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
About this variable: Number of languages known (11)
Definition
No definition is available for this variable.
Values
- Total - Number of languages known Footnote 1
- Knowledge of one language
- English only
- French only
- Non-official language only
- Knowledge of more than one language
- English and French only
- English, French and one or more non-official languages
- English and one or more non official languages
- French and one or more non official languages
- Multiple non-official languages only
Footnotes
- Footnote 1
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'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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