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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 Squamish-LillooetFootnote 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 38,080 36,485 1,245 70
0 to 4 years 2,455 2,325 65 5
5 to 9 years 2,130 2,095 30 5
10 to 14 years 2,010 1,960 25 15
15 to 19 years 2,165 2,125 35 5
20 to 24 years 2,570 2,470 95 0
25 to 29 years 3,325 3,120 190 5
30 to 34 years 3,555 3,330 215 5
35 to 39 years 3,535 3,345 165 10
40 to 44 years 3,200 3,080 105 10
45 to 49 years 3,000 2,900 85 5
50 to 54 years 2,750 2,670 70 0
55 to 59 years 2,320 2,225 70 0
60 to 64 years 1,875 1,795 45 5
65 to 69 years 1,235 1,185 25 0
70 to 74 years 805 775 10 0
75 to 79 years 575 545 10 0
80 to 84 years 330 305 10 0
85 years and over 255 230 15 0
Median ageFootnote 3 36.2 36.2 34.5 30.0
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 31,495 30,105 1,125 50
Married or living with a common-law partner 17,935 17,120 630 30
Married (and not separated) 12,805 12,325 310 25
Living common law 5,130 4,795 325 5
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 13,560 12,985 500 20
Single (never legally married) 9,990 9,545 415 15
Separated 905 885 15 0
Divorced 1,725 1,675 40 0
Widowed 945 880 25 5
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 38,085 36,485 1,245 70
English only 33,330 33,330 0 0
French only 40 0 40 0
English and French 4,430 3,150 1,205 75
Neither English nor French 290 10 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 38,080 36,490 1,245 75
Single responses 37,535 35,970 1,225 60
English 31,630 31,630 5 0
French 1,325 115 1,215 0
Non-official languages 4,575 4,230 5 55
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 10 5 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 10 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 4,285 3,940 0 55
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Afrikaans 30 30 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 5 5 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 20 15 0 0
Armenian 0 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 40 40 0 0
Bosnian 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 10 5 0 5
Burmese 5 0 0 0
Cantonese 75 75 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 65 65 0 0
Creoles 0 5 0 0
Croatian 10 10 5 0
Czech 125 120 0 5
Danish 45 45 0 0
Dutch 125 120 0 0
Estonian 5 10 0 0
Finnish 25 20 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 5 0 0
German 600 590 0 5
Greek 25 25 0 0
Gujarati 5 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 60 55 0 0
Hungarian 65 65 0 0
Ilocano 10 10 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Italian 110 110 0 0
Japanese 370 340 0 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 10 5 0 0
Korean 75 70 0 5
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 5 0 0 0
Latvian 15 10 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 10 15 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 5 0 0
Mandarin 30 25 0 0
Marathi 5 0 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 25 25 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 1,150 920 0 10
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 15 15 0 0
Polish 95 90 0 0
Portuguese 60 60 0 5
Romanian 35 25 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 50 50 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 10 10 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 5 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 45 40 0 0
Slovenian 10 10 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 225 215 0 10
Swahili 5 5 0 0
Swedish 50 50 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 390 385 0 5
Taiwanese 0 5 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 5 0 0 0
Thai 20 20 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 35 35 0 0
Urdu 10 5 0 0
Vietnamese 5 5 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 280 280 0 0
Multiple responses 545 510 20 15
English and French 120 100 5 15
English and non-official language 375 370 0 0
French and non-official language 45 30 15 0
English, French and non-official language 10 10 0 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 38,080 36,490 1,245 70
Single responses 37,395 35,865 1,190 55
English 34,760 34,100 660 0
French 565 40 525 0
Non-official languages 2,070 1,730 5 55
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 2,040 1,705 5 55
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 20 20 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 10 10 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 20 20 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 30 30 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 30 25 0 0
Creoles 0 0 5 0
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 45 45 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 0
Dutch 15 15 0 5
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 0 0 5
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 65 60 0 5
Greek 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 30 30 0 0
Hungarian 5 5 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 20 15 0 5
Japanese 240 215 0 10
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0
Korean 45 40 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 5 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 10 5 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 935 715 0 10
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 5 0 0
Polish 30 30 0 0
Portuguese 20 20 0 0
Romanian 30 15 0 10
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 20 20 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 0 5 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 5 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 10 10 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 105 90 0 10
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 15 15 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 195 195 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 5 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 0 0 0 0
Urdu 10 5 0 0
Vietnamese 5 5 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 30 25 0 0
Multiple responses 685 615 50 15
English and French 85 20 45 15
English and non-official language 590 585 0 0
French and non-official language 5 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 10 10 0 5
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 38,085 36,485 1,245 70
None 34,265 33,425 545 30
Single responses 3,710 2,975 680 40
English 1,195 840 310 35
French 855 505 345 5
Non-official languages 1,660 1,630 30 0
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 5 5 0 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 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 1,365 1,335 30 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Afrikaans 10 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 10 5 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Bengali 5 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 5 0 0
Burmese 5 0 0 0
Cantonese 20 25 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 15 20 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 5 0 0 0
Czech 35 35 0 0
Danish 10 10 0 0
Dutch 30 30 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 240 240 5 0
Greek 15 15 0 0
Gujarati 0 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 25 25 0 0
Hungarian 15 15 0 0
Ilocano 5 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 60 60 0 0
Japanese 145 140 5 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 5 0 0
Korean 20 20 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 5 0 0
Malay 5 0 5 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 25 20 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 10 10 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 145 140 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 5 0 0
Polish 35 35 0 0
Portuguese 35 35 0 0
Romanian 5 5 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 20 20 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 5 5 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 15 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 15 15 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 135 115 10 0
Swahili 5 10 0 0
Swedish 40 40 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 125 125 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 10 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 10 10 0 0
Urdu 5 5 0 0
Vietnamese 5 5 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 295 290 0 0
Multiple responses 110 85 20 5
English and French 5 0 0 0
English and non-official language 25 15 5 0
French and non-official language 80 65 10 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 38,085 36,485 1,245 70
English 36,485 36,485 0 0
French 1,245 0 1,245 0
English and French 70 0 0 75
Neither English nor French 280 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 1,280 0 1,245 35
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 3.4 0.0 100.0 50.0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

Data quality index showing a global non response rate higher than or equal to 5% but lower than 10%.

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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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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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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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