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Table 2
Mother tongue based on data from the shortNote 1 and long questionnaire, and percentage of the population by language spoken most often at home, Canada, 2001, 2006 and 2011

Table 2 Mother tongue based on data from the short and long questionnaire, and percentage of the population by language spoken most often at home, Canada, 2001, 2006 and 2011
Table summary
This table displays the results of Mother tongue based on data from the short and long questionnaire, and percentage of the population by language spoken most often at home, Canada, 2001, 2006 and 2011. The information is grouped by language (appearing as row headers), mother tongue, language spoken most often at home, 2001, 2006 and 2011, calculated using short, long, 2001, 2006 and 2011 units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Language Mother tongue Language spoken most often at home
2001 2006 2011
Short Long Short Long 2001 2006 2011
Single responses  
English 59.7 58.5 59.1 57.2 56.9 66.7 65.9 64.8
French 21.7 22.6 21.4 21.8 21.3 21.8 21.2 20.6
Other 13.7 17.6 16.0 19.7 19.8 9.7 11.1 11.1
Multiple responses 4.9 1.3 3.6 1.3 1.9 1.8 1.8 3.5

Source : 2001, 2006 and 2011 Censuses.
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