2015 Population and Housing Census - IPUMS Subset

Sierra Leone, 2015

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Reference ID

SLE_2015_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Statistics Sierra Leone (SLL), IPUMS

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

Metadata

DDI/XML JSON

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Aug 01, 2025

Last modified

Aug 01, 2025

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Mother tongue, Sierra Leone (MTONGSL)

Data file: SLE2015_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 154

End: 155

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category
01	Krio
02	Mende
03	Temne
04	Madingo
05	Loko
06	Sherbro
07	Limba
08	Kissi
09	Kono
10	Susu
11	Fullah
12	Krim
13	Yalunka
14	Koranko
15	Vai
16	English
17	French
18	Arabic
19	Other
20	None
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

MTONGSL indicates the primary language spoken by the individual -- the main language they learned in childhood.

concept

Concept

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

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