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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 Kitchener - Cambridge - Waterloo
Global non-response rate (GNR)Footnote 1 = 23.4 %
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 383,635 281,600 5,710 92,435 250 3,490 115 25
Single responses 373,480 280,975 5,620 84,250 235 2,300 70 25
English 324,445 280,095 4,370 37,745 220 1,975 30 0
French 1,425 100 1,225 65 0 0 20 0
Non-official languages 47,610 785 25 46,440 0 325 25 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 47,145 750 25 46,020 0 325 25 0
African languages, n.i.e. 165 0 0 165 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 25 0 0 25 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 65 0 0 70 0 0 0 0
Albanian 325 0 0 315 0 0 0 0
Amharic 230 0 0 230 0 0 0 0
Arabic 1,985 0 0 1,965 0 0 0 0
Armenian 130 0 0 135 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 25 0 0 20 0 0 0 0
Bengali 265 0 0 255 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 210 0 0 215 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 50 0 0 45 0 0 0 0
Burmese 55 0 0 55 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 970 40 0 920 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 3,260 40 0 3,210 0 15 0 0
Creoles 45 0 0 50 0 0 0 0
Croatian 1,135 0 0 1,140 0 0 0 0
Czech 170 0 0 175 0 0 0 0
Danish 15 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
Dutch 295 0 0 280 0 0 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 25 0 0 30 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
German 2,300 80 0 2,220 0 0 0 0
Greek 515 20 0 495 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 1,350 0 0 1,335 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hindi 375 55 0 310 0 15 0 0
Hungarian 380 0 0 380 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 40 0 0 35 0 0 0 0
Italian 545 0 0 535 0 0 0 0
Japanese 110 0 0 105 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 130 0 0 125 0 0 0 0
Korean 860 15 0 835 0 0 0 0
Kurdish 250 0 0 250 0 0 0 0
Lao 715 0 0 700 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 20 0 0 20 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 45 0 0 45 0 0 0 0
Malay 25 0 0 25 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 135 0 0 125 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 2,005 0 0 1,970 0 0 0 0
Marathi 50 0 0 55 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 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) 1,980 30 0 1,920 0 30 0 0
Pashto 280 0 0 275 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 1,635 30 0 1,600 0 10 0 0
Polish 2,515 0 0 2,510 0 0 0 0
Portuguese 4,635 75 0 4,525 0 35 0 0
Romanian 2,350 15 0 2,300 0 30 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Russian 930 0 0 915 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 280 0 0 275 0 0 0 0
Serbian 3,345 0 0 3,320 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 190 0 0 190 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 40 15 0 20 0 0 0 0
Sindhi 70 0 0 60 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 70 0 0 70 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 170 0 0 170 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 50 0 0 50 0 0 0 0
Slovak 180 0 0 175 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 40 0 0 40 0 0 0 0
Somali 320 0 0 320 0 0 0 0
Spanish 3,805 60 0 3,730 0 20 0 0
Swahili 15 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
Swedish 70 0 0 65 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 590 0 0 570 0 15 0 0
Taiwanese 10 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
Tamil 350 0 0 310 0 0 0 0
Telugu 125 0 0 100 0 0 0 0
Thai 45 0 0 50 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 135 0 0 135 0 0 0 0
Turkish 200 0 0 200 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 190 0 0 190 0 0 0 0
Urdu 1,305 25 0 1,260 0 20 0 0
Vietnamese 1,830 105 0 1,715 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 4 460 30 0 420 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 10,155 625 95 8,185 10 1,190 40 0
English and French 105 10 85 0 0 0 0 0
English and non-official language 9,950 610 0 8,135 0 1,180 15 0
French and non-official language 35 0 0 25 0 0 0 0
English, French and non-official language 60 0 0 25 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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