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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 New Brunswick / Nouveau-Brunswick
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 739,895 502,040 234,405 2,575
0 to 4 years 36,510 26,350 9,635 370
5 to 9 years 36,650 26,770 9,610 230
10 to 14 years 40,340 29,615 10,420 275
15 to 19 years 45,710 33,145 12,265 275
20 to 24 years 44,300 31,555 12,535 180
25 to 29 years 41,430 28,470 12,765 165
30 to 34 years 43,365 29,220 13,970 130
35 to 39 years 47,790 32,765 14,815 150
40 to 44 years 50,890 34,700 15,960 145
45 to 49 years 61,385 40,855 20,280 145
50 to 54 years 62,230 40,120 21,925 130
55 to 59 years 58,730 37,450 21,145 95
60 to 64 years 54,035 34,870 19,060 90
65 to 69 years 38,625 24,720 13,805 70
70 to 74 years 28,650 18,780 9,785 50
75 to 79 years 21,565 13,935 7,555 40
80 to 84 years 14,920 9,970 4,900 20
85 years and over 12,775 8,740 3,990 10
Median ageFootnote 2 43.4 41.9 46.4 23.4
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 626,400 419,310 204,745 1,705
Married or living with a common-law partner 380,540 252,065 127,220 830
Married (and not separated) 308,545 211,385 96,065 675
Living common law 72,000 40,680 31,155 155
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 245,855 167,250 77,525 875
Single (never legally married) 155,465 105,800 48,865 700
Separated 20,630 13,300 7,260 45
Divorced 32,295 23,355 8,860 70
Widowed 37,460 24,795 12,540 60
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 739,900 502,040 234,410 2,580
English only 426,675 426,675 0 0
French only 66,380 0 66,380 0
English and French 245,890 75,300 168,010 2,575
Neither English nor French 960 70 20 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 739,900 502,040 234,410 2,580
Single responses 731,855 497,715 232,405 865
English 479,935 479,760 170 0
French 233,530 2,125 231,405 0
Non-official languages 18,395 15,825 835 865
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 2,140 2,115 5 15
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 2,115 2,095 0 10
Ojibway 5 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 15,515 13,085 770 830
African languages, n.i.e. 30 20 10 5
Afrikaans 70 70 0 0
Akan (Twi) 15 10 0 0
Albanian 20 20 0 0
Amharic 45 35 5 5
Arabic 1,330 880 220 170
Armenian 10 10 0 5
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 65 25 35 0
Bengali 180 170 0 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 10 0 5 0
Bisayan languages 65 65 0 0
Bosnian 40 40 0 0
Bulgarian 20 15 0 0
Burmese 10 5 0 0
Cantonese 220 180 5 10
Chinese, n.o.s. 1,190 1,005 20 25
Creoles 70 30 35 5
Croatian 75 70 0 0
Czech 45 40 0 5
Danish 150 145 0 0
Dutch 925 880 5 35
Estonian 20 20 0 0
Finnish 55 45 0 5
Flemish 30 25 0 5
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 1,805 1,680 35 80
Greek 140 135 0 0
Gujarati 45 45 0 0
Hakka 5 5 0 0
Hebrew 25 30 0 0
Hindi 250 230 0 5
Hungarian 155 140 5 5
Ilocano 20 15 0 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 30 30 0 0
Italian 445 370 35 20
Japanese 115 110 5 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0
Korean 1,810 1,605 0 70
Kurdish 10 5 0 0
Lao 5 0 0 0
Latvian 20 20 0 0
Lingala 15 5 5 0
Lithuanian 10 10 0 0
Macedonian 15 15 0 0
Malay 40 40 0 0
Malayalam 35 35 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 405 325 5 15
Marathi 35 30 0 0
Nepali 100 65 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 135 55 70 5
Norwegian 40 40 0 0
Oromo 30 10 20 5
Panjabi (Punjabi) 90 85 0 5
Pashto 5 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 450 420 5 10
Polish 250 225 10 20
Portuguese 220 185 10 5
Romanian 425 325 20 35
Rundi (Kirundi) 40 15 10 10
Russian 355 305 10 20
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 40 5 25 10
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Serbian 120 110 5 5
Serbo-Croatian 45 40 0 5
Shanghainese 5 5 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 100 45 5 0
Sindhi 15 10 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 20 15 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 30 25 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slovak 20 25 0 5
Slovenian 10 15 0 0
Somali 5 10 0 0
Spanish 1,135 865 85 125
Swahili 140 50 50 35
Swedish 50 45 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 585 580 5 5
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0
Tamil 90 90 0 0
Telugu 45 45 0 0
Thai 65 60 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 10 0 0
Turkish 65 60 0 0
Ukrainian 135 120 0 10
Urdu 200 190 0 5
Vietnamese 285 225 15 20
Yiddish 30 5 0 5
Other languagesFootnote 7 740 630 60 25
Multiple responses 8,040 4,330 2,005 1,710
English and French 6,585 3,135 1,775 1,675
English and non-official language 1,115 1,115 0 0
French and non-official language 250 35 215 0
English, French and non-official language 90 45 15 35
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 739,900 502,040 234,410 2,580
Single responses 731,310 498,910 230,765 770
English 512,115 486,990 25,120 0
French 209,885 4,450 205,435 0
Non-official languages 9,310 7,465 205 770
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 9 1,030 1,005 5 10
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 1,030 1,005 0 10
Ojibway 5 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 8,005 6,240 190 740
African languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 5
Afrikaans 50 45 0 5
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0
Albanian 5 5 0 0
Amharic 15 10 0 0
Arabic 725 485 45 150
Armenian 5 0 0 5
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 20 5 15 5
Bengali 105 95 0 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 15 20 0 0
Bosnian 20 20 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 5
Burmese 10 5 0 0
Cantonese 135 95 0 10
Chinese, n.o.s. 850 685 5 15
Creoles 35 15 15 10
Croatian 25 20 0 5
Czech 5 5 0 5
Danish 10 15 0 5
Dutch 185 150 0 30
Estonian 0 5 0 0
