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2011 Census of Canada: Topic-based tabulations

Topic-based tabulation: Selected Demographic and Language Characteristics (375), First Official Language Spoken (4A), Age Groups (8B) and Sex (3) for the population excluding institutional residents of Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Divisions and Census Subdivisions, 2011 Census

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This table details selected demographic and language characteristics , first official language spoken , age groups and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Lévis
Selected Demographic and Language Characteristics (375) First official language spoken (4A)
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 1 English French English and French
Age groups - Total population excluding institutional residents 137,195 1,400 135,445 305
0 to 4 years 8,375 40 8,290 40
5 to 9 years 7,575 55 7,495 20
10 to 14 years 7,730 70 7,640 20
15 to 19 years 8,915 75 8,810 30
20 to 24 years 8,195 75 8,095 20
25 to 29 years 8,210 60 8,135 10
30 to 34 years 9,810 85 9,685 30
35 to 39 years 9,180 120 9,020 35
40 to 44 years 9,130 120 8,980 30
45 to 49 years 10,870 135 10,710 30
50 to 54 years 11,415 120 11,290 10
55 to 59 years 10,605 95 10,490 15
60 to 64 years 9,635 135 9,495 5
65 to 69 years 6,975 85 6,880 5
70 to 74 years 4,150 50 4,090 5
75 to 79 years 2,905 30 2,870 0
80 to 84 years 1,985 20 1,960 5
85 years and over 1,540 20 1,520 0
Median ageFootnote 2 40.3 44.2 40.3 32.8
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 113,515 1,240 112,025 225
Married or living with a common-law partner 70,250 850 69,245 145
Married (and not separated) 38,340 560 37,655 110
Living common law 31,910 285 31,590 30
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 43,265 390 42,780 80
Single (never legally married) 30,305 240 30,000 65
Separated 1,370 10 1,360 5
Divorced 6,860 85 6,765 5
Widowed 4,725 60 4,660 5
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 137,195 1,400 135,450 305
English only 135 135 0 0
French only 92,895 0 92,895 0
English and French 44,115 1,265 42,550 305
Neither English nor French 45 0 5 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 137,195 1,400 135,450 305
Single responses 136,535 1,350 134,945 195
English 1,350 1,255 95 0
French 133,905 5 133,895 0
Non-official languages 1,285 95 955 195
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 10 0 10 0
Atikamekw 0 0 5 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 10 0 5 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 1,230 90 905 190
African languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 180 5 165 15
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 10 0 10 0
Bisayan languages 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 10 0 10 5
Bulgarian 5 0 5 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 15 5 10 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 60 10 20 15
Creoles 20 0 25 0
Croatian 15 0 10 5
Czech 10 0 10 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 10 0 5 5
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 5 0 0 0
German 45 10 30 10
Greek 15 5 10 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 0 5 0
Hindi 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 5 0 5 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 60 5 50 5
Japanese 10 0 5 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 25 0 25 0
Korean 5 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 5 0
Lao 30 5 25 5
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 5 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 30 0 10 15
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 0 10 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 5 0 5 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 0 0 0
Polish 25 0 25 5
Portuguese 70 0 50 10
Romanian 30 0 20 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 15 0 10 0
Russian 25 10 15 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 5 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 0 10 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 0 5 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 10 0 10 5
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 5 5 0 0
Spanish 300 15 230 50
Swahili 5 0 5 0
Swedish 5 0 5 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 5 0 5 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 15 5 10 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 10 0 10 0
Ukrainian 5 0 5 5
Urdu 0 5 0 5
Vietnamese 55 5 40 10
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 45 0 40 5
Multiple responses 660 45 505 110
English and French 460 30 330 100
English and non-official language 15 15 0 0
French and non-official language 160 0 160 0
English, French and non-official language 25 5 10 10
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 137,195 1,400 135,445 305
Single responses 136,465 1,325 134,925 170
English 875 645 230 0
French 135,075 660 134,410 0
Non-official languages 515 20 280 175
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 9 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 5 5 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 495 20 270 170
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 50 0 35 10
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 5 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 0 0 5
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 10 0 5 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 45 5 20 15
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 10 0 0 5
Czech 5 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 5 0 0 5
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 10 0 0 10
Greek 5 0 0 5
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 10 0 10 5
Japanese 5 0 0 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 0 5 0
Korean 0 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 5 0
Lao 10 0 5 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 30 0 10 20
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 5 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 0 5 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 0 0 0
Polish 20 0 15 5
Portuguese 35 0 20 10
Romanian 10 0 5 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 10 0 5 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 5 0 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 5
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 0 10 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 5 0 0 5
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 140 5 95 45
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 10 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 0 5 0
Ukrainian 5 5 0 0
Urdu 0 0 0 5
Vietnamese 30 0 20 10
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 15 0 10 5
Multiple responses 730 75 525 135
English and French 385 50 235 95
English and non-official language 15 15 5 0
French and non-official language 275 5 270 0
English, French and non-official language 55 5 20 30
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 137,195 1,405 135,450 305
None 130,875 590 130,085 160
Single responses 6,145 785 5,235 120
English 4,715 365 4,350 10
French 830 400 320 105
Non-official languages 600 25 565 5
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 0 5 5 0
Atikamekw 0 0 5 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 5 0 5 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 560 25 535 5
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 5 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 80 0 80 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 5 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 0 5 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 5 0 5 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 5 0 5 0
Creoles 30 0 30 0
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 10 5 5 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 5
German 30 0 30 5
Greek 5 0 5 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 25 0 20 0
Japanese 5 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 10 0 10 0
Korean 0 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 5 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 0 0 0 5
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 0 10 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 0 0
Polish 5 5 5 0
Portuguese 15 0 15 0
Romanian 5 0 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 5 0
Russian 10 5 5 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 5 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 5 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 5 0 5 0
Slovenian 5 0 5 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 260 5 255 5
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 0 5 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 0 0 5 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 5 0 5 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 30 0 30 0
Multiple responses 180 25 135 25
English and French 25 0 0 20
English and non-official language 120 0 120 0
French and non-official language 30 20 5 5
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 137,195 1,400 135,450 305
English 1,400 1,400 0 0
French 135,450 0 135,445 0
English and French 305 0 0 305
Neither English nor French 40 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 1,555 1,400 0 150
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 1.1 100.0 0.0 49.2

