Data tables, 2016 Census

Mother Tongue (187), Immigrant Status and Period of Immigration (11), Number of languages known (11), Age (12) and Sex (3) for the Population in Private Households of Canada, Provinces and Territories, Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, 2016 Census - 25% Sample Data

Data table

Select data categories for this table


This table details mother tongue , immigrant status and period of immigration , number of languages known , age and sex for the population in private households in Prince Edward Island / Île-du-Prince-Édouard
Data quality
Mother tongue (187) Immigrant status and period of immigration (11)
Total - Immigrant status and period of immigrationFootnote 2 Non-immigrantsFootnote 3 ImmigrantsFootnote 4 Before 1981 1981 to 1990 1991 to 2000 2001 to 2010 2001 to 2005 2006 to 2010 2011 to 2016Footnote 5 Non-permanent residentsFootnote 6
Total - Mother tongueFootnote 7 139,685 129,405 8,940 2,465 560 665 1,890 555 1,330 3,360 1,340
Single responses 138,675 128,710 8,630 2,445 555 650 1,805 535 1,270 3,175 1,330
Official languages 132,050 128,135 3,470 1,765 300 275 650 220 430 485 450
English 127,285 123,505 3,355 1,720 295 260 620 205 410 455 430
French 4,770 4,630 115 40 0 15 30 15 20 30 20
Non-official languages 6,620 580 5,160 680 260 370 1,155 315 835 2,690 885
Aboriginal languages 45 40 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 6,575 535 5,155 685 255 370 1,155 315 840 2,695 885
Afro-Asiatic languages 480 30 370 35 10 15 70 35 30 240 75
Berber languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kabyle 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 10 0 10 0 0 0 10 0 10 0 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 10 0 10 0 0 0 10 0 10 10 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 470 30 365 35 15 20 65 35 25 235 75
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 455 30 345 35 10 20 50 25 30 235 75
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 15 0 15 0 0 0 10 10 0 10 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 45 0 45 0 10 0 0 0 0 45 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 45 0 45 0 0 0 0 0 0 40 0
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 415 10 305 10 0 10 45 10 35 245 100
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 10 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 10 0 15 0 0 0 15 10 10 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 400 10 285 10 0 0 30 0 30 240 100
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Creole languages 25 0 25 0 0 15 0 0 0 10 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 25 0 25 0 0 15 0 0 0 10 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 105 10 65 0 0 10 15 0 15 40 30
Kannada 25 10 20 0 0 0 10 0 0 10 0
Malayalam 55 0 35 0 0 0 10 0 10 30 15
Tamil 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10
Telugu 10 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 10
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 10 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 2,695 320 2,070 575 170 220 535 170 360 570 300
Albanian 80 10 55 0 0 20 10 0 10 20 20
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 440 55 330 45 25 65 95 55 40 105 50
Baltic languages 10 10 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Latvian 10 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 425 50 330 40 25 70 90 55 35 105 55
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 15 0 20 0 0 0 15 10 0 0 0
Bulgarian 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Croatian 15 0 15 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0
Czech 15 0 15 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 80 10 55 15 20 15 0 0 0 0 15
Russian 200 10 160 0 0 15 60 40 20 85 35
Serbian 30 0 25 0 0 0 15 0 15 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Slovak 10 0 10 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 10 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 0
Ukrainian 35 30 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 25 10 15 0 0 0 15 15 0 0 10
Scottish Gaelic 10 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 20 0 20 0 0 0 15 15 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 945 165 720 385 115 65 80 40 40 70 60
Afrikaans 15 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0
Danish 40 0 40 35 0 0 10 0 10 0 0
Dutch 470 60 395 225 85 30 45 25 20 15 15
Frisian 40 0 30 0 10 15 0 0 0 0 0
German 325 85 200 90 15 15 25 10 15 45 45
Icelandic 10 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 0
Swedish 10 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 35 10 25 30 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 20 10 15 0 0 0 10 0 10 10 0
Indo-Iranian languages 750 35 645 45 15 30 210 20 185 340 70
Indo-Aryan languages 530 30 440 50 0 35 105 20 90 255 55
Bengali 20 0 15 0 0 0 10 0 10 10 10
Gujarati 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hindi 35 0 35 25 0 0 0 0 0 10 0
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Nepali 240 15 225 0 0 20 55 0 50 155 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 145 0 95 20 0 0 10 0 0 70 45
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 35 0 30 0 0 0 30 0 30 0 0
Urdu 50 10 45 0 0 0 10 15 0 20 0
Iranian languages 225 0 205 0 15 0 100 10 95 85 20
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 220 0 200 0 15 0 100 10 100 85 20
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 425 50 290 90 15 35 120 40 80 30 90
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 60 30 35 20 0 0 0 0 10 10 0
Portuguese 130 10 95 50 0 10 15 10 10 10 35
Romanian 15 0 15 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 0
Spanish 220 15 150 10 0 30 95 30 60 15 50
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 60 0 35 10 0 10 10 0 0 10 30
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 160 15 100 10 10 0 65 10 55 25 50
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 90 0 80 0 25 0 25 10 20 30 10
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 10 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Swahili 10 0 10 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 35 0 25 0 0 0 20 10 10 0 10
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 30 0 35 0 15 0 0 0 0 10 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dinka 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages 25 30 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
American Sign Language 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 15 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 2,315 110 1,915 15 40 60 390 70 315 1,415 285
Chinese languages 2,305 110 1,905 15 40 60 375 65 315 1,410 285
Cantonese 220 30 185 10 20 35 30 0 35 80 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 1,835 80 1,520 0 10 15 315 60 250 1,180 235
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 20 0 25 0 0 0 15 0 10 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 85 0 90 0 10 10 0 0 0 70 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 125 0 80 0 0 0 20 10 20 60 40
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 15 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 10 0 10 0 0 0 10 10 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Karenic languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tibetan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 10 0 10 0 0 0 10 10 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 10 0 10 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 15 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 25 0 20 0 0 0 0 10 0 20 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 25 0 25 0 0 0 0 10 0 15 0
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Uralic languages 95 15 80 40 0 10 0 0 0 30 0
Estonian 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 25 15 15 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 60 0 60 20 0 10 0 0 0 35 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 35 0 30 0 0 20 0 0 0 15 0
Multiple responses 1,015 695 310 15 0 25 85 15 65 185 10
English and French 545 540 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
English and non-official language 385 130 245 10 0 20 60 15 45 150 10
French and non-official language 50 15 35 10 0 0 0 0 0 25 0
English, French and non-official language 35 10 25 0 0 0 10 0 0 10 0

