Data tables, 2016 Census

Mother Tongue (187), Immigrant Status and Period of Immigration (11), Number of languages known (11), Age (12) and Sex (3) for the Population in Private Households of Canada, Provinces and Territories, Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, 2016 Census - 25% Sample Data

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This table details mother tongue , immigrant status and period of immigration , number of languages known , age and sex for the population in private households in Moose Jaw
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Mother tongue (187) Immigrant status and period of immigration (11)
Total - Immigrant status and period of immigrationFootnote 2 Non-immigrantsFootnote 3 ImmigrantsFootnote 4 Before 1981 1981 to 1990 1991 to 2000 2001 to 2010 2001 to 2005 2006 to 2010 2011 to 2016Footnote 5 Non-permanent residentsFootnote 6
Total - Mother tongueFootnote 7 34,020 31,085 2,655 670 115 200 680 170 505 990 280
Single responses 33,635 30,910 2,490 655 115 200 615 160 460 900 235
Official languages 31,165 30,335 775 330 55 50 205 45 160 130 55
English 30,605 29,790 755 325 50 45 205 45 160 130 50
French 570 545 20 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0
Non-official languages 2,465 570 1,715 325 60 145 410 110 295 770 185
Aboriginal languages 20 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 2,450 555 1,710 325 65 150 410 110 295 770 180
Afro-Asiatic languages 110 15 95 0 0 0 65 0 60 30 0
Berber languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kabyle 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 55 10 40 0 0 0 40 0 40 0 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 10 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 45 10 35 0 0 0 40 0 35 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 60 0 55 0 0 0 30 10 25 30 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 55 0 55 0 0 0 25 0 25 30 0
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 65 10 55 20 25 15 0 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 25 0 30 0 20 10 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 40 10 30 20 10 10 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 505 30 410 0 0 0 100 15 85 300 65
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 35 0 25 0 0 0 0 0 0 25 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 465 35 380 0 0 0 95 10 85 275 60
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Creole languages 30 0 25 0 0 0 0 0 0 25 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 30 0 25 0 0 0 0 0 0 25 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 15 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 10
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 10 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 1,180 395 725 200 15 110 155 60 95 255 55
Albanian 15 0 15 0 0 0 15 15 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 340 130 180 25 10 25 10 10 0 115 25
Baltic languages 30 10 25 0 0 0 0 0 0 25 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 30 0 25 0 0 0 0 0 0 25 0
Slavic languages 310 130 155 25 0 25 10 0 0 90 25
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Croatian 40 0 35 10 0 15 0 0 0 15 0
Czech 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 45 10 15 10 10 0 0 0 0 0 15
Russian 50 0 50 0 0 10 10 10 0 40 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Slovak 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 160 115 45 10 0 0 0 0 0 35 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 435 220 215 95 0 45 50 10 45 20 0
Afrikaans 90 10 85 0 0 25 45 0 45 20 0
Danish 15 0 10 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dutch 20 0 20 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
German 285 185 105 70 0 20 10 0 0 10 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 20 20 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 245 0 220 50 0 25 35 0 30 110 15
Indo-Aryan languages 210 10 195 50 0 10 25 10 15 110 15
Bengali 15 10 10 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 50 0 50 0 0 0 0 0 0 45 0
Hindi 20 0 25 10 0 0 0 0 0 10 0
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 95 0 85 30 0 10 10 0 10 35 10
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 25 0 25 0 0 0 15 0 10 10 0
Iranian languages 30 0 30 0 0 20 15 0 10 0 0
Kurdish 20 0 20 0 0 15 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 0 10 0 0 0 15 0 10 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 135 30 85 25 0 10 50 25 25 0 15
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 15 10 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Portuguese 0 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0
Romanian 35 10 25 0 0 0 20 20 0 0 0
Spanish 70 10 45 15 0 0 25 0 20 10 15
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 10 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 10
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 120 10 105 0 0 0 0 0 0 100 10
Akan (Twi) 35 0 30 0 0 0 0 0 0 30 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 35 10 25 0 0 0 0 0 0 25 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Swahili 15 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 35 0 30 0 0 0 0 0 0 30 10
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 10 0 0 0 10 10 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 10 0 10 0 0 10 10 0 0 0 0
Dinka 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 10 0 0 0 10 10 0 0 0
Sign languages 30 30 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
American Sign Language 20 20 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 10 10 10 0 0 0 10 0 10 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 345 55 245 95 20 10 75 25 45 45 40
Chinese languages 310 50 225 95 20 10 50 25 25 45 35
Cantonese 180 40 140 75 20 10 25 10 15 10 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 90 0 55 0 0 0 25 10 10 25 25
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 20 0 10 0 0 0 10 10 0 10 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 20 10 15 20 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 35 10 20 0 0 0 20 0 25 0 10
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Karenic languages 35 0 25 0 0 0 20 0 25 0 10
Tibetan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Uralic languages 25 0 15 10 0 0 0 0 0 10 0
Estonian 0 0 10 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 20 10 15 10 0 0 0 0 0 10 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 385 175 170 10 0 0 65 15 50 90 40
English and French 65 60 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
English and non-official language 305 105 165 10 0 0 60 15 50 90 35
French and non-official language 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10
English, French and non-official language 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

'Knowledge of official languages' refers to whether the person can conduct a conversation in English only, French only, in both or in neither language. For a child who has not yet learned to speak, this includes languages that the child is learning to speak at home.

'Knowledge of non-official languages' refers to whether the person can conduct a conversation in a language other than English or French. For a child who has not yet learned to speak, this includes languages that the child is learning to speak at home. The number of languages that can be reported may vary between surveys, depending on the objectives of the survey.

For more information on language variables, including information on their classifications, the questions from which they are derived, data quality and their comparability with other sources of data, please refer to the Languages Reference Guide, Census of Population, 2016.

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Footnote 2

Immigrant status refers to whether the person is a non-immigrant, an immigrant or a non-permanent resident.

Period of immigration refers to the period in which the immigrant first obtained landed immigrant or permanent resident status.

For more information on immigration variables, including information on their classifications, the questions from which they are derived, data quality and their comparability with other sources of data, please refer to the Place of Birth, Generation Status, Citizenship and Immigration Reference Guide, Census of Population, 2016.

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Footnote 3

'Non-immigrants' includes persons who are Canadian citizens by birth.

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Footnote 4

'Immigrants' includes persons who are, or who have ever been, landed immigrants or permanent residents. Such persons have been granted the right to live in Canada permanently by immigration authorities. Immigrants who have obtained Canadian citizenship by naturalization are included in this category. In the 2016 Census of Population, 'Immigrants' includes immigrants who landed in Canada on or prior to May 10, 2016.

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Footnote 5

Includes immigrants who landed in Canada on or prior to May 10, 2016.

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Footnote 6

'Non-permanent residents' includes persons from another country who have a work or study permit or who are refugee claimants, and their family members sharing the same permit and living in Canada with them.

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Footnote 7

n.i.e. = not included elsewhere
n.o.s. = not otherwise specified

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Data quality note(s) – Moose Jaw

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Long-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), long-form census questionnaire: 5.4%.
  • Long-form income data quality flag
    Default. Data quality index showing a long-form income non-response rate lower than 10%.

Source: Statistics Canada, 2016 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-400-X2016193.

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