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1981 Census of Canada - IPUMS Subset

Canada, 1981
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CAN_1981_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Mother tongue of wife or single female parent (CA1981A_LANGF)

Data file: CAN1981_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 353
End: 354
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar v="CA81A445 CA81A466 CA81A467"><span class="em">Question 6.</span> You must still understand the language you report in this question. For infants, report the first language they are or will be learning.<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="CA81A445 CA81A466 CA81A467">6. What is the language you first learned in childhood and still understand?<br /><div class="i1">Mark one box only.<br />[] English<br />[] French<br />[] German<br />[] Italian<br />[] Ukrainian<br />[] Other (specify) ____</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
01 English
02 French
03 Chinese
04 German
05 Greek
06 Italian
07 Northerlandic languages
08 Polish
09 Portuguese
10 Ukrainian
11 Other
99 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 first language that the wife or single female parent in a census family learned at home in childhood and still understood by the individual at the time of the census.
Universe
Canada 1981: Persons in census families not headed by male lone parents [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Ethnicity and Language Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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