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Population Census of the Republic of Belarus 1999 - IPUMS Subset

Belarus, 1999
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Reference ID
BLR_1999_PHC_v01_M_v03_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Ministry of Statistics and Analysis of the Republic of Belarus, Minnesota Population Center
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Apr 20, 2011
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Mother tongue (BY1999A_0406)

Data file: BLR1999-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 174
End: 176
Width: 3
Range: 1 - 998
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
5. Language

___ Mother tongue
___ What language do you usually speak at home?
___ Other language you speak fluently
Categories
Value Category
1 Belarusian
2 Russian
3 Polish
4 Ukrainian
5 Hebrew
6 Tatar
7 Gypsi
8 Lithuanian
9 Latvian
11 Azerbaijanian
12 Armenian
14 Georgian
15 Kazakh
17 Moldovian
18 Tadjik
22 Uzbek
41 Bashkir
54 Lezgin
56 Mordovian
58 Ossetian
65 Udmurt
69 Chechen
71 Chuvash
131 Arabic
133 Afghan
137 Vietnamese
148 German
997 Response suppressed
998 Not specified
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
Question 5. Language


Mother tongue
What language do you usually speak at home?
Other language you speak fluently


In the answer about the mother tongue the language is to be recorded, which the person questioned recognizes as his/her native.

If a person finds difficult to name his/her mother tongue, it should be explained that the mother tongue is the language usually spoken by the person in his/her home in the early childhood.

For young children the mother tongue is to be determined by their parents.

For the deaf and dumb persons the mother tongue is the language in which they read and write or the language used by the members of their household or persons they mainly speak to at home.

In the answer on the language usually spoken at home, the language should be recorded that is used for communication to the family or in private life.

For young children the usually spoken language is to be determined by their parents.

For the deaf and dumb persons the spoken language is the language in which they read and write or the language used by the members of their household or persons they mainly speak to at home.

After the language the person questioned speaks usually at home has been entered, for persons having a perfect command of other languages, i.e. being able to read, write and fluently speak or just speak those languages, the name of one language at person's discretion is to be entered.

For persons having no command of other languages, "no" should be entered.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the person's mother tongue.
Universe
All persons

concept

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