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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 Northwest Territories / Territoires du Nord-OuestFootnote 2
Selected Demographic and Language Characteristics (375) First official language spoken (4A)
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 3 English French English and French
Age groups - Total population excluding institutional residents 41,040 39,680 1,030 105
0 to 4 years 3,285 3,185 60 5
5 to 9 years 2,850 2,785 55 10
10 to 14 years 2,860 2,805 45 10
15 to 19 years 3,360 3,320 35 10
20 to 24 years 3,310 3,265 45 5
25 to 29 years 3,405 3,280 115 5
30 to 34 years 3,265 3,130 120 5
35 to 39 years 2,960 2,870 85 10
40 to 44 years 2,995 2,905 75 10
45 to 49 years 3,350 3,240 100 5
50 to 54 years 3,085 2,950 115 10
55 to 59 years 2,385 2,285 80 10
60 to 64 years 1,665 1,605 45 5
65 to 69 years 965 925 20 5
70 to 74 years 565 515 10 5
75 to 79 years 370 315 10 5
80 to 84 years 210 175 10 0
85 years and over 150 120 5 0
Median ageFootnote 4 32.1 31.8 37.8 36.8
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 5 32,040 30,900 875 75
Married or living with a common-law partner 17,630 16,935 560 45
Married (and not separated) 11,340 10,885 325 35
Living common law 6,295 6,050 230 10
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 14,410 13,965 320 30
Single (never legally married) 11,525 11,260 215 15
Separated 765 730 30 0
Divorced 1,275 1,205 60 10
Widowed 850 765 20 5
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 6 41,040 39,685 1,030 100
English only 37,045 37,040 0 0
French only 50 0 45 0
English and French 3,715 2,635 980 105
Neither English nor French 235 5 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 41,040 39,680 1,030 100
Single responses 40,500 39,170 1,020 85
English 31,380 31,380 0 0
French 1,080 80 1,000 0
Non-official languages 8,045 7,710 25 85
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 780 765 0 5
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 130 130 0 0
Dene 445 440 5 5
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 190 185 0 5
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 15 10 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 8 2,465 2,325 15 60
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Afrikaans 5 10 0 0
Akan (Twi) 10 10 0 0
Albanian 5 5 0 0
Amharic 15 10 0 0
Arabic 150 125 5 15
Armenian 70 70 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 30 30 0 0
Bengali 35 35 0 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 70 70 0 0
Bosnian 10 5 0 0
Bulgarian 5 10 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0
Cantonese 85 85 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 110 105 0 0
Creoles 40 20 0 15
Croatian 20 15 0 0
Czech 15 15 0 0
Danish 10 10 0 0
Dutch 50 55 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 10 10 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 185 175 5 5
Greek 15 15 0 0
Gujarati 10 10 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 30 25 0 0
Hungarian 25 25 0 0
Ilocano 45 40 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Italian 50 45 0 0
Japanese 30 30 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 20 15 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 10 5 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 15 10 0 5
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 35 35 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 20 20 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Norwegian 5 0 0 0
Oromo 15 10 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 30 30 0 5
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 20 15 0 0
Polish 30 30 0 0
Portuguese 20 20 0 5
Romanian 15 15 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 40 35 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 5 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Serbian 10 15 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slovak 20 20 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 35 35 0 0
Spanish 90 85 0 5
Swahili 10 10 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 545 535 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 20 20 0 0
Telugu 10 5 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 10 0 0
Turkish 15 15 0 0
Ukrainian 50 45 0 0
Urdu 30 35 0 0
Vietnamese 155 135 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 9 4,795 4,625 5 15
Multiple responses 540 515 10 15
English and French 75 55 5 15
English and non-official language 445 450 0 0
French and non-official language 15 10 5 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 10 41,035 39,685 1,030 100
Single responses 40,655 39,330 1,020 75
English 36,485 35,970 515 0
French 550 50 505 0
Non-official languages 3,620 3,310 5 75
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 11 235 225 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 20 15 0 0
Dene 165 160 0 5
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 45 45 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 12 1,170 1,050 0 55
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 95 80 0 10
Armenian 50 50 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Bengali 25 25 0 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 30 30 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 50 45 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 60 60 0 0
Creoles 20 10 0 15
Croatian 5 0 0 0
Czech 5 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 5 5 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 25 20 0 0
Greek 5 0 0 0
Gujarati 10 10 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 15 15 0 0
Hungarian 0 5 0 0
Ilocano 25 15 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Italian 5 5 0 0
Japanese 10 10 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 10 10 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 10 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 30 30 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 15 15 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 10 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 10 10 0 5
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 0 0 5
Polish 5 5 0 0
Portuguese 15 10 0 5
Romanian 5 5 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 30 25 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 10 5 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slovak 5 5 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 10 15 0 0
Spanish 40 30 0 5
Swahili 5 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 300 285 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 10 10 0 5
Telugu 5 5 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 0 0 0 0
Urdu 25 25 0 0
Vietnamese 145 125 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 13 2,210 2,040 5 15
Multiple responses 390 350 10 30
English and French 40 15 10 20
English and non-official language 335 330 0 0
French and non-official language 5 5 0 0
English, French and non-official language 10 0 5 10
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 14 41,040 39,680 1,030 105
None 34,395 33,610 525 55
Single responses 6,585 6,020 500 50
English 2,350 2,020 265 40
French 605 395 210 5
Non-official languages 3,630 3,605 20 5
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 15 415 410 5 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 60 60 0 0
Dene 230 230 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 120 120 5 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 16 840 820 15 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 10 5 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 45 40 0 0
Armenian 35 30 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Bengali 10 10 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 10 15 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0
Cantonese 35 35 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 25 25 0 0
Creoles 10 10 0 0
Croatian 10 10 0 0
Czech 10 5 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 10 10 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 5 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 65 55 5 0
Greek 5 5 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 25 25 0 0
Hungarian 10 10 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Italian 20 15 5 0
Japanese 10 10 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 5 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 5 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 10 10 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 10 0 0
Polish 10 10 0 0
Portuguese 10 5 0 0
Romanian 5 5 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 20 15 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 10 10 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 20 20 0 0
Spanish 65 65 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 190 195 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 5 0 0
Turkish 10 10 0 0
Ukrainian 15 10 0 5
Urdu 10 15 0 0
Vietnamese 15 15 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 17 2,370 2,370 5 5
Multiple responses 60 55 0 0
English and French 0 0 0 5
English and non-official language 10 10 0 0
French and non-official language 50 45 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 18 41,040 39,680 1,030 100
English 39,680 39,680 0 0
French 1,030 0 1,025 0
English and French 100 0 0 100
Neither English nor French 225 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 19 1,080 0 1,030 50
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 20 2.6 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

Data quality index showing a global non response rate higher than or equal to 5% but lower than 10%.

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Footnote 3

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

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Footnote 4

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 5

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 6

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 7

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 9

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 10

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 11

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 14

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 18

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 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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Footnote 20

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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