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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), Mother Tongue (4A), Age Groups (8B) and Sex (3) for the population excluding institutional residents of Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, 2011 Census

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This table details selected demographic and language characteristics , first official language spoken , mother tongue , age groups and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Prince Edward Island / Île-du-Prince-Édouard
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 138,435 132,855 4,715 185
0 to 4 years 7,270 7,070 115 15
5 to 9 years 7,385 7,195 145 15
10 to 14 years 8,385 8,150 185 30
15 to 19 years 9,630 9,400 180 30
20 to 24 years 8,750 8,545 170 15
25 to 29 years 7,270 7,045 200 10
30 to 34 years 7,565 7,300 210 5
35 to 39 years 8,410 8,090 235 15
40 to 44 years 9,450 8,975 325 10
45 to 49 years 11,190 10,625 420 5
50 to 54 years 11,095 10,565 470 10
55 to 59 years 10,480 9,995 465 5
60 to 64 years 10,140 9,685 440 5
65 to 69 years 7,080 6,730 335 5
70 to 74 years 5,290 5,000 285 0
75 to 79 years 4,140 3,895 240 5
80 to 84 years 2,650 2,485 165 0
85 years and over 2,240 2,110 135 0
Median ageFootnote 3 42.4 42.0 51.6 19.6
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 115,385 110,445 4,270 125
Married or living with a common-law partner 69,500 66,055 2,905 65
Married (and not separated) 60,325 57,310 2,485 60
Living common law 9,170 8,745 420 0
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 45,890 44,390 1,365 60
Single (never legally married) 29,980 29,155 730 50
Separated 3,245 3,120 120 5
Divorced 6,005 5,790 205 5
Widowed 6,650 6,325 315 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 138,435 132,855 4,720 185
English only 120,585 120,585 0 0
French only 130 0 130 0
English and French 17,005 12,235 4,590 190
Neither English nor French 715 40 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 138,435 132,855 4,715 185
Single responses 137,685 132,235 4,665 110
English 127,635 127,630 10 0
French 5,190 555 4,640 0
Non-official languages 4,865 4,055 25 110
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 105 105 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 5 0 0
Inuktitut 5 5 0 0
Mi'kmaq 100 100 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 4,685 3,885 20 100
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Afrikaans 15 20 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 0 0 0
Albanian 95 85 0 5
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 270 245 5 15
Armenian 0 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 5 5 0
Bengali 30 30 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0
Bosnian 25 20 0 5
Bulgarian 0 5 0 0
Burmese 10 10 0 0
Cantonese 100 70 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 1,185 755 0 5
Creoles 10 5 0 0
Croatian 15 20 0 0
Czech 35 30 0 0
Danish 25 30 0 0
Dutch 465 455 0 10
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 15 15 0 0
Flemish 25 30 0 0
Fukien 5 5 0 0
German 295 280 0 10
Greek 10 5 0 0
Gujarati 5 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 10 10 0 0
Hindi 30 30 0 0
Hungarian 55 55 0 5
Ilocano 0 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 55 50 0 5
Japanese 75 70 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 135 120 0 5
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 5 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 10 10 0 0
Maltese 0 5 0 0
Mandarin 295 220 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 95 65 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 5 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 40 30 0 5
Pashto 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 205 185 0 0
Polish 65 50 0 5
Portuguese 50 45 0 5
Romanian 20 15 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 110 100 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 20 20 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 20 20 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Sindhi 5 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 50 45 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 35 25 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Slovak 10 10 0 5
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 30 20 0 0
Spanish 225 190 0 15
Swahili 0 5 0 0
Swedish 15 10 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 105 110 0 0
Taiwanese 20 15 0 0
Tamil 20 15 0 0
Telugu 30 30 0 0
Thai 15 10 0 0
Tibetan languages 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 15 15 0 0
Ukrainian 30 30 0 0
Urdu 35 35 0 0
Vietnamese 45 40 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 70 65 0 5
Multiple responses 750 620 50 80
English and French 440 340 30 70
English and non-official language 255 255 0 0
French and non-official language 35 15 20 0
English, French and non-official language 10 0 5 10
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 138,435 132,855 4,720 185
Single responses 137,590 132,235 4,570 110
English 132,200 129,905 2,295 0
French 2,465 195 2,270 0
Non-official languages 2,925 2,125 10 110
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 15 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 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 10 10 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 11 2,890 2,100 10 105
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 80 70 0 5
Amharic 5 0 0 0
Arabic 120 95 5 15
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 20 20 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 10 10 0 5
