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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), Mother Tongue (4A), Age Groups (8B) and Sex (3) for the population excluding institutional residents of Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, 2011 Census

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This table details selected demographic and language characteristics , first official language spoken , mother tongue , age groups and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Prince AlbertFootnote 2
Selected Demographic and Language Characteristics (375) First official language spoken (4A)
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 3 English French English and French
Age groups - Total population excluding institutional residents 41,025 39,750 1,125 45
0 to 4 years 3,100 3,065 15 5
5 to 9 years 2,870 2,835 20 5
10 to 14 years 2,905 2,870 25 5
15 to 19 years 3,175 3,150 20 5
20 to 24 years 2,910 2,885 20 0
25 to 29 years 2,640 2,605 25 0
30 to 34 years 2,505 2,455 40 5
35 to 39 years 2,355 2,310 40 0
40 to 44 years 2,535 2,460 60 0
45 to 49 years 2,915 2,840 75 5
50 to 54 years 2,920 2,805 115 5
55 to 59 years 2,545 2,415 115 10
60 to 64 years 2,240 2,115 120 0
65 to 69 years 1,525 1,420 95 0
70 to 74 years 1,300 1,205 90 0
75 to 79 years 1,040 950 85 0
80 to 84 years 845 760 85 0
85 years and over 695 605 85 0
Median ageFootnote 4 35.9 35.0 60.0 32.0
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 5 32,150 30,980 1,070 30
Married or living with a common-law partner 17,625 16,870 700 25
Married (and not separated) 14,360 13,670 640 15
Living common law 3,265 3,200 65 5
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 14,520 14,115 365 10
Single (never legally married) 9,715 9,555 140 5
Separated 920 890 25 0
Divorced 1,985 1,915 60 0
Widowed 1,905 1,755 140 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 6 41,025 39,750 1,130 45
English only 37,895 37,890 0 0
French only 25 0 25 0
English and French 2,990 1,845 1,105 45
Neither English nor French 120 10 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 41,025 39,750 1,125 40
Single responses 40,370 39,120 1,110 25
English 34,975 34,970 0 0
French 1,270 170 1,105 0
Non-official languages 4,125 3,980 10 30
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 1,620 1,610 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 1,340 1,325 0 0
Dene 265 265 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 5 0 0 0
Ojibway 15 10 0 0
Oji-Cree 5 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 8 2,420 2,295 10 25
African languages, n.i.e. 15 20 0 0
Afrikaans 70 70 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 5 5 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 30 25 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Bengali 5 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 10 10 0 5
Bosnian 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 25 15 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 60 45 0 0
Creoles 5 0 0 0
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 15 20 0 0
Danish 15 15 0 0
Dutch 35 40 0 0
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 0 5 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 325 325 0 0
Greek 10 10 0 0
Gujarati 45 45 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 25 25 0 0
Hungarian 40 40 0 5
Ilocano 5 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Italian 15 15 0 0
Japanese 10 10 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 10 5 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 10 5 0 5
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 20 15 0 0
Maltese 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 10 10 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 20 10 5 0
Norwegian 30 30 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 30 25 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 5 0 0
Polish 150 150 0 0
Portuguese 5 5 0 0
Romanian 25 25 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 5
Russian 65 60 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 15 20 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 65 40 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 5 0 0
Somali 35 30 0 0
Spanish 155 140 0 5
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 20 20 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 230 230 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 5 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 645 640 0 5
Urdu 15 20 0 0
Vietnamese 45 40 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 9 85 70 0 0
Multiple responses 655 630 15 15
English and French 100 90 0 15
English and non-official language 525 525 0 0
French and non-official language 25 10 10 0
English, French and non-official language 5 5 0 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 10 41,025 39,750 1,130 40
Single responses 40,320 39,115 1,080 20
English 38,855 38,030 820 0
French 275 25 250 0
Non-official languages 1,195 1,060 5 20
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 11 340 330 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 290 280 0 0
Dene 50 50 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 12 825 715 5 20
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Afrikaans 50 50 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 0 0 0
Albanian 10 5 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 15 15 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 20 15 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 20 10 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 40 30 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 5 5 0 0
Czech 5 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 0 0 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 50 50 0 5
Greek 5 0 0 0
Gujarati 25 20 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 5 10 0 0
Hungarian 5 0 0 5
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 0 0 0 0
Japanese 5 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 5 5 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
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 10 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 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 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 15 15 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 0 0
Polish 20 15 0 0
Portuguese 0 5 0 0
Romanian 10 5 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 35 30 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 5 5 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 65 40 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 40 30 0 0
Spanish 90 80 0 5
Swahili 5 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 135 135 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 5 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 5 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 70 60 0 0
Urdu 15 10 0 0
Vietnamese 35 30 5 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 13 30 15 5 0
Multiple responses 705 630 50 25
English and French 80 20 45 20
English and non-official language 610 610 0 0
French and non-official language 5 5 0 0
English, French and non-official language 10 5 5 5
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 14 41,025 39,750 1,125 40
None 37,640 36,795 720 30
Single responses 3,310 2,885 400 15
English 635 470 150 5
French 655 415 235 0
Non-official languages 2,020 1,995 10 5
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 15 1,235 1,230 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 1,015 1,010 0 0
Dene 205 205 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 10 10 0 0
Oji-Cree 5 5 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 16 700 680 10 5
African languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Afrikaans 35 30 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 10 15 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Bengali 0 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 5
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0
Cantonese 5 5 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 15 10 0 0
Creoles 5 5 0 0
Croatian 0 5 0 0
Czech 5 5 0 0
Danish 5 0 0 0
Dutch 10 10 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 80 80 0 0
Greek 10 5 0 0
Gujarati 20 20 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 5 5 0 0
Hungarian 5 5 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 5 0 0 0
Japanese 5 10 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 5 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 5 5 0 0
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 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 5 5 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 10 5 0
Norwegian 5 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 15 20 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 5 0 0
Polish 40 35 0 0
Portuguese 0 0 0 0
Romanian 10 5 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 20 15 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 20 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 55 45 5 5
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 65 60 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 185 185 0 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 10 10 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 17 85 85 0 0
Multiple responses 75 65 5 0
English and French 0 0 0 0
English and non-official language 15 15 0 0
French and non-official language 55 55 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 18 41,025 39,750 1,130 40
English 39,750 39,750 0 0
French 1,125 0 1,130 0
English and French 40 0 0 40
Neither English nor French 105 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 19 1,150 0 1,130 25
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 20 2.8 0.0 100.0 62.5

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

Language groups are defined as follows: 'English' includes respondents who reported English only or English and one non-official language; 'French' includes respondents who reported French only or French and one non-official language; 'English and French' includes respondents who reported English and French, with or without one non-official language.

'Total' category includes all groups mentioned as well as respondents who reported a non-official language as their only mother tongue.

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Footnote 2

Data quality index showing a global non response rate higher than or equal to 5% but lower than 10%.

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Footnote 3

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

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Footnote 4

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 5

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 6

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 7

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 9

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 10

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 11

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 14

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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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 18

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 19

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 20

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-XCB2011058.

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