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Census of Population and Housing 2000 - IPUMS Subset

Puerto Rico, 2000
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PRI_2000_PHC_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Linguistic isolation (PR2000A_0063)

Data file: PRI2000-H-H

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 201
End: 201
Width: 1
Range: -
Format:

Questions and instructions

Literal question
11.a. Does this person speak a language other than English at home?

[] Yes
[] No -- Skip to 12

11.b. What is this language?

____

(For example: Korean, Italian, Spanish, Vietnamese)



11.c. How well does this person speak English?

[] Very well
[] Well
[] Not well
[] Not at all
Categories
Value Category
1 Not linguistically isolated
2 Linguistically isolated
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
This variable indicates linguistically isolated households, in which either no person age 14+ speaks only English at home, or no person age 14+ who speaks a language other than English at home speaks English "Very well".
Universe
Private occupied households

concept

Concept
Name Vocabulary
Other Household Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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