1970 Census of Population and Housing - IPUMS Subset
United States, 1970
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Reference ID
USA_1970_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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U.S. Census Bureau, IPUMS
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- USA1970_PHC-H-H.dat
- USA1970_PHC-P-H.dat
Mother tongue (US1970A_MTONGUE)
Data file: USA1970_PHC-P-H.dat
Overview
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
253
End:
256
Width:
4
Range:
-
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
<svar a="all" v="US70A435">[15 %]<br /><span class="em">17. What language, other than English, was spoken in this person's home when he was a child?</span> Fill one circle.<br /><div class="i1">[] Spanish<br />[] French<br />[] German<br />[] Other (Specify)_____<br /> [] None, English only</div><br /><br /><div class="i1">"If more than one language other than English was spoken, mark principal language."</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 |
| 0800 | Icelandic |
| 1000 | Italian |
| 1100 | French |
| 1200 | Spanish |
| 1220 | Ladino, Sefaradit, Spanol |
| 1300 | Portuguese |
| 1400 | Rumanian |
| 1510 | Welsh, Breton, Cornish |
| 1540 | Irish Gaelic, Gaelic |
| 1570 | Scottish Gaelic |
| 1600 | Greek |
| 1700 | Albanian |
| 1810 | Russian, Great Russian |
| 1820 | Bielo-, White 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 |
| 4310 | Other Chinese |
| 4400 | Tibetan |
| 4500 | Burmese, Lisu, Lolo |
| 4700 | Thai, Siamese, Lao |
| 4800 | Japanese |
| 4900 | Korean |
| 5000 | Vietnamese |
| 5100 | Other East/Southeast Asian |
| 5200 | Indonesian |
| 5300 | Other Malayan |
| 5400 | Filipino, Tagalog |
| 5500 | Miconesian, Polynesian |
| 5600 | Hawaiian |
| 5700 | Arabic |
| 5710 | Algerian, Moroccan, Tunisian |
| 5720 | Egyptian |
| 5730 | Iraqi, Chaldean-70 |
| 5740 | Libyan |
| 5750 | Maltese |
| 5800 | Near East Arabic dialect |
| 5900 | Hebrew, Israeli |
| 6000 | Amharic, Ethiopian, etc. |
| 6100 | Hamitic |
| 6320 | Eastern Sudanic and Khoisan |
| 6321 | Niger-Congo regions (many subheads) |
| 6322 | Congo, Kongo, Luba, Ruanda, Rundi, Santali, Swa |
| 6400 | African, n.s. |
| 7100 | Aleut, Eskimo |
| 7200 | Algonquian |
| 7300 | Salish, Flathead |
| 7400 | Athapascan |
| 7500 | Navajo |
| 7600 | Penutian-Sahaptin |
| 7800 | Zuni |
| 7900 | Yuman |
| 8100 | Siouan languages |
| 8200 | Muskogean |
| 8300 | Keres |
| 8400 | Iroquoian |
| 8500 | Caddoan |
| 8600 | Shoshonean/Hopi |
| 8700 | Pima, Papago |
| 8900 | Aztecan, Nahuatl, Uto-Aztecan |
| 9000 | Tanoan languages |
| 9300 | American Indian, n.s., Tlingit-70 |
| 9601 | Other (not classified) |
| 9602 | Other (not specified) |
| 9900 | Unknown |
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 mother tongue of individual.
Universe
United States 1970: All persons
concept
Concept
| var_concept.title | Vocabulary |
|---|---|
| Ethnicity and Language Variables -- PERSON | IPUMS |