Data tables, 2016 Census

Mother Tongue (269), Knowledge of Official Languages (5), Age (15A) and Sex (3) for the Population Excluding Institutional Residents of Census Metropolitan Areas, Tracted Census Agglomerations and Census Tracts, 2016 Census - 100% Data The letter C inside a yellow triangle - correction

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This table details mother tongue , knowledge of official languages , age and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in St. John's
Data quality
Mother tongue (269) Knowledge of official languages (5)
Total - Knowledge of official languages English only French only English and French Neither English nor French
Total - Mother tongueFootnote 1 204,390 187,430 50 16,375 535
Single responses 203,355 186,755 45 16,025 530
Official languages 196,360 180,735 40 15,550 40
English 195,390 180,660 5 14,685 40
French 970 75 35 860 0
Non-official languages 6,995 6,020 10 480 490
Aboriginal languages 40 35 0 5 0
Algonquian languages 10 10 0 5 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 5 10 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Montagnais (Innu) 5 5 0 0 0
Moose Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Naskapi 0 5 0 0 0
Northern East Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Plains Cree 5 0 0 0 0
Southern East Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Swampy Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Woods Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0
Eastern Algonquian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 5 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Ottawa (Odawa) 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Athabaskan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Northern Athabaskan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Babine (Wetsuwet'en) 0 0 0 0 0
Beaver 0 0 0 0 0
Carrier 0 0 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0 0
Dogrib (Tlicho) 0 0 0 0 0
Gwich'in 0 0 0 0 0
Sarsi (Sarcee) 0 0 0 0 0
Sekani 0 0 0 0 0
Slavey-Hare languages 0 0 0 0 0
North Slavey (Hare) 0 0 0 0 0
South Slavey 0 0 0 0 0
Slavey, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0
Tahltan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Kaska (Nahani) 0 0 0 0 0
Tahltan 0 0 0 0 0
Tutchone languages 0 0 0 0 0
Northern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0
Southern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0
Athabaskan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Haida 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages 25 25 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 20 20 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Cayuga 0 0 0 0 0
Mohawk 0 0 0 0 0
Oneida 0 0 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Kutenai 0 0 0 0 0
Michif 0 0 0 0 0
Salish languages 0 0 0 0 0
Comox 0 0 0 0 0
Halkomelem 0 0 0 0 0
Lillooet 0 0 0 0 0
Okanagan 0 0 0 0 0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 0 0 0 0 0
Squamish 0 0 0 0 0
Straits 0 0 0 0 0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 0 0 0 0 0
Salish languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Siouan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Dakota 0 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0 0
Siouan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tlingit 0 0 0 0 0
Tsimshian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Gitxsan (Gitksan) 0 0 0 0 0
Nisga'a 0 0 0 0 0
Tsimshian 0 0 0 0 0
Wakashan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Haisla 0 0 0 0 0
Heiltsuk 0 0 0 0 0
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala) 0 0 0 0 0
Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka) 0 0 0 0 0
Wakashan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 6,960 5,985 10 480 490
Afro-Asiatic languages 1,040 735 0 55 250
Berber languages 5 5 0 0 0
Kabyle 0 0 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 35 35 0 0 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 30 30 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 1,000 695 5 55 250
Amharic 20 20 0 0 0
Arabic 905 605 5 50 235
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 10 10 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 65 60 0 5 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 50 40 0 10 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 50 45 0 10 0
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 555 545 0 10 5
Bikol 5 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 25 30 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 10 5 0 0 0
Ilocano 15 15 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 25 20 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 5 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 470 465 0 5 0
Waray-Waray 0 5 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Creole languages 25 15 0 5 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 10 5 0 10 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 10 15 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 195 180 0 5 0
Kannada 10 15 0 0 0
Malayalam 65 65 0 0 0
Tamil 80 80 0 0 0
Telugu 30 30 0 5 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 3,030 2,630 0 305 95
Albanian 80 70 0 0 15
Armenian 5 5 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 440 375 0 55 5
Baltic languages 10 5 0 5 0
Latvian 5 5 0 5 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 430 370 0 55 5
Belarusan 5 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 10 15 0 0 0
Bulgarian 55 50 0 10 5
Croatian 15 15 0 5 0
Czech 30 25 0 5 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 70 55 0 10 0
Russian 185 160 0 25 5
Serbian 20 20 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 10 0 0 0
Slovak 5 5 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 5 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 25 20 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 15 5 0 5 0
Scottish Gaelic 5 5 0 5 0
Welsh 5 5 0 5 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 415 345 0 65 0
Afrikaans 20 20 0 0 0
Danish 35 35 0 0 0
Dutch 60 45 0 15 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 215 170 0 45 0
Icelandic 25 30 0 0 0
Norwegian 35 35 0 5 0
Swedish 10 10 0 5 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 0 5 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Greek 45 40 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages 1,325 1,240 0 45 45
Indo-Aryan languages 1,050 980 0 35 30
Bengali 305 295 0 5 5
Gujarati 60 60 0 0 0
Hindi 130 130 0 5 0
Kashmiri 5 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 25 20 0 5 0
Nepali 135 120 0 5 15
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 110 95 0 10 0
Sindhi 10 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 50 50 0 5 0
Urdu 220 205 0 10 5
Iranian languages 250 230 0 5 15
Kurdish 10 5 0 0 5
Pashto 30 30 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 215 200 0 5 10
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 30 30 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 710 555 0 125 25
Catalan 0 5 0 0 0
Italian 80 60 0 20 0
Portuguese 120 100 0 20 5
Romanian 30 20 0 10 0
Spanish 470 375 0 75 15
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Japanese 40 35 0 5 0
Kartvelian languages 5 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 115 105 0 5 10
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 270 210 0 30 25
Akan (Twi) 25 25 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 5 0 0 5 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Ganda 10 5 0 0 0
Igbo 25 25 0 0 0
Lingala 10 0 0 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 5 0 5 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 5 0 0 5 0
Shona 10 15 0 0 0
Swahili 55 25 5 5 25
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 50 50 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 60 50 0 10 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 35 30 5 5 0
Dinka 10 5 0 5 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 30 25 0 5 5
Sign languages 60 35 0 0 30
American Sign Language 30 15 0 0 10
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 25 15 0 0 20
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,380 1,270 0 30 80
Chinese languages 1,350 1,250 0 30 80
Cantonese 240 205 0 15 20
Hakka 5 5 0 0 5
Mandarin 940 885 0 15 45
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 30 25 0 0 5
Wu (Shanghainese) 10 10 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 120 110 0 5 5
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 25 25 0 0 5
Burmese 5 5 0 0 0
Karenic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Tibetan 5 5 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 5
Tai-Kadai languages 30 30 0 5 0
Lao 5 5 0 0 0
Thai 30 25 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 65 55 0 5 5
Azerbaijani 5 5 0 0 0
Turkish 40 35 0 5 0
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 10 10 0 5 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Uralic languages 60 50 0 5 0
Estonian 10 5 0 0 0
Finnish 10 10 0 5 0
Hungarian 35 30 0 0 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,035 675 5 350 5
English and French 305 55 0 250 0
English and non-official language 670 615 0 50 5
French and non-official language 40 5 5 35 0
English, French and non-official language 25 5 0 20 0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

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

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Data quality note(s) – St. John's

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 3.5%.
  • Short-form income data quality flag
    Default. Data quality index showing a short-form income non-response rate lower than 10%.

Source: Statistics Canada, 2016 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-400-X2016057.

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