1990 Census of Population and Housing - IPUMS Subset

United States, 1990

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Reference ID

USA_1990_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

U.S. Census Bureau, IPUMS

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Speaks English (SPEAKENG)

Data file: USA1990_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 113

End: 113

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category
1	Yes
2	No
7	Does not speak
8	Unknown
9	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.

Description

Definition

SPEAKENG indicates whether the respondent could speak English or if English was the respondent's language of literacy.

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Concept

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

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