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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 QuébecFootnote 1
Global non-response rate (GNR)Footnote 2 = 21.4 %
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 634,200 9,465 605,165 17,555 875 105 985 50
Single responses 630,420 9,215 604,270 15,445 745 75 640 35
English 6,315 4,040 1,505 700 55 0 0 0
French 615,610 5,145 602,440 6,705 695 45 570 0
Non-official languages 8,495 30 325 8,045 0 0 70 0
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 3 40 0 0 45 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 45 0 0 40 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 4 8,170 30 295 7,745 0 0 65 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Albanian 75 0 0 75 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 950 0 30 870 0 0 35 0
Armenian 65 0 0 65 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 30 0 0 30 0 0 0 0
Bengali 20 0 0 20 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 40 0 0 40 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 270 0 0 255 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 70 0 0 75 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 40 0 0 45 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 415 0 0 410 0 0 0 0
Creoles 50 0 0 50 0 0 0 0
Croatian 85 0 0 85 0 0 0 0
Czech 30 0 0 30 0 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dutch 35 0 0 35 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 60 0 0 50 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 45 0 0 40 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 145 0 0 140 0 0 0 0
Japanese 50 0 0 45 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 230 0 0 220 0 0 0 0
Korean 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Lao 40 0 0 25 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Lingala 10 0 0 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 130 0 0 130 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Nepali 280 0 0 280 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 20 0 0 20 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 30 0 0 30 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) 140 0 0 140 0 0 0 0
Polish 55 0 0 55 0 0 0 0
Portuguese 505 0 0 505 0 0 0 0
Romanian 335 0 0 335 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 35 0 0 40 0 0 0 0
Russian 220 0 0 205 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 45 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Serbian 70 0 0 65 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 215 0 0 215 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 70 0 20 40 0 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0 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 2,755 0 110 2,610 0 0 0 0
Swahili 40 0 0 40 0 0 0 0
Swedish 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 30 0 0 30 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 25 0 0 25 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 40 0 0 40 0 0 0 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 315 0 30 280 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 5 280 0 30 255 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 3,780 255 900 2,110 125 30 350 10
English and French 930 250 480 75 120 0 0 0
English and non-official language 155 0 0 130 0 10 0 0
French and non-official language 2,610 0 365 1,865 0 15 350 0
English, French and non-official language 80 0 0 40 0 0 0 0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

Excludes National Household Survey data for one or more incompletely enumerated Indian reserves or Indian settlements.

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Footnote 2

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 3

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 4

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 5

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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