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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 British Columbia / Colombie-BritanniqueFootnote 1
Global non-response rate (GNR)Footnote 2 = 26.1 %
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 3,646,840 2,527,530 51,175 1,018,980 2,785 44,595 1,540 235
Single responses 3,544,100 2,519,760 50,160 943,160 2,580 26,905 1,325 205
English 2,941,695 2,506,800 39,095 370,920 2,415 21,335 960 170
French 12,695 855 10,775 840 110 0 100 0
Non-official languages 589,715 12,105 295 571,400 55 5,560 260 30
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 3 55 10 0 45 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 35 10 0 25 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 4 586,060 11,755 290 568,285 55 5,385 245 30
African languages, n.i.e. 95 0 0 95 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 1,070 15 0 1,040 0 15 0 0
Akan (Twi) 115 0 0 100 0 0 0 0
Albanian 450 0 0 440 0 0 0 0
Amharic 420 0 0 410 0 0 0 0
Arabic 5,835 45 0 5,555 0 110 95 0
Armenian 275 0 0 270 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 80 0 0 80 0 0 0 0
Bengali 1,070 25 0 1,030 0 15 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 1,420 40 0 1,325 0 60 0 0
Bosnian 540 0 0 530 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 885 0 0 885 0 0 0 0
Burmese 780 0 0 760 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 101,410 1,865 0 98,670 0 835 20 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 69,840 1,135 0 68,230 55 405 0 0
Creoles 410 55 35 285 0 0 0 0
Croatian 2,490 0 0 2,455 0 20 0 0
Czech 1,205 0 0 1,190 0 0 0 0
Danish 260 0 0 250 0 0 0 0
Dutch 1,725 20 0 1,695 0 0 0 0
Estonian 85 0 0 85 0 0 0 0
Finnish 545 0 0 540 0 0 0 0
Flemish 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 605 0 0 590 0 15 0 0
German 8,635 120 30 8,420 0 50 20 0
Greek 1,835 65 0 1,760 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 2,430 100 0 2,290 0 40 0 0
Hakka 395 0 0 380 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 730 25 0 710 0 0 0 0
Hindi 11,625 655 0 10,735 0 235 0 0
Hungarian 1,930 35 0 1,895 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 1,365 55 0 1,305 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 190 0 0 185 0 0 0 0
Italian 5,530 165 0 5,330 0 30 0 0
Japanese 8,195 240 0 7,880 0 60 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 580 0 0 525 0 45 0 0
Korean 33,175 535 0 32,515 0 125 0 0
Kurdish 785 0 0 765 0 0 0 0
Lao 575 30 0 545 0 0 0 0
Latvian 90 0 0 90 0 0 0 0
Lingala 60 0 60 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 65 0 0 60 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 75 0 0 70 0 0 0 0
Malay 1,155 30 0 1,130 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 580 25 0 555 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 68,355 600 0 67,410 0 350 0 0
Marathi 155 20 0 135 0 0 0 0
Nepali 485 0 0 480 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 110 0 0 105 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 165 0 0 160 0 0 0 0
Oromo 50 0 0 45 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 113,995 1,785 0 111,120 0 1,080 0 0
Pashto 425 0 0 425 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 22,040 215 0 21,635 0 165 0 0
Polish 5,500 50 0 5,425 0 20 0 0
Portuguese 4,495 15 0 4,435 0 40 0 0
Romanian 3,060 0 0 3,040 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 25 0 0 25 0 0 0 0
Russian 9,890 240 0 9,575 0 65 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 20 0 0 20 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 315 0 0 320 0 0 0 0
Serbian 3,805 20 0 3,760 0 20 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 525 0 0 525 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 580 0 0 575 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 815 410 0 360 0 30 0 0
Sindhi 535 70 0 450 0 15 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 525 0 0 520 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 515 0 0 515 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 35 0 0 35 0 0 0 0
Slovak 750 0 0 745 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 65 0 0 65 0 0 0 0
Somali 275 0 0 275 0 0 0 0
Spanish 16,750 780 50 15,760 0 125 30 0
Swahili 110 0 0 105 0 0 0 0
Swedish 215 0 0 205 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 32,620 1,175 0 30,480 0 955 0 0
Taiwanese 2,850 15 0 2,835 0 0 0 0
Tamil 2,010 130 0 1,860 0 15 0 0
Telugu 215 0 0 215 0 0 0 0
Thai 675 20 0 645 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 60 0 0 60 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 250 0 0 245 0 0 0 0
Turkish 1,205 40 0 1,140 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 880 85 0 790 0 0 0 0
Urdu 4,020 180 0 3,650 0 195 0 0
Vietnamese 15,050 485 20 14,415 0 115 20 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 5 3,600 345 0 3,065 0 170 0 0
Multiple responses 102,740 7,765 1,015 75,815 205 17,690 210 30
English and French 1,495 310 865 125 175 0 15 0
English and non-official language 100,730 7,415 100 75,380 0 17,655 130 20
French and non-official language 270 0 30 140 0 0 55 0
English, French and non-official language 240 0 10 175 0 20 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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