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- Articles and reports: 41-20-00022026001Description: This report draws on data from the 2021 Census of Population, alongside previous census cycles to clarify the characteristics of the “silent speakers” of Indigenous languages in Canada. This term refers to those who have an Indigenous mother tongue that they still understand but can no longer speak well enough to conduct a conversation. Silent speakers thus represent a valuable reservoir of cultural and linguistic knowledge. By examining census data across multiple years, this study aims to illuminate the demographic makeup, geographic distribution, and long-term trends of this pivotal group.Release date: 2026-06-18
- Articles and reports: 41-20-00022026002Description: This report draws on data from the 2021 Census of Population, alongside previous census cycles to identify changes over time in the linguistic profile of Indigenous language speakers living in a Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) or Census Agglomeration (CA). In addition, supplementary statistics using the 2022 Indigenous Peoples Survey, which asks questions on the importance of Indigenous languages, were also included. Finally, 12 CMAs and CAs were selected for focused analysis, in order to highlight the specific linguistic communities in these areas.Release date: 2026-06-18
- Journals and periodicals: 75-006-XGeography: CanadaDescription: This publication brings together and analyzes a wide range of data sources in order to provide information on various aspects of Canadian society, including labour, income, education, social, and demographic issues, that affect the lives of Canadians.Release date: 2026-06-17
- Journals and periodicals: 89-657-XDescription: This thematic series groups different statistical products related to ethnicity, languages, and immigration. It features analytical documents of varying scopes, such as population profiles, reference materials, data products (including tables and factsheets), among other document types.Release date: 2026-06-02
- Stats in brief: 11-001-X202608639604Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2026-03-27
- Articles and reports: 89-657-X2026003Description: This study provides an overview of how minority official languages are integrated into child care services across Canada, using data from three sources. Data from the 2022 Survey on the Official Language Minority Population (SOLMP) provides information on the participation in minority official language child care among children eligible for instruction in the minority official language and their educational pathways from early childhood to primary school. Data from the 2022 Canadian Survey on the Provision of Child Care Services (CSPCCS) is used to highlight the use of minority official languages within child care facilities, while data from the 2021 Census of Population offers insights into language use among child care workers.Release date: 2026-03-27
- Table: 42-10-0101-01Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: OccasionalDescription: Official language of daycare and reasons for attending, by elementary school language and type of program, age group and gender, for Canada, Quebec, Canada outside Quebec, by provinces and select regions, among sub-populations of children in a minority official language situation, 2022.Release date: 2026-03-27
- Table: 42-10-0102-01Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: OccasionalDescription: Preference for daycare in the minority official language, by elementary school language and type of program, age group and gender, for Canada, Quebec, Canada outside Quebec, by provinces and select regions, among sub-populations of children in a minority official language situation, 2022.Release date: 2026-03-27
- Table: 15-10-0043-01Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory, Census metropolitan area, Census metropolitan area partFrequency: OccasionalDescription: Frequency of using the minority official language in public, by language in which the person is most at ease to speak, ease of using the minority language in the community, official languages spoken at home, gender, age group and immigrant status, among adults in the official language minority population, 2022.Release date: 2026-03-20
- Table: 15-10-0044-01Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory, Census metropolitan area, Census metropolitan area partFrequency: OccasionalDescription: Language spoken in public in various situations, by official language in which the person is most at ease to speak, official languages spoken at home, gender, age and immigrant status, among adults in the official language minority population, 2022.Release date: 2026-03-20
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- Table: 98-10-0270-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: OccasionalUniverse: Population in private households, 2021 Census — 25% Sample dataVariable list: Knowledge of Indigenous languages (97), Single and multiple knowledge of languages responses (3), Indigenous identity (9), Residence by Indigenous geography (10), Indigenous mother tongue (11), Age (12), Statistics (3)Description: Knowledge of Indigenous languages by single and multiple knowledge of languages responses, Indigenous identity, Indigenous mother tongue, residence by Indigenous geography and age for the population in private households.Release date: 2022-09-21
- Table: 98-10-0272-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: OccasionalUniverse: Population in private households, 2021 Census — 25% Sample dataVariable list: Indigenous mother tongue (98), Single and multiple mother tongue responses (3), Indigenous identity (9), Registered or Treaty Indian status (3), Residence by Indigenous geography (10), Age (12), Statistics (3)Description: Indigenous mother tongue by single and multiple mother tongue responses, Indigenous identity, Registered or Treaty Indian status, residence by Indigenous geography and age for the population in private households.Release date: 2022-09-21
- Table: 98-10-0273-01Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Census metropolitan area, Census agglomeration, Census metropolitan area part, Census agglomeration partFrequency: OccasionalUniverse: Population in private households, 2021 Census — 25% Sample dataVariable list: Indigenous mother tongue (98), Single and multiple mother tongue responses (3), Indigenous identity (9), Registered or Treaty Indian status (3), Age (12), Statistics (3)Description: Indigenous mother tongue by single and multiple mother tongue responses, Indigenous identity, Registered or Treaty Indian status and age for the population in private households.Release date: 2022-09-21
