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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 Nova Scotia / Nouvelle-Écosse
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 910,620 877,990 29,550 1,560
0 to 4 years 43,965 42,655 740 130
5 to 9 years 44,410 43,485 750 110
10 to 14 years 49,760 48,640 905 190
15 to 19 years 57,265 55,985 1,100 145
20 to 24 years 59,355 57,930 1,240 125
25 to 29 years 51,650 50,175 1,315 105
30 to 34 years 51,290 49,515 1,615 90
35 to 39 years 56,065 54,180 1,700 115
40 to 44 years 61,760 59,435 2,115 120
45 to 49 years 75,820 72,855 2,790 90
50 to 54 years 76,975 73,900 2,920 75
55 to 59 years 70,465 67,605 2,720 65
60 to 64 years 65,940 63,095 2,730 55
65 to 69 years 48,430 46,060 2,240 55
70 to 74 years 35,800 34,060 1,630 35
75 to 79 years 26,755 25,380 1,270 30
80 to 84 years 18,545 17,595 890 15
85 years and over 16,355 15,440 875 15
Median ageFootnote 2 43.4 43.1 50.8 29.0
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 772,480 743,210 27,150 1,130
Married or living with a common-law partner 451,620 432,130 18,180 625
Married (and not separated) 374,550 358,045 15,275 570
Living common law 77,075 74,090 2,910 60
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 320,860 311,080 8,970 510
Single (never legally married) 204,955 199,610 4,820 400
Separated 23,355 22,635 670 20
Divorced 45,520 44,080 1,365 45
Widowed 47,035 44,750 2,115 45
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 910,620 877,990 29,550 1,565
English only 814,670 814,675 0 0
French only 880 0 875 0
English and French 93,435 63,205 28,670 1,560
Neither English nor French 1,635 110 5 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 910,620 877,990 29,550 1,560
Single responses 904,285 872,690 29,075 1,005
English 836,085 836,040 45 0
French 31,105 2,250 28,860 0
Non-official languages 37,095 34,395 175 1,005
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 4,685 4,625 0 25
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 25 25 0 0
Dene 0 5 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 25 25 0 0
Mi'kmaq 4,620 4,565 0 25
Ojibway 10 10 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 31,680 29,105 170 960
African languages, n.i.e. 75 75 0 0
Afrikaans 75 80 0 5
Akan (Twi) 50 50 0 0
Albanian 250 225 0 5
Amharic 150 140 0 5
Arabic 5,965 5,270 60 345
Armenian 50 45 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 95 90 10 0
Bengali 375 360 0 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 5 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 85 80 0 0
Bosnian 90 90 0 0
Bulgarian 50 50 0 0
Burmese 15 10 0 0
Cantonese 590 505 5 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 2,750 2,525 5 25
Creoles 45 40 5 0
Croatian 215 205 0 5
Czech 185 170 0 5
Danish 175 175 0 0
Dutch 1,725 1,675 0 40
Estonian 55 50 0 0
Finnish 95 95 0 5
Flemish 30 25 0 0
Fukien 10 10 0 0
German 3,280 3,045 5 120
Greek 775 735 0 10
Gujarati 110 105 0 0
Hakka 0 5 0 0
Hebrew 75 75 0 5
Hindi 515 500 0 5
Hungarian 280 270 0 10
Ilocano 25 20 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 45 45 0 0
Italian 790 750 5 20
Japanese 305 285 0 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0
Korean 815 745 0 15
Kurdish 75 65 0 5
Lao 10 5 5 0
Latvian 65 60 0 5
Lingala 10 5 5 0
Lithuanian 35 30 0 0
Macedonian 15 10 0 0
Malay 65 65 0 0
Malayalam 115 115 0 0
Maltese 15 20 0 0
Mandarin 905 840 5 10
Marathi 35 30 0 0
Nepali 225 125 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 110 95 5 0
Norwegian 125 120 0 0
Oromo 35 25 5 5
Panjabi (Punjabi) 375 355 0 5
Pashto 70 65 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 1,185 1,090 5 30
Polish 820 775 5 30
Portuguese 375 350 0 10
Romanian 175 130 5 25
Rundi (Kirundi) 10 5 0 0
Russian 820 745 5 35
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 5 0 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 15 20 0 0
Serbian 115 105 0 10
Serbo-Croatian 110 95 0 5
Shanghainese 10 10 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 120 65 0 0
Sindhi 15 10 0 5
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 115 110 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0
Slovak 120 115 0 5
Slovenian 35 35 0 0
Somali 40 40 0 0
Spanish 1,545 1,365 15 75
Swahili 75 65 5 5
Swedish 85 80 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 1,190 1,175 0 0
Taiwanese 40 40 0 0
Tamil 270 265 0 0
Telugu 125 125 0 0
Thai 110 65 0 5
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 60 55 0 0
Turkish 270 250 0 10
Ukrainian 295 285 5 5
Urdu 540 515 0 10
Vietnamese 455 415 5 0
Yiddish 25 25 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 730 660 5 25
Multiple responses 6,330 5,305 475 555
English and French 3,035 2,220 295 520
English and non-official language 2,850 2,855 0 0
French and non-official language 315 140 175 0
English, French and non-official language 130 90 5 40
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 910,620 877,990 29,550 1,565
Single responses 903,210 872,230 28,575 895
English 868,765 855,175 13,590 0
French 15,940 1,030 14,910 0
Non-official languages 18,505 16,020 70 900
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 9 2,770 2,720 0 20
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 5 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 2,765 2,715 0 25
Ojibway 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 15,500 13,115 70 865
African languages, n.i.e. 35 35 0 0
Afrikaans 25 20 0 0
Akan (Twi) 10 10 0 0
Albanian 120 100 0 5
Amharic 70 65 0 0
Arabic 3,490 2,870 30 305
Armenian 15 15 0 5
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 15 0 0
Bengali 225 210 0 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 25 25 0 0
Bosnian 45 40 0 0
Bulgarian 10 10 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0
Cantonese 320 235 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 1,985 1,765 0 20