Symbol(s)

Symbol ..

not available for a specific reference period

..

Symbol ...

not applicable

...

Symbol x

suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act

x

Symbol F

too unreliable to be published

F

Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

'Knowledge of official languages' refers to whether the person can conduct a conversation in English only, French only, in both or in neither language. For a child who has not yet learned to speak, this includes languages that the child is learning to speak at home.

'Knowledge of non-official languages' refers to whether the person can conduct a conversation in a language other than English or French. For a child who has not yet learned to speak, this includes languages that the child is learning to speak at home. The number of languages that can be reported may vary between surveys, depending on the objectives of the survey.

For more information on language variables, including information on their classifications, the questions from which they are derived, data quality and their comparability with other sources of data, please refer to the Languages Reference Guide, Census of Population, 2016.

Return to footnote 1 referrer

Footnote 2

Immigrant status refers to whether the person is a non-immigrant, an immigrant or a non-permanent resident.

Period of immigration refers to the period in which the immigrant first obtained landed immigrant or permanent resident status.

For more information on immigration variables, including information on their classifications, the questions from which they are derived, data quality and their comparability with other sources of data, please refer to the Place of Birth, Generation Status, Citizenship and Immigration Reference Guide, Census of Population, 2016.

Return to footnote 2 referrer

Footnote 3

'Non-immigrants' includes persons who are Canadian citizens by birth.

Return to footnote 3 referrer

Footnote 4

'Immigrants' includes persons who are, or who have ever been, landed immigrants or permanent residents. Such persons have been granted the right to live in Canada permanently by immigration authorities. Immigrants who have obtained Canadian citizenship by naturalization are included in this category. In the 2016 Census of Population, 'Immigrants' includes immigrants who landed in Canada on or prior to May 10, 2016.

Return to footnote 4 referrer

Footnote 5

Includes immigrants who landed in Canada on or prior to May 10, 2016.

Return to footnote 5 referrer

Footnote 6

'Non-permanent residents' includes persons from another country who have a work or study permit or who are refugee claimants, and their family members sharing the same permit and living in Canada with them.

Return to footnote 6 referrer

Footnote 7

n.i.e. = not included elsewhere
n.o.s. = not otherwise specified

Return to footnote 7 referrer

Data quality note(s) – Prince Edward Island / Île-du-Prince-Édouard

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Long-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), long-form census questionnaire: 5.6%.
  • Long-form income data quality flag
    Default. Data quality index showing a long-form income non-response rate lower than 10%.

Source: Statistics Canada, 2016 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-400-X2016193.

Date modified: