Census of Population and Housing 1960 - IPUMS Subset
United States, 1960
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Reference ID
USA_1960_PHC_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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U.S. Census Bureau, Minnesota Population Center
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Dec 23, 2014
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Mother tongue (US1960A_0438)
Data file: USA1960-P-H
Overview
Valid:
0
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
219
End:
222
Width:
4
Range:
-
Format:
Questions and instructions
Literal question
P9. If this person was born outside the U.S. -
What language was spoken in his home before he came to the United States?
_____
What language was spoken in his home before he came to the United States?
_____
Categories
| Value | Category |
|---|---|
| 100 | English |
| 200 | German |
| 300 | Yiddish, Jewish |
| 440 | Dutch, Afrikaans, Frisian |
| 450 | Belgian, Flemish |
| 500 | Swedish |
| 600 | Danish |
| 700 | Norwegian |
| 900 | Scandinavian |
| 1000 | Italian |
| 1100 | French |
| 1200 | Spanish |
| 1300 | Portuguese |
| 1400 | Rumanian |
| 1500 | Celtic |
| 1530 | Breton |
| 1600 | Greek |
| 1700 | Albanian |
| 1800 | Russian |
| 1900 | Ukrainian, Ruthenian, Little Russian, Cossack-70, |
| 2000 | Czech |
| 2100 | Polish |
| 2200 | Slovak |
| 2300 | Serbo-Croatian, Yugoslavian, Slavonian-40 |
| 2330 | Dalmatian, Montenegrin |
| 2400 | Slovene |
| 2500 | Lithuanian |
| 2600 | Other Balto-Slavic |
| 2800 | Armenian |
| 2900 | Persian, Iranian, Farssi |
| 3000 | Other Persian dialects |
| 3102 | Hindi, Hindustani, Urdu |
| 3110 | Other Indo-Aryan |
| 3200 | Romany, Gypsy |
| 3300 | Finnish |
| 3400 | Magyar, Hungarian |
| 3500 | Uralic |
| 3600 | Turkish |
| 3700 | Other Altaic |
| 3800 | Caucasian, Georgian, Avar |
| 3900 | Basque |
| 4000 | Dravidian |
| 4300 | Chinese |
| 4302 | Cantonese, Yueh |
| 4303 | Mandarin |
| 4400 | Tibetan |
| 4500 | Burmese, Lisu, Lolo |
| 4700 | Thai, Siamese, Lao |
| 4800 | Japanese |
| 4900 | Korean |
| 5200 | Indonesian |
| 5300 | Other Malayan |
| 5400 | Filipino, Tagalog |
| 5500 | Miconesian, Polynesian |
| 5700 | Arabic |
| 5710 | Algerian, Moroccan, Tunisian |
| 5720 | Egyptian |
| 5730 | Iraqi, Chaldean-70 |
| 5740 | Libyan |
| 5800 | Near East Arabic dialect |
| 5900 | Hebrew, Israeli |
| 6000 | Amharic, Ethiopian, etc. |
| 6321 | Niger-Congo regions (many subheads) |
| 7200 | Algonquian |
| 9300 | American Indian, n.s., Tlingit-70 |
| 9601 | Other (not classified) |
| 9998 | Unknown |
| 9999 | 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 the respondent's mother tongue.
Universe
Foreign-born non-US citizens
concept
Concept
| Name | Vocabulary |
|---|---|
| Ethnicity and Language Variables -- PERSON | IPUMS |