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2011 National Household Survey: Data tables

Tabulation: Detailed Mother Tongue (158), Generation Status (4), Knowledge of Official Languages (5), Number of Non-Official Languages Spoken (5), Age Groups (10) and Sex (3) for the Population in Private Households of Canada, Provinces and Territories, 2011 National Household Survey

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This table details detailed mother tongue , generation status , knowledge of official languages , number of non-official languages spoken , age groups and sex for the population in private households in Prince Edward Island / Île-du-Prince-Édouard
Global non-response rate (GNR)Footnote 1 = 33.4 %
Detailed mother tongue (158) Generation status (4)
Total - Generation status First generationFootnote 2 Second generationFootnote 3 Third generation or moreFootnote 4
Total - Detailed mother tongue 137,375 8,290 8,485 120,595
Single responses 136,880 8,075 8,410 120,400
English 127,440 3,880 7,900 115,660
French 4,825 50 215 4,560
Non-official languages 4,610 4,145 295 175
Aboriginal languages 100 15 0 85
Romance languages 295 270 25 0
Italian 25 20 0 0
Portuguese 70 75 0 0
Romanian 35 30 0 0
Spanish 160 150 0 0
Catalan 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 740 640 85 15
Dutch 400 350 50 0
Flemish 35 35 0 0
Frisian 25 15 0 0
German 215 170 30 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 60 60 0 0
Danish 40 35 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 0 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 0 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 335 285 35 0
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 30 30 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Polish 50 40 10 0
Russian 150 150 0 0
Serbian 25 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 15 0 0 0
Slovak 10 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 40 0 15 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Greek 0 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Albanian 100 95 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 60 50 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 30 25 0 0
Turkic languages 50 50 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0
Turkish 40 35 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 185 180 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 185 180 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 175 170 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 570 530 25 0
Indo-Aryan languages 250 205 20 0
Bengali 30 25 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hindi 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 10 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 45 40 0 0
Urdu 65 30 0 0
Nepali 100 100 0 0
Iranian languages 325 325 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 325 320 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 60 55 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Tamil 40 35 0 0
Telugu 20 25 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Japanese 125 120 0 0
Korean 85 85 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,585 1,525 60 0
Chinese languages 1,550 1,495 55 0
Cantonese 0 0 0 0
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 375 370 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 1,150 1,095 55 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0
Tai languages 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 70 50 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 70 50 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 65 65 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 45 45 0 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 85 85 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 65 65 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Shona 0 0 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 65 70 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0
Igbo 0 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0
Ewe 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Non-verbal languages 0 0 0 0
American Sign Language 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Other languages 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 495 225 75 200
English and French 190 0 0 190
English and non-official language 310 225 75 10
French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
English, French and non-official language 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

'First generation' includes persons who were born outside Canada. For the most part, these are people who are now, or have ever been, immigrants to Canada.

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Footnote 3

'Second generation' includes persons who were born in Canada and had at least one parent born outside Canada. For the most part, these are the children of immigrants.

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Footnote 4

'Third generation or more' includes persons who were born in Canada with both parents born in Canada.

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 National Household Survey, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 99-010-X2011034.

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