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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 FrederictonFootnote 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 93,515 86,325 6,565 385
0 to 4 years 5,125 4,720 295 60
5 to 9 years 5,080 4,740 280 50
10 to 14 years 5,290 4,955 260 55
15 to 19 years 5,835 5,465 315 45
20 to 24 years 7,350 6,935 385 25
25 to 29 years 6,630 6,150 445 30
30 to 34 years 6,335 5,755 550 20
35 to 39 years 6,395 5,850 505 20
40 to 44 years 6,490 5,880 570 10
45 to 49 years 7,370 6,650 665 25
50 to 54 years 6,995 6,335 630 15
55 to 59 years 6,375 5,795 575 5
60 to 64 years 5,860 5,425 420 10
65 to 69 years 4,150 3,885 255 5
70 to 74 years 3,100 2,920 175 5
75 to 79 years 2,190 2,050 125 5
80 to 84 years 1,530 1,455 65 5
85 years and over 1,410 1,345 50 5
Median ageFootnote 4 39.1 38.9 42.3 18.6
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 5 78,025 71,905 5,725 225
Married or living with a common-law partner 47,155 43,035 3,890 110
Married (and not separated) 39,400 36,060 3,130 95
Living common law 7,750 6,975 760 15
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 30,870 28,870 1,835 110
Single (never legally married) 20,860 19,465 1,260 100
Separated 2,205 2,045 155 5
Divorced 4,135 3,875 265 5
Widowed 3,670 3,485 155 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 6 93,515 86,325 6,565 385
English only 72,900 72,895 0 0
French only 330 0 330 0
English and French 20,020 13,405 6,230 380
Neither English nor French 270 20 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 93,515 86,325 6,565 380
Single responses 92,415 85,485 6,480 200
English 81,070 81,065 5 0
French 6,580 160 6,420 0
Non-official languages 4,765 4,265 55 200
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 30 35 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 5 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 25 25 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 8 4,525 4,035 55 200
African languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 5
Afrikaans 10 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 5 5 0 0
Amharic 20 15 0 0
Arabic 450 365 20 40
Armenian 0 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0
Bengali 100 95 0 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 35 35 0 0
Bulgarian 0 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 75 60 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 470 425 0 5
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 40 35 0 0
Czech 15 15 0 0
Danish 25 20 0 0
Dutch 210 205 0 5
Estonian 10 10 0 0
Finnish 20 15 0 0
Flemish 10 5 0 0
Fukien 5 0 0 0
German 365 340 5 15
Greek 30 30 0 0
Gujarati 15 10 0 5
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 10 5 0 0
Hindi 95 90 0 0
Hungarian 40 40 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Italian 60 55 0 5
Japanese 45 40 5 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 560 505 0 15
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 10 10 0 0
Macedonian 10 10 0 0
Malay 25 25 0 0
Malayalam 5 10 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 180 155 0 5
Marathi 15 10 0 0
Nepali 45 25 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 25 20 5 0
Norwegian 10 5 0 0
Oromo 5 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 20 20 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 220 210 0 10
Polish 80 65 0 5
Portuguese 60 55 0 0
Romanian 85 75 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 20 10 5 5
Russian 150 135 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 15 0 10 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 75 65 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 25 25 0 0
Shanghainese 5 5 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 10 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 275 235 5 25
Swahili 35 25 10 0
Swedish 15 20 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 80 80 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 30 35 0 0
Telugu 15 20 0 0
Thai 30 25 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 0 0 0
Turkish 25 25 0 0
Ukrainian 30 25 0 0
Urdu 60 60 0 0
Vietnamese 40 40 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 5
Other languagesFootnote 9 215 195 0 0
Multiple responses 1,105 835 85 185
English and French 680 445 65 170
English and non-official language 375 380 0 0
French and non-official language 20 0 15 0
English, French and non-official language 25 10 0 15
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 10 93,515 86,325 6,560 380
Single responses 92,350 85,625 6,295 180
English 86,020 83,415 2,610 0
French 3,800 125 3,680 0
Non-official languages 2,525 2,090 5 180
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 11 0 0 0 0
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 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 12 2,460 2,045 5 180
African languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Afrikaans 5 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 5 5 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 220 155 0 40
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Bengali 60 60 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 15 15 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 55 40 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 360 315 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 15 10 0 0
