Language individual questionnaire completed in
Datafiles
Index term
Variable note:
In all waves except Wave 2, ivintlang is coded as 0 “English” when ivtrans is 2 “not translated”. However, in Wave 2, these cases when ivtrans = 2 “not translated” were miscoded as ivintlang = -8 “inapplicable”.
Question asked in the latest wave:
interviewerobs_w2.ivlang
Question label:
Language of translation
Question universe:
if IvTrans = 1 (Interview was translated)
Further details:
For further details about this question, please see the questionnaires
| Value label | Value | Absolute frequency | Relative frequency |
|---|---|---|---|
| missing | -9 | 27277 | 35.2% |
| english | 0 | 49792 | 64.25% |
| arabic | 1 | 6 | 0.01% |
| bengali | 2 | 73 | 0.09% |
| cantonese | 3 | 1 | 0.0% |
| gujarati | 4 | 38 | 0.05% |
| punjabi - gurmukhi | 5 | 33 | 0.04% |
| punjabi - urdu | 6 | 126 | 0.16% |
| somali | 7 | 9 | 0.01% |
| urdu | 8 | 91 | 0.12% |
| welsh | 9 | 49 | 0.06% |
| Total | 77495 | 100.0% |
| Value label | Value | Absolute frequency | Relative frequency |
|---|---|---|---|
| inapplicable | -8 | 29576 | 38.26% |
| english | 0 | 47269 | 61.14% |
| arabic | 1 | 7 | 0.01% |
| bengali | 2 | 101 | 0.13% |
| cantonese | 3 | 2 | 0.0% |
| gujarati | 4 | 46 | 0.06% |
| punjabi: gurmukhi | 5 | 40 | 0.05% |
| punjabi: urdu | 6 | 146 | 0.19% |
| somali | 7 | 13 | 0.02% |
| urdu | 8 | 101 | 0.13% |
| welsh | 9 | 7 | 0.01% |
| Total | 77308 | 100.0% |
| Value label | Value | Absolute frequency | Relative frequency |
|---|---|---|---|
| missing | -9 | 10 | 0.02% |
| inapplicable | -8 | 50688 | 92.89% |
| english | 0 | 3839 | 7.04% |
| arabic | 1 | 1 | 0.0% |
| bengali | 2 | 5 | 0.01% |
| gujarati | 4 | 4 | 0.01% |
| punjabi - gurmukhi | 5 | 4 | 0.01% |
| punjabi - urdu | 6 | 10 | 0.02% |
| urdu | 8 | 6 | 0.01% |
| welsh | 9 | 1 | 0.0% |
| Total | 54568 | 100.0% |
| Value label | Value | Absolute frequency | Relative frequency |
|---|---|---|---|
| inapplicable | -8 | 3262 | 6.4% |
| english | 0 | 47269 | 92.7% |
| arabic | 1 | 7 | 0.01% |
| bengali | 2 | 101 | 0.2% |
| cantonese | 3 | 2 | 0.0% |
| gujarati | 4 | 46 | 0.09% |
| punjabi: gurmukhi | 5 | 40 | 0.08% |
| punjabi: urdu | 6 | 146 | 0.29% |
| somali | 7 | 13 | 0.03% |
| urdu | 8 | 101 | 0.2% |
| welsh | 9 | 7 | 0.01% |
| Total | 50994 | 100.0% |
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