1981 Census of Canada - IPUMS Subset

Canada, 1981

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Reference ID

CAN_1981_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Statistics Canada, IPUMS

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

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Mother tongue, Canada (MTONGCA)

Data file: CAN1981_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 99

End: 100

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category
00	NIU (not in universe)
01	English single responses
02	French single responses
03	English and French
04	Aboriginal languages
05	German
06	Netherlandic languages
07	Scandinavian languages
08	Italian
09	Spanish
10	Portuguese
11	Polish
12	Ukrainian
13	Greek
14	Chinese
15	Austro-Asiatic languages
16	Arabic
17	Punjabi
18	Other Indo-Iranian languages
19	Tamil
20	Russian
21	Korean
97	Multiple languages
98	Other
99	Unknown

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 describes the first language the person learned in childhood and still understands.

concept

Concept

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

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