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2000 Census of Population and Housing - IPUMS Subset

Puerto Rico, 2000
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PRI_2000_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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U.S. Census Bureau, IPUMS
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Linguistic isolation (PR2000A_LINGISOL)

Data file: PRI2000_PHC-H-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 239
End: 239
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="all" v="PR00A063 PR00A429"><span class="em">11.a. Does this person speak a language other than English at home?</span><br /><div class="i1">[] Yes<br />[] No -- Skip to 12</div><br /><span class="em">11.b. What is this language?</span><br /><div class="i1">____</div><br />(For example: Korean, Italian, Spanish, Vietnamese)<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="PR00A430" v="PR00A063 PR00A430"><span class="em">11.c. How well does this person speak English? </span><br /><div class="i1">[] Very well<br />[] Well<br />[] Not well<br />[] Not at all</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 Not linguistically isolated
2 Linguistically isolated
9 NIU (not in universe)
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 linguistically isolated households, in which either no person age 14+ speaks only English at home, or no person age 14+ who speaks a language other than English at home speaks English "Very well".
Universe
Puerto Rico 2000: Private occupied households [discrepancies: none]

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