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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 PentictonFootnote 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 41,840 40,925 620 80
0 to 4 years 1,670 1,645 10 5
5 to 9 years 1,660 1,645 15 5
10 to 14 years 1,990 1,970 15 10
15 to 19 years 2,335 2,315 10 10
20 to 24 years 2,045 2,030 10 5
25 to 29 years 1,995 1,970 15 0
30 to 34 years 1,985 1,955 15 0
35 to 39 years 2,005 1,975 25 5
40 to 44 years 2,280 2,235 35 0
45 to 49 years 3,065 2,995 50 5
50 to 54 years 3,640 3,550 65 5
55 to 59 years 3,430 3,345 65 0
60 to 64 years 3,230 3,135 60 10
65 to 69 years 2,670 2,590 55 5
70 to 74 years 2,360 2,255 75 5
75 to 79 years 2,205 2,125 50 5
80 to 84 years 1,755 1,700 35 0
85 years and over 1,515 1,470 25 5
Median ageFootnote 4 49.8 49.6 58.6 37.5
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 5 36,520 35,665 585 65
Married or living with a common-law partner 21,150 20,610 375 30
Married (and not separated) 17,790 17,320 315 30
Living common law 3,355 3,295 60 0
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 15,370 15,055 210 30
Single (never legally married) 7,925 7,810 75 20
Separated 1,115 1,095 20 0
Divorced 3,305 3,245 50 0
Widowed 3,025 2,905 65 5
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 6 41,845 40,925 620 80
English only 39,015 39,015 0 0
French only 15 0 15 0
English and French 2,590 1,910 600 80
Neither English nor French 225 5 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 41,840 40,925 620 80
Single responses 41,390 40,490 605 70
English 36,200 36,195 5 0
French 725 120 600 0
Non-official languages 4,465 4,175 5 70
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 15 15 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 10 10 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 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 8 4,365 4,070 5 75
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 30 25 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 10 10 0 0
Amharic 5 0 0 0
Arabic 15 15 0 0
Armenian 5 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 50 40 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 95 80 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 50 50 0 5
Czech 65 65 0 0
Danish 60 60 0 0
Dutch 315 315 0 5
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 40 40 0 0
Flemish 10 15 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 1,150 1,115 0 25
Greek 55 55 0 5
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 5 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 20 20 0 0
Hungarian 155 160 0 0
Ilocano 10 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0
Italian 175 165 0 5
Japanese 40 40 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 45 40 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 10 10 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 5 0 0
Mandarin 25 20 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 20 20 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 670 540 0 10
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 15 15 0 0
Polish 100 95 0 5
Portuguese 290 255 0 5
Romanian 15 15 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 105 100 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 15 15 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 5 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. 10 5 0 0
Slovak 30 25 0 0
Slovenian 20 20 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 140 130 0 5
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 35 30 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 130 130 0 0
Taiwanese 5 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 35 30 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0
Ukrainian 170 170 0 0
Urdu 0 5 0 0
Vietnamese 65 60 0 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 9 85 85 0 0
Multiple responses 455 435 10 10
English and French 105 90 5 10
English and non-official language 320 320 5 0
French and non-official language 20 20 5 0
English, French and non-official language 10 10 0 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 10 41,840 40,925 615 80
Single responses 41,315 40,445 585 65
English 39,650 39,200 445 0
French 165 25 145 0
Non-official languages 1,500 1,220 0 65
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 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 12 1,465 1,185 0 65
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 15 15 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 5 10 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 0 5 0 0
Armenian 5 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 5 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 35 25 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 50 30 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 10 10 0 0
Czech 15 10 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 45 35 0 5
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 195 165 0 25
Greek 20 15 0 5
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 5 10 0 0
Hungarian 30 30 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0
Italian 30 30 0 0
Japanese 10 10 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 35 35 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 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 15 10 0 5
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 545 420 0 10
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 5 0 0
Polish 20 15 0 0
Portuguese 120 85 0 5
Romanian 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 10 10 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 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. 10 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. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 10 10 0 0
Slovenian 5 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 65 55 0 5
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 40 35 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 15 10 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0
Ukrainian 5 5 0 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 55 40 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 13 35 30 0 0
Multiple responses 525 480 30 15
English and French 40 10 25 10
English and non-official language 470 465 0 0
French and non-official language 5 0 0 0
English, French and non-official language 10 0 0 10
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 14 41,845 40,925 620 85
None 39,325 38,670 410 35
Single responses 2,460 2,205 205 40
English 745 625 70 35
French 350 225 130 0
Non-official languages 1,365 1,360 5 5
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 15 20 15 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 10 10 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 5 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 16 1,245 1,240 5 5
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 10 10 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 5 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 5 5 0 0
Armenian 0 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 15 15 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 25 25 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 25 20 0 0
Czech 10 10 0 0
Danish 15 15 0 0
Dutch 95 100 0 0
Estonian 5 0 0 0
Finnish 15 15 0 0
Flemish 0 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 335 330 0 0
Greek 25 25 0 0
Gujarati 5 0 0 0
Hakka 5 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 10 10 0 0
Hungarian 40 40 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 70 70 0 0
Japanese 25 20 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 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 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 5 5 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 95 95 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 0 0 0
Polish 25 30 0 0
Portuguese 100 100 0 0
Romanian 5 5 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 20 20 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 5 5 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 10 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. 5 0 0 0
Slovak 10 10 0 0
Slovenian 10 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 95 95 0 0
Swahili 5 0 0 0
Swedish 15 15 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 40 45 0 0
Taiwanese 5 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 20 15 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 20 20 0 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 10 15 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 17 100 100 0 0
Multiple responses 60 45 5 5
English and French 5 5 0 5
English and non-official language 5 5 5 0
French and non-official language 45 45 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 18 41,840 40,925 620 80
English 40,925 40,925 0 0
French 620 0 615 0
English and French 80 0 0 80
Neither English nor French 215 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 19 660 0 620 40
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 20 1.6 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%.

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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