1960 Census of Population and Housing - IPUMS Subset
United States, 1960
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USA_1960_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Mother tongue (US1960A_MTONGUE)
Data file: USA1960_PHC-P-H
Overview
Type:
Discrete
Start:
230
End:
233
Width:
4
Range:
-
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
<svar a="all" v="US60A438"><span class="em">P9.</span> If this person was born outside the U.S. - <br /><div class="i1"><span class="em">What language was spoken in his home before he came to the United States? <br /><br /></span></div><br /><div class="i2">_____</div><br /></svar>
Categories
| Value | Category |
|---|---|
| 0100 | English |
| 0200 | German |
| 0300 | Yiddish, Jewish |
| 0440 | Dutch, Afrikaans, Frisian |
| 0450 | Belgian, Flemish |
| 0500 | Swedish |
| 0600 | Danish |
| 0700 | Norwegian |
| 0900 | Scandinavian |
| 1000 | Italian |
| 1100 | French |
| 1200 | Spanish |
| 1300 | Portuguese |
| 1400 | Rumanian |
| 1500 | Celtic |
| 1530 | Breton |
| 1600 | Greek |
| 1700 | Albanian |
| 1800 | Russian |
| 1900 | Ukrainian, Ruthenian, Little Russian, Cossack-70, |
| 2000 | Czech |
| 2100 | Polish |
| 2200 | Slovak |
| 2300 | Serbo-Croatian, Yugoslavian, Slavonian-40 |
| 2330 | Dalmatian, Montenegrin |
| 2400 | Slovene |
| 2500 | Lithuanian |
| 2600 | Other Balto-Slavic |
| 2800 | Armenian |
| 2900 | Persian, Iranian, Farssi |
| 3000 | Other Persian dialects |
| 3102 | Hindi, Hindustani, Urdu |
| 3110 | Other Indo-Aryan |
| 3200 | Romany, Gypsy |
| 3300 | Finnish |
| 3400 | Magyar, Hungarian |
| 3500 | Uralic |
| 3600 | Turkish |
| 3700 | Other Altaic |
| 3800 | Caucasian, Georgian, Avar |
| 3900 | Basque |
| 4000 | Dravidian |
| 4300 | Chinese |
| 4302 | Cantonese, Yueh |
| 4303 | Mandarin |
| 4400 | Tibetan |
| 4500 | Burmese, Lisu, Lolo |
| 4700 | Thai, Siamese, Lao |
| 4800 | Japanese |
| 4900 | Korean |
| 5200 | Indonesian |
| 5300 | Other Malayan |
| 5400 | Filipino, Tagalog |
| 5500 | Miconesian, Polynesian |
| 5700 | Arabic |
| 5710 | Algerian, Moroccan, Tunisian |
| 5720 | Egyptian |
| 5730 | Iraqi, Chaldean-70 |
| 5740 | Libyan |
| 5800 | Near East Arabic dialect |
| 5900 | Hebrew, Israeli |
| 6000 | Amharic, Ethiopian, etc. |
| 6321 | Niger-Congo regions (many subheads) |
| 7200 | Algonquian |
| 9300 | American Indian, n.s., Tlingit-70 |
| 9601 | Other (not classified) |
| 9998 | Unknown |
| 9999 | 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
This variable indicates the respondent's mother tongue.
Universe
United States 1960: Foreign-born non-US citizens [discrepancies: none]
concept
Concept