1. Chart
2. Unanswered question
Question 1: We all know that Chinese, Indian, etc, these popular languages take big part of non-official mother tongues. Here's a question I'm interested in but cannot answer is what the detailed percentage of each other several non-official languages distribute, which can not figure out from this chart. To get the information I would need to know the percentage of each languages in different time frame.
Question 2: How is French as a official language keeping that low proportion for that long time between this 55 years.
3. How would you get the data?
In order to get the result of question 1 above, I have to know the agency which can count the population of the mother tongue speak, like government census and CIC statistics.
There I have two options to figure out this question. One's through Online statistics, which is gathering data from Statistic Canada if there has data set of population of each non-official languages, so that I can filter the data by my chart. The second way is providing a offer of request of population information from Citizenship and Immigration Canada. I don't even know how long will this take, it may takes a long time like one month at least. In this way we can get the latest information of this year.
These two ways are the most efficient methods I can provide. The most direct way to gain the data set is through census, while gathering information given by government can get the newest data.
As for method of second question, I guess I would also search for information online, such as statcan.gc.ca and clo-ocol.gc.ca. There must have reasonable explanation or data set which can help us for it.
Great job on the update, I think you chose an interesting topic. One thing I really liked was your chart. It is really easy to understand the data. One thing I think you can improve is the title. I was confused the first time I read it.
ReplyDeleteOne thing I think you did well is to choose the right graph, so it can displays the information well and very easily to read. I also have the same question as your question 2 and I am looking forward your final report and answer.
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