American Community Survey 2005 - IPUMS Subset

Puerto Rico, 2005

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Reference ID

PRI_2005_PHC_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

U.S. Census Bureau, Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

Metadata

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Language spoken (PR2005A_0429)

Data file: PRI2005-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 251

End: 254

Width: 4

Range: 0 - 9410

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

13a. Does this person speak a language other than English at home?

[] Yes
[] No -- Skip to question 14

[13b. and 13c are asked if the person can speak a language other than English at home.]
13b. What is this language? ____

For example: Korean, Italian, Spanish, Vietnamese

Categories

Value	Category
0	NIU (not in universe)
100	English
200	German
1000	Italian
1100	French
1200	Spanish
1300	Portuguese
1400	Rumanian
3102	Hindi
3190	Other Indo-European languages
4300	Chinese
5400	Filipino, Tagalog
5440	Llocano, Hocano
5700	Arabic
9410	Other specified American Indian 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.

Interviewer instructions

[Answer Housing Question 7-14 for all residents]

13.
13a. Mark the "Yes" box if the person sometimes or always speaks a language other than English at home. Mark the "No" box if the person speaks only English, or if a non-English language is spoken only at school or is limited to a few expressions or slang.
13b. Print the name of the language spoken at home. If this person speaks more than one non-English language and cannot determine which is spoken more often, report the one the person first learned to speak.

Description

Definition

This variable indicates the person's spoken language.

Universe

Persons age 5+

concept

Concept

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

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