Finding U.S. Census Bureau Data on Languages and Origin Susan Bauckus, NHLRC July 17, 2012
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Finding U.S. Census Bureau Data on Languages and Origin
Susan Bauckus, NHLRCJuly 17, 2012
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We’ll find:
1) Total % of LOTE speakers + foreign born
2) # of speakers of particular LOTEs in a given area (nation, state, county, city)
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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.”
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Heritage language is a family phenomenon
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To find % of LOTE speakers and the foreign- born in a given area:
Go to “Quick Facts” on the Census Bureau’s home page:
www.census.gov
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From there go to “Quick Facts”Look in “quick start” for 3 levels relevantto you:
• State• County• Your city or a city in your county
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Speakers of a Language other than English at Home, age 5+, by percentU.S. 20.1%
California43%
Los Angeles County 56.4%
Alhambra City 74.2%
Concentrations often intensify in more urban areas
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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 …
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African languagesArabicArmenianChineseFrench (incl. Patois, Cajun)French CreoleGermanGreekGujaratiHebrewHindiHmongHungarianItalianJapaneseKoreanLaotianMon-Khmer, CambodianNavajoPersian
PolishPortuguese or Portuguese CreoleRussianScandinavian languagesSerbo-CroatianSpanish or Spanish CreoleSpeak only EnglishTagalogThaiUrduVietnameseYiddishOther Asian languagesOther Indic languagesOther Indo-European languagesOther Native North American languagesOther Pacific Island languages
39 Languages/groups Included in Table B16001:
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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.
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1) Sort the LOTEs alphabetically by using the “sort” function
2) delete all the “speakEnglish 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.
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More variation re: languages can be observed in subdivisions of urban areas, e.g., small cities and census tracts.
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Examples of Variation in a Large Urban Area: Most Spoken LOTEs in Descending OrderLos Angeles County: English, Spanish, Chinese, Tagalog, Korean, Armenian, Persian Cities in Los Angeles CountyWest Hollywood – English, Russian, Spanish, French, Persian Glendale – Armenian, English, Spanish, Korean Westminster – Vietnamese, English, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, TagalogLong Beach – English, Spanish, KhmerBeverly Hills – English, Persian, Spanish, HebrewAlhambra – Chinese, English, Spanish, Vietnamese
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numbers
Connecting the dots: family ties strengthening academic skills identity HL as job skill
Advocacy/explaining: arguing for teacher ed collaboration across langs persuading admin., colleagues, parents, kids, gen’l population
Internal/external funding
Publications: academic and non-academic articles public relations (brochures, websites, etc.)
Informing, justifying decisions on languages for HLL classes/programs
General cultural literacyabout nation/community aspart of HL education
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From: Walters & Trevelyan, The Newly Arrived Foreign-Born Population of the United States: 2010 (2011), pp. 3-6.
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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.
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“…. 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 consider ably higher proportions of recent entrants.”
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Non-traditional point-of-entry states w/ largest foreign-born population entering in 2005 or later:
Alabama Kentucky Louisiana MississippiNorth 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/ acsbr10-16.pdf
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Continuing robust immigration, including movement into non-traditional “gateway” states, may suggest the need for expanded and increased HL education
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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