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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 Nanaimo, CY
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 82,705 81,195 1,060 105
0 to 4 years 3,995 3,940 10 5
5 to 9 years 3,760 3,735 15 5
10 to 14 years 4,260 4,215 25 10
15 to 19 years 4,965 4,920 25 15
20 to 24 years 5,370 5,305 40 5
25 to 29 years 5,285 5,230 50 0
30 to 34 years 4,555 4,495 45 5
35 to 39 years 4,550 4,465 70 5
40 to 44 years 5,245 5,170 60 5
45 to 49 years 5,915 5,785 95 5
50 to 54 years 6,625 6,490 95 15
55 to 59 years 6,420 6,270 110 5
60 to 64 years 6,120 5,980 110 5
65 to 69 years 4,685 4,560 90 5
70 to 74 years 3,565 3,450 75 10
75 to 79 years 2,970 2,875 70 0
80 to 84 years 2,375 2,305 50 5
85 years and over 2,055 2,005 25 0
Median ageFootnote 2 44.4 44.2 54.7 35.5
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 70,695 69,305 1,015 80
Married or living with a common-law partner 39,985 39,105 635 35
Married (and not separated) 32,550 31,825 505 30
Living common law 7,435 7,285 135 10
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 30,710 30,200 375 40
Single (never legally married) 17,895 17,665 180 30
Separated 2,220 2,175 35 5
Divorced 6,030 5,915 100 10
Widowed 4,565 4,445 65 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 82,705 81,190 1,060 100
English only 76,985 76,985 0 0
French only 40 0 35 0
English and French 5,320 4,185 1,025 105
Neither English nor French 365 20 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 82,705 81,195 1,065 105
Single responses 81,905 80,445 1,035 75
English 72,615 72,615 0 0
French 1,175 155 1,010 0
Non-official languages 8,115 7,675 20 80
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 15 15 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 10 15 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 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 7,935 7,510 15 80
African languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Afrikaans 75 75 0 0
Akan (Twi) 10 10 0 0
Albanian 5 10 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 105 100 5 0
Armenian 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Bengali 10 10 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 10 5 0 0
Bosnian 5 10 0 0
Bulgarian 10 10 0 0
Burmese 0 5 0 0
Cantonese 190 175 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 540 500 5 0
Creoles 10 10 0 0
Croatian 140 140 0 0
Czech 110 110 0 0
Danish 210 205 0 0
Dutch 515 505 0 5
Estonian 15 10 0 0
Finnish 100 100 0 0
Flemish 10 10 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 1,095 1,085 0 10
Greek 70 60 0 5
Gujarati 45 40 0 0
Hakka 10 5 0 0
Hebrew 10 15 0 0
Hindi 85 80 0 0
Hungarian 180 175 0 0
Ilocano 15 15 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Italian 245 240 0 0
Japanese 200 190 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 90 70 0 5
Korean 270 245 0 5
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 5 0 0
Latvian 10 10 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 10 0 0
Macedonian 10 10 0 0
Malay 15 20 0 0
Malayalam 5 10 0 0
Maltese 5 10 0 0
Mandarin 310 270 5 5
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 10 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Norwegian 70 70 0 0
Oromo 5 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 895 800 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 85 80 0 0
Polish 215 210 0 5
Portuguese 75 75 0 5
Romanian 40 40 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 160 145 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Serbian 40 40 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Sindhi 5 10 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0
Slovak 45 45 0 0
Slovenian 20 20 0 0
Somali 5 10 0 0
Spanish 375 355 5 10
Swahili 5 5 0 0
Swedish 85 85 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 325 315 0 0
Taiwanese 30 30 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0
Telugu 0 5 0 0
Thai 55 55 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 15 15 0 0
Ukrainian 165 165 0 0
Urdu 30 30 0 0
Vietnamese 325 280 0 10
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 165 150 0 5
Multiple responses 800 750 30 25
English and French 210 180 10 20
English and non-official language 530 530 0 0
French and non-official language 35 20 15 0
English, French and non-official language 20 20 0 5
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 82,710 81,190 1,060 105
Single responses 81,605 80,175 1,015 70
English 78,570 77,795 775 0
French 270 40 225 0
Non-official languages 2,770 2,345 15 70
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 9 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 5 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 2,730 2,315 10 70
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 35 35 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 35 35 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 5 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 85 60 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 290 250 5 5
Creoles 5 0 0 0
Croatian 40 35 0 0
Czech 55 55 0 0
Danish 10 10 0 0
Dutch 55 45 0 5
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 15 15 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 95 85 0 10
Greek 30 30 0 0
Gujarati 10 10 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 35 35 0 0
Hungarian 40 40 0 0
Ilocano 10 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 30 30 0 0
Japanese 55 50 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 65 45 0 0
Korean 175 150 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 220 175 0 5
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 560 465 0 5
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 40 35 0 0
Polish 60 55 0 5
Portuguese 20 20 0 5
Romanian 5 0 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 55 45 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Serbian 10 10 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 5 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slovak 0 5 0 0
Slovenian 5 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 145 120 5 10
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 10 10 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 90 85 0 0
Taiwanese 20 15 0 0
Tamil 0 5 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 10 10 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 5 5 0 0
Urdu 15 15 0 0
Vietnamese 225 195 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 35 25 0 0
Multiple responses 1,100 1,020 45 35
English and French 90 25 45 25
English and non-official language 985 985 0 0
French and non-official language 0 5 0 0
English, French and non-official language 25 10 5 15
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 82,705 81,195 1,060 105
None 77,475 76,475 645 50
Single responses 5,120 4,630 410 45
English 1,340 1,140 135 35
French 765 505 255 0
Non-official languages 3,020 2,980 20 5
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 5 5 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 5 0 0
Dene 0 5 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 2,885 2,850 15 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 40 35 0 0
Akan (Twi) 10 10 0 0
Albanian 5 5 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 45 45 0 0
Armenian 5 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Bengali 5 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0
Bosnian 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 50 50 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 135 135 0 0
Creoles 5 5 0 0
Croatian 50 50 0 0
Czech 35 30 0 0
Danish 70 70 0 0
Dutch 140 140 0 0
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 30 30 0 0
Flemish 5 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 360 360 5 0
Greek 30 30 0 0
Gujarati 30 25 0 0
Hakka 5 5 0 0
Hebrew 15 15 0 0
Hindi 75 70 0 0
Hungarian 50 50 0 0
Ilocano 10 10 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 85 90 0 0
Japanese 120 120 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 15 20 0 0
Korean 65 65 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 5 0 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0
Malay 15 15 0 0
Malayalam 0 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 95 90 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Norwegian 25 30 0 0
Oromo 5 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 255 255 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 25 25 0 0
Polish 80 80 0 0
Portuguese 25 25 0 0
Romanian 25 20 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 45 45 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 15 15 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0
Sindhi 5 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slovak 25 25 0 0
Slovenian 0 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 310 300 10 0
Swahili 5 5 0 0
Swedish 35 35 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 165 165 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 5 0 0 0
Thai 25 25 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 10 10 0 0
Ukrainian 35 35 0 0
Urdu 15 10 0 0
Vietnamese 75 75 0 0
Yiddish 5 5 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 125 125 0 5
Multiple responses 105 90 10 10
English and French 10 0 5 10
English and non-official language 20 15 0 0
French and non-official language 80 75 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 82,710 81,195 1,065 105
English 81,195 81,195 0 0
French 1,065 0 1,060 0
English and French 105 0 0 105
Neither English nor French 345 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 1,115 0 1,060 55
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 1.3 0.0 99.5 52.4

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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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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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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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Footnote 14

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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