language spoken at home (u.s. census)

Language Spoken at Home is a data set published by the United States Census Bureau on languages in the United States. In 2000 and 1990 it was a part of Summary File 3, collected from the long-form questionnaire which was distributed to 1 out of 6 households. The data set by governments and other organizations in determining which languages to use in a specific geographic area, for instance in voting machines, literature for voters, and material for public libraries. The published data are for 30 languages, chosen for their nationwide distribution, and 10 language groupings (see list below). Data from households which report languages other than the 30 are reported under the language groupings. Thus, languages which are widespread in certain areas of the country but not nationally get put together, even in block level data. Albanian, Lithuanian, and Welsh are simply "Other Indo-European languages," Yoruba and Somali are simply "African languages," and Indonesian and Syriac are simply "Other Asian languages." Several locally very well-represented languages, such as Punjabi and Pennsylvania German, are collated into smaller groupings. Native North American languages besides Navajo are also collated, though they are reported on several geographic levels in another data set.

Languages and language groupings

English
Spanish or Spanish Creole
French (incl. Patois, Cajun)
Italian
Portuguese or Portuguese Creole
German
Yiddish
Other West Germanic languages (besides German and Yiddish)
Scandinavian languages
Greek
Russian
Polish
Serbo-Croatian
Other Slavic languages (besides Russian, Polish, and Serbo-Croatian)
Armenian
Persian
Telugu
Gujarathi
Hindi
Urdu
Other Indic languages (besides Telugu, Gujarathi, Hindi, and Urdu)
Other Indo-European languages (besides the above 17 languages and 3 groupings)
Chinese
Japanese
Korean
Mon-Khmer, Cambodian
Miao, Hmong
Thai
Laotian
Vietnamese
Other Asian languages (besides the above 8 languages)
Navajo
Other Native North American languages
Hungarian
Arabic
Hebrew
African languages
Other and unspecified languages

Language Spoken At Home (U.s. Census)

Languages and language groupings

See also