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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 SaskatchewanFootnote 2
Selected Demographic and Language Characteristics (375) First official language spoken (4A)
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 3 English French English and French
Age groups - Total population excluding institutional residents 1,018,310 998,295 13,705 1,160
0 to 4 years 68,675 66,855 275 65
5 to 9 years 63,295 62,585 250 175
10 to 14 years 65,545 64,925 325 160
15 to 19 years 71,440 70,835 405 110
20 to 24 years 72,100 71,480 430 80
25 to 29 years 69,900 69,075 570 100
30 to 34 years 64,970 64,080 605 70
35 to 39 years 60,740 59,790 580 65
40 to 44 years 61,010 59,910 715 60
45 to 49 years 74,085 72,650 1,055 80
50 to 54 years 76,960 75,340 1,320 50
55 to 59 years 69,585 67,845 1,440 35
60 to 64 years 56,460 54,815 1,355 40
65 to 69 years 41,065 39,760 1,080 20
70 to 74 years 33,230 31,985 1,015 20
75 to 79 years 27,895 26,745 915 15
80 to 84 years 22,035 21,120 735 10
85 years and over 19,325 18,510 650 10
Median ageFootnote 4 37.7 37.4 56.2 24.9
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 5 820,800 803,935 12,860 765
Married or living with a common-law partner 485,840 474,485 8,765 410
Married (and not separated) 414,210 403,825 7,895 380
Living common law 71,630 70,655 870 30
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 334,955 329,450 4,095 355
Single (never legally married) 227,120 224,545 1,870 285
Separated 17,890 17,570 240 15
Divorced 42,795 41,980 695 30
Widowed 47,155 45,350 1,290 30
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 6 1,018,310 998,300 13,705 1,165
English only 965,920 965,920 0 0
French only 430 0 430 0
English and French 46,570 32,145 13,260 1,165
Neither English nor French 5,390 230 15 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 1,018,310 998,295 13,710 1,160
Single responses 1,005,810 986,335 13,440 895
English 860,500 860,465 35 0
French 16,280 3,065 13,215 0
Non-official languages 129,030 122,805 190 890
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 30,895 30,300 15 25
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 21,950 21,780 15 20
Dene 7,955 7,535 5 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 20 20 0 0
Mi'kmaq 10 10 0 0
Ojibway 950 945 0 5
Oji-Cree 5 5 0 0
Stoney 5 5 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 8 96,540 91,015 160 860
African languages, n.i.e. 420 410 0 0
Afrikaans 740 720 0 5
Akan (Twi) 105 95 0 0
Albanian 180 165 0 0
Amharic 220 205 0 5
Arabic 2,045 1,680 20 95
Armenian 15 10 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 185 170 5 5
Bengali 1,310 1,200 0 45
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 5 0 0
Bisayan languages 620 605 0 5
Bosnian 235 225 0 0
Bulgarian 45 45 0 0
Burmese 160 135 0 0
Cantonese 1,730 1,420 0 15
Chinese, n.o.s. 5,375 4,590 5 40
Creoles 80 70 5 10
Croatian 315 305 0 5
Czech 270 270 0 0
Danish 315 310 0 0
Dutch 1,550 1,530 0 10
Estonian 20 15 0 0
Finnish 205 205 0 5
Flemish 75 75 0 0
Fukien 15 15 0 0
German 25,410 24,845 5 65
Greek 835 820 0 5
Gujarati 695 655 0 0
Hakka 5 5 0 0
Hebrew 50 45 0 0
Hindi 840 805 0 5
Hungarian 1,665 1,625 0 10
Ilocano 345 340 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 155 135 0 5
Italian 730 715 5 5
Japanese 280 265 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 120 115 0 0
Korean 1,225 1,080 0 5
Kurdish 100 90 0 0
Lao 330 305 0 5
Latvian 60 60 0 0
Lingala 15 5 10 5
Lithuanian 25 25 0 0
Macedonian 20 20 0 0
Malay 75 75 0 0
Malayalam 205 190 0 0
Maltese 10 10 0 0
Mandarin 1,425 1,225 0 10
Marathi 75 70 0 0
Nepali 325 235 0 5
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 295 270 15 10
Norwegian 540 545 0 0
Oromo 160 125 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 2,110 1,915 0 10
Pashto 275 250 0 5
Persian (Farsi) 1,015 910 5 30
Polish 1,905 1,855 5 10
Portuguese 480 445 5 15
Romanian 855 790 5 40
Rundi (Kirundi) 60 30 5 15
Russian 2,350 2,175 0 30
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 35 25 10 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 475 365 0 5
Serbian 435 415 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 135 125 0 5
Shanghainese 15 10 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 120 70 0 0
Sindhi 60 55 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 175 175 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 595 380 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 330 310 0 0
Slovak 140 135 0 0
