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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Metropolitan Police Public Attitudes Surveys, 2000-2017

Variable Details

VariableUQ147
LabelUQ147 What language do you consider to be your first language?
Responses
1 English 18525
2 Akan (Ashanti) 16
3 Arabic 365
4 Bengali & Sylheti 512
5 Cantonese 79
6 English-based Creoles 3
7 French 304
8 German 102
9 Greek 122
10 Gujarati 276
11 Hindi/Urdu 828
12 Panjabi 348
13 Polish 449
14 Portuguese 260
15 Somali 242
16 Spanish 227
17 Turkish 208
18 Yoruba (Nigeria) 71
19 Bulgarian 82
20 Cuthy 0
21 Iranian 5
22 Tagalog 32
23 Japanese 36
24 Lingala 10
25 Croatian 4
26 Slovak 30
27 Tamil 258
28 Farsi 64
29 Lithuanian 96
30 Malayalam 38
31 Hungarian 59
32 Phabi 1
33 Italian 198
34 Igbo 8
35 Kachi 0
36 Nepali 64
37 Chinese 77
38 Citrate 0
39 Kosovo 6
40 Mandarin 31
41 Shona 11
42 Maltese 6
43 Edo 1
44 Kriyo 0
45 Sikh 0
46 Burmese 13
47 Albanian 69
48 Pharsee 7
49 Lebanese 0
50 Singalese 10
51 Czech 17
52 Syrian 0
53 Russian 105
54 Egypt 1
55 Flemish 1
56 Agalo 0
57 Vietnamese 33
58 Iraqi 2
59 Macedonian 1
60 Inyala 0
61 Parsi 3
62 Thai 32
63 Bosnian 5
64 Tikranian 0
65 Venezuelan 1
66 Mende 0
67 Tigrinya 10
68 Swedish 29
69 Dari 9
70 Krobo 0
71 Lozi 1
72 Pashto 22
73 Swahili 21
74 Serbian 13
75 Scottish 1
76 Sri Lankan 9
77 Canada 1
78 Eritrean 2
79 Sotho / Sesotho 0
80 Gan (tu) 0
81 Twi 29
82 Hausa 2
83 Moroccan 5
84 Zimbabwean 2
85 Shashi 0
86 Hebrew 19
87 Ijaw 0
88 Kashmeeri 0
89 Afghani 4
90 Marathi 3
91 Dutch 22
92 Czech 0
93 African 11
94 Ndebele 1
95 Korean 72
96 Ghanaian 6
97 Indonesian 4
98 Finnish 7
99 Refused 0
100 Persian 40
101 Kurdish 27
102 Patua 0
103 Bube 0
104 Angolan 1
105 Turkish 0
106 Latvian 48
107 Yiddish 4
108 Wollof 2
109 Luganda 3
110 Mongolian 2
111 Runyoro / Nyoro 0
112 Dodi 0
113 Israeli 2
114 Slovene 1
115 Ugandan 4
116 Amharic 18
117 Philippine 62
118 Romanian 156
119 Pushto 17
120 Ukrainian 12
121 Armenian 2
122 Bemba 1
123 Telugo 16
124 Kalabari 0
125 Ilocano 0
126 Yugoslavian 0
127 Sudanese 0
128 Norwegian 7
129 Amrice 2
130 Eritrean 0
131 Kechi 1
132 Tulu 0
133 Irish 3
134 Welsh 10
135 Zambian 0
136 Sindhi 3
137 Bangla 0
138 Jamaican 0
139 Konkani 6
140 Kanti 0
141 Nyubi 1
142 Kikiga 0
143 Ibani 0
144 Ewe 1
145 Estonian 4
146 Cypriot 3
147 Bini 1
148 Congolese 1
149 Brazilian 2
150 Danish 17
151 Tingali 3
152 Yemeni 0
153 Santi 0
154 Creyo 2
155 Memoni 1
156 Urdu 16
157 Nibo 1
158 Trinidad and Tobago 0
159 Wuoful 1
160 Marathi 0
161 Afrikaans 8
162 Tiv 0
163 Arabic 0
164 Ibo 10
165 Austrian 0
166 Sekiri / Isekiri / itsekiri 3
167 Nigerian 5
168 Twa 0
169 Guarati 1
170 South African 1
171 Uzbek 2
172 Mandingo 4
173 Icelandic 3
174 Mauritian 3
175 Fijian 1
177 Ateso 0
178 Zulu 0
179 Akan 0
180 Luo 6
181 Sinhala / Sinhalese 14
182 Georgian 2
183 Oromo 0
184 Tongan 0
185 Ta Sara / Sara Kaba 0
186 Maleng 0
187 Manta 0
188 Bangolan 1
189 Uzbek 0
190 Kinyarwanda / Rwanda 1
191 Malay 4
192 Sanskrit 0
193 Kanada 3
194 Teanu 0
195 GA / Accra / Acra / Gain 2
196 Xhosa / Xosa / Isixhosa / Koosa / Cauzuh 0
197 French based Creoles 0
198 Altaic language 1
199 Fula / Fullah 1
200 Azerbaijani 0
995 Other 163
998 Refused 258
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationMetropolitan Police Public Attitudes Surveys, 2000-2017
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