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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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Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (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.

Description

Definition
MTONGCH indicates the language the person knows best.

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