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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 Halifax
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 386,440 374,480 9,780 1,045
0 to 4 years 19,955 19,230 340 75
5 to 9 years 19,155 18,695 340 85
10 to 14 years 20,475 20,010 310 130
15 to 19 years 23,825 23,355 360 90
20 to 24 years 31,185 30,490 560 85
25 to 29 years 28,315 27,520 675 85
30 to 34 years 25,850 24,920 815 75
35 to 39 years 26,405 25,475 790 90
40 to 44 years 27,705 26,750 805 85
45 to 49 years 32,955 31,820 1,010 50
50 to 54 years 31,365 30,330 920 40
55 to 59 years 27,010 26,180 715 45
60 to 64 years 23,760 23,005 665 30
65 to 69 years 16,645 16,080 480 30
70 to 74 years 11,675 11,215 380 25
75 to 79 years 8,825 8,470 275 15
80 to 84 years 6,120 5,895 175 10
85 years and over 5,235 5,035 170 5
Median ageFootnote 3 39.6 39.5 44.4 28.0
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 326,855 316,545 8,790 755
Married or living with a common-law partner 185,155 178,330 5,850 440
Married (and not separated) 151,245 145,695 4,630 400
Living common law 33,910 32,640 1,220 40
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 141,700 138,210 2,945 320
Single (never legally married) 97,805 95,655 1,805 265
Separated 9,285 9,035 220 10
Divorced 19,275 18,745 490 20
Widowed 15,325 14,770 425 25
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 386,440 374,480 9,780 1,045
English only 338,465 338,465 0 0
French only 380 0 380 0
English and French 46,400 35,960 9,395 1,045
Neither English nor French 1,190 55 5 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 386,440 374,480 9,780 1,045
Single responses 382,765 371,310 9,560 755
English 348,740 348,735 5 0
French 10,160 750 9,410 0
Non-official languages 23,865 21,825 145 760
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 80 75 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 5 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 5 5 0 0
Inuktitut 5 5 0 0
Mi'kmaq 60 60 0 0
Ojibway 5 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 23,380 21,390 140 740
African languages, n.i.e. 65 60 0 0
Afrikaans 45 40 0 0
Akan (Twi) 45 45 0 0
Albanian 240 220 0 5
Amharic 130 125 0 0
Arabic 5,175 4,560 50 310
Armenian 45 45 0 5
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 70 65 5 5
Bengali 325 310 0 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 5 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 60 60 0 0
Bosnian 85 75 0 0
Bulgarian 35 35 0 0
Burmese 10 10 0 0
Cantonese 465 390 5 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 2,195 2,015 0 20
Creoles 45 35 0 0
Croatian 170 165 0 5
Czech 125 115 0 5
Danish 95 95 0 0
Dutch 515 495 5 15
Estonian 30 35 0 0
Finnish 40 40 0 5
Flemish 20 20 0 0
Fukien 10 10 0 0
German 1,250 1,190 10 50
Greek 665 630 0 10
Gujarati 85 80 0 0
Hakka 5 0 0 0
Hebrew 65 65 0 5
Hindi 435 425 0 0
Hungarian 150 145 0 10
Ilocano 20 15 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 40 40 0 0
Italian 595 575 5 5
Japanese 230 210 0 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 10 0 0
Korean 675 615 0 10
Kurdish 75 65 0 5
Lao 10 10 0 0
Latvian 35 30 0 5
Lingala 10 0 5 0
Lithuanian 20 20 0 0
Macedonian 10 5 0 0
Malay 50 50 0 0
Malayalam 100 95 0 0
Maltese 5 10 0 0
Mandarin 810 750 5 5
Marathi 30 25 0 0
Nepali 215 120 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 95 80 5 0
Norwegian 80 75 0 5
Oromo 35 25 5 5
Panjabi (Punjabi) 295 280 0 0
Pashto 65 60 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 1,125 1,030 5 30
Polish 580 545 5 25
Portuguese 280 260 5 10
Romanian 140 105 0 20
Rundi (Kirundi) 10 5 5 5
Russian 700 630 0 30
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 5 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0
Serbian 95 90 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 105 100 0 0
Shanghainese 5 5 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 60 40 0 0
Sindhi 15 10 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 85 85 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Slovak 90 85 0 0
Slovenian 25 25 0 0
Somali 35 35 0 0
Spanish 1,130 1,000 15 70
Swahili 65 50 5 5
Swedish 45 40 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 915 900 0 0
Taiwanese 35 30 0 0
Tamil 200 200 0 0
Telugu 110 115 0 0
Thai 45 40 0 5
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 55 50 0 5
Turkish 250 230 0 10
Ukrainian 150 140 0 5
Urdu 400 380 0 5
Vietnamese 375 340 5 0
Yiddish 20 20 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 405 355 0 15
Multiple responses 3,675 3,165 220 285
English and French 1,465 1,120 90 255
English and non-official language 1,895 1,895 0 0
French and non-official language 215 85 130 0
English, French and non-official language 100 65 5 35
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 386,435 374,480 9,780 1,045
Single responses 381,500 370,345 9,345 670
English 365,530 359,645 5,890 0
French 3,660 265 3,395 0
Non-official languages 12,305 10,435 65 675
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 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 5 5 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 11 12,130 10,300 60 665
African languages, n.i.e. 35 35 0 0
Afrikaans 15 15 0 0
Akan (Twi) 10 10 0 0
Albanian 120 95 0 5
Amharic 60 55 0 0
Arabic 3,025 2,475 30 265
Armenian 15 10 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0
Bengali 195 185 0 10
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 25 25 0 0
Bosnian 45 40 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0
Cantonese 255 185 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 1,590 1,420 5 20
Creoles 25 20 0 0
Croatian 65 60 0 0
Czech 35 25 0 5
Danish 10 10 0 0
Dutch 50 35 0 15
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 5 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 245 205 0 40
