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- Articles and reports: 75-006-X202400100002Description: Using 2021 Census data, this article examines the link between working from home and the languages used at work. It focuses on three Census metropolitan areas (CMAs) of Moncton, Montréal and Ottawa–Gatineau—three regions where both English and French are used widely at work.Release date: 2024-01-31
- Data Visualization: 71-607-X2023031Description: This product offers a visual overview of interprovincial migration by language group in Canada from 1976 to 2021. The language variables showcased in this product are the first official language spoken and mother tongue. It provides information on the number and rate of in-migrants, out-migrants and the net migration of each province and territory from 1976 to 2021. Data can be filtered by province or territory, language variable, language group, and group of migrants.Release date: 2023-11-15
- Stats in brief: 98-200-X2021017Description: This Census in Brief article presents results on migration between provinces and regions by language, with special focus on the situation of official language minority populations. The analysis examines internal migration flows—in other words, people who moved within Canada—between two censuses, as well as the cumulative effects of these migrations in the long run, taking into account the province of birth.Release date: 2023-11-15
- Articles and reports: 89-657-X2023004Description: This technical note discusses the choice of the population of reference (employed persons or persons with recent work experience) for census statistics on language of work. It presents the rationale behind Statistics Canada’s change of approach for the dissemination of 2021 Census data.Release date: 2023-03-21
- Articles and reports: 89-657-X2023007Description: A series of infographics produced for Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED), presenting statistics on the number and characteristics of official language minority businesses and owners, for the regions represented by each of Canada's Regional Development Agencies (RDA).Release date: 2023-03-21
- Stats in brief: 98-200-X2021010Description:
This Census in Brief article presents 2021 Census results related to language of work, including analyses of trends over time and of differences between various groups of workers, for selected regions.
Release date: 2022-11-30 - Stats in brief: 11-627-M2022037Description:
This infographic is about the definition of official language minority (OLM) businesses. Consideration of two factors is important: 1) which business owners are members of official language minorities and 2) what type of ownership should be considered. The infographic describes how the number of official language minority businesses in Canada varies depending on the definitions used, and how the definitions used affect certain characteristics of OLM owners and businesses.
Release date: 2022-07-21 - Stats in brief: 11-627-M2022038Description:
This infographic describes the characteristics of official language minority businesses and owners. This includes demographic and income information, as well as distribution by industry.
Release date: 2022-07-21 - Stats in brief: 11-627-M2021078Description:
This infographic visually presents information on the overqualification of English- and French-speaking immigrant and non-immigrant university graduates aged 25 to 64 in the Montréal Census Metropolitan Area (CMA). It also presents overqualification rates by place where the highest certificate, diploma or degree was obtained, and by population groups designated as visible minorities. This infographic is based on data from the 2016 Census of Population.
Release date: 2022-02-01 - Articles and reports: 89-657-X2021005Description:
This booklet presents information on the population of healthcare workers who can speak or use English in Quebec and French in the rest of Canada. The selected indicators include rates of knowledge and use of the minority language at work as well as healthcare workers' geographic distribution, aging, immigration, interprovincial mobility and education characteristics. Data are taken from the Census of Population (2001, 2006 and 2016), National Household Survey (2011) and in some cases the Education and Labour Market Longitudinal Platform (ELMLP).
Release date: 2021-05-10
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- Data Visualization: 71-607-X2023031Description: This product offers a visual overview of interprovincial migration by language group in Canada from 1976 to 2021. The language variables showcased in this product are the first official language spoken and mother tongue. It provides information on the number and rate of in-migrants, out-migrants and the net migration of each province and territory from 1976 to 2021. Data can be filtered by province or territory, language variable, language group, and group of migrants.Release date: 2023-11-15
- Table: 89-641-XDescription:
This report concerns French-language immigration outside Quebec and its recent evolution, focusing on its numbers, its geographic distribution and its demographic and social characteristics. This statistical portrait will mainly use the concept of first official language spoken (FOLS), which is now widely used as a criterion for a person's linguistic identity in studies on official language minorities. The Francophone immigrant population outside Quebec is comprised of two groups: those who have only French as their first official language spoken (French FOLS immigrants) and those who have both French and English (French-English FOLS immigrants).
The Francophone immigrant population living outside Quebec is fairly small, both in absolute numbers and in relation to either the French-speaking population or the immigrant population as a whole. However, the relative weight of Francophone immigrants within the French-speaking population has increased, going from 6.2% to 10% between 1991 and 2006, while their weight within the overall immigrant population has varied more moderately, and in 2006 it was, at most, less than 2%.
The majority of Francophone immigrants outside Quebec 70% are concentrated in Ontario. Furthermore, two-thirds of French-speaking immigrants live in three metropolitan areas: Toronto, Ottawa and Vancouver. In Canada outside Quebec, French-English FOLS immigrants, numbering 76,100 in the 2006 Census, are slightly more numerous than French FOLS immigrants, who number 60,900. In some cities, especially Toronto, Vancouver and Calgary, this characteristic is more prevalent, with French-English FOLS immigrants outnumbering their French FOLS counterparts by almost two to one. The demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of these two FOLS groups are sometimes quite different.
International immigration to Canada has undergone a rapid transformation in recent decades. Immigrants of European origin have tended to give way to immigrants from Asia, Africa and Latin America. In this regard, French FOLS immigrants stand out from other immigrants in that a large proportion of them come from Africa. One of the consequences of this trend has been to change the composition of the French FOLS immigrant population; in 2006, Blacks made up 26% of that population, compared to 5% of the other two immigrant groups.
