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Finding U.S. Census Bureau
Data on Languages and Origin
Susan Bauckus, NHLRC
July 17, 2012
We’ll find:
1) Total % of LOTE speakers + foreign
born
2) # of speakers of particular LOTEs in
a given area (nation, state, county,
city)
The American Community Survey’s
question re: language:
“Does this person speak a language other
than English at home?
[if yes] What is this language? ______
How well does this person speak
English?
-- very well, well, not well, not at all.”
Heritage language is a
family phenomenon
To find % of LOTE speakers and the foreignborn in a given area:
Go to “Quick Facts” on the Census Bureau’s
home page:
www.census.gov
From there go to “Quick Facts”
Look in “quick start” for 3 levels relevant
to you:
• State
• County
• Your city or a city in your county
Speakers of a Language other than English
at Home, age 5+, by percent
U.S.
20.1%
California Los
43%
Angeles
County
56.4%
Alhambra
City
74.2%
Concentrations often intensify in more urban
areas
To find tables listing particular LOTEs
(39 total listed), start at
American Fact Finder:
start @ www.census.gov, find link at
bottom of page
Type in Table # B16001 …
39 Languages/groups Included in Table B16001:
African languages
Arabic
Armenian
Chinese
French (incl. Patois, Cajun)
French Creole
German
Greek
Gujarati
Hebrew
Hindi
Hmong
Hungarian
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Laotian
Mon-Khmer, Cambodian
Navajo
Persian
Polish
Portuguese or Portuguese Creole
Russian
Scandinavian languages
Serbo-Croatian
Spanish or Spanish Creole
Speak only English
Tagalog
Thai
Urdu
Vietnamese
Yiddish
Other Asian languages
Other Indic languages
Other Indo-European languages
Other Native North American languages
Other Pacific Island languages
In this form the table is not
very useful.
Use Tutorial #2 on the
workshop’s demographics
page to delete some
components and reorder the
languages spoken from most
to least spoken.
1) Sort the LOTEs
alphabetically by using
the “sort” function
2) delete all the “speak
English well” and “not
well” entries
3) sort by the right-hand
column in descending
order.
This is what you will
end up with (after
adding heading). For
details see Tutorial #2.
More variation re: languages can
be observed in subdivisions of
urban areas, e.g., small cities
and census tracts.
Examples of Variation in a Large Urban Area: Most
Spoken LOTEs in Descending Order
Los Angeles County: English, Spanish, Chinese,
Tagalog, Korean, Armenian, Persian
Cities in Los Angeles County
West Hollywood – English, Russian, Spanish, French,
Persian
Glendale – Armenian, English, Spanish, Korean
Westminster – Vietnamese, English, Spanish,
Chinese, Arabic, Tagalog
Long Beach – English, Spanish, Khmer
Beverly Hills – English, Persian, Spanish, Hebrew
Alhambra – Chinese, English, Spanish, Vietnamese
Advocacy/explaining:
arguing for teacher ed
collaboration across langs
persuading admin., colleagues,
parents, kids, gen’l population
Internal/external
funding
Connecting the dots:
family ties
strengthening academic
skills
identity
HL as job skill
numbers
Publications:
academic and non-academic articles
public relations (brochures,
websites, etc.)
General cultural literacy
about nation/community as
part of HL education
Informing, justifying
decisions on languages for
HLL classes/programs
From: Walters & Trevelyan, The Newly Arrived Foreign-Born Population
of the United States: 2010 (2011), pp. 3-6.
About the future (from Walters &
Trevelyan (2011)):
“The data indicate that newer
immigrants may be choosing to
reside in locations beyond the
traditional ‘gateway’ states and
increasingly settling in states with
smaller foreign-born populations not
typically viewed as major immigrant
destinations.
“…. Of the six traditional gateway
states, three (California, Illinois,
and New York) had a lower
proportion of recent entrants than
the national average ….
Several states with histories of
lighter immigration had considerably higher proportions of recent
entrants.”
Non-traditional point-of-entry states w/ largest
foreign-born population entering in 2005 or later:
Alabama
Kentucky
Louisiana
Mississippi
North Dakota
South Dakota
West Virginia
Wyoming
Walters & Trevelyan, The Newly Arrived Foreign-Born Population of the United
States: 2010 (2011), pp. 3-6. http://www.census.gov/prod/2011pubs/ acsbr1016.pdf
Continuing robust immigration,
including movement into nontraditional “gateway” states, may
suggest the need for expanded and
increased HL education
For Information:
see NHLRC’s Demographics Page:
(search/find from nhlrc.ucla.edu)
has tutorials and links to U.S. Census Bureau pages,
Table numbers, and other information
Please send questions, comments,
and feedback to
[email protected]