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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 Newfoundland and Labrador / Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador
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 509,950 507,195 1,995 210
0 to 4 years 24,475 24,235 65 20
5 to 9 years 25,095 24,995 65 15
10 to 14 years 27,000 26,910 55 20
15 to 19 years 29,535 29,445 50 15
20 to 24 years 30,010 29,880 95 10
25 to 29 years 28,275 28,090 130 25
30 to 34 years 29,230 29,055 135 20
35 to 39 years 33,335 33,155 135 20
40 to 44 years 37,965 37,785 130 25
45 to 49 years 42,140 41,910 190 10
50 to 54 years 43,055 42,830 195 5
55 to 59 years 42,480 42,285 165 10
60 to 64 years 38,960 38,745 185 5
65 to 69 years 28,505 28,340 135 10
70 to 74 years 19,765 19,635 95 5
75 to 79 years 14,065 13,970 70 0
80 to 84 years 9,280 9,210 50 5
85 years and over 6,785 6,730 35 0
Median ageFootnote 3 43.7 43.7 48.4 28.0
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 433,385 431,065 1,800 155
Married or living with a common-law partner 272,215 270,705 1,235 90
Married (and not separated) 230,920 229,760 920 65
Living common law 41,295 40,945 310 20
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 161,170 160,360 575 70
Single (never legally married) 106,245 105,775 315 55
Separated 8,625 8,570 45 5
Divorced 19,605 19,500 105 5
Widowed 26,685 26,510 115 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 509,950 507,200 1,995 210
English only 485,745 485,740 0 0
French only 130 0 130 0
English and French 23,455 21,385 1,865 205
Neither English nor French 625 75 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 509,950 507,200 1,995 210
Single responses 508,830 506,200 1,930 145
English 497,560 497,540 25 0
French 2,480 595 1,880 0
Non-official languages 8,790 8,060 25 150
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 2,690 2,495 0 30
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 10 10 0 5
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 2,030 1,855 0 30
Inuktitut 640 625 0 0
Mi'kmaq 5 5 0 0
Ojibway 5 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 5 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 5,855 5,350 20 110
African languages, n.i.e. 60 55 0 0
Afrikaans 75 70 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0
Albanian 100 80 0 0
Amharic 15 10 0 0
Arabic 590 525 0 20
Armenian 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 30 25 0 0
Bengali 200 190 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 15 20 0 0
Bosnian 15 15 0 0
Bulgarian 60 55 0 0
Burmese 5 0 0 0
Cantonese 155 125 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 875 790 0 5
Creoles 15 10 0 0
Croatian 30 30 0 0
Czech 20 25 0 0
Danish 40 35 0 0
Dutch 90 90 0 0
Estonian 15 5 0 10
Finnish 20 15 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 5 0 0
German 365 350 0 10
Greek 50 50 0 0
Gujarati 40 40 0 0
Hakka 5 5 0 0
Hebrew 10 10 0 0
Hindi 95 95 0 0
Hungarian 40 35 5 0
Ilocano 10 15 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Italian 75 70 0 0
Japanese 40 35 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 70 60 0 0
Kurdish 15 15 0 0
Lao 5 5 0 0
Latvian 15 15 0 0
Lingala 5 0 5 0
Lithuanian 5 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 30 25 0 0
Malayalam 65 60 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0
Mandarin 170 160 0 5
Marathi 35 35 0 0
Nepali 50 40 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 35 35 0 0
Norwegian 55 50 0 0
Oromo 20 15 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 115 105 0 0
Pashto 10 10 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 125 115 0 5
Polish 100 95 0 0
Portuguese 90 90 0 0
Romanian 40 35 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 205 185 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Serbian 25 20 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 85 30 0 0
Sindhi 10 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 45 45 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 10 10 0 0
Slovenian 10 5 0 0
Somali 0 5 0 0
Spanish 420 380 0 15
Swahili 25 15 0 5
Swedish 20 20 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 260 260 0 0
Taiwanese 25 25 0 0
Tamil 80 80 0 0
Telugu 45 45 0 0
Thai 25 25 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 15 10 0 0
Turkish 30 30 0 5
Ukrainian 30 35 0 0
Urdu 200 195 0 0
Vietnamese 35 30 0 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 240 215 0 0
Multiple responses 1,120 1,000 60 60
English and French 470 375 35 55
English and non-official language 585 585 0 0
French and non-official language 45 25 20 0
English, French and non-official language 25 15 0 5
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 509,950 507,200 1,995 210
Single responses 508,620 506,015 1,915 135
English 502,475 501,285 1,190 0
French 1,145 435 710 0
Non-official languages 5,005 4,300 15 135
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 2,040 1,850 5 30
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 1,880 1,700 5 30
Inuktitut 160 145 0 0
Mi'kmaq 5 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 11 2,855 2,370 10 100
African languages, n.i.e. 25 25 0 0
Afrikaans 35 40 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 5 0 0
Albanian 75 60 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 360 295 5 15
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Bengali 100 90 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0
Bosnian 10 5 0 0
Bulgarian 15 15 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0
