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2011 National Household Survey: Data tables

Tabulation: Mother Tongue (8), Detailed Language Spoken Most Often at Home (111), Other Language Spoken Regularly at Home (9), Generation Status (4), Age Groups (10C) and Sex (3) for the Population Aged 15 Years and Over, in Private Households of Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, 2011 National Household Survey

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This table details mother tongue , detailed language spoken most often at home , other language spoken regularly at home , generation status , age groups and sex for the population aged 15 years and over, in private households in St. John's
Global non-response rate (GNR)Footnote 1 = 27.5 %
Detailed language spoken most often at home (111) Mother tongue (8)
Total - Mother tongue English French Non-official language English and French English and non-official language French and non-official language English, French and non-official language
Total - Detailed language spoken most often at home 162,995 158,850 575 3,300 60 190 20 0
Single responses 162,630 158,795 570 3,110 50 95 0 0
English 160,770 158,730 390 1,520 50 80 0 0
French 210 0 180 20 0 0 0 0
Non-official languages 1,655 60 0 1,565 0 0 0 0
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 3 1,595 55 0 1,540 0 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 55 0 0 55 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Albanian 20 0 0 15 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 145 0 0 130 0 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bengali 195 0 0 190 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 90 0 0 85 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 235 0 0 235 0 0 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Croatian 10 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dutch 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
German 20 0 0 20 0 0 0 0
Greek 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hindi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 20 0 0 20 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 30 0 0 30 0 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 90 0 0 90 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Nepali 140 0 0 140 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 60 0 0 60 0 0 0 0
Polish 30 0 0 30 0 0 0 0
Portuguese 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Romanian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Russian 40 0 0 45 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 35 25 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Spanish 75 0 0 75 0 0 0 0
Swahili 20 0 0 20 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 25 0 0 25 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Telugu 15 0 0 15 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 50 0 0 40 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 4 55 0 0 30 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 365 55 0 190 0 95 0 0
English and French 70 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
English and non-official language 280 0 0 185 0 95 0 0
French and non-official language 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

For the 2011 National Household Survey (NHS) estimates, the global non-response rate (GNR) is used as an indicator of data quality. This indicator combines complete non-response (household) and partial non-response (question) into a single rate. The value of the GNR is presented to users. A smaller GNR indicates a lower risk of non-response bias and as a result, lower risk of inaccuracy. The threshold used for estimates' suppression is a GNR of 50% or more. For more information, please refer to the National Household Survey User Guide, 2011.

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Footnote 2

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 3

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 4

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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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 National Household Survey, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 99-010-X2011041.

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