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2011 Census of Canada: Topic-based tabulations

Topic-based tabulation: Selected Demographic and Language Characteristics (375), First Official Language Spoken (4A), Mother Tongue (4A), Age Groups (8B) and Sex (3) for the population excluding institutional residents of Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, 2011 Census

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This table details selected demographic and language characteristics , first official language spoken , mother tongue , age groups and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Nova Scotia / Nouvelle-Écosse
Selected Demographic and Language Characteristics (375) First official language spoken (4A)
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 2 English French English and French
Age groups - Total population excluding institutional residents 910,620 877,990 29,550 1,560
0 to 4 years 43,965 42,660 740 130
5 to 9 years 44,410 43,485 750 110
10 to 14 years 49,760 48,640 910 190
15 to 19 years 57,265 55,980 1,105 145
20 to 24 years 59,355 57,935 1,245 125
25 to 29 years 51,645 50,180 1,320 105
30 to 34 years 51,295 49,520 1,615 90
35 to 39 years 56,070 54,180 1,700 115
40 to 44 years 61,755 59,435 2,115 115
45 to 49 years 75,820 72,855 2,790 85
50 to 54 years 76,975 73,900 2,920 70
55 to 59 years 70,470 67,605 2,715 65
60 to 64 years 65,945 63,095 2,725 50
65 to 69 years 48,430 46,065 2,245 55
70 to 74 years 35,800 34,055 1,630 40
75 to 79 years 26,755 25,375 1,270 30
80 to 84 years 18,545 17,595 895 15
85 years and over 16,355 15,435 875 15
Median ageFootnote 3 43.4 43.1 50.8 29.0
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 772,480 743,210 27,155 1,135
Married or living with a common-law partner 451,625 432,130 18,180 625
Married (and not separated) 374,550 358,040 15,270 565
Living common law 77,075 74,090 2,905 55
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 320,860 311,080 8,970 510
Single (never legally married) 204,955 199,610 4,820 400
Separated 23,355 22,640 670 25
Divorced 45,515 44,085 1,365 40
Widowed 47,035 44,750 2,115 45
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 910,620 877,990 29,550 1,560
English only 814,670 814,670 0 0
French only 880 0 875 0
English and French 93,435 63,205 28,670 1,560
Neither English nor French 1,635 115 5 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 910,615 877,990 29,545 1,565
Single responses 904,290 872,685 29,075 1,010
English 836,090 836,040 50 0
French 31,105 2,250 28,855 0
Non-official languages 37,090 34,395 170 1,005
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 4,685 4,630 0 20
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 25 25 0 0
Dene 0 5 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 25 25 0 0
Mi'kmaq 4,615 4,565 0 25
Ojibway 10 10 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 31,680 29,100 165 960
African languages, n.i.e. 70 70 0 0
Afrikaans 75 75 0 5
Akan (Twi) 50 50 0 0
Albanian 250 225 0 5
Amharic 150 140 0 0
Arabic 5,965 5,265 60 350
Armenian 50 45 5 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 95 90 5 0
Bengali 375 360 0 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 5 5 0 0
Bisayan languages 80 80 0 0
Bosnian 90 90 0 0
Bulgarian 50 50 0 0
Burmese 10 10 0 0
Cantonese 590 505 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 2,745 2,525 5 25
Creoles 45 40 0 0
Croatian 210 205 0 5
Czech 185 170 0 10
Danish 175 175 0 5
Dutch 1,725 1,675 0 45
Estonian 50 55 0 0
Finnish 95 90 0 0
Flemish 30 25 0 0
Fukien 10 15 0 0
German 3,280 3,045 10 120
Greek 770 735 0 10
Gujarati 105 110 0 0
Hakka 5 5 0 0
Hebrew 80 75 0 0
Hindi 515 505 0 5
Hungarian 280 270 0 10
Ilocano 20 20 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 45 45 0 0
Italian 785 750 5 20
Japanese 310 290 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 10 0 0
Korean 815 745 0 15
Kurdish 75 70 0 5
Lao 5 5 5 0
Latvian 65 65 0 5
Lingala 15 0 5 0
Lithuanian 35 30 5 0
Macedonian 15 10 0 0
Malay 65 65 0 5
Malayalam 115 115 0 0
Maltese 20 20 0 0
Mandarin 905 845 5 10
Marathi 30 35 0 0
Nepali 225 130 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 105 95 5 0
Norwegian 125 120 5 5
Oromo 35 25 0 5
Panjabi (Punjabi) 375 355 0 0
Pashto 70 65 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 1,185 1,085 5 35
Polish 825 770 5 30
Portuguese 380 350 0 10
Romanian 170 130 5 25
Rundi (Kirundi) 10 5 0 5
Russian 815 740 0 40
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 5 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0
Serbian 115 105 0 10
Serbo-Croatian 105 95 0 5
Shanghainese 5 5 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 120 60 0 0
Sindhi 15 15 0 5
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 115 110 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Slovak 120 120 0 0
Slovenian 30 30 0 5
Somali 45 40 0 0
Spanish 1,545 1,360 15 75
Swahili 75 65 0 5
Swedish 85 80 0 5
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 1,185 1,175 5 0
Taiwanese 40 40 0 0
Tamil 265 265 0 0
Telugu 125 125 0 0
Thai 110 65 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 55 50 0 0
Turkish 275 250 0 10
Ukrainian 300 290 0 5
Urdu 540 510 0 10
Vietnamese 450 415 5 5
Yiddish 25 25 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 725 665 5 25
Multiple responses 6,330 5,305 475 555
English and French 3,035 2,220 295 520
English and non-official language 2,855 2,855 0 0
French and non-official language 315 140 170 0
English, French and non-official language 130 85 5 35
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 910,620 877,990 29,545 1,560
Single responses 903,215 872,225 28,575 895
English 868,765 855,175 13,590 0
French 15,940 1,030 14,905 0
Non-official languages 18,510 16,025 75 895
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 2,770 2,720 0 20
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 2,765 2,710 5 20
Ojibway 0 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 11 15,500 13,115 65 865
African languages, n.i.e. 35 35 0 0
Afrikaans 20 20 0 5
Akan (Twi) 10 10 0 0
Albanian 120 100 0 5
Amharic 70 65 0 0
Arabic 3,495 2,865 35 310
Armenian 15 10 0 5
