Different data regarding the user population for Ukrainian in Canada
PrintDifferent data regarding the user population for Ukrainian in Canada
CatSkald, Sun, 2022-06-12 17:45
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ukrCurrently Ethnologue mentions the number of users for Ukrainian in Canada as "102,000 (2016 census)".
This number is different from the statistics on the Statistics Canada website. The overview "Linguistic diversity and multilingualism in Canadian homes, census 2016" states that there are 110,580 L1 users for Ukrainian and also includes retention rates ("speaking one’s mother tongue at home"): 32.5% full retention rate and 19.3% partial retention rate. Source: Statistics Canada, Census of Population, 2016, https://www12-2021.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/as-sa/98-200-x/...
Not sure if this discrepancy is intentional, therefore decided to share this information.
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Dear CatSkald,
Thank you for sharing this information about the discrepancy between the numbers for the 2016 census in Canada, particularly for Ukrainian [ukr] in this case.
I will be looking at the census tables (both the one referenced by the Ethnologue and the one you have cited here) to see which more accurately represents mother-tongue (L1) speakers in Canada.
Best regards,
Charles Fennig
Managing Editor, Ethnologue
Dear Charles Fennig,
As a follow-up to the earlier discussion about census data in Canada, I have noticed that Statistics Canada had released new data for the 2021 Census recently (Aug 17, 2022). It includes various data points about spoken languages (primary, indigenous, mother tongue, etc), one of the data tables can be found here:
https://www12-2021.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2021/dp-pd/dv-vd/lan...
In addition, currently the Ethnologue page for Canada mentions "2020 census" but the Statistics Canada only mentions censuses from the years 2016 and 2021 (none from 2020): https://www.ethnologue.com/country/CA
Kind regards,
Andrew
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