Creoles 30 25 0 0
Croatian 75 70 0 5
Czech 45 40 0 5
Danish 15 10 0 5
Dutch 190 140 0 40
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 10 10 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 5 5 0 0
German 1,170 955 5 110
Greek 270 235 0 5
Gujarati 50 45 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 25 20 0 5
Hindi 215 205 0 5
Hungarian 70 55 0 10
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Italian 170 140 0 15
Japanese 125 110 0 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0
Korean 560 490 0 10
Kurdish 55 50 0 5
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 15 15 0 5
Lingala 5 5 0 0
Lithuanian 5 0 0 5
Macedonian 5 0 0 0
Malay 20 15 0 5
Malayalam 35 35 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 660 600 0 10
Marathi 20 25 0 0
Nepali 210 115 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 30 20 0 0
Norwegian 20 15 0 0
Oromo 20 15 0 5
Panjabi (Punjabi) 180 160 0 0
Pashto 40 30 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 940 840 0 35
Polish 255 215 0 25
Portuguese 120 90 0 10
Romanian 80 50 0 20
Rundi (Kirundi) 10 5 0 5
Russian 505 435 5 35
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Serbian 60 45 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 45 35 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 195 140 5 0
Sindhi 5 5 0 5
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 45 40 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 30 25 0 5
Slovenian 0 5 0 0
Somali 20 15 0 0
Spanish 780 590 15 80
Swahili 20 10 0 5
Swedish 10 0 0 5
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 550 540 0 0
Taiwanese 15 15 0 0
Tamil 130 130 0 0
Telugu 55 55 0 0
Thai 65 15 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 30 25 0 0
Turkish 140 120 5 10
Ukrainian 25 25 0 5
Urdu 320 285 0 10
Vietnamese 280 250 0 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 235 190 5 10
Multiple responses 7,405 5,765 975 665
English and French 1,810 395 850 565
English and non-official language 5,295 5,265 35 0
French and non-official language 120 50 70 0
English, French and non-official language 175 55 20 95
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 910,620 877,990 29,550 1,560
None 863,710 844,815 16,590 935
Single responses 46,070 32,545 12,845 540
English 16,330 9,040 6,740 445
French 15,705 9,765 5,905 30
Non-official languages 14,035 13,740 195 65
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 1,945 1,940 5 5
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 10 10 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 30 30 0 0
Mi'kmaq 1,895 1,885 5 5
Ojibway 5 10 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 11,390 11,115 180 60
African languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Afrikaans 55 55 0 0
Akan (Twi) 35 40 0 0
Albanian 90 90 0 0
Amharic 40 35 0 0
Arabic 1,995 1,915 50 30
Armenian 20 20 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 50 40 5 0
Bengali 95 95 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 15 15 0 0
Bosnian 35 35 0 0
Bulgarian 25 25 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0
Cantonese 190 190 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 490 490 0 0
Creoles 80 75 5 0
Croatian 65 65 0 0
Czech 55 55 0 0
Danish 60 60 0 0
Dutch 550 550 0 0
Estonian 15 20 0 0
Finnish 25 25 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 10 10 0 0
German 1,255 1,220 25 5
Greek 435 430 0 0
Gujarati 35 35 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 85 80 0 0
Hindi 310 305 0 0
Hungarian 90 90 0 0
Ilocano 10 10 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Italian 370 355 5 5
Japanese 205 195 5 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 205 205 0 0
Kurdish 10 10 0 0
Lao 0 5 0 0
Latvian 25 25 0 0
Lingala 10 5 5 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0
Malay 30 25 0 0
Malayalam 50 55 0 0
Maltese 15 15 0 0
Mandarin 230 220 5 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0
Nepali 10 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 65 65 5 0
Norwegian 55 55 0 0
Oromo 5 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 125 125 0 0
Pashto 10 10 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 210 205 0 0
Polish 275 280 0 0
Portuguese 175 170 0 0
Romanian 55 55 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 5 0
Russian 230 230 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Serbian 40 35 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 45 40 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 220 215 5 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 45 45 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Slovak 60 60 0 0
Slovenian 15 10 0 0
Somali 15 15 0 0
Spanish 1,050 1,000 40 5
Swahili 75 70 0 0
Swedish 60 60 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 435 435 0 0
Taiwanese 15 15 0 0
Tamil 105 105 0 0
Telugu 40 40 0 0
Thai 30 35 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 20 20 0 0
Turkish 115 115 0 0
Ukrainian 75 70 5 0
Urdu 170 170 5 0
Vietnamese 100 100 0 0
Yiddish 10 15 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 700 685 5 5
Multiple responses 835 635 115 85
English and French 95 10 5 70
English and non-official language 175 120 50 5
French and non-official language 565 500 60 5
English, French and non-official language 10 0 0 5
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 910,620 877,990 29,550 1,560
English 877,995 877,990 0 0
French 29,550 0 29,550 0
English and French 1,560 0 0 1,560
Neither English nor French 1,520 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 30,330 0 29,550 785
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 3.3 0.0 100.0 50.3

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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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