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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), Age Groups (8B) and Sex (3) for the population excluding institutional residents of Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Divisions and Census Subdivisions, 2011 Census

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This table details selected demographic and language characteristics , first official language spoken , age groups and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in La Haute-YamaskaFootnote 1
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 83,450 2,830 79,985 480
0 to 4 years 4,830 100 4,630 35
5 to 9 years 4,605 100 4,480 25
10 to 14 years 4,530 120 4,375 35
15 to 19 years 5,430 200 5,180 55
20 to 24 years 4,840 165 4,615 45
25 to 29 years 4,755 160 4,550 30
30 to 34 years 5,410 155 5,215 35
35 to 39 years 4,760 150 4,565 40
40 to 44 years 5,205 195 4,960 45
45 to 49 years 6,940 250 6,650 25
50 to 54 years 7,295 230 7,040 20
55 to 59 years 6,565 285 6,255 15
60 to 64 years 5,780 230 5,510 30
65 to 69 years 4,535 180 4,325 20
70 to 74 years 3,350 125 3,215 5
75 to 79 years 2,230 80 2,145 10
80 to 84 years 1,525 60 1,455 5
85 years and over 880 45 825 0
Median ageFootnote 3 42.6 46.6 42.5 31.0
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 69,490 2,515 66,505 380
Married or living with a common-law partner 41,760 1,500 39,980 220
Married (and not separated) 23,780 960 22,590 175
Living common law 17,980 535 17,385 40
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 27,730 1,015 26,525 160
Single (never legally married) 17,970 635 17,195 130
Separated 710 30 680 0
Divorced 5,745 205 5,515 20
Widowed 3,310 150 3,140 10
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 83,450 2,830 79,985 480
English only 565 565 0 0
French only 53,335 0 53,335 0
English and French 29,380 2,260 26,640 475
Neither English nor French 170 0 5 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 83,455 2,830 79,990 475
Single responses 82,660 2,730 79,475 300
English 2,630 2,580 50 0
French 77,660 10 77,655 0
Non-official languages 2,375 140 1,775 300
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 5 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 7 2,330 140 1,735 295
African languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 15 0 15 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 240 5 200 25
Armenian 5 0 5 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 15 0 10 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 75 0 65 10
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 10 0 5 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 35 10 10 15
Creoles 30 0 25 0
Croatian 5 0 0 0
Czech 5 0 5 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 30 10 15 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 5 0 5 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 100 35 40 25
Greek 15 5 5 5
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 0 5 0
Hindi 5 0 0 0
Hungarian 5 5 5 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 120 10 85 25
Japanese 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 0 0 0
Korean 0 0 5 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 25 0 20 5
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 15 0 15 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0
Mandarin 5 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 25 0 20 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 10 0 10 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 175 0 120 25
Polish 20 5 10 5
Portuguese 20 5 15 5
Romanian 35 0 25 10
Rundi (Kirundi) 25 0 25 0
Russian 40 5 35 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 20 0 15 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 10 5 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 20 0 20 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 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. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 5 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 925 10 740 100
Swahili 80 0 70 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 0 5 0
Tibetan languages 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 35 0 30 5
Ukrainian 10 5 5 5
Urdu 10 5 0 5
Vietnamese 55 0 30 15
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 40 0 35 5
Multiple responses 790 100 510 175
English and French 580 75 335 175
English and non-official language 35 25 5 0
French and non-official language 145 0 145 0
English, French and non-official language 35 5 25 5
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 83,450 2,830 79,985 480
Single responses 82,400 2,675 79,290 270
English 2,245 1,895 355 0
French 78,780 740 78,040 0
Non-official languages 1,370 35 900 275
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 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 11 1,345 35 880 270
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 10 0 10 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 75 0 45 15
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 5 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 45 5 35 5
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 10 0 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 20 5 5 10
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 0 0 0 5
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 5 0 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 30 5 5 20
Greek 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 35 0 10 20
Japanese 0 0 5 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 10 0 5 5
Korean 0 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 10 0 10 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 10 0 5 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 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 0 15 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 5 0 5 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 140 0 90 25
Polish 5 0 0 5
Portuguese 0 0 0 5
Romanian 20 0 5 15
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 30 0 20 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 10 0 5 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 10 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 0 5 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 0 5 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 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 665 0 485 95
Swahili 40 0 30 5
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 20 0 20 0
Ukrainian 5 5 0 5
Urdu 5 0 0 5
Vietnamese 55 5 30 20
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 20 0 20 0
Multiple responses 1,055 160 695 200
English and French 560 130 250 185
English and non-official language 15 15 5 0
French and non-official language 430 0 425 0
English, French and non-official language 40 5 15 20
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 83,450 2,830 79,985 480
None 76,835 1,540 74,855 300
Single responses 6,425 1,260 5,015 125
English 4,190 460 3,715 10
French 1,580 730 720 110
Non-official languages 655 65 580 10
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 0 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 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 15 625 65 555 10
African languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 5 0 5 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 110 5 100 0
Armenian 5 0 5 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 5 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 20 0 15 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 5 0 0 0
Creoles 20 0 20 0
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 5 0 5 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 20 10 10 0
Greek 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 10 0 5 0
Hindi 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 0 0 0 5
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 60 10 50 0
Japanese 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 0 5 0
Korean 0 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 5 0 5 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 0 5 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0
Mandarin 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 0 15 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 0 10 0
Polish 0 5 0 0
Portuguese 5 0 5 0
Romanian 5 0 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 10 0 10 0
Russian 10 5 5 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 10 0 15 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 10 5 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 5 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 0 10 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 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 225 10 205 0
Swahili 25 0 20 0
Swedish 0 0 5 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 0 5 5
Ukrainian 0 0 0 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 5 0 5 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 25 5 20 0
Multiple responses 190 30 115 45
English and French 55 5 10 45
English and non-official language 110 5 100 0
French and non-official language 25 20 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 83,450 2,830 79,985 475
English 2,830 2,825 0 0
French 79,985 0 79,985 0
English and French 475 0 0 475
Neither English nor French 160 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 3,065 2,825 0 235
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 3.7 99.8 0.0 49.5

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

2006 adjusted count; most of these are the result of boundary changes.

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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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Footnote 7

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-XCB2011053.

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