Cantonese 105 70 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 585 500 0 5
Creoles 10 5 0 5
Croatian 15 15 0 0
Czech 5 0 0 0
Danish 10 10 0 5
Dutch 5 5 0 0
Estonian 10 0 0 10
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 5 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 45 35 0 10
Greek 5 5 0 0
Gujarati 15 10 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 10 0 0
Hindi 25 25 0 0
Hungarian 10 10 0 5
Ilocano 0 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Italian 0 0 0 0
Japanese 10 10 0 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 40 35 0 0
Kurdish 5 5 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 0 0 0
Malay 10 5 0 0
Malayalam 25 20 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 120 110 0 5
Marathi 10 10 0 0
Nepali 55 40 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0
Oromo 10 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 60 50 0 5
Pashto 5 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 65 55 0 0
Polish 40 35 0 0
Portuguese 15 10 0 0
Romanian 15 10 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 120 90 0 10
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Serbian 5 5 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 150 90 0 0
Sindhi 10 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 15 15 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 10 5 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 210 175 0 15
Swahili 20 10 0 5
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 90 90 0 0
Taiwanese 10 10 0 0
Tamil 35 30 0 0
Telugu 30 30 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 15 10 0 5
Ukrainian 5 5 0 0
Urdu 95 90 0 0
Vietnamese 15 15 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 110 80 5 0
Multiple responses 1,330 1,175 75 75
English and French 245 130 60 55
English and non-official language 1,035 1,030 5 0
French and non-official language 15 5 5 0
English, French and non-official language 40 10 10 20
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 509,950 507,200 1,995 210
None 501,995 500,220 1,140 130
Single responses 7,780 6,840 840 60
English 2,045 1,615 345 55
French 2,720 2,245 470 5
Non-official languages 3,020 2,980 25 5
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 435 435 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 5 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 135 135 0 0
Inuktitut 285 285 0 0
Mi'kmaq 5 10 0 0
Ojibway 0 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 15 2,375 2,340 25 5
African languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0
Afrikaans 40 40 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 15 15 0 0
Amharic 10 10 0 0
Arabic 215 205 0 0
Armenian 5 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Bengali 50 50 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0
Bosnian 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 25 25 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 35 40 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 180 180 0 0
Creoles 10 10 0 0
Croatian 10 15 0 0
Czech 10 10 0 0
Danish 20 20 0 0
Dutch 45 40 5 0
Estonian 0 5 0 0
Finnish 10 10 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 175 175 0 0
Greek 35 30 0 0
Gujarati 15 15 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 85 80 0 0
Hungarian 10 10 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Italian 45 40 0 0
Japanese 35 30 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 35 35 0 0
Kurdish 5 5 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 10 5 10 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 15 15 0 0
Malayalam 30 30 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0
Mandarin 50 50 0 0
Marathi 5 10 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 45 40 0 0
Norwegian 50 50 0 0
Oromo 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 30 30 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 25 30 0 0
Polish 30 30 0 0
Portuguese 40 40 0 0
Romanian 15 10 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 80 75 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 5 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 10 10 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 85 85 0 0
Sindhi 5 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 20 25 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 5 5 0 0
Slovenian 5 0 0 0
Somali 5 5 0 0
Spanish 290 285 0 0
Swahili 10 10 0 0
Swedish 15 10 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 105 105 0 0
Taiwanese 10 5 0 0
Tamil 35 30 0 0
Telugu 10 10 0 0
Thai 15 10 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 10 0 0
Turkish 15 10 0 0
Ukrainian 10 15 0 0
Urdu 100 95 0 0
Vietnamese 15 15 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 205 210 0 0
Multiple responses 170 140 15 15
English and French 25 5 0 15
English and non-official language 45 35 10 0
French and non-official language 110 100 10 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 509,950 507,200 1,990 210
English 507,195 507,195 0 0
French 1,995 0 1,990 0
English and French 210 0 0 210
Neither English nor French 555 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 2,095 0 1,995 105
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 0.4 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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Footnote 8

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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Footnote 14

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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