Czech 5 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 25 20 0 5
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 10 10 0 5
Flemish 5 0 0 5
Fukien 5 5 0 0
German 75 55 0 15
Greek 5 5 0 0
Gujarati 10 5 0 5
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 40 40 0 0
Hungarian 5 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Italian 10 5 0 0
Japanese 20 15 0 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 480 430 0 5
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 20 20 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 145 115 0 10
Marathi 0 5 0 0
Nepali 35 15 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 5
Norwegian 0 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 175 160 0 5
Polish 30 25 0 5
Portuguese 25 15 0 0
Romanian 45 30 5 10
Rundi (Kirundi) 15 5 0 5
Russian 100 85 0 10
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 10 0 0 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 70 60 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 10 10 0 5
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 25 15 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 135 100 0 20
Swahili 10 10 0 5
Swedish 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 30 35 0 0
Taiwanese 0 5 0 0
Tamil 10 10 0 0
Telugu 5 10 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 5 0 0
Turkish 10 15 0 0
Ukrainian 5 0 0 0
Urdu 35 35 0 0
Vietnamese 35 30 5 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 13 65 45 0 0
Multiple responses 1,165 700 265 200
English and French 530 90 260 180
English and non-official language 595 595 0 0
French and non-official language 0 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 35 15 5 20
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 14 93,520 86,325 6,560 380
None 85,305 81,440 3,405 245
Single responses 8,055 4,780 3,125 115
English 2,865 1,045 1,715 80
French 3,390 2,045 1,340 10
Non-official languages 1,795 1,695 75 20
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 15 35 40 0 0
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 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 35 35 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 16 1,525 1,425 70 25
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 10 10 0 0
Albanian 0 5 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 190 175 15 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Bengali 20 15 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 10 10 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 15 10 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 95 100 0 0
Creoles 5 5 0 0
Croatian 10 10 0 0
Czech 5 5 0 0
Danish 10 5 0 0
Dutch 90 85 0 5
Estonian 0 5 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 5
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 165 155 5 5
Greek 10 10 0 0
Gujarati 5 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 20 20 0 0
Hindi 45 50 0 0
Hungarian 25 25 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Italian 20 20 0 0
Japanese 20 25 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 45 50 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 5 0
Lithuanian 0 5 0 0
Macedonian 5 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 35 35 0 0
Marathi 10 10 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 20 15 5 0
Norwegian 0 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 15 15 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 30 25 0 0
Polish 20 25 0 0
Portuguese 15 20 0 0
Romanian 25 25 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 35 35 5 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 10 0 10 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 10 0 0
Shanghainese 0 5 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 5 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 5 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 180 165 10 5
Swahili 45 25 15 5
Swedish 10 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 35 35 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0
Tamil 15 15 0 0
Telugu 5 0 0 0
Thai 15 15 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0
Ukrainian 10 10 5 0
Urdu 30 25 0 0
Vietnamese 5 5 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 17 230 230 5 0
Multiple responses 160 105 30 20
English and French 25 0 0 20
English and non-official language 35 15 20 0
French and non-official language 90 85 5 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 5
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 18 93,515 86,325 6,565 380
English 86,325 86,325 0 0
French 6,560 0 6,560 0
English and French 380 0 0 380
Neither English nor French 250 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 19 6,755 0 6,560 190
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 20 7.2 0.0 99.9 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

2006 adjusted count; most of these are the result of boundary changes.

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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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Footnote 8

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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