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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 Prince Edward Island / Île-du-Prince-Édouard
Selected Demographic and Language Characteristics (375) First official language spoken (4A)
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 1 English French English and French
Age groups - Total population excluding institutional residents 138,435 132,855 4,715 185
0 to 4 years 7,275 7,070 120 15
5 to 9 years 7,390 7,195 145 20
10 to 14 years 8,390 8,150 185 30
15 to 19 years 9,635 9,400 180 30
20 to 24 years 8,745 8,545 170 15
25 to 29 years 7,270 7,045 205 5
30 to 34 years 7,560 7,300 210 5
35 to 39 years 8,410 8,090 235 15
40 to 44 years 9,450 8,980 325 10
45 to 49 years 11,190 10,625 420 10
50 to 54 years 11,095 10,565 470 10
55 to 59 years 10,480 9,995 465 5
60 to 64 years 10,140 9,685 440 5
65 to 69 years 7,080 6,730 335 5
70 to 74 years 5,295 5,000 285 0
75 to 79 years 4,140 3,895 235 5
80 to 84 years 2,650 2,485 160 0
85 years and over 2,245 2,110 135 0
Median ageFootnote 2 42.4 42.0 51.6 19.6
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 115,390 110,445 4,270 125
Married or living with a common-law partner 69,495 66,055 2,905 65
Married (and not separated) 60,325 57,315 2,490 65
Living common law 9,170 8,745 420 5
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 45,890 44,390 1,365 60
Single (never legally married) 29,980 29,150 730 50
Separated 3,245 3,120 120 0
Divorced 6,010 5,790 205 0
Widowed 6,650 6,325 315 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 138,435 132,855 4,720 185
English only 120,585 120,590 0 0
French only 130 0 130 0
English and French 17,005 12,230 4,590 190
Neither English nor French 710 40 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 138,435 132,855 4,715 185
Single responses 137,685 132,235 4,665 105
English 127,635 127,630 5 0
French 5,195 555 4,640 0
Non-official languages 4,860 4,055 20 110
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 105 105 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 5 0 0
Mi'kmaq 105 100 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 4,685 3,885 25 100
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Afrikaans 20 20 0 5
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 95 85 0 5
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 270 245 5 15
Armenian 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 15 10 5 0
Bengali 35 30 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0
Bosnian 25 20 0 5
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 10 10 0 0
Cantonese 100 70 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 1,185 755 0 0
Creoles 10 10 0 5
Croatian 20 15 0 0
Czech 30 30 0 5
Danish 25 25 0 0
Dutch 470 460 0 5
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 15 15 0 0
Flemish 25 25 0 0
Fukien 5 5 0 0
German 295 280 0 10
Greek 10 10 0 0
Gujarati 0 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 10 10 0 0
Hindi 35 35 0 0
Hungarian 60 50 0 5
Ilocano 5 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 55 55 0 5
Japanese 75 70 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 135 115 0 0
Kurdish 5 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 10 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 10 5 0 0
Malayalam 10 10 0 0
Maltese 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 290 215 0 5
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 90 65 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 35 35 0 5
Pashto 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 205 180 0 5
Polish 60 50 0 5
Portuguese 45 45 0 0
Romanian 15 15 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 110 95 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 25 20 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 15 20 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Sindhi 5 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 45 45 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 35 25 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slovak 15 5 0 5
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 30 20 0 0
Spanish 230 190 0 15
Swahili 5 0 0 0
Swedish 10 10 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 105 110 0 0
Taiwanese 15 15 0 0
Tamil 15 15 0 0
Telugu 30 30 0 0
Thai 15 10 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 20 15 0 0
Ukrainian 30 30 0 0
Urdu 40 35 0 0
Vietnamese 40 35 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 75 65 0 5
Multiple responses 745 620 50 75
English and French 440 340 30 70
English and non-official language 255 260 0 0
French and non-official language 35 15 15 0
English, French and non-official language 15 5 0 10
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 138,435 132,855 4,715 185
Single responses 137,590 132,230 4,570 110
English 132,200 129,905 2,295 0
French 2,460 195 2,265 0
Non-official languages 2,925 2,130 10 110
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 9 15 15 0 5
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 15 15 0 5
Ojibway 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 2,890 2,100 10 105
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 10 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 80 70 0 5
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 120 95 0 15
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 20 15 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 10 5 0 5
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 65 40 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 1,085 645 0 5
Creoles 5 5 0 0
Croatian 5 5 0 0
Czech 15 10 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 0
Dutch 95 85 0 10
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 0 5 0 0
German 85 70 5 15
Greek 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 15 20 0 0
Hungarian 35 30 0 5
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 10 5 0 10
Japanese 30 30 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 115 100 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 5 0 0
Maltese 0 5 0 0
Mandarin 245 175 0 5
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 90 60 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 15 10 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 170 145 0 0
Polish 20 15 5 0
Portuguese 15 10 0 0
Romanian 15 15 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 75 65 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 15 10 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Sindhi 0 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 30 30 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 35 25 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 5 0 0 5
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 25 15 0 0
Spanish 125 85 5 20
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 65 65 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0
Tamil 5 0 0 0
Telugu 20 20 0 0
Thai 5 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 10 10 0 0
Ukrainian 0 0 0 0
Urdu 15 10 0 0
Vietnamese 30 30 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 25 20 0 5
Multiple responses 845 620 145 80
English and French 270 75 125 65
English and non-official language 545 540 0 0
French and non-official language 15 0 15 0
English, French and non-official language 20 10 0 10
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 138,435 132,855 4,715 185
None 132,165 128,740 2,720 110
Single responses 6,150 4,025 1,995 50
English 2,135 975 1,050 45
French 2,690 1,770 920 0
Non-official languages 1,325 1,280 25 5
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 80 80 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 75 75 0 0
Ojibway 5 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 1,190 1,145 25 5
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Afrikaans 10 10 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 10 15 0 0
Amharic 0 5 0 0
Arabic 110 115 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Bengali 10 10 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 10 5 0 0
Cantonese 15 15 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 80 80 5 0
Creoles 5 5 0 0
Croatian 5 5 0 0
Czech 15 15 0 0
Danish 15 10 0 0
Dutch 130 135 0 0
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 10 15 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 80 75 5 0
Greek 10 10 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 25 25 0 0
Hindi 20 20 0 0
Hungarian 15 15 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Italian 30 30 5 0
Japanese 50 50 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 20 15 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 5 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 35 35 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Norwegian 0 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 15 15 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 15 15 0 0
Polish 20 25 0 0
Portuguese 20 15 5 0
Romanian 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 5 0
Russian 30 30 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 5 10 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 15 15 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Slovak 5 5 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 130 125 0 0
Swahili 5 5 0 0
Swedish 10 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 35 35 0 0
Taiwanese 10 5 0 0
Tamil 15 15 0 0
Telugu 15 15 0 0
Thai 0 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 15 10 0 0
Vietnamese 10 10 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 50 55 0 0
Multiple responses 115 85 5 20
English and French 30 5 5 20
English and non-official language 35 30 5 0
French and non-official language 55 55 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 138,435 132,855 4,715 185
English 132,855 132,855 0 0
French 4,715 0 4,715 0
English and French 185 0 0 185
Neither English nor French 675 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 4,810 0 4,720 95
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 3.5 0.0 100.0 51.4

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

Those classified in the category 'Neither English nor French' appear only in the 'Total' category in this table.

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Footnote 2

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 3

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 4

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 5

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 8

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 9

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 12

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 13

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 17

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 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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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-314-XCB2011053.

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