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2011 National Household Survey: Data tables

Tabulation: Mother Tongue (8), Detailed Language Spoken Most Often at Home (111), Other Language Spoken Regularly at Home (9), Generation Status (4), Age Groups (10C) and Sex (3) for the Population Aged 15 Years and Over, in Private Households of Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, 2011 National Household Survey

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This table details mother tongue , detailed language spoken most often at home , other language spoken regularly at home , generation status , age groups and sex for the population aged 15 years and over, in private households in Ottawa - Gatineau (Ontario part / partie de l'Ontario)
Global non-response rate (GNR)Footnote 1 = 21.7 %
Detailed language spoken most often at home (111) Mother tongue (8)
Total - Mother tongue English French Non-official language English and French English and non-official language French and non-official language English, French and non-official language
Total - Detailed language spoken most often at home 749,525 455,140 116,365 163,560 3,040 8,700 2,415 310
Single responses 722,680 452,895 113,055 147,560 2,150 5,490 1,360 165
English 556,705 448,475 36,505 65,020 1,815 4,455 330 105
French 84,030 2,615 75,945 4,425 330 0 695 25
Non-official languages 81,940 1,805 600 78,120 0 1,030 335 35
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 2 35 0 0 35 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 15 0 0 15 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 3 81,145 1,700 560 77,495 0 1,015 325 35
African languages, n.i.e. 55 0 0 55 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 40 0 0 40 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 195 0 0 190 0 0 0 0
Albanian 220 0 0 215 0 0 0 0
Amharic 550 0 0 550 0 0 0 0
Arabic 13,300 400 125 12,430 0 140 165 35
Armenian 190 0 0 190 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 65 0 0 65 0 0 0 0
Bengali 1,885 30 0 1,745 0 110 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 160 0 0 165 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 215 0 0 215 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 395 0 0 395 0 0 0 0
Burmese 145 0 0 125 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 3,755 45 0 3,680 0 35 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 7,560 130 0 7,340 0 80 0 0
Creoles 1,885 0 195 1,580 0 0 65 0
Croatian 410 0 0 405 0 0 0 0
Czech 345 0 0 340 0 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dutch 65 0 0 65 0 0 0 0
Estonian 20 0 0 20 0 0 0 0
Finnish 35 0 0 35 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 40 0 0 35 0 0 0 0
German 655 10 0 645 0 0 0 0
Greek 570 0 0 535 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 585 65 0 525 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 80 0 0 70 0 0 0 0
Hindi 1,045 25 0 1,005 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 495 0 0 485 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 290 0 0 270 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 35 0 0 30 0 0 0 0
Italian 2,525 45 0 2,460 0 0 0 0
Japanese 300 0 0 245 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 680 0 0 625 0 25 0 0
Korean 860 0 0 845 0 0 0 0
Kurdish 480 0 0 480 0 0 0 0
Lao 110 0 0 110 0 0 0 0
Latvian 55 0 0 60 0 0 0 0
Lingala 75 0 0 55 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 110 0 0 115 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 25 0 0 25 0 0 0 0
Malay 65 0 0 65 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 165 0 0 170 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 4,565 0 0 4,550 0 0 0 0
Marathi 110 0 0 100 0 0 0 0
Nepali 560 0 0 560 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 55 0 0 45 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 135 0 0 110 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 1,800 45 0 1,675 0 80 0 0
Pashto 425 0 0 425 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 3,095 15 0 3,075 0 0 0 0
Polish 2,075 20 0 2,000 0 45 0 0
Portuguese 1,740 30 0 1,685 0 0 0 0
Romanian 1,075 25 0 1,040 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 325 0 0 295 0 0 0 0
Russian 3,140 15 0 3,095 0 15 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 125 0 0 110 0 0 15 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 85 0 0 90 0 0 0 0
Serbian 870 0 0 850 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 190 0 0 185 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 160 80 0 80 0 0 0 0
Sindhi 40 0 0 35 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 260 0 0 255 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 165 0 0 165 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Slovak 160 0 0 160 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 2,970 50 25 2,880 0 0 0 0
Spanish 4,760 160 70 4,430 0 65 30 0
Swahili 260 0 0 240 0 0 0 0
Swedish 20 0 0 20 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 2,540 80 0 2,330 0 130 0 0
Taiwanese 50 0 0 55 0 0 0 0
Tamil 1,500 50 0 1,415 0 0 0 0
Telugu 115 0 0 100 0 0 0 0
Thai 130 0 0 115 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 335 0 0 335 0 0 0 0
Turkish 790 25 0 755 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 370 0 0 365 0 0 0 0
Urdu 1,630 50 0 1,545 0 35 0 0
Vietnamese 3,715 80 25 3,590 0 20 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 4 765 105 40 590 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 26,845 2,245 3,305 15,995 885 3,205 1,055 145
English and French 4,760 750 2,805 200 880 0 90 0
English and non-official language 19,115 1,465 135 14,115 0 3,165 205 35
French and non-official language 2,370 25 295 1,365 0 0 670 0
English, French and non-official language 610 0 65 315 0 25 90 100

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Footnote 1

For the 2011 National Household Survey (NHS) estimates, the global non-response rate (GNR) is used as an indicator of data quality. This indicator combines complete non-response (household) and partial non-response (question) into a single rate. The value of the GNR is presented to users. A smaller GNR indicates a lower risk of non-response bias and as a result, lower risk of inaccuracy. The threshold used for estimates' suppression is a GNR of 50% or more. For more information, please refer to the National Household Survey User Guide, 2011.

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Footnote 2

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 3

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 4

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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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 National Household Survey, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 99-010-X2011041.

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