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Mainstage Variable

ivintlang

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 labelValueAbsolute frequencyRelative frequency
missing-92727735.2%
english04979264.25%
arabic160.01%
bengali2730.09%
cantonese310.0%
gujarati4380.05%
punjabi - gurmukhi5330.04%
punjabi - urdu61260.16%
somali790.01%
urdu8910.12%
welsh9490.06%
Total77495100.0%

Value labelValueAbsolute frequencyRelative frequency
inapplicable-82957638.26%
english04726961.14%
arabic170.01%
bengali21010.13%
cantonese320.0%
gujarati4460.06%
punjabi: gurmukhi5400.05%
punjabi: urdu61460.19%
somali7130.02%
urdu81010.13%
welsh970.01%
Total77308100.0%

Value labelValueAbsolute frequencyRelative frequency
missing-9100.02%
inapplicable-85068892.89%
english038397.04%
arabic110.0%
bengali250.01%
gujarati440.01%
punjabi - gurmukhi540.01%
punjabi - urdu6100.02%
urdu860.01%
welsh910.0%
Total54568100.0%

Value labelValueAbsolute frequencyRelative frequency
inapplicable-832626.4%
english04726992.7%
arabic170.01%
bengali21010.2%
cantonese320.0%
gujarati4460.09%
punjabi: gurmukhi5400.08%
punjabi: urdu61460.29%
somali7130.03%
urdu81010.2%
welsh970.01%
Total50994100.0%

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