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2011 National Household Survey: Data tables

Tabulation: Mother Tongue (8), Detailed Language Spoken Most Often at Home (111), Other Language Spoken Regularly at Home (9), Generation Status (4), Age Groups (10C) and Sex (3) for the Population Aged 15 Years and Over, in Private Households of Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, 2011 National Household Survey

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This table details mother tongue , detailed language spoken most often at home , other language spoken regularly at home , generation status , age groups and sex for the population aged 15 years and over, in private households in Hamilton
Global non-response rate (GNR)Footnote 1 = 26.7 %
Detailed language spoken most often at home (111) Mother tongue (8)
Total - Mother tongue English French Non-official language English and French English and non-official language French and non-official language English, French and non-official language
Total - Detailed language spoken most often at home 588,190 437,755 9,575 133,935 510 6,090 270 50
Single responses 573,555 436,630 9,415 122,695 470 4,100 195 50
English 509,610 435,075 7,320 62,955 470 3,630 120 40
French 2,470 125 2,045 240 0 0 55 0
Non-official languages 61,475 1,435 50 59,500 0 470 20 0
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 3 61,215 1,395 55 59,295 0 450 20 0
African languages, n.i.e. 30 0 0 30 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 65 0 0 70 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 50 0 0 55 0 0 0 0
Albanian 575 0 0 575 0 0 0 0
Amharic 110 0 0 105 0 0 0 0
Arabic 3,670 95 0 3,555 0 20 0 0
Armenian 105 0 0 100 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 55 0 0 55 0 0 0 0
Bengali 585 0 0 550 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 60 0 0 60 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 785 0 0 780 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 55 0 0 55 0 0 0 0
Burmese 25 0 0 25 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 1,240 25 0 1,210 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 2,710 35 0 2,665 0 0 0 0
Creoles 70 0 0 65 0 0 0 0
Croatian 2,450 30 0 2,400 0 0 0 0
Czech 645 0 0 645 0 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dutch 220 0 0 200 0 0 0 0
Estonian 25 0 0 25 0 0 0 0
Finnish 20 0 0 20 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
German 815 0 0 800 0 0 0 0
Greek 730 0 0 720 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 850 15 0 835 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 115 0 0 105 0 0 0 0
Hindi 565 35 0 510 0 20 0 0
Hungarian 665 0 0 665 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 85 0 0 85 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 95 0 0 100 0 0 0 0
Italian 5,785 205 0 5,570 0 0 0 0
Japanese 55 0 0 55 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 635 0 0 615 0 0 0 0
Korean 1,405 25 0 1,385 0 0 0 0
Kurdish 570 0 0 560 0 0 0 0
Lao 165 0 0 160 0 0 0 0
Latvian 165 0 0 165 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 100 0 0 100 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 300 0 0 300 0 0 0 0
Malay 15 0 0 15 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 230 0 0 225 0 0 0 0
Maltese 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 1,700 0 0 1,675 0 0 0 0
Marathi 35 0 0 35 0 0 0 0
Nepali 15 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 30 0 0 25 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 3,025 0 0 2,980 0 20 0 0
Pashto 135 0 0 135 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 1,550 80 0 1,440 0 0 0 0
Polish 4,005 65 0 3,915 0 20 0 0
Portuguese 3,490 95 0 3,360 0 35 0 0
Romanian 1,090 0 0 1,085 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Russian 865 0 0 860 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 1,120 0 0 1,105 0 0 0 0
Serbian 3,315 0 0 3,295 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 170 0 0 165 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 125 35 0 90 0 0 0 0
Sindhi 45 0 0 40 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 175 0 0 170 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 85 0 0 85 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 40 0 0 40 0 0 0 0
Slovak 200 0 0 200 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 300 0 0 300 0 0 0 0
Somali 220 0 0 220 0 0 0 0
Spanish 4,760 95 0 4,605 0 65 0 0
Swahili 80 0 0 80 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 2,210 185 0 1,930 0 95 0 0
Taiwanese 45 0 0 45 0 0 0 0
Tamil 205 15 0 185 0 0 0 0
Telugu 30 0 0 30 0 0 0 0
Thai 25 0 0 20 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 470 0 0 465 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 805 0 0 800 0 0 0 0
Urdu 1,685 70 0 1,550 0 70 0 0
Vietnamese 2,205 110 0 2,095 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 4 260 40 0 205 0 20 0 0
Multiple responses 14,630 1,125 160 11,240 40 1,995 70 0
English and French 265 90 125 0 35 0 0 0
English and non-official language 14,265 1,030 30 11,200 0 1,995 15 0
French and non-official language 65 0 0 15 0 0 45 0
English, French and non-official language 40 0 0 20 0 0 0 0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

For the 2011 National Household Survey (NHS) estimates, the global non-response rate (GNR) is used as an indicator of data quality. This indicator combines complete non-response (household) and partial non-response (question) into a single rate. The value of the GNR is presented to users. A smaller GNR indicates a lower risk of non-response bias and as a result, lower risk of inaccuracy. The threshold used for estimates' suppression is a GNR of 50% or more. For more information, please refer to the National Household Survey User Guide, 2011.

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Footnote 2

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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Footnote 3

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 4

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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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 National Household Survey, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 99-010-X2011041.

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