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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 DuncanFootnote 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 42,655 42,055 450 35
0 to 4 years 2,115 2,090 5 5
5 to 9 years 2,220 2,210 10 0
10 to 14 years 2,520 2,505 5 5
15 to 19 years 2,690 2,680 10 0
20 to 24 years 2,225 2,210 10 0
25 to 29 years 2,045 2,035 10 0
30 to 34 years 2,075 2,045 25 0
35 to 39 years 2,200 2,175 20 5
40 to 44 years 2,545 2,505 30 5
45 to 49 years 3,180 3,130 40 0
50 to 54 years 3,595 3,530 55 0
55 to 59 years 3,420 3,365 45 0
60 to 64 years 3,480 3,415 50 5
65 to 69 years 2,575 2,535 30 5
70 to 74 years 1,990 1,945 20 0
75 to 79 years 1,560 1,530 20 0
80 to 84 years 1,150 1,100 35 0
85 years and over 1,080 1,050 20 0
Median ageFootnote 4 46.2 46.0 55.2 42.5
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 5 35,800 35,245 430 25
Married or living with a common-law partner 21,080 20,710 290 20
Married (and not separated) 17,300 17,000 220 15
Living common law 3,780 3,710 65 5
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 14,725 14,535 140 5
Single (never legally married) 8,280 8,220 50 5
Separated 1,175 1,160 15 0
Divorced 2,945 2,910 30 5
Widowed 2,325 2,245 40 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 6 42,655 42,055 450 30
English only 40,160 40,160 0 0
French only 15 0 10 0
English and French 2,365 1,890 440 35
Neither English nor French 120 5 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 42,655 42,060 450 30
Single responses 42,305 41,715 445 25
English 38,620 38,620 0 0
French 545 105 435 0
Non-official languages 3,140 2,995 5 25
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 5 5 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 8 2,825 2,675 5 25
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 15 15 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 10 5 0 0
Armenian 0 0 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 10 10 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0
Bulgarian 0 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 65 50 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 90 80 0 5
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 20 20 0 0
Czech 25 30 0 0
Danish 95 95 0 0
Dutch 405 405 0 5
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 45 45 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 0 5 0 0
German 570 560 0 5
Greek 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 5 5 0 0
Hakka 0 5 0 0
Hebrew 5 0 0 0
Hindi 10 10 0 0
Hungarian 55 55 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Italian 75 70 0 5
Japanese 40 35 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 60 50 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 10 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 5 0 0 0
Malay 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 0 5 0 0
Mandarin 20 20 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 25 25 0 0
Oromo 0 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 565 495 0 5
Pashto 5 10 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 15 15 0 0
Polish 60 55 0 0
Portuguese 45 40 0 0
Romanian 10 5 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 30 30 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. 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 0 0 0
Slovak 10 10 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 90 85 0 5
Swahili 0 5 0 0
Swedish 25 25 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 95 95 0 0
Taiwanese 5 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 10 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 5 5 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 85 85 0 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 50 45 0 0
Yiddish 0 5 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 9 315 315 0 0
Multiple responses 350 335 5 5
English and French 65 55 0 10
English and non-official language 255 255 0 0
French and non-official language 20 15 5 0
English, French and non-official language 10 5 0 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 10 42,655 42,055 450 35
Single responses 42,270 41,695 430 25
English 41,245 40,910 340 0
French 125 35 85 0
Non-official languages 895 750 0 25
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 12 855 715 0 25
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 5 5 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 0 0 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 20 15 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 55 45 0 5
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 5 5 0 0
Czech 5 0 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 0
Dutch 25 20 0 5
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 85 80 0 5
Greek 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 0 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 5 5 0 0
Hungarian 15 10 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 5 5 0 0
Japanese 20 15 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 55 45 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 5 5 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 5 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) 370 305 0 5
Pashto 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 0 0 0
Polish 5 0 0 0
Portuguese 5 0 0 0
Romanian 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 5 5 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. 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 5 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 40 40 5 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 25 25 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 5 5 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 10 5 0 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 40 35 0 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 13 35 35 0 0
Multiple responses 385 360 20 5
English and French 30 5 15 10
English and non-official language 345 345 5 0
French and non-official language 10 5 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 5 0 0
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 14 42,655 42,055 450 30
None 40,445 40,055 265 20
Single responses 2,150 1,960 180 10
English 425 365 45 10
French 380 250 135 0
Non-official languages 1,350 1,345 0 0
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 15 5 5 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 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 16 975 970 5 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 10 10 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 5 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 15 10 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 20 20 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 10 10 0 0
Czech 5 10 0 0
Danish 35 35 0 0
Dutch 125 125 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 10 10 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 175 170 0 0
Greek 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 5 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 10 10 0 0
Hungarian 10 15 0 0
Ilocano 0 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 25 25 0 0
Japanese 25 20 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 15 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 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 10 10 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 10 10 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 160 160 0 0
Pashto 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 5 0 0
Polish 30 25 0 0
Portuguese 30 25 0 0
Romanian 5 5 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 5 5 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 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 5 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 105 105 5 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 55 55 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 5 5 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 10 10 0 0
Urdu 0 5 0 0
Vietnamese 10 10 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 17 365 365 0 0
Multiple responses 55 45 10 0
English and French 0 0 0 5
English and non-official language 10 0 10 0
French and non-official language 45 45 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 18 42,655 42,055 450 30
English 42,060 42,060 0 0
French 450 0 450 0
English and French 35 0 0 30
Neither English nor French 115 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 19 465 0 450 15
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 20 1.1 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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