Census 2001 - IPUMS Subset

South Africa, 2001

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ZAF_2001_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

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Statistics South Africa, IPUMS

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

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Language spoken at home, South Africa (LANGZA1)

Data file: ZAF2001_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 130

End: 131

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category
01	Afrikaans
02	English
03	IsiNdebele
04	IsiXhosa
05	IsiZulu
06	Sepedi
07	Sesotho
08	Setswana
09	Siswati
10	Tshivenda
11	Xitsonga
12	Khoi, Nama and San language
13	Dutch
14	German
15	Greek
16	Italian
17	Portuguese
18	French
19	Tamil
20	Hindi
21	Telugu
22	Gujarati
23	Urdu
24	Chinese
25	Swahili
26	Shona
27	Arabic
28	Sign language
29	Other
98	Unknown
99	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.

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Definition

LANGZA1 indicates the language the person spoke in the home.

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Concept

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

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