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0
Bengali 230 210 0 10
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 30 25 0 0
Bosnian 45 40 0 0
Bulgarian 10 10 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0
Cantonese 325 235 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 1,985 1,770 0 25
Creoles 30 25 0 5
Croatian 80 70 0 5
Czech 45 40 0 5
Danish 15 10 0 0
Dutch 185 140 0 40
Estonian 5 0 0 0
Finnish 10 10 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 5 0 0 0
German 1,170 955 5 110
Greek 270 240 0 10
Gujarati 50 50 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 25 20 0 5
Hindi 220 205 0 0
Hungarian 65 60 0 10
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0
Italian 165 140 5 10
Japanese 130 110 0 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0
Korean 560 490 0 15
Kurdish 60 50 0 5
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 20 15 0 5
Lingala 5 5 0 0
Lithuanian 5 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 5 0 0
Malay 15 20 0 0
Malayalam 35 35 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 655 600 0 5
Marathi 20 25 0 0
Nepali 210 115 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 0
Norwegian 25 20 0 5
Oromo 20 10 5 5
Panjabi (Punjabi) 180 155 0 0
Pashto 35 30 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 940 845 5 30
Polish 250 215 0 25
Portuguese 115 95 0 15
Romanian 80 50 0 20
Rundi (Kirundi) 10 5 0 5
Russian 505 435 0 35
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Serbian 55 50 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 50 40 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 195 140 5 0
Sindhi 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 45 45 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5
Slovak 30 25 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 20 15 0 0
Spanish 775 595 15 75
Swahili 20 15 5 5
Swedish 5 5 0 5
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 550 535 0 0
Taiwanese 20 15 0 0
Tamil 130 130 0 0
Telugu 55 55 0 0
Thai 65 15 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 30 25 0 0
Turkish 140 120 0 10
Ukrainian 30 25 0 0
Urdu 320 285 0 10
Vietnamese 285 250 0 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 235 185 5 15
Multiple responses 7,405 5,765 975 665
English and French 1,810 395 850 570
English and non-official language 5,295 5,265 35 0
French and non-official language 120 50 70 0
English, French and non-official language 180 60 25 95
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 910,620 877,990 29,545 1,560
None 863,710 844,815 16,590 935
Single responses 46,065 32,540 12,845 540
English 16,330 9,040 6,740 445
French 15,705 9,765 5,910 30
Non-official languages 14,030 13,735 195 70
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 1,945 1,935 5 5
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 10 10 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 5 0 0 0
Inuktitut 30 30 0 0
Mi'kmaq 1,890 1,880 5 5
Ojibway 5 10 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 15 11,385 11,115 180 60
African languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0
Afrikaans 55 55 0 0
Akan (Twi) 35 40 0 0
Albanian 95 90 5 0
Amharic 40 40 0 0
Arabic 1,995 1,915 55 25
Armenian 20 20 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 45 45 5 0
Bengali 95 95 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 5 0 0
Bisayan languages 15 15 0 0
Bosnian 35 35 0 0
Bulgarian 25 25 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0
Cantonese 190 185 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 490 490 0 0
Creoles 80 70 5 0
Croatian 70 65 0 0
Czech 55 55 0 0
Danish 55 55 0 0
Dutch 550 550 0 0
Estonian 15 15 0 0
Finnish 25 20 0 0
Flemish 5 0 0 0
Fukien 10 5 0 0
German 1,250 1,220 25 5
Greek 435 435 5 0
Gujarati 35 40 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 85 80 5 0
Hindi 305 305 0 5
Hungarian 85 85 0 0
Ilocano 10 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0
Italian 365 355 10 0
Japanese 200 195 5 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 210 205 0 0
Kurdish 10 10 0 0
Lao 5 0 0 0
Latvian 25 25 0 0
Lingala 10 5 5 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0
Malay 30 25 0 0
Malayalam 55 50 0 0
Maltese 15 15 0 0
Mandarin 230 220 5 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0
Nepali 10 10 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 65 70 5 0
Norwegian 55 55 0 0
Oromo 5 5 5 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 125 125 0 0
Pashto 10 10 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 210 205 0 0
Polish 280 275 5 0
Portuguese 170 170 5 0
Romanian 55 50 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 5 0
Russian 235 230 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 5 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Serbian 40 40 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 45 40 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 220 215 5 0
Sindhi 0 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 45 45 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Slovak 60 55 0 0
Slovenian 10 10 0 0
Somali 15 15 0 0
Spanish 1,050 1,005 40 5
Swahili 75 70 5 5
Swedish 60 60 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 435 435 0 0
Taiwanese 15 15 0 0
Tamil 105 110 0 0
Telugu 40 40 0 0
Thai 35 30 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 5 0 0
Tigrigna 20 20 0 0
Turkish 120 115 0 0
Ukrainian 75 70 5 0
Urdu 170 170 5 0
Vietnamese 100 100 0 0
Yiddish 10 10 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 705 685 10 5
Multiple responses 840 630 115 80
English and French 95 15 5 70
English and non-official language 175 120 50 5
French and non-official language 560 500 60 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 5
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 910,620 877,990 29,545 1,560
English 877,990 877,990 0 0
French 29,550 0 29,545 0
English and French 1,560 0 0 1,560
Neither English nor French 1,515 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 30,325 0 29,550 780
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 3.3 0.0 100.0 50.0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