Greek 250 210 0 5
Gujarati 45 40 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 25 20 0 5
Hindi 185 175 0 0
Hungarian 55 45 0 5
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 15 0 0
Italian 140 125 0 5
Japanese 105 85 0 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0
Korean 470 415 0 10
Kurdish 60 45 0 5
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 10 5 0 0
Lingala 5 0 0 5
Lithuanian 0 0 0 5
Macedonian 5 5 0 5
Malay 15 20 0 0
Malayalam 30 30 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 600 550 0 5
Marathi 15 15 0 5
Nepali 205 110 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 0
Norwegian 15 10 0 5
Oromo 20 10 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 140 120 0 0
Pashto 30 25 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 900 805 0 30
Polish 185 155 0 15
Portuguese 90 70 5 10
Romanian 75 40 0 25
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 5 0 5
Russian 460 390 5 30
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Serbian 50 45 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 45 35 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 85 65 0 0
Sindhi 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 30 30 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Slovak 25 20 0 0
Slovenian 0 5 0 0
Somali 20 15 0 0
Spanish 570 440 10 70
Swahili 20 10 0 5
Swedish 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 415 405 0 0
Taiwanese 15 15 0 0
Tamil 100 100 0 0
Telugu 50 50 0 0
Thai 20 15 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 30 25 0 5
Turkish 140 115 0 10
Ukrainian 15 10 0 0
Urdu 220 190 0 5
Vietnamese 230 195 5 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 165 125 5 5
Multiple responses 4,940 4,130 440 375
English and French 830 180 350 300
English and non-official language 3,885 3,860 20 0
French and non-official language 90 35 55 0
English, French and non-official language 140 50 15 70
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 386,440 374,480 9,780 1,045
None 361,510 355,005 4,935 560
Single responses 24,350 19,055 4,770 415
English 7,935 5,590 1,945 325
French 7,675 4,960 2,690 30
Non-official languages 8,740 8,505 135 65
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 90 80 5 5
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 5 5 0 0
Mi'kmaq 70 65 5 5
Ojibway 5 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 15 8,325 8,115 125 55
African languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Afrikaans 20 25 0 0
Akan (Twi) 25 25 0 0
Albanian 90 85 0 0
Amharic 35 40 0 0
Arabic 1,705 1,640 45 25
Armenian 20 20 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 40 35 0 0
Bengali 75 80 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 5 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 15 10 0 0
Bosnian 35 30 0 0
Bulgarian 15 20 0 0
Burmese 5 0 0 0
Cantonese 155 155 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 365 365 0 0
Creoles 40 40 5 0
Croatian 55 50 0 0
Czech 35 35 0 0
Danish 30 30 0 0
Dutch 185 185 0 0
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 15 10 0 0
Flemish 0 5 0 0
Fukien 5 5 0 0
German 640 615 15 10
Greek 380 375 5 0
Gujarati 30 25 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 75 70 0 0
Hindi 265 265 0 0
Hungarian 60 60 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 15 0 0
Italian 285 275 5 5
Japanese 150 145 5 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 150 155 0 0
Kurdish 10 10 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 15 15 0 0
Lingala 5 5 5 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 5 0 0
Malay 20 15 0 0
Malayalam 45 40 0 0
Maltese 15 15 0 0
Mandarin 180 170 5 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0
Nepali 10 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 60 60 0 0
Norwegian 45 40 0 0
Oromo 5 5 5 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 100 100 0 0
Pashto 10 10 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 185 180 0 0
Polish 205 205 0 0
Portuguese 125 125 0 0
Romanian 50 40 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 5 0
Russian 185 185 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0
Serbian 35 35 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 45 40 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 105 105 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 40 40 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Slovak 45 45 0 0
Slovenian 10 15 0 0
Somali 10 15 0 0
Spanish 730 695 25 5
Swahili 60 60 0 0
Swedish 35 35 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 330 325 0 0
Taiwanese 15 10 0 0
Tamil 85 85 0 0
Telugu 35 30 0 0
Thai 20 20 0 0
Tibetan languages 5 5 0 0
Tigrigna 15 15 0 0
Turkish 100 100 0 0
Ukrainian 45 45 0 0
Urdu 145 140 0 0
Vietnamese 80 85 0 0
Yiddish 10 10 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 330 310 10 5
Multiple responses 575 425 75 70
English and French 70 5 5 65
English and non-official language 150 105 40 5
French and non-official language 345 310 30 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 5
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 386,440 374,480 9,780 1,045
English 374,480 374,480 0 0
French 9,780 0 9,780 0
English and French 1,045 0 0 1,045
Neither English nor French 1,135 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 10,305 0 9,780 520
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 2.7 0.0 100.0 49.8

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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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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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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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