Slovenian 80 80 0 0
Somali 435 370 5 15
Spanish 3,235 2,945 10 105
Swahili 230 185 15 15
Swedish 245 245 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 9,260 9,110 5 35
Taiwanese 40 35 0 0
Tamil 275 275 0 0
Telugu 160 155 0 5
Thai 120 105 0 0
Tibetan languages 10 10 0 0
Tigrigna 350 325 0 0
Turkish 180 165 5 5
Ukrainian 13,145 12,955 5 15
Urdu 3,215 2,950 5 55
Vietnamese 1,750 1,515 5 30
Yiddish 15 15 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 9 1,605 1,490 10 10
Multiple responses 12,500 11,965 270 270
English and French 1,725 1,435 70 220
English and non-official language 9,845 9,840 5 0
French and non-official language 750 565 185 0
English, French and non-official language 175 120 5 50
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 10 1,018,310 998,300 13,705 1,160
Single responses 1,001,700 982,455 13,285 825
English 938,170 928,635 9,540 0
French 4,295 650 3,645 0
Non-official languages 59,235 53,170 100 825
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 11 17,355 16,780 5 20
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 10,970 10,820 5 20
Dene 6,205 5,780 5 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 5 0 0
Mi'kmaq 5 0 0 0
Ojibway 175 170 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 12 41,335 35,930 90 790
African languages, n.i.e. 180 175 0 0
Afrikaans 470 455 0 5
Akan (Twi) 30 25 0 0
Albanian 130 110 0 0
Amharic 115 95 0 5
Arabic 1,380 1,030 10 70
Armenian 5 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 35 30 0 5
Bengali 1,000 895 0 40
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 275 265 0 0
Bosnian 115 110 0 0
Bulgarian 15 15 0 0
Burmese 125 95 0 5
Cantonese 1,065 750 0 10
Chinese, n.o.s. 3,690 2,920 10 35
Creoles 35 15 5 15
Croatian 80 70 0 5
Czech 30 30 0 0
Danish 15 15 0 0
Dutch 150 135 0 10
Estonian 0 5 0 0
Finnish 25 20 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 10 10 0 0
German 7,920 7,340 5 65
Greek 295 280 0 5
Gujarati 390 345 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 30 25 0 5
Hindi 470 435 5 5
Hungarian 210 170 0 10
Ilocano 110 100 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 85 65 0 5
Italian 145 130 0 5
Japanese 110 100 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 45 40 0 0
Korean 955 805 5 5
Kurdish 40 30 0 0
Lao 155 130 0 5
Latvian 35 35 0 0
Lingala 15 5 5 5
Lithuanian 0 0 0 5
Macedonian 10 10 0 0
Malay 15 15 0 0
Malayalam 105 95 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 1,100 895 0 10
Marathi 30 25 0 0
Nepali 250 160 0 5
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 60 50 0 5
Norwegian 10 5 0 0
Oromo 100 70 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 1,300 1,135 0 10
Pashto 150 120 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 655 560 0 30
Polish 330 280 0 15
Portuguese 150 120 0 15
Romanian 305 245 0 35
Rundi (Kirundi) 30 10 0 10
Russian 1,290 1,135 0 30
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 10 0 0 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 370 265 0 10
Serbian 300 275 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 60 55 0 5
Shanghainese 5 5 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 185 135 0 0
Sindhi 40 30 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 90 90 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 535 315 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 235 215 0 5
Slovak 20 20 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 320 255 0 15
Spanish 1,585 1,305 10 100
Swahili 120 80 15 10
Swedish 15 10 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 5,645 5,495 5 30
Taiwanese 15 15 0 0
Tamil 115 115 0 0
Telugu 90 85 0 5
Thai 50 40 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 190 170 0 5
Turkish 125 110 0 0
Ukrainian 1,635 1,435 0 20
Urdu 2,410 2,130 0 60
Vietnamese 1,270 1,030 5 30
Yiddish 5 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 13 550 460 5 10
Multiple responses 16,605 15,845 425 340
English and French 855 300 315 235
English and non-official language 15,360 15,345 15 0
French and non-official language 205 140 65 0
English, French and non-official language 190 60 20 105
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 14 1,018,310 998,300 13,705 1,165
None 939,390 925,785 8,495 600
Single responses 77,380 71,200 5,110 450
English 29,695 27,070 1,940 360
French 8,315 5,325 2,965 25
Non-official languages 39,365 38,810 200 65
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 15 12,375 12,350 15 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 10,020 10,005 15 0
