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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 Whistler, DMFootnote 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 9,825 9,230 540 35
0 to 4 years 415 375 20 5
5 to 9 years 405 390 10 0
10 to 14 years 370 355 10 5
15 to 19 years 420 395 25 0
20 to 24 years 1,135 1,060 65 0
25 to 29 years 1,515 1,400 115 5
30 to 34 years 1,150 1,050 95 5
35 to 39 years 865 795 60 5
40 to 44 years 830 795 35 5
45 to 49 years 730 695 35 0
50 to 54 years 605 580 25 0
55 to 59 years 465 440 25 0
60 to 64 years 410 405 10 0
65 to 69 years 265 255 5 0
70 to 74 years 115 110 0 0
75 to 79 years 75 75 0 0
80 to 84 years 30 35 5 0
85 years and over 15 15 0 0
Median ageFootnote 3 32.4 32.6 31.0 30.5
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 8,630 8,105 490 25
Married or living with a common-law partner 4,315 4,060 235 20
Married (and not separated) 2,845 2,725 105 10
Living common law 1,470 1,340 130 5
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 4,315 4,040 260 5
Single (never legally married) 3,720 3,465 245 5
Separated 155 150 5 0
Divorced 355 350 5 5
Widowed 85 80 5 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 9,825 9,230 540 35
English only 8,040 8,045 0 0
French only 10 0 15 0
English and French 1,740 1,185 525 30
Neither English nor French 25 0 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 9,825 9,230 535 35
Single responses 9,665 9,080 530 30
English 7,920 7,915 5 0
French 560 30 525 0
Non-official languages 1,190 1,135 0 25
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 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 7 1,175 1,120 0 25
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Afrikaans 15 20 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 5 0 0
Arabic 10 15 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 25 25 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 10 10 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0
Cantonese 25 20 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 25 25 0 0
Creoles 5 0 0 0
Croatian 5 0 0 0
Czech 65 60 0 0
Danish 10 10 0 0
Dutch 30 35 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 155 155 0 0
Greek 10 10 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 5 5 0 0
Hungarian 10 10 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 25 25 0 0
Japanese 225 200 5 10
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0
Korean 35 35 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 10 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 5 5 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 10 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 10 5 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 5 0 0
Polish 25 25 0 0
Portuguese 10 10 0 0
Romanian 25 15 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 20 20 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 5 5 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) 5 5 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 20 20 0 0
Slovenian 10 10 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 95 85 0 5
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 20 20 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 155 160 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 10 10 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 10 5 0 0
Urdu 5 5 0 0
Vietnamese 0 5 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 15 15 0 0
Multiple responses 155 145 5 5
English and French 55 45 5 10
English and non-official language 85 85 0 0
French and non-official language 10 10 5 0
English, French and non-official language 5 5 0 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 9,825 9,225 540 30
Single responses 9,645 9,080 515 30
English 8,900 8,635 265 0
French 265 10 250 0
Non-official languages 480 435 0 25
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 0 5 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 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 11 480 430 0 25
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 10 15 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 5 0 0 0
Arabic 5 5 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 15 15 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 10 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 5 5 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 15 15 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 30 25 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 5 5 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 5 0 5
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 20 15 0 5
Greek 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 5 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 5 5 0 0
Japanese 150 130 0 10
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0
Korean 15 20 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 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 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) 5 5 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 0 0
Polish 10 10 0 0
Portuguese 5 5 0 0
Romanian 20 15 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 5 10 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 5 5 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 5 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 50 45 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 10 10 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 60 60 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 0 0 0 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 180 145 25 10
English and French 30 5 20 5
English and non-official language 145 145 0 0
French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 0
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 9,825 9,225 535 30
None 8,610 8,365 210 15
Single responses 1,175 835 320 15
English 390 215 155 15
French 350 195 155 0
Non-official languages 440 425 15 0
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 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 15 430 420 15 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 10 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 5 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. 5 5 0 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 5 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 5 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0
Cantonese 5 5 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 5 5 0 0
Creoles 5 0 0 0
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 10 10 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 10 5 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 5 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 75 70 0 0
Greek 5 5 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 5 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 20 15 0 0
Japanese 75 70 5 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 15 15 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 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 10 0 0
Marathi 0 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) 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 0 0
Polish 5 5 0 0
Portuguese 5 5 0 0
Romanian 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 10 10 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 5 5 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 5 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 45 35 5 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 10 10 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 65 65 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 5 0 0 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 0 5 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 10 10 0 0
Multiple responses 40 25 5 0
English and French 5 0 0 0
English and non-official language 5 0 5 0
French and non-official language 25 25 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 9,820 9,225 540 35
English 9,230 9,230 0 0
French 540 0 540 0
English and French 35 0 0 35
Neither English nor French 25 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 555 0 540 15
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 5.7 0.0 100.0 42.9

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

Data quality index showing a global non response rate higher than or equal to 10% but lower than 25%.

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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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