0 0
Halkomelem 25 25 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. 5 5 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 5 5 0 0 0
Gitxsan (Gitksan) 5 0 0 0 0
Nisga'a 5 5 0 0 0
Tsimshian 5 0 0 0 0
Wakashan languages 40 35 0 0 0
Haisla 0 0 0 0 0
Heiltsuk 0 0 0 0 0
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala) 15 15 0 0 0
Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka) 20 20 0 0 0
Wakashan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.o.s. 20 20 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 13,800 12,465 0 740 595
Afro-Asiatic languages 365 300 0 15 50
Berber languages 0 5 0 0 0
Kabyle 0 0 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 5 5 0 0 5
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages 355 290 0 10 55
Amharic 5 5 0 0 0
Arabic 300 245 0 15 45
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 25 25 0 0 0
Maltese 15 10 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 520 440 0 15 65
Khmer (Cambodian) 90 80 0 0 10
Vietnamese 430 355 0 20 50
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 820 805 0 5 10
Bikol 0 5 0 0 0
Cebuano 40 40 0 0 0
Fijian 5 5 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 15 15 0 0 0
Ilocano 40 35 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 30 30 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 5 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 650 635 0 5 5
Waray-Waray 5 5 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 35 30 0 0 0
Creole languages 15 0 0 10 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 15 0 0 10 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 5 0
Dravidian languages 50 50 0 5 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 30 30 0 0 0
Tamil 15 10 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 8,570 7,815 0 600 160
Albanian 5 10 0 0 0
Armenian 10 5 0 0 5
Balto-Slavic languages 1,540 1,430 0 95 20
Baltic languages 45 35 0 10 0
Latvian 30 25 0 5 0
Lithuanian 15 15 0 0 0
Slavic languages 1,500 1,395 0 80 20
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 10 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 30 25 0 0 0
Croatian 185 165 0 15 0
Czech 155 145 0 10 0
Macedonian 20 20 0 5 0
Polish 325 300 0 20 5
Russian 275 250 0 20 5
Serbian 60 50 0 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 20 15 0 0 0
Slovak 75 75 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 35 30 0 0 0
Ukrainian 300 290 0 10 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0 5
Celtic languages 35 35 0 5 0
Scottish Gaelic 10 10 0 0 0
Welsh 25 20 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 4,270 3,945 0 310 10
Afrikaans 115 115 0 5 0
Danish 370 350 0 15 0
Dutch 1,085 985 0 100 5
Frisian 10 5 0 0 0
German 2,350 2,180 0 160 10
Icelandic 15 15 0 0 0
Norwegian 135 130 0 0 5
Swedish 140 130 0 10 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 40 25 0 15 0
Yiddish 10 5 0 5 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Greek 90 85 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages 1,385 1,255 0 35 95
Indo-Aryan languages 1,225 1,110 0 30 85
Bengali 25 25 0 0 5
Gujarati 45 50 0 0 5
Hindi 140 130 0 10 0
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0 0
Nepali 10 10 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 940 840 0 15 80
Sindhi 5 10 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 10 0 0 0
Urdu 40 40 0 5 0
Iranian languages 165 145 0 10 10
Kurdish 5 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 160 145 0 10 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 1,230 1,050 0 145 30
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 350 300 0 50 5
Portuguese 200 165 0 20 10
Romanian 60 35 0 20 5
Spanish 625 555 0 60 10
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 370 340 0 10 20
Kartvelian languages 0 5 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 470 415 0 10 55
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 90 75 0 10 0
Akan (Twi) 15 10 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 5 0 5 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 5 5 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 0 0 0 5 0
Shona 5 0 0 0 0
Swahili 5 5 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 15 15 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 30 25 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 20 5 0 0 10
American Sign Language 10 5 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 10 0 0 0 10
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,925 1,670 5 25 225
Chinese languages 1,920 1,670 0 25 220
Cantonese 500 455 0 5 45
Hakka 10 10 0 0 0
Mandarin 1,235 1,055 0 25 155
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 35 35 0 0 5
Wu (Shanghainese) 10 10 0 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 125 110 0 0 15
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0 0
Karenic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Tibetan 0 5 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 100 95 0 5 5
Lao 5 5 0 0 0
Thai 95 90 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 35 30 0 10 0
Azerbaijani 0 5 0 0 0
Turkish 35 25 0 5 0
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 5 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Uralic languages 440 415 0 20 5
Estonian 30 25 0 0 0
Finnish 130 125 0 5 0
Hungarian 280 260 0 15 5
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,525 1,125 5 395 5
English and French 380 95 0 290 0
English and non-official language 1,085 1,020 0 65 5
French and non-official language 35 10 0 25 0
English, French and non-official language 25 10 0 20 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) – Nanaimo

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 5.0%.
  • 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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