2000 Census of Population and Housing - IPUMS Subset
United States, 2000
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Reference ID
USA_2000_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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U.S. Census Bureau, IPUMS
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- USA2000_PHC-H-H.dat
- USA2000_PHC-P-H.dat
Language spoken (US2000A_LANGUAGE)
Data file: USA2000_PHC-P-H.dat
Overview
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
310
End:
313
Width:
4
Range:
-
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
<svar a="all" v="US00A064 US00A438"><span class="em">11. a. Does this person speak a language other than English at home?</span><br /><div class="i1">[] Yes<br />[] No [go on to question 12]</div><br /><br /><span class="em">11. b. What is this language?</span><br /><div class="i1">____<br /><br />(For example: Korean, Italian, Spanish, Vietnamese)</div><br /></svar>
Categories
| Value | Category |
|---|---|
| 0000 | NIU |
| 0100 | English |
| 0110 | Jamaican Creole |
| 0200 | German |
| 0240 | Pennsylvania Dutch |
| 0300 | Yiddish, Jewish |
| 0410 | Dutch, Flemish, Belgian |
| 0420 | Afrikaans |
| 0500 | Swedish |
| 0600 | Danish |
| 0700 | Norwegian |
| 0800 | Icelandic |
| 1000 | Italian |
| 1110 | French, Walloon |
| 1130 | Patois |
| 1140 | French or Haitian Creole |
| 1150 | Cajun |
| 1200 | Spanish |
| 1300 | Portuguese |
| 1400 | Rumanian |
| 1540 | Irish Gaelic, Gaelic |
| 1600 | Greek |
| 1700 | Albanian |
| 1810 | Russian, Great Russian |
| 1900 | Ukrainian, Ruthenian, Little Russian |
| 2000 | Czech |
| 2100 | Polish |
| 2200 | Slovak |
| 2300 | Serbo-Croatian, Yugoslavian, Slavonian |
| 2310 | Croatian |
| 2320 | Serbian |
| 2500 | Lithuanian |
| 2510 | Lettish |
| 2610 | Bulgarian |
| 2630 | Macedonian |
| 2800 | Armenian |
| 2900 | Persian, Iranian, Farssi |
| 3020 | Kurdish |
| 3101 | Hindi, Hindustani, Indic, Jaipuri, Pali, Urdu |
| 3111 | Sanskrit |
| 3112 | Bengali |
| 3113 | Panjabi |
| 3114 | Marathi |
| 3115 | Gujarathi |
| 3123 | Sinhalese |
| 3130 | Kannada |
| 3150 | Pakistan n e c |
| 3300 | Finnish |
| 3400 | Magyar, Hungarian |
| 3600 | Turkish |
| 4003 | Telugu |
| 4004 | Malayalam |
| 4005 | Tamil |
| 4010 | Bhili |
| 4011 | Nepali |
| 4301 | Chinese, Cantonese, Min, Yueh |
| 4303 | Mandarin |
| 4313 | Hsiang, Chansa, Hunan, Iyan |
| 4410 | Miao-Yao |
| 4420 | Miao, Hmong |
| 4500 | Burmese, Lisu, Lolo |
| 4700 | Thai, Siamese, Lao |
| 4800 | Japanese |
| 4900 | Korean |
| 5000 | Vietnamese |
| 5110 | Ainu |
| 5120 | Mon-Khmer, Cambodian |
| 5200 | Indonesian |
| 5270 | Malay |
| 5310 | Formosan, Taiwanese |
| 5400 | Filipino, Tagalog |
| 5410 | Bisayan |
| 5440 | Llocano, Hocano |
| 5503 | Chamorro, Guamanian |
| 5522 | Samoan |
| 5523 | Tongan |
| 5600 | Hawaiian |
| 5700 | Arabic |
| 5810 | Syriac, Aramaic, Chaldean |
| 5900 | Hebrew, Israeli |
| 6000 | Amharic, Ethiopian, etc. |
| 6130 | Cushite, Beja, Somali |
| 6307 | Bantu (many subheads) |
| 6308 | Swahili |
| 6309 | Mande |
| 6310 | Fulani |
| 6312 | Kru |
| 6400 | African, n.s. |
| 7160 | Yupik |
| 7200 | Algonquian |
| 7420 | Apache |
| 7500 | Navajo |
| 8104 | Dakota, Lakota, Nakota, Sioux |
| 8220 | Choctaw, Chickasaw |
| 8300 | Keres |
| 8480 | Cherokee |
| 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.
Universe
United States 2000: Persons age 5+ [discrepancies: none]
concept
Concept
| var_concept.title | Vocabulary |
|---|---|
| Ethnicity and Language Variables -- PERSON | IPUMS |