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

Those classified in the category 'Neither English nor French' appear only in the 'Total' category in this table.

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Footnote 2

The median age is an age 'x', such that exactly one half of the population is older than 'x' and the other half is younger than 'x'.

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Footnote 3

Marital status
Part A - Short definition
Refers to the marital status of the person, taking into account his/her common-law status.
Part B - Detailed definition
Refers to the marital status of the person, taking into account his/her common-law status. Persons who are married or living common law may be of opposite sex or of the same sex. The classification is as follows:
Married (and not separated): A person who is married and has not separated or obtained a divorce, and whose spouse is living.
Common-law: A person who is living with another person as a couple but who is not legally married to that person.
Separated: A person who is married but who no longer lives with his/her spouse (for any reason other than illness, work or school) and who has not obtained a divorce. Persons living common law are not included in this category.
Divorced: A person who has obtained a legal divorce and who has not remarried. Persons living common law are not included in this category.
Widowed: A person who has lost his/her spouse through death and who has not remarried. Persons living common law are not included in this category.
Single (never legally married): A person who has never married or a person whose marriage has been annulled and who has not remarried. Persons living common law are not included in this category.

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Footnote 4

Total population excluding institutional residents. The population excluding institutional residents includes Canadian citizens (by birth or by naturalization) and landed immigrants (permanent residents) excluding those who live in institutions (institutional collective dwellings). Canadian citizens and landed immigrants either: (1) have a usual place of residence in Canada; (2) are abroad either on a military base or attached to a diplomatic mission; or (3) are at sea or in port aboard merchant vessels under Canadian registry or Canadian government vessels. Since 1991, the target population also includes persons with a usual place of residence in Canada who are claiming refugee status, who hold study permits, or who hold work permits, as well as family members living with them; for census purposes, this group is referred to as non-permanent residents. The population universe does not include foreign residents.

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Footnote 5

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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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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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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Footnote 8

Total population excluding institutional residents
The population excluding institutional residents includes Canadian citizens (by birth or by naturalization) and landed immigrants (permanent residents) excluding those who live in institutions (institutional collective dwellings). Canadian citizens and landed immigrants either: (1) have a usual place of residence in Canada; (2) are abroad either on a military base or attached to a diplomatic mission; or (3) are at sea or in port aboard merchant vessels under Canadian registry or Canadian government vessels. Since 1991, the target population also includes persons with a usual place of residence in Canada who are claiming refugee status, who hold study permits, or who hold work permits, as well as family members living with them; for census purposes, this group is referred to as non-permanent residents. The population universe does not include foreign residents.

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Footnote 9

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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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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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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Footnote 12

Total population excluding institutional residents
The population excluding institutional residents includes Canadian citizens (by birth or by naturalization) and landed immigrants (permanent residents) excluding those who live in institutions (institutional collective dwellings). Canadian citizens and landed immigrants either: (1) have a usual place of residence in Canada; (2) are abroad either on a military base or attached to a diplomatic mission; or (3) are at sea or in port aboard merchant vessels under Canadian registry or Canadian government vessels. Since 1991, the target population also includes persons with a usual place of residence in Canada who are claiming refugee status, who hold study permits, or who hold work permits, as well as family members living with them; for census purposes, this group is referred to as non-permanent residents. The population universe does not include foreign residents.

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Footnote 13

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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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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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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Total population excluding institutional residents
The population excluding institutional residents includes Canadian citizens (by birth or by naturalization) and landed immigrants (permanent residents) excluding those who live in institutions (institutional collective dwellings). Canadian citizens and landed immigrants either: (1) have a usual place of residence in Canada; (2) are abroad either on a military base or attached to a diplomatic mission; or (3) are at sea or in port aboard merchant vessels under Canadian registry or Canadian government vessels. Since 1991, the target population also includes persons with a usual place of residence in Canada who are claiming refugee status, who hold study permits, or who hold work permits, as well as family members living with them; for census purposes, this group is referred to as non-permanent residents. The population universe does not include foreign residents.

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Footnote 17

English is the first official language spoken by Quebec's official language minority, which consists of all individuals with English as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French. French is the first official language spoken by the official language minority in the country overall and in every province and territory outside Quebec, which consists of all individuals with French as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French.

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Footnote 18

English is the first official language spoken by Quebec's official language minority, which consists of all individuals with English as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French. French is the first official language spoken by the official language minority in the country overall and in every province and territory outside Quebec, which consists of all individuals with French as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French.

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-314-XCB2011053.

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