Release date: 2010-04-06 - 3. Using Languages at Work in Canada, 2006 Census ArchivedTable: 97-555-X2006051Description:
As with the 2001 Census, the 2006 Census has made it possible to collect data on languages used at work. The statistical analysis of these data aims to measure the use of English, French and non-official languages in the labour market across the country. Particular attention is paid to allophone immigrant workers and to anglophone and francophone workers in Quebec, in order to establish whether English or French predominates on the job. Moreover, we also compare data on mother tongue, home language and the use of languages at work. The use of languages other than English or French by allophones in the metropolitan areas of Toronto, Montréal and Vancouver is also discussed. In addition, analysis will cover the use of French at work by Francophones living outside Quebec. The use of French at work by workers employed in the Montréal metropolitan area is compared with the use of French at home by workers residing in that same area.
Release date: 2008-03-11 - 4. Minorities Speak Up: Results of the Survey on the Vitality of Official-Language Minorities ArchivedTable: 91-548-XDescription:
This survey pertains to the vitality of Canada's official-language minorities, namely anglophones in Quebec and francophones outside of Quebec. The information collected allows for a more in-depth understanding of the current situation of individuals who belong to these groups on subjects as diverse as instruction in the language of the minority or access to different services in the language of the minority (i.e., health care), as well as language practices both at home and outside of the home. Note to readers
The following section has been modified as of May 27, 2008:Section 5.1.3 Reasons for choosing the school attended:Percentages in paragraphs 3 and 4Edition 2006 was previously released on December 11, 2007.
Release date: 2007-12-11 - 5. The Evolving Linguistic Portrait, 2006 Census ArchivedTable: 97-555-X2006001Description:
This theme deals with Canadians' mother tongue and language spoken at home, as well as with their knowledge of English and French. Data from the 2006 Census show, despite an increasingly multilingual Canadian society, that linguistic duality persists. In addition, the theme covers the evolution of English-French bilingualism in the country.
Release date: 2007-12-04
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- Articles and reports: 75-006-X202400100002Description: Using 2021 Census data, this article examines the link between working from home and the languages used at work. It focuses on three Census metropolitan areas (CMAs) of Moncton, Montréal and Ottawa–Gatineau—three regions where both English and French are used widely at work.Release date: 2024-01-31
- Stats in brief: 98-200-X2021017Description: This Census in Brief article presents results on migration between provinces and regions by language, with special focus on the situation of official language minority populations. The analysis examines internal migration flows—in other words, people who moved within Canada—between two censuses, as well as the cumulative effects of these migrations in the long run, taking into account the province of birth.Release date: 2023-11-15
- Articles and reports: 89-657-X2023004Description: This technical note discusses the choice of the population of reference (employed persons or persons with recent work experience) for census statistics on language of work. It presents the rationale behind Statistics Canada’s change of approach for the dissemination of 2021 Census data.Release date: 2023-03-21
- Articles and reports: 89-657-X2023007Description: A series of infographics produced for Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED), presenting statistics on the number and characteristics of official language minority businesses and owners, for the regions represented by each of Canada's Regional Development Agencies (RDA).Release date: 2023-03-21
- Stats in brief: 98-200-X2021010Description:
This Census in Brief article presents 2021 Census results related to language of work, including analyses of trends over time and of differences between various groups of workers, for selected regions.
Release date: 2022-11-30 - Stats in brief: 11-627-M2022037Description:
This infographic is about the definition of official language minority (OLM) businesses. Consideration of two factors is important: 1) which business owners are members of official language minorities and 2) what type of ownership should be considered. The infographic describes how the number of official language minority businesses in Canada varies depending on the definitions used, and how the definitions used affect certain characteristics of OLM owners and businesses.
Release date: 2022-07-21 - Stats in brief: 11-627-M2022038Description:
This infographic describes the characteristics of official language minority businesses and owners. This includes demographic and income information, as well as distribution by industry.
Release date: 2022-07-21 - Stats in brief: 11-627-M2021078Description:
This infographic visually presents information on the overqualification of English- and French-speaking immigrant and non-immigrant university graduates aged 25 to 64 in the Montréal Census Metropolitan Area (CMA). It also presents overqualification rates by place where the highest certificate, diploma or degree was obtained, and by population groups designated as visible minorities. This infographic is based on data from the 2016 Census of Population.
Release date: 2022-02-01 - Articles and reports: 89-657-X2021005Description:
This booklet presents information on the population of healthcare workers who can speak or use English in Quebec and French in the rest of Canada. The selected indicators include rates of knowledge and use of the minority language at work as well as healthcare workers' geographic distribution, aging, immigration, interprovincial mobility and education characteristics. Data are taken from the Census of Population (2001, 2006 and 2016), National Household Survey (2011) and in some cases the Education and Labour Market Longitudinal Platform (ELMLP).
Release date: 2021-05-10 - Articles and reports: 98-20-00022020003Description:
This document deals with the addition of questions to the 2021 Census questionnaire about minority language educational rights. Section 23 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees certain educational rights to French-speaking minorities outside Quebec and English-speaking minorities in Quebec. This document presents a detailed description of the activities and analyses carried out by Statistics Canada to meet the need for data on this population.
Release date: 2020-07-20
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