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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 Edmonton
Global non-response rate (GNR)Footnote 1 = 25.4 %
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 935,285 682,545 22,060 216,610 890 12,545 515 115
Single responses 907,945 680,340 21,580 197,445 785 7,350 340 100
English 793,040 677,235 15,245 93,700 755 5,840 175 95
French 6,955 290 6,130 425 30 0 75 0
Non-official languages 107,950 2,815 205 103,320 0 1,510 95 0
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 2 225 10 0 215 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 220 10 0 205 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 3 106,675 2,725 205 102,220 0 1,455 60 0
African languages, n.i.e. 460 0 0 465 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 150 0 0 140 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 170 10 0 160 0 0 0 0
Albanian 100 0 0 95 0 0 0 0
Amharic 885 0 0 885 0 0 0 0
Arabic 4,645 120 50 4,365 0 75 25 0
Armenian 95 0 0 90 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 175 0 0 175 0 0 0 0
Bengali 765 25 0 705 0 35 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 360 65 0 295 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 310 0 0 310 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 250 0 0 250 0 0 0 0
Burmese 100 0 0 95 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 9,630 235 0 9,250 0 140 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 10,835 175 0 10,635 0 20 0 0
Creoles 345 70 0 270 0 0 0 0
Croatian 505 0 0 505 0 0 0 0
Czech 180 0 0 180 0 0 0 0
Danish 45 0 0 45 0 0 0 0
Dutch 185 0 0 180 0 0 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 20 0 0 20 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 75 0 0 75 0 0 0 0
German 1,910 40 0 1,870 0 0 0 0
Greek 175 0 0 170 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 1,910 0 0 1,860 0 30 0 0
Hakka 65 0 0 60 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 160 25 0 140 0 0 0 0
Hindi 2,610 70 0 2,505 0 35 0 0
Hungarian 400 0 0 390 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 495 0 0 445 0 50 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 110 0 0 105 0 0 0 0
Italian 1,520 105 0 1,410 0 0 0 0
Japanese 250 0 0 245 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 525 0 0 485 0 0 0 0
Korean 2,400 35 0 2,350 0 0 0 0
Kurdish 315 0 0 310 0 0 0 0
Lao 200 0 0 195 0 0 0 0
Latvian 75 0 0 75 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 30 0 0 30 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 55 0 0 55 0 0 0 0
Malay 45 0 0 40 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 500 0 0 485 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 4,815 35 0 4,745 0 35 0 0
Marathi 90 0 0 90 0 0 0 0
Nepali 245 0 0 240 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 115 0 0 110 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 280 0 0 280 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 11,360 200 0 11,045 0 120 0 0
Pashto 440 0 0 440 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 2,495 0 0 2,470 0 0 0 0
Polish 3,365 65 0 3,280 0 25 0 0
Portuguese 1,120 0 0 1,110 0 0 0 0
Romanian 925 0 0 905 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 45 0 0 30 0 0 0 0
Russian 2,040 40 0 1,980 0 30 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 115 0 0 115 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 35 0 0 35 0 0 0 0
Serbian 710 0 0 705 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 130 0 0 130 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 125 0 0 115 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 130 40 0 85 0 0 0 0
Sindhi 235 0 0 230 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 450 40 0 370 0 40 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 200 0 0 200 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 60 0 0 60 0 0 0 0
Slovak 135 0 0 135 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 1,765 65 0 1,675 0 20 0 0
Spanish 6,440 235 20 6,125 0 55 0 0
Swahili 275 0 75 180 0 0 0 0
Swedish 25 0 0 25 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 13,355 555 0 12,260 0 520 0 0
Taiwanese 55 0 0 55 0 0 0 0
Tamil 560 45 0 495 0 15 0 0
Telugu 170 0 0 160 0 0 0 0
Thai 105 0 0 110 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 315 0 0 300 0 0 0 0
Turkish 595 0 0 575 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 1,695 35 0 1,660 0 0 0 0
Urdu 2,430 20 0 2,310 0 95 0 0
Vietnamese 5,185 175 0 4,940 0 55 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 4 1,050 80 0 880 0 50 0 0
Multiple responses 27,335 2,200 485 19,165 105 5,195 175 15
English and French 735 140 380 70 105 0 0 0
English and non-official language 26,375 2,055 80 18,995 0 5,165 65 15
French and non-official language 170 0 15 75 0 0 75 0
English, French and non-official language 60 0 0 30 0 0 25 0

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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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