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2011 National Household Survey: Data tables

Tabulation: Detailed Mother Tongue (158), Generation Status (4), Knowledge of Official Languages (5), Number of Non-Official Languages Spoken (5), Age Groups (10) and Sex (3) for the Population in Private Households of Canada, Provinces and Territories, 2011 National Household Survey

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This table details detailed mother tongue , generation status , knowledge of official languages , number of non-official languages spoken , age groups and sex for the population in private households in Nunavut
Global non-response rate (GNR)Footnote 1 = 25.2 %
Detailed mother tongue (158) Generation status (4)
Total - Generation status First generationFootnote 2 Second generationFootnote 3 Third generation or moreFootnote 4
Total - Detailed mother tongue 31,700 690 700 30,305
Single responses 31,370 685 690 29,990
English 8,890 285 510 8,100
French 410 15 15 385
Non-official languages 22,065 385 165 21,520
Aboriginal languages 21,610 0 115 21,495
Romance languages 50 40 10 0
Italian 0 0 0 0
Portuguese 0 0 0 0
Romanian 10 10 0 0
Spanish 25 20 10 0
Catalan 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 50 35 10 0
Dutch 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0
German 30 20 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 10 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 10 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 0 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 0 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 35 25 10 0
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Polish 10 10 0 0
Russian 10 10 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Greek 0 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 10 10 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 10 10 0 0
Turkic languages 0 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 25 20 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 20 20 10 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 15 10 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 60 55 10 0
Indo-Aryan languages 60 50 0 0
Bengali 10 10 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hindi 20 20 0 0
Konkani 10 10 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 0 10 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0
Urdu 10 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 0 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 0 10 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Japanese 0 0 0 0
Korean 10 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 45 40 10 0
Chinese languages 45 40 10 0
Cantonese 10 10 0 0
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 15 10 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 20 15 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 120 120 0 0
Bisayan languages 15 15 0 0
Ilocano 10 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 100 95 0 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 15 15 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 10 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Shona 0 0 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0
Igbo 0 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0
Ewe 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Non-verbal languages 10 0 0 10
American Sign Language 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 0 0 10
Other languages 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 330 10 10 315
English and French 10 0 0 10
English and non-official language 310 10 10 300
French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
English, French and non-official language 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

'First generation' includes persons who were born outside Canada. For the most part, these are people who are now, or have ever been, immigrants to Canada.

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Footnote 3

'Second generation' includes persons who were born in Canada and had at least one parent born outside Canada. For the most part, these are the children of immigrants.

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Footnote 4

'Third generation or more' includes persons who were born in Canada with both parents born in Canada.

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 National Household Survey, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 99-010-X2011034.

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