Swiss Federal Population Census of 1980 - IPUMS Subset

Switzerland, 1980

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CHE_1980_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

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Federal Statistical Office, IPUMS

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Mother tongue, Switzerland (MTONGCH)

Data file: CHE1980_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete

Start: 109

End: 110

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category
01	German
02	French
03	Italian
04	Rhaeto-Romanic
05	English
06	Dutch
07	Scandinavian languages
08	Greek
09	Spanish
10	Slavic languages (other than Czech and Slovak)
11	Hungarian
12	Czech or Slovak
13	Other languages

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.

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Definition

MTONGCH indicates the language the person knows best.

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Concept

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