1980 Census of Population and Housing - IPUMS Subset
United States, 1980
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Reference ID
USA_1980_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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U.S. Census Bureau, IPUMS
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- USA1980_PHC-H-H.dat
- USA1980_PHC-P-H.dat
Language spoken (US1980A_LANGUAGE)
Data file: USA1980_PHC-P-H.dat
Overview
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
273
End:
276
Width:
4
Range:
-
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
<svar a="all" v="US80A442"><span class="em">13a. Does this person speak a language other than English at home? </span><br /><div class="i1">[] Yes<br />[] No, only speaks English -- Skip to 14</div><br /><br />[Mark <span class="em">no, only speaks English </span>if the person always speaks English at home; then skip to question 14. Mark Yes if the person speaks a language other than English at home. Do not mark Yes for a language spoken only at school or if speaking ability is limited to a few expressions or slang.]<br /><br /><span class="em">13b. What is this language? </span><br /><div class="i1">____<br />(For example -- Chinese, Italian, Spanish, etc.)</div><br /><br />[Print the non-English language spoken at home. If this person speaks two or more non-English languages at home and cannot determine which is spoken most often, report the first language the person learned to speak.]<br /></svar>
Categories
| Value | Category |
|---|---|
| 0000 | NIU+unknown |
| 0100 | English |
| 0110 | Jamaican Creole |
| 0120 | Krio, Pidgin Krio |
| 0130 | Hawaiian Pidgin |
| 0140 | Pidgin |
| 0150 | Gullah, Geechee |
| 0160 | Saramacca |
| 0200 | German |
| 0230 | Luxembourgian |
| 0240 | Pennsylvania Dutch |
| 0300 | Yiddish, Jewish |
| 0410 | Dutch, Flemish, Belgian |
| 0420 | Afrikaans |
| 0430 | Frisian |
| 0500 | Swedish |
| 0600 | Danish |
| 0700 | Norwegian |
| 0800 | Icelandic |
| 0810 | Faroese |
| 1000 | Italian |
| 1010 | Rhaeto-Romanic, Ladin |
| 1110 | French, Walloon |
| 1120 | Provencal |
| 1130 | Patois |
| 1140 | French or Haitian Creole |
| 1150 | Cajun |
| 1200 | Spanish |
| 1210 | Catalonian, Valencian |
| 1220 | Ladino, Sefaradit, Spanol |
| 1230 | Pachuco |
| 1240 | Papia Mentae |
| 1300 | Portuguese |
| 1400 | Rumanian |
| 1520 | Welsh |
| 1540 | Irish Gaelic, Gaelic |
| 1570 | Scottish Gaelic |
| 1600 | Greek |
| 1700 | Albanian |
| 1810 | Russian, Great Russian |
| 1820 | Bielo-, White Russian |
| 1900 | Ukrainian, Ruthenian, Little Russian |
| 2000 | Czech |
| 2100 | Polish |
| 2110 | Kashubian, Slovincian |
| 2200 | Slovak |
| 2300 | Serbo-Croatian, Yugoslavian, Slavonian |
| 2310 | Croatian |
| 2320 | Serbian |
| 2400 | Slovene |
| 2500 | Lithuanian |
| 2510 | Lettish |
| 2610 | Bulgarian |
| 2620 | Lusatian, Sorbian, Wendish |
| 2630 | Macedonian |
| 2800 | Armenian |
| 2900 | Persian, Iranian, Farssi |
| 3010 | Pashto, Afghan |
| 3020 | Kurdish |
| 3030 | Balochi |
| 3040 | Tadzhik |
| 3050 | Ossete |
| 3101 | Hindi, Hindustani, Indic, Jaipuri, Pali, Urdu |
| 3111 | Sanskrit |
| 3112 | Bengali |
| 3113 | Panjabi |
