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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 YukonFootnote 1
Selected Demographic and Language Characteristics (375) First official language spoken (4A)
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 2 English French English and French
Age groups - Total population excluding institutional residents 33,655 32,015 1,420 125
0 to 4 years 1,980 1,865 75 20
5 to 9 years 1,900 1,825 65 15
10 to 14 years 1,975 1,915 50 10
15 to 19 years 2,195 2,130 60 5
20 to 24 years 2,215 2,150 55 10
25 to 29 years 2,355 2,245 105 5
30 to 34 years 2,280 2,140 140 0
35 to 39 years 2,410 2,250 145 10
40 to 44 years 2,425 2,305 100 10
45 to 49 years 2,895 2,735 145 10
50 to 54 years 3,170 2,995 150 10
55 to 59 years 2,770 2,640 110 15
60 to 64 years 2,110 1,995 105 5
65 to 69 years 1,285 1,225 45 5
70 to 74 years 740 705 35 0
75 to 79 years 490 465 15 0
80 to 84 years 275 255 15 0
85 years and over 190 180 5 5
Median ageFootnote 3 39.0 38.9 40.7 27.5
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 27,795 26,415 1,230 80
Married or living with a common-law partner 15,230 14,425 715 50
Married (and not separated) 10,515 10,055 375 40
Living common law 4,720 4,370 340 5
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 12,570 11,990 520 30
Single (never legally married) 8,760 8,370 365 20
Separated 800 760 25 0
Divorced 2,065 1,950 100 5
Widowed 945 905 25 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 33,655 32,015 1,420 125
English only 29,050 29,050 0 0
French only 90 0 90 0
English and French 4,415 2,965 1,335 125
Neither English nor French 95 0 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 33,655 32,015 1,420 125
Single responses 33,145 31,565 1,405 80
English 28,065 28,065 5 0
French 1,455 70 1,380 0
Non-official languages 3,620 3,420 20 85
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 75 70 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 20 15 0 0
Dene 40 45 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 10 10 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 2,735 2,545 20 80
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 15 15 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 5 5 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 20 10 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Bengali 15 10 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 65 65 0 0
Bosnian 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 100 80 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 125 100 0 0
Creoles 20 15 5 5
Croatian 10 10 0 0
Czech 45 45 0 0
Danish 20 20 0 5
Dutch 120 115 0 0
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 20 20 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 5 0 0
German 800 750 5 40
Greek 10 5 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 15 15 0 5
Hungarian 50 45 0 0
Ilocano 40 40 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Italian 35 30 0 0
Japanese 45 45 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 25 25 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 10 0 0
Malayalam 5 10 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 40 30 0 0
Marathi 5 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 10 15 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 90 85 0 0
Pashto 0 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 15 15 0 0
Polish 40 45 0 0
Portuguese 10 10 0 0
Romanian 5 5 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 60 50 5 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 5 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 10 10 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Slovak 10 15 0 0
Slovenian 10 10 0 0
Somali 5 5 0 0
Spanish 170 145 0 5
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 15 10 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 380 370 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0
Tamil 20 15 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 30 30 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 55 50 0 0
Urdu 20 20 0 0
Vietnamese 65 60 0 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 820 805 5 5
Multiple responses 510 455 15 40
English and French 140 95 5 40
English and non-official language 335 335 0 0
French and non-official language 20 15 5 0
English, French and non-official language 15 10 5 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 33,655 32,015 1,420 125
Single responses 33,080 31,555 1,360 70
English 31,025 30,455 575 0
French 815 40 775 0
Non-official languages 1,240 1,060 10 75
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 20 15 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0
Dene 15 15 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 11 1,115 940 10 70
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 15 15 0 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 35 30 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 75 55 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 85 65 0 0
Creoles 0 5 0 0
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 5 10 0 0
Danish 5 0 0 0
Dutch 10 10 0 5
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 215 170 0 45
Greek 5 0 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 10 10 0 0
Hungarian 10 10 0 0
Ilocano 10 15 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Italian 5 0 0 0
Japanese 20 20 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 15 15 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 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 10 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 30 15 0 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) 55 50 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 5 0 0
Polish 0 0 0 0
Portuguese 0 0 0 0
Romanian 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 45 25 5 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 0 5 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 5 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 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 100 80 5 5
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 5
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 240 230 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 10 15 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 5 0 0 0
Urdu 5 5 0 0
Vietnamese 50 45 0 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 110 105 5 5
Multiple responses 575 460 60 50
English and French 110 15 50 45
English and non-official language 445 440 0 0
French and non-official language 5 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 10 0 10 5
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 33,655 32,010 1,420 125
None 30,380 29,510 725 75
Single responses 3,200 2,450 680 50
English 935 535 350 40
French 720 410 305 5
Non-official languages 1,545 1,505 25 10
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 45 40 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 15 15 0 0
Dene 15 15 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 5 0 0 0
Inuktitut 10 10 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 15 975 940 25 5
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 5 5 0 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 10 15 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 15 15 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 30 30 0 0
Creoles 15 5 5 5
Croatian 10 5 0 0
Czech 20 25 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 0
Dutch 30 30 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 285 280 5 0
Greek 5 5 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 5 0 0
Hindi 15 15 0 0
Hungarian 10 10 0 0
Ilocano 0 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 20 15 0 0
Japanese 30 30 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 10 10 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 0 0 0 0
Malay 10 5 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 0 5 0 0
Mandarin 10 10 0 0
Marathi 5 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 25 20 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 10 0 0
Polish 25 20 0 0
Portuguese 5 0 0 0
Romanian 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 25 25 5 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 0 5 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Sindhi 5 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 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 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 135 125 10 0
Swahili 0 5 0 0
Swedish 10 10 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 100 100 0 0
Taiwanese 0 5 0 0
Tamil 5 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 15 15 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 10 10 0 0
Urdu 5 5 0 0
Vietnamese 10 10 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 530 530 0 0
Multiple responses 75 55 15 5
English and French 5 0 0 5
English and non-official language 15 5 15 0
French and non-official language 50 50 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 33,655 32,015 1,420 125
English 32,015 32,015 0 0
French 1,420 0 1,420 0
English and French 125 0 0 125
Neither English nor French 95 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 1,485 0 1,420 60
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 4.4 0.0 100.0 48.0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

Data quality index showing a global non response rate higher than or equal to 5% but lower than 10%.

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Footnote 2

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

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Footnote 3

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 4

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 5

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 6

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 8

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 9

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 10

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 13

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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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 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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Footnote 19

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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