Percentage of population with knowledge of English and French by census division, 2016

Percentage of population with knowledge of English and French by census division, 2016 is an open dataset from Statistics Canada with 21 files (HTML, ESRI REST, MXD, WMS, FGDB/GDB); catalogue record updated 2022-01-31. On CanQuery you can follow the original downloads. Files are available in English and French.

This service shows the percentage of population, excluding institutional residents, with knowledge of English and French for Canada by 2016 census division. The data is from the Census Profile, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-316-X2016001. Knowledge of official languages refers to whether the person can conduct a conversation in English only, French only, in both languages or in neither language. For a child who has not yet learned to speak, this includes languages that the child is learning to speak at home. For additional information refer to 'Knowledge of official languages' in the 2016 Census Dictionary. For additional information refer to 'Knowledge of official languages' in the 2016 Census Dictionary. To have a cartographic representation of the ecumene with this socio-economic indicator, it is recommended to add as the first layer, the “NRCan - 2016 population ecumene by census division” web service, accessible in the data resources section below.

Publisher

Statistics Canada

Resources

21

Catalogue metadata updated

2022-01-31