2005 American Community Survey - IPUMS Subset
United States, 2001 - 2005
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Reference ID
USA_2005_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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U.S. Census Bureau, IPUMS
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- Data files
- USA2005_PHC-H-H
- USA2005_PHC-P-H
Language spoken (US2005A_LANGUAGE)
Data file: USA2005_PHC-P-H
Overview
Type:
Discrete
Start:
307
End:
310
Width:
4
Range:
-
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
13. a) Does this person speak a language other than English at home?</p>
<div class="i1">[] Yes<br />[] No</div><p>[Q13. b-c are asked if the person can speak a language other than English at home.]</p>
<p>b) What is this language? ____</p>
<div class="i1">For example: Korean, Italian, Spanish, Vietnamese</div><p>c) How well does this person Speak English?</p>
<div class="i1">[] Very well<br />[] Well<br />[] Not well<br />[] Not at all</div>
<div class="i1">[] Yes<br />[] No</div><p>[Q13. b-c are asked if the person can speak a language other than English at home.]</p>
<p>b) What is this language? ____</p>
<div class="i1">For example: Korean, Italian, Spanish, Vietnamese</div><p>c) How well does this person Speak English?</p>
<div class="i1">[] Very well<br />[] Well<br />[] Not well<br />[] Not at all</div>
Categories
| Value | Category |
|---|---|
| 0000 | NIU (not in universe) |
| 0100 | English |
| 0110 | Jamaican Creole |
| 0200 | German |
| 0240 | Pennsylvania Dutch |
| 0300 | Yiddish, Jewish |
| 0400 | Dutch |
| 0420 | Afrikaans |
| 0500 | Swedish |
| 0600 | Danish |
| 0700 | Norwegian |
| 1000 | Italian |
| 1100 | French |
| 1130 | Patois |
| 1140 | French or Haitian Creole |
| 1150 | Cajun |
| 1200 | Spanish |
| 1300 | Portuguese |
| 1400 | Rumanian |
| 1540 | Irish Gaelic, Gaelic |
| 1600 | Greek |
| 1700 | Albanian |
| 1800 | Russian |
| 1900 | Ukrainian, Ruthenian, Little Russian |
| 2000 | Czech |
| 2100 | Polish |
| 2200 | Slovak |
| 2300 | Serbo-Croatian, Yugoslavian, Slavonian |
| 2310 | Croatian |
| 2320 | Serbian |
| 2500 | Lithuanian |
| 2510 | Lettish |
| 2610 | Bulgarian |
| 2630 | Macedonian |
| 2800 | Armenian |
| 2900 | Persian, Iranian, Farssi |
| 3010 | Pashto, Afghan |
| 3020 | Kurdish |
| 3102 | Hindi |
| 3103 | Urdu |
| 3112 | Bengali |
| 3113 | Panjabi |
| 3114 | Marathi |
| 3115 | Gujarathi |
| 3123 | Sinhalese |
| 3130 | Kannada |
| 3140 | India n.e.c. |
| 3150 | Pakistan n.e.c. |
| 3190 | Other Indo-European languages |
| 3300 | Finnish |
| 3400 | Magyar, Hungarian |
| 3600 | Turkish |
| 4003 | Telugu |
| 4004 | Malayalam |
| 4005 | Tamil |
| 4011 | Nepali |
| 4300 | Chinese |
| 4302 | Cantonese |
| 4303 | Mandarin |
| 4410 | Miao-Yao, Mien |
| 4420 | Miao, Hmong |
| 4500 | Burmese, Lisu, Lolo |
| 4710 | Thai |
| 4720 | Laotian |
| 4800 | Japanese |
| 4900 | Korean |
| 5000 | Vietnamese |
| 5120 | Mon-Khmer, Cambodian |
| 5200 | Indonesian |
| 5270 | Malay |
| 5290 | Other Asian languages |
| 5310 | Formosan, Taiwanese |
| 5400 | Filipino, Tagalog |
| 5410 | Bisayan |
| 5420 | Sebuano |
| 5440 | Llocano, Hocano |
| 5503 | Chamorro, Guamanian |
| 5522 | Samoan |
| 5523 | Tongan |
| 5590 | Other Pacific Island languages |
| 5600 | Hawaiian |
| 5700 | Arabic |
| 5810 | Syriac, Aramaic, Chaldean |
| 5900 | Hebrew, Israeli |
| 6000 | Amharic, Ethiopian, etc. |
| 6130 | Cushite, Beja, Somali |
| 6307 | Bantu (many subheads) |
| 6308 | Swahili |
| 6309 | Mande |
| 6310 | Fulani |
| 6312 | Kru |
| 6390 | Other specified African languages |
| 6400 | African, n.s. |
| 7100 | Aleut, Eskimo |
| 7420 | Apache |
| 7490 | Other Algonquin languages |
| 7500 | Navajo |
| 7800 | Zuni |
| 8104 | Dakota, Lakota, Nakota, Sioux |
| 8300 | Keres |
| 8480 | Cherokee |
| 9300 | American Indian, n.s. |
| 9410 | Other specified American Indian languages |
| 9420 | South/Central American Indian |
| 9601 | Other n.e.c. |
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.
Description
Definition
This variable indicates the language that the respondent spoke at home, particularly (for 1980 on) if a language other than English was spoken.
Universe
United States 2005: Persons age 5+ [discrepancies: none]
concept
Concept