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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 Les Maskoutains
Selected Demographic and Language Characteristics (375) First official language spoken (4A)
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 1 English French English and French
Age groups - Total population excluding institutional residents 82,810 745 81,600 305
0 to 4 years 4,690 25 4,605 15
5 to 9 years 4,195 15 4,155 15
10 to 14 years 4,505 25 4,465 15
15 to 19 years 5,335 35 5,270 25
20 to 24 years 5,250 30 5,190 30
25 to 29 years 5,010 65 4,920 30
30 to 34 years 5,465 65 5,330 50
35 to 39 years 4,695 60 4,585 45
40 to 44 years 5,245 65 5,135 25
45 to 49 years 6,545 75 6,430 25
50 to 54 years 6,955 60 6,870 20
55 to 59 years 6,380 70 6,300 0
60 to 64 years 5,525 50 5,465 5
65 to 69 years 4,490 45 4,430 5
70 to 74 years 3,065 20 3,025 5
75 to 79 years 2,455 15 2,425 5
80 to 84 years 1,715 10 1,705 5
85 years and over 1,300 10 1,285 0
Median ageFootnote 2 42.2 44.2 42.2 32.0
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 69,425 680 68,370 265
Married or living with a common-law partner 40,570 415 39,945 155
Married (and not separated) 22,695 260 22,250 135
Living common law 17,880 155 17,695 20
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 28,850 265 28,425 110
Single (never legally married) 19,370 165 19,105 80
Separated 870 5 850 5
Divorced 5,120 60 5,030 20
Widowed 3,490 25 3,435 5
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 82,810 745 81,600 305
English only 125 120 0 0
French only 61,520 0 61,520 0
English and French 20,995 620 20,070 305
Neither English nor French 175 0 10 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 82,810 745 81,595 300
Single responses 82,320 710 81,200 250
English 645 590 55 0
French 79,605 10 79,600 0
Non-official languages 2,065 105 1,540 250
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 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 6 2,030 105 1,515 245
African languages, n.i.e. 10 0 5 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 5 0
Amharic 0 5 0 0
Arabic 235 5 190 15
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 0 5 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 25 0 15 5
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 10 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 5 0 5 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 25 0 10 5
Creoles 35 0 35 0
Croatian 5 0 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 15 0 15 5
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 0 0 0
Flemish 5 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 50 5 45 0
Greek 20 5 10 5
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 20 5 10 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 50 10 40 0
Japanese 0 0 5 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 15 5 5 0
Korean 0 0 0 0
Kurdish 15 0 5 5
Lao 5 0 5 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 5 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 20 5 10 5
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 0 10 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 5 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 5 5 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 40 5 20 20
Polish 5 0 5 0
Portuguese 80 5 65 15
Romanian 20 0 15 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 60 5 55 0
Russian 10 0 5 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 20 0 10 5
Serbo-Croatian 10 0 10 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 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. 5 0 5 5
Slovak 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 990 20 750 120
Swahili 60 5 45 10
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 5 5 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 5 0 5 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 50 5 45 5
Ukrainian 5 0 5 0
Urdu 20 15 5 5
Vietnamese 20 5 20 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 30 0 25 0
Multiple responses 490 35 400 55
English and French 310 20 250 40
English and non-official language 20 20 0 0
French and non-official language 145 0 145 0
English, French and non-official language 20 0 5 15
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 82,815 745 81,600 300
Single responses 82,175 685 81,110 215
English 385 290 100 0
French 80,600 365 80,235 0
Non-official languages 1,195 35 780 210
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 9 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 10 1,180 35 770 210
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 110 0 60 20
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 5 0 5 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 10 0 5 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 20 5 10 5
Creoles 10 0 10 0
Croatian 0 0 5 0
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 0 0 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 15 0 10 0
Greek 10 0 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 5 0 0 0
Hungarian 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 10 0 5 0
Japanese 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 10 0 5 5
Korean 0 0 0 0
Kurdish 5 0 5 0
Lao 10 0 5 5
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 15 5 5 5
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 0 5 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 30 5 5 15
Polish 5 0 0 0
Portuguese 20 0 10 10
Romanian 10 0 5 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 30 0 20 0
Russian 5 0 5 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 15 0 10 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 0 10 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 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. 5 0 0 5
Slovak 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 730 5 520 100
Swahili 35 0 25 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 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 30 0 25 5
Ukrainian 0 0 0 0
Urdu 10 0 0 5
Vietnamese 5 0 5 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 10 0 5 0
Multiple responses 635 60 490 90
English and French 190 35 100 60
English and non-official language 20 15 5 0
French and non-official language 370 0 375 0
English, French and non-official language 50 0 15 30
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 82,815 745 81,600 305
None 79,210 365 78,540 155
Single responses 3,475 365 2,960 125
English 2,035 185 1,840 15
French 835 150 565 95
Non-official languages 605 30 555 20
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 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 5 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 14 590 30 540 20
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 90 0 90 0
Armenian 0 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 10 0 5 0
Bisayan languages 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 5 0 5 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 5 0 5 0
Creoles 20 0 15 5
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 5 0 5 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 5 0 5 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 5 0 5 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 15 0 15 0
Greek 5 5 5 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 5 0 5 0
Hungarian 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 15 0 15 0
Japanese 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 0 0 0 0
Kurdish 5 0 5 0
Lao 5 0 5 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 5 5 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 5 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 0 0
Polish 5 0 0 0
Portuguese 40 0 35 0
Romanian 5 0 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 15 0 10 0
Russian 5 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 5 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 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. 5 0 5 0
Slovak 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 255 10 235 10
Swahili 10 0 10 5
Swedish 5 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 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 5 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 25 5 25 0
Ukrainian 0 0 0 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 10 0 10 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 10 0 10 0
Multiple responses 130 10 95 25
English and French 25 0 0 20
English and non-official language 90 5 90 0
French and non-official language 10 5 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 82,810 745 81,595 300
English 745 745 0 0
French 81,600 0 81,600 0
English and French 300 0 0 305
Neither English nor French 165 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 895 745 0 150
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 1.1 100.0 0.0 50.0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

Those classified in the category 'Neither English nor French' appear only in the 'Total' category in this table.

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Footnote 2

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 3

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 4

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 5

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 6

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 7

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 8

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 9

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 10

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 12

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 13

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 15

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 17

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 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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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-314-XCB2011053.

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