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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 Perth
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 74,215 73,335 385 60
0 to 4 years 4,435 4,170 15 0
5 to 9 years 4,535 4,480 5 5
10 to 14 years 4,735 4,715 15 5
15 to 19 years 5,305 5,285 10 5
20 to 24 years 4,665 4,650 5 5
25 to 29 years 4,205 4,160 20 5
30 to 34 years 4,170 4,125 30 5
35 to 39 years 4,295 4,250 25 0
40 to 44 years 4,620 4,580 25 10
45 to 49 years 5,730 5,685 35 5
50 to 54 years 5,910 5,850 45 5
55 to 59 years 5,425 5,380 40 5
60 to 64 years 4,480 4,425 40 5
65 to 69 years 3,315 3,285 30 0
70 to 74 years 2,760 2,730 20 0
75 to 79 years 2,230 2,195 20 0
80 to 84 years 1,855 1,835 10 0
85 years and over 1,540 1,525 10 0
Median ageFootnote 2 40.8 40.9 51.0 31.8
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 60,505 59,965 350 45
Married or living with a common-law partner 37,300 36,935 240 25
Married (and not separated) 32,475 32,155 195 25
Living common law 4,830 4,785 45 5
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 23,205 23,025 115 20
Single (never legally married) 14,775 14,700 50 15
Separated 1,725 1,715 5 0
Divorced 2,945 2,910 30 0
Widowed 3,760 3,700 30 5
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 74,220 73,330 385 60
English only 70,930 70,930 0 0
French only 20 0 15 0
English and French 2,820 2,390 365 65
Neither English nor French 445 15 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 74,215 73,335 385 60
Single responses 73,780 72,915 375 60
English 66,230 66,225 5 0
French 465 105 360 0
Non-official languages 7,085 6,585 10 55
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 5 5 0 0
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 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 7,040 6,535 10 55
African languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 10 10 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 40 35 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 10 10 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 10 10 0 0
Bosnian 10 5 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0
Cantonese 25 25 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 90 80 0 0
Creoles 0 5 0 0
Croatian 25 25 0 0
Czech 15 10 0 0
Danish 45 45 0 0
Dutch 1,265 1,240 0 5
Estonian 10 5 0 0
Finnish 10 15 0 0
Flemish 70 60 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 3,720 3,370 5 20
Greek 55 60 0 0
Gujarati 40 40 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 25 25 0 0
Hungarian 80 80 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 210 205 0 5
Japanese 40 35 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 65 55 0 0
Kurdish 5 5 0 0
Lao 100 85 0 5
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 5 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 25 25 0 0
Maltese 10 5 0 0
Mandarin 35 30 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 105 90 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 25 20 0 0
Polish 130 125 0 0
Portuguese 135 120 0 0
Romanian 30 30 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 30 30 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 5 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 40 35 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Sindhi 15 15 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slovak 10 10 0 0
Slovenian 20 15 0 0
Somali 5 0 0 0
Spanish 220 205 0 5
Swahili 5 0 0 0
Swedish 5 10 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 65 65 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 10 10 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0
Thai 10 10 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 5 0 0
Tigrigna 10 10 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0
Ukrainian 40 40 0 0
Urdu 20 20 0 0
Vietnamese 15 15 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 40 40 0 0
Multiple responses 435 415 10 5
English and French 65 60 5 5
English and non-official language 320 320 0 0
French and non-official language 40 30 5 0
English, French and non-official language 10 10 0 5
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 74,220 73,335 385 65
Single responses 73,525 72,655 375 55
English 70,370 70,070 300 0
French 90 30 65 0
Non-official languages 3,060 2,560 5 55
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 9 0 0 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 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 3,055 2,560 5 55
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 10 10 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 0 5 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 15 10 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 55 45 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 220 200 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 10 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 1,975 1,635 0 20
Greek 30 30 0 0
Gujarati 25 15 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 10 5 0 0
Hungarian 30 30 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 50 45 5 0
Japanese 30 20 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 50 45 0 0
Kurdish 5 5 0 0
Lao 95 75 0 5
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 20 20 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 30 20 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 55 45 0 5
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 10 0 0
Polish 35 35 0 5
Portuguese 45 30 0 0
Romanian 10 10 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 10 15 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 10 5 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Sindhi 5 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 110 95 0 5
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 25 20 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0
Thai 5 10 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 5 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 5 0 0 0
Urdu 10 5 0 0
Vietnamese 10 10 0 0
Yiddish 5 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 690 675 15 5
English and French 15 5 5 0
English and non-official language 665 660 0 0
French and non-official language 15 5 5 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 5
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 74,215 73,335 385 60
None 70,555 69,890 235 25
Single responses 3,585 3,375 150 40
English 1,265 1,175 35 35
French 330 215 110 5
Non-official languages 1,995 1,985 5 5
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 5 5 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 0 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 1,970 1,960 5 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 5 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 20 20 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 5 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0
Cantonese 10 10 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 20 20 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 10 15 0 0
Czech 0 5 0 0
Danish 10 10 0 0
Dutch 365 370 0 0
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 5 0 0 0
Flemish 15 20 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 865 865 0 0
Greek 35 35 0 0
Gujarati 5 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 10 10 0 0
Hindi 25 20 0 0
Hungarian 20 20 0 0
Ilocano 0 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 65 65 0 0
Japanese 5 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 10 15 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 15 15 0 0
Latvian 0 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 5 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0
Mandarin 5 5 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 45 45 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 5 0 0
Polish 30 35 0 0
Portuguese 55 60 0 0
Romanian 5 5 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 20 20 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 15 15 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Sindhi 5 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 0 5 0 0
Slovenian 10 10 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 130 130 0 5
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 25 25 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 10 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 5 0 0
Turkish 0 5 0 0
Ukrainian 5 5 0 0
Urdu 10 10 0 0
Vietnamese 10 10 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 25 25 0 0
Multiple responses 75 75 5 0
English and French 0 0 0 5
English and non-official language 10 10 0 0
French and non-official language 60 60 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 74,220 73,335 385 65
English 73,335 73,330 0 0
French 385 0 385 0
English and French 65 0 0 65
Neither English nor French 435 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 415 0 385 30
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 0.6 0.0 100.0 46.2

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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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Footnote 7

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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Footnote 10

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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