Table 10
Proportion of females who have a mother tongue that is a non-official language, by generation status and visible minority group, Canada, 2011

Table summary
This table displays the results of Proportion of females who have a mother tongue that is a non-official language. The information is grouped by Visible minority group (appearing as row headers), First generation, Second generation and Third generation or more, calculated using percentage units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Visible minority group First generation Second generation Third generation or more
percentage
Visible minority 81.9 41.8 4.5
South Asian 82.6 56.0 13.6
Chinese 93.0 57.7 6.7
Black 39.6 8.9 0.4
Filipino 90.3 16.4 2.0
Latin American 93.4 64.9 28.5
Arab 89.6 52.3 13.3
Southeast Asian 90.9 56.5 6.8
West Asian 96.2 71.8 22.2
Korean 95.2 51.8 3.7
Japanese 93.9 40.6 3.3
Other visible minority 22.6 6.4 0.5
Multiple visible minorities 69.8 25.3 3.9
Not a visible minority 59.0 16.9 1.8
Note: Includes people who have only a non-official language as their mother tongue, as well as people who have a non-official language as a mother tongue in combination with one or both official languages (English or French).
Source: Statistics Canada, National Household Survey, 2011.
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