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 70 40 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 1,085 645 0 5
Creoles 5 0 0 0
Croatian 10 5 0 0
Czech 15 10 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 0
Dutch 95 85 0 5
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 85 70 0 10
Greek 0 5 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 5
Hindi 15 15 0 0
Hungarian 30 25 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 10 5 0 5
Japanese 35 30 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 115 100 0 5
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 5
Mandarin 245 175 0 5
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 90 65 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 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 165 145 0 0
Polish 20 10 5 0
Portuguese 15 10 0 5
Romanian 15 10 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 75 65 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 10 10 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0
Sindhi 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 30 30 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 30 25 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 5 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 25 15 0 0
Spanish 120 85 5 15
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 60 60 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0
Telugu 20 20 0 0
Thai 5 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 10 10 0 0
Ukrainian 0 0 0 0
Urdu 15 10 0 0
Vietnamese 30 30 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 25 20 0 5
Multiple responses 845 620 145 75
English and French 270 75 130 65
English and non-official language 540 540 0 0
French and non-official language 15 0 10 0
English, French and non-official language 20 5 5 10
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 138,435 132,855 4,720 190
None 132,170 128,740 2,720 110
Single responses 6,145 4,025 1,990 50
English 2,135 975 1,045 45
French 2,690 1,770 920 0
Non-official languages 1,320 1,285 25 5
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 80 80 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 0 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 5 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 75 75 0 0
Ojibway 5 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 15 1,190 1,150 25 5
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Afrikaans 10 10 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 15 15 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 110 115 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Bengali 10 5 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 10 10 0 0
Cantonese 15 15 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 80 80 0 0
Creoles 5 5 0 0
Croatian 0 5 0 0
Czech 10 10 0 0
Danish 15 10 0 0
Dutch 130 130 0 0
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 15 15 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 80 75 5 0
Greek 5 5 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 30 25 0 5
Hindi 20 20 0 0
Hungarian 15 20 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Italian 25 25 0 0
Japanese 50 50 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 15 20 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 40 35 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0
Norwegian 0 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 15 15 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 15 15 0 0
Polish 25 25 0 0
Portuguese 15 20 0 0
Romanian 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 5 0
Russian 30 30 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Serbian 10 5 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Sindhi 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 15 15 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slovak 10 5 0 0
Slovenian 5 0 0 0
Somali 0 5 0 0
Spanish 130 125 0 0
Swahili 5 0 0 0
Swedish 10 10 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 35 35 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0
Tamil 10 15 0 0
Telugu 10 10 0 0
Thai 0 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 5 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0
Ukrainian 10 10 0 0
Urdu 15 15 0 0
Vietnamese 10 10 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 55 55 0 0
Multiple responses 115 90 5 20
English and French 30 5 5 20
English and non-official language 35 25 0 0
French and non-official language 55 60 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 138,435 132,855 4,715 185
English 132,855 132,855 0 0
French 4,715 0 4,720 0
English and French 185 0 0 185
Neither English nor French 675 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 4,815 0 4,720 95
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 3.5 0.0 100.0 51.4

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

Language groups are defined as follows: 'English' includes respondents who reported English only or English and one non-official language; 'French' includes respondents who reported French only or French and one non-official language; 'English and French' includes respondents who reported English and French, with or without one non-official language.

'Total' category includes all groups mentioned as well as respondents who reported a non-official language as their only mother tongue.

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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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Footnote 17

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-XCB2011058.

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