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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 Halifax
Global non-response rate (GNR)Footnote 1 = 24.9 %
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 325,050 293,745 9,075 20,050 320 1,595 210 50
Single responses 322,445 293,540 9,000 18,285 300 1,130 145 50
English 308,930 293,070 6,455 8,205 265 815 60 45
French 2,915 220 2,515 130 35 0 0 0
Non-official languages 10,595 240 25 9,950 0 300 70 0
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 2 0 0 0 0 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 0 0 0 0 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 10,440 245 0 9,815 0 305 70 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 25 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Amharic 35 0 0 35 0 0 0 0
Arabic 2,600 70 0 2,270 0 185 70 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bengali 195 0 0 200 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 60 0 0 60 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 50 0 0 45 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 45 0 0 30 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 310 0 0 310 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 1,230 20 0 1,210 0 0 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Croatian 60 0 0 60 0 0 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dutch 55 0 0 55 0 0 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
German 215 0 0 210 0 0 0 0
Greek 145 0 0 135 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 55 0 0 55 0 0 0 0
Hindi 170 0 0 145 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 35 0 0 30 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 15 0 0 15 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 160 0 0 165 0 0 0 0
Japanese 50 0 0 40 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 620 0 0 615 0 0 0 0
Kurdish 20 0 0 25 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 55 0 0 55 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 580 0 0 560 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Nepali 170 0 0 160 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 215 0 0 215 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 765 0 0 700 0 60 0 0
Polish 175 0 0 175 0 0 0 0
Portuguese 35 0 0 40 0 0 0 0
Romanian 50 0 0 50 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Russian 385 0 0 375 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Serbian 40 0 0 35 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 45 0 0 45 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 60 25 0 35 0 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 85 0 0 85 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Spanish 580 25 0 550 0 0 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 205 0 0 200 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 70 0 0 75 0 0 0 0
Tamil 125 0 0 120 0 0 0 0
Telugu 35 0 0 30 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 95 0 0 90 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 20 0 0 15 0 0 0 0
Urdu 140 0 0 140 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 200 0 0 185 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 4 150 0 0 135 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 2,605 210 80 1,765 20 465 60 0
English and French 135 0 80 0 25 0 0 0
English and non-official language 2,435 190 0 1,745 0 460 35 0
French and non-official language 35 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
English, French and non-official language 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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Footnote(s)

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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