Language groups are defined as follows: 'English' includes respondents who reported English only or English and one non-official language; 'French' includes respondents who reported French only or French and one non-official language; 'English and French' includes respondents who reported English and French, with or without one non-official language.

'Total' category includes all groups mentioned as well as respondents who reported a non-official language as their only mother tongue.

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Footnote 2

Those classified in the category 'Neither English nor French' appear only in the 'Total' category in this table.

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Footnote 3

The median age is an age 'x', such that exactly one half of the population is older than 'x' and the other half is younger than 'x'.

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Footnote 4

Marital status
Part A - Short definition
Refers to the marital status of the person, taking into account his/her common-law status.
Part B - Detailed definition
Refers to the marital status of the person, taking into account his/her common-law status. Persons who are married or living common law may be of opposite sex or of the same sex. The classification is as follows:
Married (and not separated): A person who is married and has not separated or obtained a divorce, and whose spouse is living.
Common-law: A person who is living with another person as a couple but who is not legally married to that person.
Separated: A person who is married but who no longer lives with his/her spouse (for any reason other than illness, work or school) and who has not obtained a divorce. Persons living common law are not included in this category.
Divorced: A person who has obtained a legal divorce and who has not remarried. Persons living common law are not included in this category.
Widowed: A person who has lost his/her spouse through death and who has not remarried. Persons living common law are not included in this category.
Single (never legally married): A person who has never married or a person whose marriage has been annulled and who has not remarried. Persons living common law are not included in this category.

