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What language do you most often speak at home?
| What language do you most often speak at home? | |||||
| Language | Elementary | Secondary | All students |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Girls | Boys | Girls | Boys | ||
| % | |||||
| English | 76.44 | 77.05 | 58.14 | 58.27 | 73.05 |
| French | 7.28 | 5.85 | 28.26 | 26.75 | 10.74 |
| Chinese | 3.24 | 3.39 | 3.85 | 4.43 | 3.48 |
| Punjabi | 1.08 | 1.51 | 1.23 | 1.59 | 1.32 |
| Arabic | 1.38 | 1.41 | 0.73 | 1.03 | 1.29 |
| Spanish | 1.07 | 1.09 | 0.82 | 1.09 | 1.05 |
| Vietnamese | 0.73 | 0.80 | 0.28 | 0.34 | 0.68 |
| Polish | 0.47 | 0.46 | 0.38 | 0.53 | 0.46 |
| German | 0.36 | 0.32 | 0.22 | 0.19 | 0.31 |
| Portuguese | 0.27 | 0.33 | 0.16 | 0.34 | 0.29 |
| Italian | 0.21 | 0.27 | 0.25 | 0.22 | 0.24 |
| Other | 7.46 | 7.50 | 5.68 | 5.21 | 7.07 |
| Note: Languages appear in order
of importance for all students. Source: Census at School - Canada, 2005/2006. |
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