Le vieillissement des groupes linguistiques au Québec
The demographic and linguistic landscape of Quebec has been constantly evolving for many decades. The aging and linguistic issues are two of the main concerns of the Government of Quebec. The atypical characteristic of this Canadian French-speaking province, surrounded by English-speaking territory, has been the subject of numerous studies. The objective of this research is to analyse the differences in demographic ageing of each language group but also the age effects on the linguistic mobility. Linguistic indicators such as the mother tongue, the language spoken at home, and the working language will be used, and age will be the key demographic variable of this analysis. The Canadian censuses of 1971 and 2006 will provide the data to calculate the different demographic ageing indicators such as the average age, the dependency ratio and the replacement index. This analysis shows that the French-speaking group is the oldest but also the one who ages the fastest. The mobility linguistic is also discussed. This leads us to conclude that language transfers are significant mainly during childhood. After the age of 40, they are very rare. Generally, linguistic mobility is low and its impact on the demographic ageing is negligible.
Age Mother tongue Language spoken at home Working language Age Ageing Language group Linguistic behaviour Linguistic mobility Demolinguistics Quebec