- Table: 98-10-0274-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: OccasionalUniverse: Population in private households, 2021 Census — 25% Sample dataVariable list: Indigenous language spoken at home (98), Single and multiple responses of language spoken at home (3), Indigenous identity (9), Registered or Treaty Indian status (3), Residence by Indigenous geography (10), Age (12), Statistics (3)Description: Indigenous language spoken at home by single and multiple responses of language spoken at home, Indigenous identity, registered or Treaty Indian status, residence by Indigenous geography and age for the population in private households.Release date: 2022-09-21
- Table: 98-10-0275-01Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Census metropolitan area, Census agglomeration, Census metropolitan area part, Census agglomeration partFrequency: OccasionalUniverse: Population in private households, 2021 Census — 25% Sample dataVariable list: Indigenous language spoken at home (98), Single and multiple responses of language spoken at home (3), Indigenous identity (9), Registered or Treaty Indian status (3), Age (12), Statistics (3)Description: Indigenous language spoken at home by single and multiple responses of language spoken at home, Indigenous identity, registered or Treaty Indian status and age for the population in private households.Release date: 2022-09-21
- Table: 33-10-0549-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: OccasionalDescription: Languages used by the business or organization in providing services or performing activities over the last 12 months, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), business employment size, type of business, business activity and majority ownership, third quarter of 2022.Release date: 2022-08-30
- Table: 33-10-0550-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: OccasionalDescription:
Percentage of employees required to be bilingual in English and French, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), business employment size, type of business, business activity and majority ownership, third quarter of 2022.
Release date: 2022-08-30 - Data Visualization: 98-505-X2021003Description:
This interactive tree map shows the proportion of the population by mother tongue. You can search by one of two criteria: region or language.
Release date: 2022-08-17 - Table: 98-10-0165-01Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Census subdivision, Census metropolitan area, Census agglomerationFrequency: OccasionalUniverse: Total population, including institutional residents and occupied private dwellings, 2021 census — 100% dataVariable list: Short-form data quality indicators (24)Description: Data on short-form data quality indicators for 2021 Census, Canada, provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas, census agglomerations and census subdivisions.Release date: 2022-08-17
- Table: 98-10-0166-01Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Census division, Census subdivisionFrequency: OccasionalUniverse: Total population, including institutional residents and occupied private dwellings, 2021 census — 100% dataVariable list: Short-form data quality indicators (24)Description: Data on short-form data quality indicators for 2021 Census, Canada, provinces and territories, census divisions and census subdivisions.Release date: 2022-08-17
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- Stats in brief: 11-001-X202431238208Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2024-11-07
- Articles and reports: 89-657-X2024007Geography: Province or territoryDescription: This report provides information on the knowledge and use of Inuktitut, Inuinnaqtun, English and French in Nunavut, based on data from the 2021 Census of Population and the 2017 Aboriginal Peoples Survey.Release date: 2024-11-07
- Stats in brief: 11-001-X202428937710Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2024-10-15
- Articles and reports: 89-657-X2024006Description: This article looks at how the unique circumstances of 2021 that drove the increase in working from home affected English- and French-speaking workers differently in the Montréal metropolitan area and how commuting flows in this region differ by language profile.Release date: 2024-10-15
- Stats in brief: 11-001-X202422037988Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2024-08-07
- Articles and reports: 89-657-X2024004Description: This report explores the statistical and analytical potential of information on the language-related characteristics of occupations provided by the Occupational and Skills Information System (OaSIS). OaSIS is an information system developed by Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) which provides detailed information on occupations. The report identifies and explores a series of descriptors of occupations related to skills, work activities and work contexts that have a language- or communication-related aspect. These descriptors of occupations are used to enrich data from the 2021 Census.Release date: 2024-08-07
- 47. Retention and recruitment of young skilled minority official language speakers in Canadian provincesArticles and reports: 36-28-0001202400600002Description: Retaining and recruiting young skilled workers are important for any community, but perhaps even more so for communities where the main language spoken is a minority official language. This article informs the issue by calculating the share of youth who grew up in a province and eventually obtained a postsecondary education, but who left to work in another part of the country (termed “skill loss”). Likewise, the article also looks at young postsecondary graduates who entered a province to work, as a share of that province’s initial population of homegrown young postsecondary graduates (termed “skill gain”).Release date: 2024-06-26
- Articles and reports: 89-657-X2024003Description: This series of regional maps shows the number of school-aged children eligible to primary and secondary instruction in English in Quebec by census subdivision, and the proportion of these children who attend or have attended an English-language school in Canada. All the information provided comes from the 2021 Census of Population and the 2022 Open Database of Educational Facilities.Release date: 2024-05-14
