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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 Nova Scotia / Nouvelle-Écosse
Global non-response rate (GNR)Footnote 1 = 28.2 %
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 768,060 706,530 27,585 30,520 1,005 2,115 245 55
Single responses 764,195 706,185 27,015 28,275 895 1,585 180 50
English 735,360 705,015 14,025 14,170 780 1,240 85 50
French 13,990 740 12,965 140 120 0 15 0
Non-official languages 14,850 435 25 13,970 0 340 80 0
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 2 1,985 60 0 1,910 0 15 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 1,985 65 0 1,905 0 15 10 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 12,630 315 0 11,910 0 315 80 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 25 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Amharic 35 0 0 35 0 0 0 0
Arabic 3,015 105 0 2,645 0 190 70 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bengali 275 0 0 275 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 60 0 0 60 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 50 0 0 45 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 65 20 0 50 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 330 0 0 330 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 1,520 20 0 1,500 0 0 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Croatian 65 0 0 65 0 0 0 0
Czech 15 0 0 15 0 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dutch 130 0 0 125 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 795 0 0 780 0 0 0 0
Greek 145 0 0 140 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 60 0 0 60 0 0 0 0
Hindi 220 0 0 195 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 35 0 0 35 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 15 0 0 15 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 175 0 0 180 0 0 0 0
Japanese 55 0 0 45 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 635 0 0 620 0 0 0 0
Kurdish 25 0 0 20 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 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 55 0 0 50 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 655 0 0 640 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Nepali 170 0 0 165 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 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) 225 0 0 225 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 770 0 0 705 0 60 0 0
Polish 185 0 0 185 0 0 0 0
Portuguese 40 0 0 45 0 0 0 0
Romanian 65 0 0 65 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Russian 410 0 0 400 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 40 0 0 35 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 45 0 0 40 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 90 35 0 55 0 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 80 0 0 85 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 725 35 0 685 0 0 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 380 0 0 355 0 15 0 0
Taiwanese 70 0 0 70 0 0 0 0
Tamil 125 0 0 125 0 0 0 0
Telugu 30 0 0 35 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 95 0 0 90 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 15 0 0 15 0 0 0 0
Urdu 155 0 0 155 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 275 0 0 260 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 4 230 55 0 150 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 3,865 345 575 2,245 105 535 65 0
English and French 750 60 570 0 105 0 0 0
English and non-official language 3,065 280 0 2,215 0 535 40 0
French and non-official language 40 0 0 20 0 0 0 0
English, French and non-official language 10 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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