Top ten home languages at the provincial, district, and school level by number of students. The dataset is provided by the Government of British Columbia and was last updated on April 17, 2026. It is available in CSV, XLSX, HTML, and PDF formats.
Use Cases
- Analyze linguistic diversity across schools based on reported home languages.
- Compare language distribution between districts and the provincial level.
- Identify schools with high concentrations of specific language speakers.
- Monitor changes in student demographics over time based on language data.
Strengths
- Data is disaggregated at three levels: provincial, district, and school.
- Published by a government authority (Government of British Columbia).
- Available in multiple formats (CSV, XLSX, HTML, PDF).
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to open_canada.
Provenance
- Source
- Government of British Columbia
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-17 15:28:32.617562; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- British Columbia, Canada