- 49. A comparison of investments of official language minority owned businesses in rural and urban areasArticles and reports: 11-621-M2024005Description: This analysis compares the investment efforts of official language minority (OLM) owned businesses depending on whether they are located in a rural or urban area. The study is based on a model that uses a seemingly unrelated regression equation (SURE) system estimator to simultaneously assess the impact of determinants that explain the investment of businesses in rural and urban areas and to statistically test the differences between the two areas.Release date: 2024-05-02
- Articles and reports: 89-657-X2024001Description: This series of provincial, territorial and regional maps shows the number of school-aged children eligible to primary and secondary instruction in French in Canada outside Quebec by census subdivision, and the proportion of these children who attend or have attended a French-language school in Canada. All the information provided comes from the 2021 Census of Population and the 2022 Open Database of Educational Facilities.Release date: 2024-03-14
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- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 89-657-X2025002Description: The Survey on the Official Language Minority Population (SOLMP) user guide contains a description of the survey, along with survey concepts and definitions and an overview of the content development. The target and survey populations, the sample design and sample size are described in the Methodology section, while the Data Collection module provides the collection period and instrument, modes of collection, collection and communications strategies and response rates. Updates to the guide include descriptions of the survey data processing, survey error and weighting, and guidelines for tabulations and analysis. Appendices will provide a listing of questions and variables which changed between the current and previous occasions of the survey, as well as various primers on the survey methodology.Release date: 2025-11-14
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 98-20-00042026002Description: This fact sheet offers a summary of content changes for the 2026 Census specific to the following topics: languages and language of instruction. The tested changes for each topic are explained, along with the resulting approach for 2026.Release date: 2025-07-04
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 89-657-X2024009Description: The Survey on the Official Language Minority Population (SOLMP) user guide contains a description of the survey, along with survey concepts and definitions and an overview of the content development. The target and survey populations, the sample design and sample size are described in the Methodology section. Finally, in the Data Collection module, the collection period and instrument, modes of collection, collection and communications strategies and response rates are provided.Release date: 2024-12-16
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 98-26-0008Description: This report presents the results of a study on the estimated number of children eligible for instruction in the minority official language, pursuant to section 23 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, who were classified as ineligible in the 2021 Census because relationships between family members living at different addresses could not be established within this data source. Using other data sources, including previous censuses and administrative data (such as vital statistics and tax data), we were able to establish these family relationships within the 2021 Census. This report presents the methods and data sources used first, then the results by selected regions and age groups.Release date: 2024-03-26
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 98-20-00032021017Description: This video will help you understand the concept of first official language spoken. It explores the usefulness and relevance of the first official language spoken and how it is developed, disseminated and analyzed. You will also learn how the concept of first official language spoken takes into account knowledge of both official languages, mother tongue and language spoken most often at home.Release date: 2023-03-29
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 98-20-00032021018Description: This video will help you understand the question about languages spoken at home and the main concepts and variables that flow from them. You will also learn to understand the differences between the concepts of all languages spoken regularly at home, languages spoken most often at home and other languages spoken regularly at home. It will also help you understand the changes that have been made to the question of languages spoken at home since the last census.Release date: 2023-03-29
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 98-20-00032021026Description: This video will explain the concept of minority official language. It provides information on the new census questions regarding instruction in the minority official language, eligibility for education in minority official language and the usefulness of data on language of instruction for planning purposes.Release date: 2022-12-15
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 98-500-X2021003Description:
This reference guide provides information to help users effectively use and interpret language data from the 2021 Census. This guide contains definitions and explanations of concepts, questions, classifications, data quality and comparability with other sources for this topic.
Release date: 2022-11-30 - Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 98-500-X2021017Description: This reference guide provides information to help users effectively use and interpret instruction in the minority official language data from the 2021 Census. This guide contains definitions and explanations of concepts, questions, classifications, data quality and comparability with other sources for this topic.Release date: 2022-11-30
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 98-20-00032021027Description: This video provides basic information on the census questions on languages used at work and the main concepts and variables derived from them. It explains the concepts of languages used at work, language used most often at work and other languages used regularly at work. It also helps you understand the changes to the questions since the last census and the impact on historical comparability of this data.Release date: 2022-11-30