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Footnote 5

Total population excluding institutional residents. The population excluding institutional residents includes Canadian citizens (by birth or by naturalization) and landed immigrants (permanent residents) excluding those who live in institutions (institutional collective dwellings). Canadian citizens and landed immigrants either: (1) have a usual place of residence in Canada; (2) are abroad either on a military base or attached to a diplomatic mission; or (3) are at sea or in port aboard merchant vessels under Canadian registry or Canadian government vessels. Since 1991, the target population also includes persons with a usual place of residence in Canada who are claiming refugee status, who hold study permits, or who hold work permits, as well as family members living with them; for census purposes, this group is referred to as non-permanent residents. The population universe does not include foreign residents.

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Footnote 6

Selected Aboriginal languages
The languages shown were selected based on the Aboriginal mother tongues most often reported as single responses in Canada in the 2011 Census of Population.

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Selected non-Aboriginal languages
The languages shown were selected based on the non-Aboriginal mother tongues (other than English or French) most often reported as single responses in Canada in the 2011 Census of Population.

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Other languages
This is a subtotal of all languages collected by the census that are not displayed separately here. For a full list of languages collected in the census, please refer to Appendix D in the 2011 Census Dictionary.

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Footnote 9

Total population excluding institutional residents
The population excluding institutional residents includes Canadian citizens (by birth or by naturalization) and landed immigrants (permanent residents) excluding those who live in institutions (institutional collective dwellings). Canadian citizens and landed immigrants either: (1) have a usual place of residence in Canada; (2) are abroad either on a military base or attached to a diplomatic mission; or (3) are at sea or in port aboard merchant vessels under Canadian registry or Canadian government vessels. Since 1991, the target population also includes persons with a usual place of residence in Canada who are claiming refugee status, who hold study permits, or who hold work permits, as well as family members living with them; for census purposes, this group is referred to as non-permanent residents. The population universe does not include foreign residents.

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Footnote 10

Selected Aboriginal languages
The languages shown were selected based on the Aboriginal mother tongues most often reported as single responses in Canada in the 2011 Census of Population.

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Selected non-Aboriginal languages
The languages shown were selected based on the non-Aboriginal mother tongues (other than English or French) most often reported as single responses in Canada in the 2011 Census of Population.

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Other languages
This is a subtotal of all languages collected by the census that are not displayed separately here. For a full list of languages collected in the census, please refer to Appendix D in the 2011 Census Dictionary.

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Footnote 13

Total population excluding institutional residents
The population excluding institutional residents includes Canadian citizens (by birth or by naturalization) and landed immigrants (permanent residents) excluding those who live in institutions (institutional collective dwellings). Canadian citizens and landed immigrants either: (1) have a usual place of residence in Canada; (2) are abroad either on a military base or attached to a diplomatic mission; or (3) are at sea or in port aboard merchant vessels under Canadian registry or Canadian government vessels. Since 1991, the target population also includes persons with a usual place of residence in Canada who are claiming refugee status, who hold study permits, or who hold work permits, as well as family members living with them; for census purposes, this group is referred to as non-permanent residents. The population universe does not include foreign residents.

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Selected Aboriginal languages
The languages shown were selected based on the Aboriginal mother tongues most often reported as single responses in Canada in the 2011 Census of Population.

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Selected non-Aboriginal languages
The languages shown were selected based on the non-Aboriginal mother tongues (other than English or French) most often reported as single responses in Canada in the 2011 Census of Population.

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Other languages
This is a subtotal of all languages collected by the census that are not displayed separately here. For a full list of languages collected in the census, please refer to Appendix D in the 2011 Census Dictionary.

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Footnote 17

Total population excluding institutional residents
The population excluding institutional residents includes Canadian citizens (by birth or by naturalization) and landed immigrants (permanent residents) excluding those who live in institutions (institutional collective dwellings). Canadian citizens and landed immigrants either: (1) have a usual place of residence in Canada; (2) are abroad either on a military base or attached to a diplomatic mission; or (3) are at sea or in port aboard merchant vessels under Canadian registry or Canadian government vessels. Since 1991, the target population also includes persons with a usual place of residence in Canada who are claiming refugee status, who hold study permits, or who hold work permits, as well as family members living with them; for census purposes, this group is referred to as non-permanent residents. The population universe does not include foreign residents.

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Footnote 18

English is the first official language spoken by Quebec's official language minority, which consists of all individuals with English as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French. French is the first official language spoken by the official language minority in the country overall and in every province and territory outside Quebec, which consists of all individuals with French as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French.

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Footnote 19

English is the first official language spoken by Quebec's official language minority, which consists of all individuals with English as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French. French is the first official language spoken by the official language minority in the country overall and in every province and territory outside Quebec, which consists of all individuals with French as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French.

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-314-XCB2011058.

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