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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 Prince George
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 83,355 81,900 1,080 90
0 to 4 years 5,060 5,005 15 5
5 to 9 years 4,765 4,740 15 5
10 to 14 years 5,180 5,150 20 10
15 to 19 years 6,045 6,005 25 10
20 to 24 years 5,780 5,750 20 5
25 to 29 years 5,480 5,430 40 0
30 to 34 years 5,180 5,115 50 5
35 to 39 years 5,495 5,425 55 10
40 to 44 years 5,965 5,870 75 5
45 to 49 years 6,790 6,700 75 5
50 to 54 years 6,875 6,745 115 10
55 to 59 years 6,260 6,120 130 5
60 to 64 years 5,035 4,860 140 5
65 to 69 years 3,535 3,375 120 0
70 to 74 years 2,395 2,310 55 0
75 to 79 years 1,715 1,630 45 5
80 to 84 years 1,065 980 50 5
85 years and over 730 675 35 0
Median ageFootnote 3 38.9 38.6 56.2 37.7
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 68,345 67,000 1,025 65
Married or living with a common-law partner 39,745 38,890 685 45
Married (and not separated) 31,910 31,195 555 35
Living common law 7,835 7,695 130 5
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 28,600 28,115 345 25
Single (never legally married) 19,015 18,840 135 20
Separated 2,440 2,390 45 0
Divorced 4,075 3,990 80 5
Widowed 3,070 2,905 80 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 83,350 81,895 1,080 90
English only 78,810 78,810 0 0
French only 20 0 20 0
English and French 4,210 3,070 1,060 90
Neither English nor French 310 25 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 83,355 81,895 1,075 85
Single responses 82,595 81,175 1,060 65
English 73,965 73,965 0 0
French 1,270 225 1,045 0
Non-official languages 7,360 6,990 15 65
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 95 95 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 80 85 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 10 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 6,995 6,630 15 60
African languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Afrikaans 45 40 0 0
Akan (Twi) 15 10 0 0
Albanian 10 10 0 0
Amharic 5 0 0 0
Arabic 125 120 5 0
Armenian 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Bengali 30 30 0 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 50 50 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 15 15 0 0
Burmese 10 5 0 0
Cantonese 150 135 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 300 270 0 0
Creoles 10 5 0 0
Croatian 200 200 0 0
Czech 35 40 0 0
Danish 100 105 0 0
Dutch 305 295 5 0
Estonian 10 10 0 0
Finnish 115 115 0 0
Flemish 10 10 0 5
Fukien 5 5 0 0
German 1,335 1,320 0 10
Greek 80 80 0 0
Gujarati 5 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 5 0 0
Hindi 65 65 0 0
Hungarian 100 105 0 0
Ilocano 20 20 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 325 325 0 0
Japanese 70 70 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 95 85 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 10 10 0 0
Malay 10 10 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 10 10 0 0
Mandarin 90 85 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 5
Norwegian 60 55 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 1,295 1,135 0 10
Pashto 5 10 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 25 25 0 0
Polish 175 165 0 5
Portuguese 265 245 0 0
Romanian 55 50 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 15 10 0 5
Russian 80 80 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 30 25 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 10 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. 10 10 0 0
Slovak 30 25 0 0
Slovenian 40 40 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 210 195 0 10
Swahili 25 15 5 5
Swedish 40 40 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 375 370 0 0
Taiwanese 10 5 0 0
Tamil 25 20 0 0
Telugu 0 5 0 0
Thai 20 20 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0
Ukrainian 245 240 0 0
Urdu 40 40 0 0
Vietnamese 45 45 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 270 265 0 5
Multiple responses 760 720 15 25
English and French 175 150 5 20
English and non-official language 540 540 0 0
French and non-official language 35 25 10 0
English, French and non-official language 5 10 0 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 83,355 81,895 1,075 85
Single responses 82,360 80,975 1,035 65
English 79,545 78,760 785 0
French 265 30 235 0
Non-official languages 2,550 2,180 15 65
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 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 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 11 2,485 2,125 15 60
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 20 20 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 80 75 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Bengali 20 25 0 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 25 20 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 75 60 5 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 195 160 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 65 60 0 0
Czech 5 10 0 0
Danish 5 10 0 0
Dutch 20 20 0 5
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 20 20 0 0
Flemish 5 0 5 5
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 145 130 0 10
Greek 25 25 0 0
Gujarati 5 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 15 15 0 0
Hungarian 15 10 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 70 65 0 0
Japanese 25 20 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 75 65 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 10 5 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 90 75 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 0 0 5
Norwegian 5 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 880 720 0 10
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 10 0 0
Polish 25 25 0 0
Portuguese 75 55 0 5
Romanian 20 15 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 10 5 0 5
Russian 15 15 5 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 20 15 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 30 20 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 5 0 0
Slovenian 10 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 90 70 0 10
Swahili 10 0 0 10
Swedish 0 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 110 105 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 10 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0
Ukrainian 50 45 0 0
Urdu 30 30 0 0
Vietnamese 30 25 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 45 50 0 0
Multiple responses 990 925 45 30
English and French 75 20 35 20
English and non-official language 905 900 5 0
French and non-official language 10 5 5 0
English, French and non-official language 10 5 0 5
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 83,350 81,895 1,075 85
None 78,560 77,580 655 55
Single responses 4,695 4,240 410 30
English 1,250 1,055 155 30
French 765 520 245 0
Non-official languages 2,685 2,665 10 5
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 65 70 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 60 60 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 10 10 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 15 2,350 2,330 10 0
African languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Afrikaans 20 25 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 5 10 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 40 40 0 0
Armenian 0 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Bengali 5 10 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 10 10 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0
Burmese 5 0 0 0
Cantonese 50 45 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 80 75 0 0
Creoles 0 5 0 0
Croatian 95 95 0 0
Czech 10 15 0 0
Danish 30 30 0 0
Dutch 75 75 0 0
Estonian 0 5 0 0
Finnish 30 30 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 400 400 0 0
Greek 45 40 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 5 0 0
Hindi 30 25 0 0
Hungarian 30 30 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 140 140 5 0
Japanese 45 45 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 5 0 0
Korean 15 15 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 5 0 0 0
Malay 0 5 0 0
Malayalam 5 0 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0
Mandarin 20 20 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Norwegian 10 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 330 330 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 5 0 0
Polish 65 60 0 0
Portuguese 110 110 0 0
Romanian 15 15 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 25 30 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 5 10 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 40 40 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 5 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 170 170 0 0
Swahili 15 15 0 0
Swedish 20 20 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 180 180 0 0
Taiwanese 5 0 0 0
Tamil 10 10 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 15 15 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 40 45 0 0
Urdu 10 5 0 0
Vietnamese 20 25 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 265 260 0 0
Multiple responses 90 75 10 5
English and French 5 0 0 5
English and non-official language 10 10 0 0
French and non-official language 70 65 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 83,355 81,895 1,075 90
English 81,895 81,895 0 0
French 1,080 0 1,075 0
English and French 85 0 0 90
Neither English nor French 290 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 1,125 0 1,075 45
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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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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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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