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Survey: Census 1990
| Data Source: | U.S. Census Bureau |
Data set: Summary Tape File 3 (STF3)
| Table: | P31. Language Spoken At Home [27] |
Universe: Persons 5 years and over
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Relevant Documentation:
| Excerpt from: | Social Explorer, U.S. Census Bureau; Census of Population and Housing, 1990: Summary Tape File 3 on CD-ROM [machine-readable data files] / prepared by the Bureau of the Census. Washington: The Bureau [producer and distributor], 1991. |
| Summary Tape File 3 -> Appendix B. Definitions of Subject Characteristics -> Population Characteristics -> Language Spoken At Home and Ability to Speak English -> Household Language |
In households where one or more persons (age 5 years old or over) speak a language other than English, the household language assigned to all household members is the non-English language spoken by the first person with a non-English language in the following order:
householder, spouse, parent, sibling, child, grandchild, other relative, stepchild, unmarried partner, housemate or roommate, roomer, boarder, or foster child, or other nonrelative. Thus, persons who speak only English may have a non-English household language assigned to them in tabulations of persons by household language.
householder, spouse, parent, sibling, child, grandchild, other relative, stepchild, unmarried partner, housemate or roommate, roomer, boarder, or foster child, or other nonrelative. Thus, persons who speak only English may have a non-English household language assigned to them in tabulations of persons by household language.
| Figure 1. Four- and Twenty-Five-Group Classifications of 1990 Census Languages Spoken at Home with Illustrative Examples | ||
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| Four-Group Classification | Twenty-Five-Group Classification | Examples |
| Spanish Other Indo-European | Spanish | Spanish, Ladino |
| French | French, Cajun,French Creole | |
| Italian | ||
| Portuguese | ||
| German | ||
| Yiddish | ||
| Other West | Afrikaans, Dutch, | |
| Germanic | Pennsylvania Dutch | |
| Scandanavian | Danish, Norwegian, Swedish | |
| Polish | ||
| Russian | ||
| South Slavic | Serbocroatian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Slovene | |
| Other Slavic | Czech, Slovak, Ukranian | |
| Greek | ||
| Indic | Hindi, Bengali, Gujarathi, Punjabi, Romany, Sinhalese | |
| Other Indo European, | Armenian, Gaelic, | |
| not elsewhere classified | Lithuanian, Persian | |
| Languages of Asia and the Pacific | Chinese | |
| Japanese | ||
| Mon-Khmer | Cambodian | |
| Tagalog | ||
| Korean | ||
| Vietnamese | ||
| Other languages | Chamorro, Dravidian | |
| (part) | Languages, Hawaiian, | |
| Ilocano, Thai, Turkish | ||
| All other languages | Arabic | |
| Hungarian | ||
| Native North | ||
| American languages | ||
| Other languages | Amharic, Syriac, | |
| (part) | Finnish, Hebrew, | |
| Languages of | ||
| Central and South | ||
| America, Other | ||
| Languages of Africa | ||