| 3114 | Marathi |
| 3115 | Gujarathi |
| 3116 | Bihari |
| 3117 | Rajasthani |
| 3118 | Oriya |
| 3119 | Assamese |
| 3120 | Kashmiri |
| 3121 | Sindhi |
| 3122 | Maldivian |
| 3123 | Sinhalese |
| 3130 | Kannada |
| 3200 | Romany, Gypsy |
| 3300 | Finnish |
| 3400 | Magyar, Hungarian |
| 3510 | Estonian, Ingrian, Livonian, Vepsian, Votic |
| 3520 | Lapp, Inari, Kola, Lule, Pite, Ruija, Skolt, Um |
| 3530 | Other Uralic |
| 3600 | Turkish |
| 3701 | Chuvash |
| 3702 | Karakalpak |
| 3703 | Kazakh |
| 3705 | Karachay, Tatar, Balkar, Bashkir, Kumyk |
| 3706 | Uzbek, Uighur |
| 3707 | Azerbaijani |
| 3710 | Mongolian |
| 3711 | Tungus |
| 3800 | Caucasian, Georgian, Avar |
| 3900 | Basque |
| 4001 | Brahui |
| 4002 | Gondi |
| 4003 | Telugu |
| 4004 | Malayalam |
| 4005 | Tamil |
| 4011 | Nepali |
| 4100 | Kurukh |
| 4110 | Munda |
| 4200 | Burushaski |
| 4301 | Chinese, Cantonese, Min, Yueh |
| 4303 | Mandarin |
| 4311 | Hakka, Fukien, K'echia |
| 4312 | Kan, Nan Chang |
| 4313 | Hsiang, Chansa, Hunan, Iyan |
| 4315 | Wu |
| 4400 | Tibetan |
| 4410 | Miao-Yao |
| 4420 | Miao, Hmong |
| 4500 | Burmese, Lisu, Lolo |
| 4510 | Karen |
| 4600 | Kachin |
| 4700 | Thai, Siamese, Lao |
| 4800 | Japanese |
| 4900 | Korean |
| 5000 | Vietnamese |
| 5110 | Ainu |
| 5120 | Mon-Khmer, Cambodian |
| 5140 | Yukagir |
| 5150 | Muong |
| 5200 | Indonesian |
| 5210 | Buginese |
| 5230 | Achinese |
| 5240 | Balinese |
| 5260 | Madurese |
| 5270 | Malay |
| 5310 | Formosan, Taiwanese |
| 5320 | Javanese |
| 5330 | Malagasy |
| 5340 | Sundanese |
| 5400 | Filipino, Tagalog |
| 5410 | Bisayan |
| 5420 | Sebuano |
| 5430 | Pangasinan |
| 5440 | Llocano, Hocano |
| 5450 | Bikol |
| 5460 | Pampangan |
| 5470 | Gorontalo |
| 5480 | Palau |
| 5501 | Micronesian |
| 5502 | Carolinian |
| 5503 | Chamorro, Guamanian |
| 5505 | Kusaiean |
| 5506 | Marshallese |
| 5507 | Mokilese |
| 5509 | Nauruan |
| 5510 | Ponapean |
| 5511 | Trukese |
| 5512 | Ulithean, Fais |
| 5513 | Woleai-Ulithi |
| 5514 | Yapese |
| 5520 | Melanesian |
| 5521 | Polynesian |
| 5522 | Samoan |
| 5523 | Tongan |
| 5525 | Tokelauan |
| 5526 | Fijian |
| 5527 | Marquesan |
| 5528 | Rarotongan |
| 5529 | Maori |
| 5530 | Nukuoro, Kapingarangan |
| 5600 | Hawaiian |
| 5700 | Arabic |
| 5810 | Syriac, Aramaic, Chaldean |
| 5900 | Hebrew, Israeli |
| 6000 | Amharic, Ethiopian, etc. |
| 6110 | Berber |
| 6120 | Chadic, Hamitic, Hausa |
| 6130 | Cushite, Beja, Somali |
| 6300 | Nilotic |
| 6301 | Nilo-Hamitic |
| 6302 | Nubian |
| 6303 | Saharan |
| 6306 | Sudanic |
| 6307 | Bantu (many subheads) |
| 6308 | Swahili |
| 6309 | Mande |
| 6310 | Fulani |
| 6311 | Gur |
| 6312 | Kru |
| 6313 | Efik, Ibibio, Tiv |
| 6314 | Mbum, Gbaya, Sango, Zande |
| 6400 | African, n.s. |
| 7000 | American Indian (all) |
| 9601 | Other n e c |
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 language that the respondent spoke at home, particularly (for 1980 on) if a language other than English was spoken.
Universe
United States 1980: Persons age 3+ [discrepancies: none]
concept
Concept
| var_concept.title | Vocabulary |
|---|---|
| Ethnicity and Language Variables -- PERSON | IPUMS |