What percentage of Vancouver's population speaks Chinese at home?

Discover Canada records this in one direct sentence. The guide writes: Non-official languages are widely spoken in Canadian homes. Chinese languages are the second most-spoken at home, after English, in two of Canada's biggest cities. In Vancouver, 13% of the population speak Chinese languages at home; in Toronto, the number is 7%. The percentage the test wants is therefore 13%.

Two cities are paired in the source. Discover Canada commits the Chinese-at-home data to TWO specific cities: Vancouver at 13% AND Toronto at 7%. So Vancouver has nearly twice the share of Chinese-language speakers at home compared to Toronto — making Vancouver the city in Canada with the largest Chinese-speaking community by share of population.

Chinese is the second most-spoken language at home. Discover Canada commits Chinese to the second-most-spoken-at-home position in both Vancouver and Toronto — after English. So Chinese languages have a clear demographic presence in Canada's two biggest western and central cities — making Mandarin and Cantonese (and other Chinese languages) widely heard outside the home as well.

The 13% figure reflects broader Canadian diversity. Discover Canada writes that "non-official languages are widely spoken in Canadian homes" — meaning beyond English and French, many languages have substantial Canadian-home use. The largest ethnic groups Canada-wide include "the English, French, Scottish, Irish, German, Italian, Chinese, Aboriginal, Ukrainian, Dutch, South Asian and Scandinavian." Chinese is one of those twelve named largest groups, and the 13%-Vancouver figure shows where that group's at-home language use is most concentrated. The guide also notes that "since the 1970s, most immigrants have come from Asian countries" — making the 13% Vancouver figure part of a broader Asian-immigration pattern that has shaped modern Canada. So when the test asks what percentage of Vancouver's population speaks Chinese at home, the source-precise answer is the figure the guide names: 13%. So the 13% Vancouver figure is part of the broader Canadian-multicultural picture in which Chinese languages, alongside Mandarin and Cantonese specifically, have established a substantial home-language presence in the country's western metropolis.

The question is testing whether new citizens know the percentage of Vancouver's population who speak Chinese at home. Discover Canada commits to one number: 13%. The right test answer matches that.

The wrong answer choices each pick a different percentage. "5%" is too low. "7%" is the figure for Toronto, not Vancouver. "10%" is also too low. Only 13% — the figure the source explicitly names for Vancouver — matches.