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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 KamloopsFootnote 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 97,370 95,945 1,005 75
0 to 4 years 4,885 4,815 20 0
5 to 9 years 4,905 4,890 10 5
10 to 14 years 5,350 5,320 25 10
15 to 19 years 6,340 6,305 25 5
20 to 24 years 6,925 6,885 25 5
25 to 29 years 6,290 6,245 30 5
30 to 34 years 5,435 5,385 35 0
35 to 39 years 5,595 5,510 65 5
40 to 44 years 6,440 6,365 65 5
45 to 49 years 7,560 7,445 90 5
50 to 54 years 8,255 8,095 125 5
55 to 59 years 7,440 7,310 100 0
60 to 64 years 6,700 6,585 95 0
65 to 69 years 4,960 4,845 90 0
70 to 74 years 3,810 3,685 90 0
75 to 79 years 2,990 2,890 70 5
80 to 84 years 2,000 1,935 35 5
85 years and over 1,505 1,440 30 0
Median ageFootnote 4 42.3 42.0 55.1 40.8
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 5 82,225 80,920 950 60
Married or living with a common-law partner 48,460 47,600 640 40
Married (and not separated) 39,660 38,935 510 35
Living common law 8,800 8,665 130 5
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 33,770 33,320 320 20
Single (never legally married) 21,040 20,895 110 15
Separated 2,510 2,480 25 0
Divorced 5,925 5,825 90 5
Widowed 4,295 4,125 90 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 6 97,375 95,945 1,005 75
English only 91,885 91,885 0 0
French only 20 0 15 0
English and French 5,090 4,035 990 70
Neither English nor French 375 30 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 97,370 95,945 1,005 75
Single responses 96,585 95,180 995 60
English 86,980 86,980 5 0
French 1,185 210 985 0
Non-official languages 8,415 7,990 10 55
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 35 30 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 25 25 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 5 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 5 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 8 8,140 7,725 15 60
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Afrikaans 65 65 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 10 0 0
Albanian 5 5 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 360 335 0 0
Armenian 15 15 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Bengali 25 20 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 25 25 0 0
Bosnian 10 10 0 0
Bulgarian 15 10 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0
Cantonese 180 165 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 420 385 0 5
Creoles 5 0 0 0
Croatian 105 105 0 0
Czech 45 40 0 5
Danish 80 85 0 0
Dutch 325 320 0 5
Estonian 10 10 0 0
Finnish 70 70 0 0
Flemish 10 10 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 1,305 1,285 0 10
Greek 80 75 0 0
Gujarati 30 25 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 100 100 0 0
Hungarian 150 145 5 0
Ilocano 20 20 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Italian 995 970 0 5
Japanese 215 215 5 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 10 5 0 0
Korean 160 145 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 5 5 0 0
Latvian 5 10 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 25 25 0 0
Malayalam 15 15 0 0
Maltese 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 195 180 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 10 10 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Norwegian 35 35 0 0
Oromo 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 1,155 1,005 0 5
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 30 30 0 0
Polish 200 190 0 5
Portuguese 115 115 0 0
Romanian 25 25 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 165 160 0 10
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 35 30 5 5
Serbo-Croatian 10 10 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 10 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 10 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Slovak 40 40 0 0
Slovenian 25 20 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 260 250 0 10
Swahili 10 5 0 0
Swedish 40 40 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 290 290 0 0
Taiwanese 10 10 0 0
Tamil 15 10 0 0
Telugu 5 0 0 0
Thai 30 25 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 15 15 0 0
Ukrainian 320 315 0 5
Urdu 50 45 0 0
Vietnamese 85 80 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 9 240 235 5 0
Multiple responses 790 765 10 15
English and French 140 125 0 10
English and non-official language 595 595 0 0
French and non-official language 45 35 10 0
English, French and non-official language 10 10 0 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 10 97,370 95,940 1,005 70
Single responses 96,200 94,830 970 50
English 93,085 92,290 790 0
French 220 45 175 0
Non-official languages 2,900 2,500 0 50
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 11 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 12 2,855 2,460 0 55
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 40 40 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 265 235 0 5
Armenian 10 5 0 5
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Bengali 15 10 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 10 10 0 5
Burmese 5 0 0 0
Cantonese 90 70 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 290 260 0 0
Creoles 5 0 0 0
Croatian 15 20 0 0
Czech 15 10 0 5
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 30 30 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 15 15 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 155 130 0 10
Greek 25 25 0 0
Gujarati 10 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 0 0 0
Hindi 30 25 0 0
Hungarian 25 20 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Italian 275 245 0 0
Japanese 45 35 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 10 0 5
Korean 110 90 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 10 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 155 140 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 735 590 0 5
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 0 0
Polish 50 40 0 0
Portuguese 25 25 0 0
Romanian 5 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 25 20 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 20 15 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 35 35 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 15 10 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 95 90 0 5
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 75 70 0 0
Taiwanese 5 0 0 0
Tamil 5 10 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 15 15 0 5
Urdu 25 15 0 0
Vietnamese 50 45 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 13 45 35 0 0
Multiple responses 1,170 1,110 35 20
English and French 60 15 25 10
English and non-official language 1,085 1,085 0 0
French and non-official language 5 5 5 0
English, French and non-official language 15 10 0 5
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 14 97,370 95,945 1,005 75
None 92,260 91,235 655 45
Single responses 5,025 4,630 350 20
English 1,340 1,200 105 20
French 725 485 235 0
Non-official languages 2,960 2,950 10 0
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 15 25 25 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 15 15 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 5 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 5 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 16 2,635 2,620 10 0
African languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Afrikaans 25 30 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 5 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 65 65 0 0
Armenian 0 5 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 10 0 0
Bosnian 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 5 0 0
Cantonese 70 65 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 70 70 0 0
Creoles 10 15 0 0
Croatian 50 55 0 0
Czech 15 15 0 0
Danish 15 15 0 0
Dutch 70 65 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 10 10 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 385 385 0 0
Greek 25 25 0 0
Gujarati 5 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 30 30 0 0
Hungarian 35 35 0 0
Ilocano 10 10 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Italian 390 390 0 0
Japanese 120 115 5 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 40 40 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 15 10 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 45 45 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Norwegian 10 10 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 270 275 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 15 20 0 0
Polish 65 60 0 0
Portuguese 40 35 0 0
Romanian 10 15 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 70 65 5 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 15 15 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 5 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 10 10 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 240 235 5 0
Swahili 5 5 0 0
Swedish 20 15 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 120 120 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0
Thai 15 15 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 60 60 0 0
Urdu 30 25 0 0
Vietnamese 20 20 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 17 305 300 0 0
Multiple responses 90 80 5 10
English and French 5 0 0 10
English and non-official language 15 10 5 0
French and non-official language 70 70 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 18 97,370 95,945 1,005 75
English 95,945 95,945 0 0
French 1,005 0 1,005 0
English and French 70 0 0 75
Neither English nor French 350 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 19 1,045 0 1,005 40
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 20 1.1 0.0 100.0 53.3

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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

2006 adjusted count; most of these are the result of boundary changes.

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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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