Data tables, 2016 Census

Language Used at Work (263), Single and multiple responses of language used at work (3), Mother Tongue (8) and Age (10) for the Population Aged 15 Years and Over Who Worked Since 2015, in Private Households of Canada, Provinces and Territories, Census Divisions and Census Subdivisions, 2016 Census - 25% Sample Data

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This table details language used at work , single and multiple responses of language used at work , mother tongue and age for the population aged 15 years and over who worked since 2015, in private households in Laval
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Language used at work (263) Single and multiple responses of language used at work (3)
Total - Single and multiple responses of language used at workFootnote 1 Single responses of language used at workFootnote 2 Multiple responses of language used at workFootnote 3
Total - Language used at workFootnote 4 235,285 102,000 133,285
Official languages 234,430 101,180 133,250
English 141,210 10,670 130,545
French 221,730 90,510 131,220
Non-official languages 11,695 820 10,875
Aboriginal languages 25 0 25
Algonquian languages 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0
Montagnais (Innu) 0 0 0
Moose Cree 0 0 0
Naskapi 0 0 0
Northern East Cree 0 0 0
Plains Cree 0 0 0
Southern East Cree 0 0 0
Swampy Cree 0 0 0
Woods Cree 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 10
Eastern Algonquian languages 0 0 0
Malecite 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0
Ottawa (Odawa) 0 0 0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Athabaskan languages 0 0 0
Northern Athabaskan languages 0 0 0
Babine (Wetsuwet'en) 0 0 0
Beaver 0 0 0
Carrier 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 0 0
Dene 0 0 0
Dogrib (Tlicho) 0 0 0
Gwich'in 0 0 0
Sarsi (Sarcee) 0 0 0
Sekani 0 0 0
Slavey-Hare languages 0 0 0
North Slavey (Hare) 0 0 0
South Slavey 0 0 0
Slavey, n.o.s. 0 0 0
Tahltan languages 0 0 0
Kaska (Nahani) 0 0 0
Tahltan 0 0 0
Tutchone languages 0 0 0
Northern Tutchone 0 0 0
Southern Tutchone 0 0 0
Athabaskan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Haida 0 0 0
Inuit languages 15 0 15
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0
Inuktitut 15 0 15
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages 0 0 0
Cayuga 0 0 0
Mohawk 0 0 0
Oneida 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Kutenai 0 0 0
Michif 0 0 0
Salish languages 0 0 0
Comox 0 0 0
Halkomelem 0 0 0
Lillooet 0 0 0
Okanagan 0 0 0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 0 0 0
Squamish 0 0 0
Straits 0 0 0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 0 0 0
Salish languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Siouan languages 0 0 10
Dakota 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0
Siouan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Tlingit 0 0 0
Tsimshian languages 0 0 0
Gitxsan (Gitksan) 0 0 0
Nisga'a 0 0 0
Tsimshian 0 0 0
Wakashan languages 0 0 0
Haisla 0 0 0
Heiltsuk 0 0 0
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala) 0 0 0
Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka) 0 0 0
Wakashan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.o.s. 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 11,675 820 10,850
Afro-Asiatic languages 2,970 225 2,750
Berber languages 15 0 15
Kabyle 10 0 10
Berber languages, n.i.e. 10 0 10
Cushitic languages 0 0 0
Bilen 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Semitic languages 2,955 220 2,735
Amharic 0 0 0
Arabic 2,930 210 2,720
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0
Hebrew 25 10 15
Maltese 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 10 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 410 95 320
Khmer (Cambodian) 160 30 130
Vietnamese 255 65 190
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 25 0 20
Bikol 0 0 0
Cebuano 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 10 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 20 0 15
Waray-Waray 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Creole languages 490 30 465
Haitian Creole 10 0 10
Creole, n.o.s. 480 25 455
Creole languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 80 0 75
Kannada 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0
Tamil 85 10 75
Telugu 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 7,055 355 6,700
Albanian 10 10 10
Armenian 550 50 495
Balto-Slavic languages 255 10 240
Baltic languages 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0
Slavic languages 250 15 240
Belarusan 0 0 0
Bosnian 10 0 0
Bulgarian 20 0 20
Croatian 15 0 10
Czech 10 0 10
Macedonian 0 0 0
Polish 30 10 25
Russian 160 10 150
Serbian 10 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 0 0 0
Ukrainian 15 0 10
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Celtic languages 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Germanic languages 50 0 45
Afrikaans 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0
Dutch 0 0 10
Frisian 0 0 0
German 45 0 40
Icelandic 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 10
Swedish 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Greek 1,455 60 1,390
Indo-Iranian languages 615 90 525
Indo-Aryan languages 470 45 430
Bengali 20 0 20
Gujarati 0 0 0
Hindi 30 0 25
Kashmiri 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 335 45 295
Sindhi 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0
Urdu 95 0 95
Iranian languages 140 45 100
Kurdish 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 140 45 100
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 4,125 135 3,995
Catalan 0 0 0
Italian 1,255 20 1,240
Portuguese 320 20 295
Romanian 305 25 280
Spanish 2,275 65 2,210
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Japanese 10 0 15
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0
Korean 10 0 10
Mongolic languages 10 0 10
Mongolian 0 0 10
Niger-Congo languages 45 10 35
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0
Bamanankan 10 0 10
Edo 0 0 0
Ewe 0 0 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0
Igbo 0 0 0
Lingala 15 0 15
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 0 0 0
Shona 0 0 0
Swahili 10 10 0
Wolof 0 0 10
Yoruba 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 0 0 0
Dinka 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Sign languages 90 10 80
American Sign Language 10 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 55 10 50
Sign languages, n.i.e 30 0 30
Sino-Tibetan languages 405 80 325
Chinese languages 410 80 330
Cantonese 150 25 125
Hakka 0 0 0
Mandarin 220 40 180
Min Dong 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 45 15 30
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0
Karenic languages 0 0 0
Tibetan 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 80 0 75
Lao 80 0 75
Thai 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0
Turkic languages 50 10 45
Azerbaijani 0 0 0
Turkish 55 10 45
Uyghur 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Uralic languages 15 10 15
Estonian 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0
Hungarian 10 0 10
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

The category 'Total - Single and multiple responses of language used at work' indicates the number of respondents who reported each language, either as their only response, or in combination with another language. Total responses represent the sum of single and multiple responses of the language used at work received in the census.

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Footnote 2

A single response to the language used at work occurs when a respondent provides one language only.

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Footnote 3

A multiple response to the language used at work occurs when a respondent provides two or more languages.

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Footnote 4

This is a total population count. The sum of the languages in this table is greater than the total population count because a person may report more than one language in the census.

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n.i.e. = not included elsewhere
n.o.s. = not otherwise specified

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Refers to the language used at work, as reported on May 10, 2016 by the individuals aged 15 years and over who worked since January 1, 2015.

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Data quality note(s) – Laval

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Long-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), long-form census questionnaire: 3.0%.
  • Long-form income data quality flag
    Default. Data quality index showing a long-form income non-response rate lower than 10%.

Source: Statistics Canada, 2016 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-400-X2016095.

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