Literal question
Population age three or older
[Questions P18-P23 were asked for persons age 3+.]
P23) Spoken
What language does [Name] speak fluently?
Record code corresponding to the answer based on the instructions at the bottom of the page.
[] 00 Person not applicable
[] 01 Bambara
[] 02 Malinke
[] 03 Peul/Foulfoulbe
[] 04 Sonrai/Djerma
[] 05 Maraka/Soninke
[] 06 Kassonke
[] 07 Senoufo
[] 08 Dogon
[] 09 Maure
[] 10 Tamacheq
[] 11 Bobo
[] 12 Dafing
[] 13 Minianka
[] 14 Haoussa
[] 15 Samogo
[] 16 Bozo
[] 17 Arab
[] 18 Other Malian languages
[] 19 Other African languages
[] 20 Other foreign languages
Interviewer instructions
6.2.3.22 Language spoken (Column P23)
The officer asked the following question: "What is the language that [Name] speaks fluently?." Enter the code in the box provided for this purpose (codes in the footer of the questionnaire). The fluently spoken language is either his native language or another language. Frequency is taken into account. A person can be from an ethnic group, have a native language that is different from that spoken by his/her ethnicity and fluently speaks a language other than the language of the ethnicity and the native language.
