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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 Prescott and Russell
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 84,340 28,800 54,770 715
0 to 4 years 4,595 1,685 2,790 95
5 to 9 years 4,595 1,800 2,725 70
10 to 14 years 5,210 2,055 3,080 80
15 to 19 years 6,170 2,385 3,710 75
20 to 24 years 4,775 1,545 3,185 45
25 to 29 years 4,215 1,410 2,765 35
30 to 34 years 4,620 1,680 2,910 30
35 to 39 years 5,415 1,930 3,430 50
40 to 44 years 6,130 2,300 3,780 45
45 to 49 years 7,950 2,800 5,110 40
50 to 54 years 7,475 2,395 5,035 35
55 to 59 years 6,385 2,005 4,345 35
60 to 64 years 5,380 1,650 3,700 25
65 to 69 years 4,145 1,100 3,025 10
70 to 74 years 2,815 790 2,005 15
75 to 79 years 2,045 560 1,475 5
80 to 84 years 1,305 345 945 10
85 years and over 1,110 350 755 0
Median ageFootnote 2 42.2 39.8 43.8 23.1
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 69,940 23,255 46,175 470
Married or living with a common-law partner 44,735 14,975 29,495 240
Married (and not separated) 34,555 12,215 22,135 185
Living common law 10,180 2,760 7,365 55
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 25,200 8,275 16,680 230
Single (never legally married) 16,255 5,575 10,495 185
Separated 2,005 620 1,365 20
Divorced 3,315 1,115 2,185 15
Widowed 3,620 960 2,645 10
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 84,345 28,800 54,770 715
English only 17,505 17,505 0 0
French only 10,785 0 10,785 0
English and French 55,990 11,290 43,985 715
Neither English nor French 65 5 5 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 84,340 28,800 54,770 715
Single responses 82,700 28,170 54,225 250
English 26,120 26,100 20 0
French 54,105 165 53,935 0
Non-official languages 2,475 1,905 265 250
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 5 10 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 10 5 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 2,445 1,880 265 240
African languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Afrikaans 10 10 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0
Albanian 5 5 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 155 80 40 25
Armenian 5 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Bengali 75 60 0 15
Berber languages (Kabyle) 5 0 5 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0
Bosnian 0 5 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 10 5 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 40 30 0 0
Creoles 75 10 50 15
Croatian 20 20 0 0
Czech 20 20 0 5
Danish 10 10 0 0
Dutch 215 195 15 5
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 10 0 0
Flemish 15 10 5 0
Fukien 5 0 0 0
German 665 560 30 70
Greek 70 55 0 10
Gujarati 5 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 5 5 0 0
Hungarian 70 60 5 5
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 0
Italian 155 110 35 5
Japanese 15 10 0 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0
Korean 5 5 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 15 5 0 5
Latvian 5 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 10 10 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 20 15 5 0
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 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 20 15 0 0
Pashto 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 10 0 0
Polish 85 85 5 0
Portuguese 80 60 10 5
Romanian 40 25 5 10
Rundi (Kirundi) 10 0 0 5
Russian 65 60 5 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 30 20 0 10
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Sindhi 5 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 5 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 5 5 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 5 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 160 110 20 20
Swahili 5 0 5 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 35 30 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 35 20 0 15
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 10 10 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 25 20 0 0
Ukrainian 40 35 0 0
Urdu 25 20 0 5
Vietnamese 10 5 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 25 15 0 5
Multiple responses 1,640 630 550 470
English and French 1,425 480 485 450
English and non-official language 130 135 0 0
French and non-official language 55 5 55 0
English, French and non-official language 30 10 5 15
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 84,340 28,800 54,770 715
Single responses 82,305 28,300 53,720 225
English 31,590 26,870 4,725 0
French 49,935 985 48,950 0
Non-official languages 775 445 50 220
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 0 0 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 10 765 445 50 215
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 55 25 5 25
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 55 40 0 15
Berber languages (Kabyle) 5 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 15 10 0 0
Creoles 20 0 5 10
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 5
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 20 20 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 5
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 230 140 10 60
Greek 35 25 0 10
Gujarati 5 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 15 20 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 15 10 0 5
Japanese 5 5 0 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 0 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 15 5 5 5
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 10 5 0 5
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 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 0 5 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 0 0
Polish 20 20 0 5
Portuguese 10 5 0 5
Romanian 15 0 0 10
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 40 30 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 30 15 5 5
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 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 0 5 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 55 25 5 15
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 5 5 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 25 15 0 10
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 10 5 0 0
Ukrainian 0 0 0 0
Urdu 15 15 0 5
Vietnamese 5 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 15 5 5 5
Multiple responses 2,040 500 1,050 495
English and French 1,655 240 950 465
English and non-official language 250 245 5 0
French and non-official language 75 5 65 0
English, French and non-official language 60 10 25 25
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 84,340 28,800 54,770 715
None 62,830 23,465 38,750 560
Single responses 21,295 5,240 15,935 110
English 13,715 895 12,745 70
French 6,670 3,650 2,995 25
Non-official languages 910 695 195 15
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 0 5 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 0 5 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 5 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 875 680 180 15
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 75 55 25 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Bengali 15 15 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 5 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 10 5 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 10 10 0 0
Creoles 50 0 45 5
Croatian 10 10 0 0
Czech 5 5 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 80 75 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 5 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 185 165 15 0
Greek 25 20 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 5 5 0 0
Hungarian 10 15 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 0
Italian 55 35 15 5
Japanese 5 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 5 5 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 5 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 10 10 5 0
Marathi 0 5 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 10 5 0 5
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 10 0 0
Polish 30 30 0 0
Portuguese 35 20 10 0
Romanian 15 15 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 25 15 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 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 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 120 70 45 0
Swahili 5 5 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 15 10 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 5 5 0 0
Ukrainian 5 5 0 0
Urdu 5 5 0 0
Vietnamese 5 0 5 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 30 20 15 0
Multiple responses 215 85 85 40
English and French 40 5 0 40
English and non-official language 70 0 70 0
French and non-official language 100 85 15 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 84,340 28,800 54,770 715
English 28,800 28,800 0 0
French 54,770 0 54,770 0
English and French 715 0 0 715
Neither English nor French 60 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 55,125 0 54,770 355
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 65.4 0.0 100.0 49.7

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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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Footnote 6

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 7

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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Footnote 10

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 11

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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