Dene 1,870 1,870 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 15 15 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 455 455 0 0
Oji-Cree 10 5 0 0
Stoney 5 5 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 16 26,080 25,580 165 60
African languages, n.i.e. 150 145 0 0
Afrikaans 265 270 0 0
Akan (Twi) 55 50 0 0
Albanian 30 30 0 0
Amharic 55 55 0 0
Arabic 750 685 20 5
Armenian 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 130 120 10 5
Bengali 195 195 5 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 150 145 0 0
Bosnian 80 80 0 0
Bulgarian 15 15 0 0
Burmese 50 35 0 0
Cantonese 545 530 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 1,115 1,105 5 0
Creoles 75 65 10 0
Croatian 100 105 0 0
Czech 55 60 0 0
Danish 80 80 0 0
Dutch 440 440 0 0
Estonian 5 10 0 0
Finnish 60 60 0 0
Flemish 15 10 0 0
Fukien 5 5 0 0
German 4,645 4,645 5 0
Greek 510 510 0 0
Gujarati 165 170 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 70 65 0 0
Hindi 540 535 0 0
Hungarian 395 395 0 0
Ilocano 90 85 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 50 45 0 0
Italian 265 265 5 0
Japanese 200 200 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 55 55 0 0
Korean 210 210 0 0
Kurdish 40 40 0 0
Lao 85 85 0 0
Latvian 10 10 0 0
Lingala 30 5 30 0
Lithuanian 10 5 0 0
Macedonian 10 5 0 0
Malay 50 50 0 0
Malayalam 60 55 0 0
Maltese 0 5 0 0
Mandarin 320 310 5 0
Marathi 25 20 0 0
Nepali 35 30 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 315 290 25 5
Norwegian 95 90 0 0
Oromo 20 20 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 630 600 0 5
Pashto 55 55 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 240 230 5 0
Polish 470 465 0 0
Portuguese 215 210 0 0
Romanian 195 190 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 30 15 10 5
Russian 665 615 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 20 15 5 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 115 100 0 0
Serbian 100 100 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 40 40 0 0
Shanghainese 5 10 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 185 190 0 0
Sindhi 10 15 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 60 60 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 45 35 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 35 35 0 0
Slovak 30 30 0 0
Slovenian 15 15 0 0
Somali 65 65 5 0
Spanish 1,860 1,835 25 5
Swahili 120 105 10 0
Swedish 70 65 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 2,325 2,320 0 5
Taiwanese 20 15 0 0
Tamil 110 115 0 0
Telugu 70 70 0 0
Thai 65 60 0 5
Tibetan languages 5 5 0 0
Tigrigna 105 100 0 0
Turkish 50 50 0 0
Ukrainian 4,225 4,210 5 5
Urdu 700 685 0 5
Vietnamese 395 375 0 0
Yiddish 5 5 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 17 915 875 15 5
Multiple responses 1,540 1,315 100 105
English and French 115 30 0 85
English and non-official language 495 415 40 15
French and non-official language 920 870 50 0
English, French and non-official language 10 0 0 10
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 18 1,018,310 998,300 13,710 1,165
English 998,300 998,295 0 0
French 13,710 0 13,710 0
English and French 1,165 0 0 1,160
Neither English nor French 5,145 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 19 14,285 0 13,705 580
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 20 1.4 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

Excludes census data for one or more incompletely enumerated Indian reserves or Indian settlements.

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Footnote 3

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

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Footnote 4

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 5

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 6

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 7

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 9

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 10

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 11

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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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 18

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 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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Footnote 20

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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