94% of the population in Quebec report using French at work

In 2011, 93.9% of the population in Quebec reported using French at work, while 39.2% reported using English. In all the other provinces and territories, English was the dominant language in the workplace.

In 2011, 98.4% of the population reported using this language, and 4.6% of the population reported French as the language used at work.

Close to 99% of Canadian workers reported using English, French or both in the workplace most often or on a regular basis. Specifically, 84.7% of the population used English and 25.3% used French.

Among all languages other than English or French used in the workplace, the family of Chinese languages, with 224,000 references, ranked first in 2011.

In 2011, 2.65 million individuals (13.9%) reported using more than one language at work. Of all the country's CMAs, the Quebec part of the Ottawa–Gatineau CMA had the highest proportion of workers who reported using at least two languages in the workplace (58.4%), followed by the CMAs of Montréal (47.5%), Moncton (36.7%), Sherbrooke (28.7%), Ottawa–Gatineau [Ontario part] (27.9%) and Greater Sudbury (23.2%).

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