Table 3.5
Population by mother tongue and language spoken most often at home, Nova Scotia, 2006

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Table 3.5 Population by mother tongue and language spoken most often at home, Nova Scotia, 2006
Table summary
This table displays the results of population by mother tongue and language spoken most often at home. This information is grouped by mother tongue (appearing as row headers) and by language spoken most often at home, french, english, other languages, total (appearing as column headers), calculated using number and percentage as a unit of measure.
Mother Tongue Language spoken most often at home
French English Other
languages
Total
French number 16,450 16,040 50 32,540
percentage 50.5 49.3 0.2 100.0
English number 930 830,595 585 832,105
percentage 0.1 99.8 0.1 100.0
Other languages number 115 18,715 15,790 34,620
percentage 0.3 54.1 45.6 100.0
Total number 17,490 865,355 16,425 899,270
Note: With equal redistribution of multiple responses to the language spoken most often at home question and single responses to the mother tongue question. Due to the random rounding of numbers, some totals may not correspond to the sum of the numbers presented in the table.
Source: Statistics Canada, 2006 Census of Population.
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