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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 Nanaimo
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 96,915 95,225 1,210 120
0 to 4 years 4,590 4,525 15 5
5 to 9 years 4,480 4,450 20 10
10 to 14 years 5,075 5,030 25 15
15 to 19 years 5,930 5,880 30 10
20 to 24 years 6,075 6,015 45 10
25 to 29 years 5,840 5,775 55 5
30 to 34 years 5,130 5,070 50 0
35 to 39 years 5,270 5,180 75 5
40 to 44 years 6,225 6,130 80 5
45 to 49 years 7,250 7,105 115 5
50 to 54 years 8,060 7,905 110 15
55 to 59 years 7,770 7,595 135 5
60 to 64 years 7,290 7,125 125 0
65 to 69 years 5,590 5,450 100 5
70 to 74 years 4,135 4,010 80 10
75 to 79 years 3,350 3,235 75 0
80 to 84 years 2,630 2,560 50 0
85 years and over 2,235 2,180 30 5
Median ageFootnote 3 44.9 44.6 54.8 40.0
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 82,775 81,220 1,155 90
Married or living with a common-law partner 47,770 46,775 740 45
Married (and not separated) 38,880 38,055 580 40
Living common law 8,890 8,720 155 5
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 35,005 34,445 415 45
Single (never legally married) 20,560 20,310 195 25
Separated 2,525 2,480 35 5
Divorced 6,835 6,705 110 10
Widowed 5,090 4,955 75 5
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 96,915 95,225 1,210 120
English only 90,435 90,435 0 0
French only 40 0 40 0
English and French 6,055 4,770 1,170 120
Neither English nor French 385 20 5 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 96,910 95,220 1,210 120
Single responses 96,040 94,405 1,180 90
English 85,840 85,835 5 0
French 1,345 185 1,165 0
Non-official languages 8,855 8,385 20 90
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 15 20 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 10 15 0 0
Dene 0 5 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 8,640 8,195 15 90
African languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Afrikaans 85 85 0 0
Akan (Twi) 10 15 0 0
Albanian 10 10 0 0
Amharic 0 5 0 0
Arabic 115 105 5 5
Armenian 5 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Bengali 5 10 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0
Bosnian 10 10 0 0
Bulgarian 10 10 0 0
Burmese 0 5 0 0
Cantonese 195 180 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 555 510 0 5
Creoles 10 5 0 0
Croatian 155 150 0 0
Czech 125 125 0 0
Danish 255 250 0 0
Dutch 600 590 0 5
Estonian 15 15 0 0
Finnish 115 115 0 0
Flemish 10 10 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 1,295 1,280 0 10
Greek 70 65 0 0
Gujarati 45 40 0 0
Hakka 10 10 0 0
Hebrew 15 10 0 0
Hindi 90 80 0 0
Hungarian 205 205 0 0
Ilocano 15 15 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Italian 265 260 0 5
Japanese 215 210 0 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 90 70 0 0
Korean 280 250 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 5 0 0
Latvian 10 10 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 10 0 0
Macedonian 10 10 0 0
Malay 20 15 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 10 10 0 0
Mandarin 310 275 0 5
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 10 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Norwegian 85 85 0 0
Oromo 5 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 930 830 5 5
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 100 95 0 0
Polish 230 225 0 5
Portuguese 90 85 0 0
Romanian 45 35 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 170 155 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Serbian 50 45 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Sindhi 5 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0
Slovak 50 50 0 0
Slovenian 20 20 0 0
Somali 5 10 0 0
Spanish 400 380 0 15
Swahili 5 5 0 0
Swedish 95 95 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 345 335 0 5
Taiwanese 35 25 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0
Thai 65 60 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 15 20 0 0
Ukrainian 185 185 0 0
Urdu 30 30 0 0
Vietnamese 330 285 0 15
Yiddish 10 5 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 190 175 0 0
Multiple responses 875 815 30 30
English and French 225 190 10 20
English and non-official language 585 590 0 0
French and non-official language 40 20 15 0
English, French and non-official language 25 20 0 5
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 96,915 95,220 1,210 120
Single responses 95,750 94,145 1,155 85
English 92,520 91,630 890 0
French 310 50 260 0
Non-official languages 2,920 2,460 10 80
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 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 11 2,880 2,435 10 80
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 35 35 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 40 35 0 5
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 5 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 85 65 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 290 250 0 0
Creoles 5 0 0 0
Croatian 40 35 0 0
Czech 55 55 0 0
Danish 10 5 0 5
Dutch 70 60 0 10
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 15 10 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 120 100 5 15
Greek 30 25 0 0
Gujarati 10 10 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 35 35 0 5
Hungarian 40 40 0 0
Ilocano 10 10 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Italian 40 30 0 0
Japanese 60 55 0 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 65 50 0 0
Korean 180 150 0 5
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 5 5 0 0
Malay 0 5 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 220 180 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Norwegian 5 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 585 480 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 45 40 0 0
Polish 75 60 0 5
Portuguese 25 20 0 0
Romanian 5 0 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 70 55 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Serbian 10 15 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 25 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. 10 5 0 0
Slovak 5 5 0 0
Slovenian 5 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 150 120 5 10
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 10 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 95 90 0 0
Taiwanese 20 15 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 20 20 0 0
Vietnamese 230 195 0 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 40 30 0 5
Multiple responses 1,165 1,075 50 35
English and French 100 25 45 25
English and non-official language 1,045 1,045 0 0
French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
English, French and non-official language 20 10 0 15
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 96,915 95,220 1,210 120
None 91,005 89,890 740 60
Single responses 5,785 5,225 465 50
English 1,430 1,215 150 40
French 875 580 290 5
Non-official languages 3,475 3,430 20 5
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 5 10 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 5 0 0
Dene 5 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 15 3,200 3,160 20 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 50 50 0 0
Akan (Twi) 15 10 0 0
Albanian 5 5 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 50 45 0 0
Armenian 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Bengali 5 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0
Bosnian 0 5 0 0
Bulgarian 5 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 55 55 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 140 140 0 0
Creoles 5 5 0 0
Croatian 60 55 0 0
Czech 45 45 0 0
Danish 75 80 0 0
Dutch 170 170 0 0
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 35 35 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 435 435 0 0
Greek 30 30 0 0
Gujarati 30 25 0 0
Hakka 5 5 0 0
Hebrew 15 15 0 0
Hindi 70 70 0 5
Hungarian 60 65 0 0
Ilocano 10 15 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 95 90 0 0
Japanese 140 140 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 20 20 0 0
Korean 65 65 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 5 5 0 0
Malay 15 15 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 100 95 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Norwegian 35 35 0 0
Oromo 5 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 270 270 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 25 25 0 0
Polish 80 80 0 0
Portuguese 40 40 0 0
Romanian 25 25 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 50 45 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 5 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 20 25 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0
Sindhi 0 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slovak 25 25 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 345 335 10 0
Swahili 5 5 0 0
Swedish 40 40 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 170 170 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0
Tamil 0 5 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 30 30 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 10 10 0 0
Ukrainian 35 35 0 0
Urdu 10 10 0 0
Vietnamese 80 80 0 0
Yiddish 5 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 270 265 0 0
Multiple responses 125 105 10 10
English and French 10 0 0 10
English and non-official language 20 15 5 0
French and non-official language 90 85 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 96,910 95,220 1,210 120
English 95,220 95,220 0 0
French 1,210 0 1,210 0
English and French 120 0 0 120
Neither English nor French 360 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 1,270 0 1,210 60
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 1.3 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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