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Appendix IV
Tabulations of Percentages of Response Frequencies
by First Official Language

Table 201: 'Q1 - Name of Department/Agency' by 'Q2 - First Official Language

 

Q1: DEPTCODE

Q2: First Official Language

Total
Number of Responses

 

TOTAL

ENGLISH

FRENCH

n

%

n

%

AGR

0

0.0%

10

100.0%

10

1.1%

DFO

9

100.0%

0

0.0%

9

1.0%

DND

8

72.7%

3

27.3%

11

1.2%

DUS

1

12.5%

7

87.5%

8

0.9%

DVA

2

28.6%

5

71.4%

7

0.8%

IAN

6

100.0%

0

0.0%

6

0.7%

IMC

4

80.0%

1

20.0%

5

0.5%

MOT

6

66.7%

3

33.3%

9

1.0%

NAR

280

55.1%

228

44.9%

508

55.6%

NHW

5

71.4%

2

28.6%

7

0.8%

PCH

15

60.0%

10

40.0%

25

2.7%

REH

69

38.8%

109

61.2%

178

19.5%

RSN

48

87.3%

7

12.7%

55

6.0%

STC

3

27.3%

8

72.7%

11

1.2%

SVC

7

63.6%

4

36.4%

11

1.2%

OTHER DEPT

6

66.7%

3

33.3%

9

1.0%

NOT STATED

25

55.6%

20

44.4%

45

4.9%

TOTAL

494

54.0%

420

46.0%

914

100.0%

Source: Survey of Official Language use at work among Federal Government Employees in Northern Ontario - 1998

TABLE 202: Count of Question 2 - First Official Language

Q2: First Official
Language

No. of
Responses

Percentage

ENGLISH

494

54.0%

FRENCH

420

46.0%

Total

914

100.0%

TABLE 203: 'Q3 - Fluency in speaking English' by 'Q2 - First Official Language' - All Respondents

Q3: Fluency in
Speaking 'French'

Q2: FIRST OFFICIAL LANGUAGE

TOTAL

ENGLISH

FRENCH

%

n

%

n

%

n

FLUENTLY

98.0%

484

90.0%

378

94.3%

862

RELATIVELY FLUENTLY

1.6%

8

9.5%

40

5.3%

48

WITH DIFFICULTY

0.2%

1

0.5%

2

0.3%

3

NOT AT ALL

0.2%

1

0.0%

0

0.1%

1

TOTAL RESPONSES

100.0%

494

100.0%

420

100.0%

914

NOT STATED

0

0

0

GRAND TOTAL

494

420

914

TABLE 204: 'Q4 - Fluency in speaking French' by 'Q2 - First Official Language' - All Respondents

Q4: Fluency in
Speaking 'French'

Q2: FIRST OFFICIAL LANGUAGE

TOTAL

ENGLISH

FRENCH

%

n

%

n

%

n

FLUENTLY

14.67%

71

92.6%

387

50.8%

458

RELATIVELY FLUENTLY

15.70%

76

7.2%

30

11.8%

106

WITH DIFFICULTY

26.86%

130

0.2%

1

14.5%

131

NOT AT ALL

42.77%

207

0.0%

0

22.9%

207

TOTAL RESPONSES

100.00%

484

100.0%

418

100.0%

902

NOT STATED

10

2

12

GRAND TOTAL

494

420

914

Source: Survey of Official Language use at work among Federal Government Employees in Northern Ontario - 1998

TABLE 204A: Fluency in speaking the Official Languages by first Official Language 'Respondents in Bilingual Positions Only'





SPEAKING FLUENCY

FIRST OFFICIAL LANGUAGE

TOTAL

ENGLISH

FRENCH

TOTAL

SPEAK
ENGLISH

TOTAL

SPEAK
FRENCH

SPEAK
ENGLISH

SPEAK
FRENCH

SPEAK
ENGLISH

SPEAK
FRENCH

FLUENTLY

98.0%

54.1%

92.4%

93.0%

93.8%

83.4%

RELATIVELY FLUENTLY

2.0%

36.7%

7.3%

7.0%

6.0%

14.4%

WITH DIFFICULTY

0.0%

8.2%

0.3%

0.0%

0.2%

2.0%

NOT AT ALL

0.0%

1.0%

0.0%

0.0%

0.0%

0.3%

TOTAL %

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

TOTAL RESPONSES

100

98

301

299

401

397

NOT STATED

0

2

0

2

0

4

GRAND TOTAL

100

100

301

301

401

401

TABLE 205: 'Q5 - Language requirements of position' by 'Q2: First Official Language'

Q5: Position Language Requirements

Q2: FIRST OFFICIAL LANGUAGE

TOTAL

ENGLISH

FRENCH

%

n

%

n

%

n

BILINGUAL

20.5%

100

71.7%

301

44.2%

401

ENGLISH-ESSENTIAL

70.1%

342

23.8%

100

48.7%

442

FRENCH-ESSENTIAL

0.2%

1

0.5%

2

0.3%

3

EITHER ENGLISH or FRENCH

7.2%

35

2.1%

9

4.8%

44

DON'T KNOW

2.0%

10

1.9%

8

2.0%

18

TOTAL RESPONSES

100.0%

488

100.0%

420

100.0%

908

NOT STATED

6

0

6

GRAND TOTAL

494

420

914

Source: Survey of Official Language use at work among Federal Government Employees in Northern Ontario - 1998

Table 206: 'Q6 - Reason for bilingual position' by 'Q2 - First Official Language'

Q6 - reason for bilingual position

Q2: FIRST OFFICIAL LANGUAGE

TOTAL


RESPONSE CODE**

ENGLISH

FRENCH

%

n

%

n

%

n

1

42.9%

42

49.2%

147

47.6%

189

2

3.1%

3

6.4%

19

5.5%

22

3

0.0%

0

1.3%

4

1.0%

4

4

0.0%

0

1.0%

3

0.8%

3

1,2

28.6%

28

25.1%

75

25.9%

103

1,3

4.1%

4

2.7%

8

3.0%

12

1,4

1.0%

1

0.3%

1

0.5%

2

2,3

6.1%

6

2.7%

8

3.5%

14

1,2,3

13.3%

13

8.0%

24

9.3%

37

1,2,4

0.0%

0

1.7%

5

1.3%

5

2,3,4

0.0%

0

0.3%

1

0.3%

1

1,2,3,4

1.0%

1

1.3%

4

1.3%

5

TOTAL RESPONSES

100.0%

98

100.0%

299

100.0%

397

NOT STATED

2

2

4

GRAND TOTAL

100

301

401

 

** Question 6 : CODE RESPONSE

0

NOT STATED

1

SERVICES TO THE PUBLIC

2

INTERNAL SERVICES TO OTHER EMPLOYEES

3

SUPERVISION

4

OTHER

Source: Survey of Official Language use at work among Federal Government Employees in Northern Ontario - 1998

Table 207: 'Q7 - Informed of rights/obligations' by 'Q2 - First Official Language'

Q7: informed of rights....

Q2: FIRST OFFICIAL LANGUAGE

TOTAL

ENGLISH

FRENCH

%

n

%

n

%

n

YES

72.4%

349

71.1%

290

71.8%

639

NO

11.4%

55

15.4%

63

13.3%

118

DON'T KNOW

16.2%

78

13.5%

55

14.9%

133

TOTAL RESPONSES

100.0%

482

100.0%

408

100.0%

890

NOT STATED

12

12

24

GRAND TOTAL

494

420

914

Source: Survey of Official Language use at work among Federal Government Employees in Northern Ontario - 1998