Census for Ireland for the Year 1901 - IPUMS Subset

Ireland, 1901

Get Microdata

Reference ID

IRL_1901_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

The National Archives of Ireland, IPUMS

Metadata

DDI/XML JSON

Study website

Created on

Sep 03, 2025

Last modified

Sep 03, 2025

Page views

162

Language (string) (IE1901A_LANGSTR)

Data file: IRL1901_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Continuous

Start: 271

End: 287

Width: 17

Range: -

Format: character

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Form A. - Return of the members of this family and their visitors, boarders, servants who slept or abode in this house on the night of Sunday, the 31st of March, 1901.</p>

<p><span class="em">12. Irish language </span><div class="i1">Write the word Irish in this column opposite the name of each person who speaks Irish only, and the words Irish and English opposite the names of those who can speak both languages. In other cases no entry should be made in this column.<br /><br />Irish language ____</div>

Description

Definition

This variable indicates the language or languages spoken by the person as written on the enumeration form.

Universe

Ireland 1901: All persons

concept

Concept

Imputation and derivation

Derivation

This is a 17-digit numeric variable with 0 implied decimal places

Back to Catalog