Finnish 15 10 0 5
Flemish 5 5 0 5
Fukien 5 5 0 0
German 490 400 5 70
Greek 30 25 0 5
Gujarati 25 20 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 20 15 0 0
Hindi 125 110 0 5
Hungarian 25 15 0 10
Ilocano 10 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 15 0 0
Italian 90 55 5 15
Japanese 35 30 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 1,580 1,380 0 65
Kurdish 5 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 5 5 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 25 20 0 0
Malayalam 10 10 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 325 255 0 10
Marathi 10 10 0 0
Nepali 90 50 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 5 0 5
Norwegian 5 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 40 35 0 5
Pashto 0 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 315 295 0 5
Polish 65 40 0 15
Portuguese 75 55 5 5
Romanian 270 190 5 30
Rundi (Kirundi) 25 5 0 10
Russian 225 175 5 20
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 10
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 95 80 0 10
Serbo-Croatian 20 10 0 5
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 160 80 35 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 5 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 5 5 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 600 385 35 115
Swahili 65 20 5 30
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 280 275 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 35 35 0 0
Telugu 15 20 0 0
Thai 15 15 0 5
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 5 0 0
Turkish 30 20 0 5
Ukrainian 35 25 5 5
Urdu 120 105 0 10
Vietnamese 235 190 5 15
Yiddish 20 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 280 215 15 20
Multiple responses 8,590 3,135 3,645 1,805
English and French 6,235 1,090 3,430 1,715
English and non-official language 2,020 2,005 15 0
French and non-official language 175 10 170 0
English, French and non-official language 155 35 30 95
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 739,900 502,040 234,410 2,575
None 656,325 474,690 178,835 2,040
Single responses 82,780 26,925 55,325 435
English 47,560 6,115 41,105 265
French 28,410 14,840 13,460 105
Non-official languages 6,810 5,970 755 70
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 840 825 15 0
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 10 10 0 0
Mi'kmaq 825 810 15 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 5,275 4,515 670 70
African languages, n.i.e. 25 10 15 0
Afrikaans 20 20 0 0
Akan (Twi) 15 15 0 0
Albanian 10 10 0 0
Amharic 15 10 0 0
Arabic 450 305 140 10
Armenian 5 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 50 15 30 0
Bengali 50 50 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 5 0 5 0
Bisayan languages 15 15 5 0
Bosnian 15 15 0 0
Bulgarian 10 5 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0
Cantonese 65 55 5 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 245 240 5 0
Creoles 65 25 40 0
Croatian 25 25 0 0
Czech 15 15 5 0
Danish 55 55 0 0
Dutch 305 305 0 0
Estonian 10 5 0 0
Finnish 30 25 0 5
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 680 635 35 10
Greek 65 65 0 0
Gujarati 15 20 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 35 35 0 0
Hindi 130 125 0 0
Hungarian 50 45 0 0
Ilocano 0 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Italian 185 165 20 5
Japanese 105 100 5 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 5 0 0
Korean 150 150 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 5 0 0
Lingala 30 0 30 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 10 5 0 0
Malay 15 15 0 0
Malayalam 15 15 0 0
Maltese 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 90 90 0 0
Marathi 15 15 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 95 35 60 0
Norwegian 20 15 0 0
Oromo 15 5 10 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 40 35 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 95 85 5 0
Polish 80 80 5 5
Portuguese 75 60 10 0
Romanian 100 90 10 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 10 5 5 0
Russian 105 95 10 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 25 0 25 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 15 15 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 20 20 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 115 100 10 0
Sindhi 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 5 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 10 10 0 0
Slovenian 5 10 0 0
Somali 5 5 0 0
Spanish 705 560 130 15
Swahili 85 45 25 5
Swedish 30 25 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 220 215 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0
Tamil 45 45 0 0
Telugu 20 20 0 0
Thai 30 25 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 5 0 0
Turkish 20 15 0 0
Ukrainian 35 30 0 0
Urdu 65 65 0 0
Vietnamese 45 40 15 0
Yiddish 5 5 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 695 630 65 0
Multiple responses 795 430 250 105
English and French 130 10 15 90
English and non-official language 250 55 190 0
French and non-official language 405 360 40 0
English, French and non-official language 10 0 0 10
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 739,900 502,040 234,410 2,580
English 502,040 502,040 0 0
French 234,410 0 234,410 0
English and French 2,575 0 0 2,580
Neither English nor French 870 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 235,695 0 234,410 1,285
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 31.9 0.0 100.0 49.8

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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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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 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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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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