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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 54112
2 Akan (Ashanti) 281
3 Arabic 925
4 Bengali & Sylheti 1653
5 Cantonese 318
6 English-based Creoles 448
7 French 668
8 German 219
9 Greek 363
10 Gujarati 908
11 Hindi/Urdu 2466
12 Panjabi 1211
13 Polish 1039
14 Portuguese 533
15 Somali 703
16 Spanish 498
17 Turkish 584
18 Yoruba (Nigeria) 1100
19 Bulgarian 62
20 Cuthy 1
21 Iranian 10
22 Tagalog 91
23 Japanese 73
24 Lingala 20
25 Croatian 15
26 Slovak 36
27 Tamil 399
28 Farsi 77
29 Lithuanian 152
30 Malayalam 76
31 Hungarian 72
32 Phabi 0
33 Italian 303
34 Igbo 31
35 Kachi 2
36 Nepali 81
37 Chinese 80
38 Citrate 0
39 Kosovo 23
40 Mandarin 22
41 Shona 16
42 Maltese 18
43 Edo 1
44 Kriyo 2
45 Sikh 0
46 Burmese 6
47 Albanian 90
48 Pharsee 23
49 Lebanese 24
50 Singalese 22
51 Czech 5
52 Syrian 2
53 Russian 186
54 Egypt 4
55 Flemish 14
56 Agalo 0
57 Vietnamese 32
58 Iraqi 4
59 Macedonian 2
60 Inyala 0
61 Parsi 2
62 Thai 23
63 Bosnian 10
64 Tikranian 0
65 Venezuelan 1
66 Mende 2
67 Tigrinya 14
68 Swedish 30
69 Dari 12
70 Krobo 0
71 Lozi 0
72 Pashto 19
73 Swahili 55
74 Serbian 28
75 Scottish 4
76 Sri Lankan 31
77 Canada 0
78 Eritrean 16
79 Sotho / Sesotho 3
80 Gan (tu) 3
81 Twi 46
82 Hausa 10
83 Moroccan 5
84 Zimbabwean 14
85 Shashi 0
86 Hebrew 20
87 Ijaw 1
88 Kashmeeri 0
89 Afghani 25
90 Marathi 4
91 Dutch 50
92 Czech 33
93 African 10
94 Ndebele 1
95 Korean 33
96 Ghanaian 15
97 Indonesian 9
98 Finnish 15
99 Refused 284
100 Persian 17
101 Kurdish 20
102 Patua 18
103 Bube 2
104 Angolan 0
105 Turkish 0
106 Latvian 15
107 Yiddish 4
108 Wollof 5
109 Luganda 11
110 Mongolian 6
111 Runyoro / Nyoro 2
112 Dodi 0
113 Israeli 3
114 Slovene 6
115 Ugandan 9
116 Amharic 26
117 Philippine 97
118 Romanian 156
119 Pushto 8
120 Ukrainian 13
121 Armenian 4
122 Bemba 1
123 Telugo 42
124 Kalabari 2
125 Ilocano 0
126 Yugoslavian 5
127 Sudanese 7
128 Norwegian 11
129 Amrice 2
130 Eritrean 1
131 Kechi 0
132 Tulu 0
133 Irish 3
134 Welsh 8
135 Zambian 0
136 Sindhi 4
137 Bangla 16
138 Jamaican 16
139 Konkani 1
140 Kanti 2
141 Nyubi 1
142 Kikiga 1
143 Ibani 0
144 Ewe 1
145 Estonian 6
146 Cypriot 17
147 Bini 1
148 Congolese 4
149 Brazilian 8
150 Danish 18
151 Tingali 3
152 Yemeni 2
153 Santi 3
154 Creyo 1
155 Memoni 2
156 Urdu 1
157 Nibo 1
158 Trinidad and Tobago 1
159 Wuoful 0
160 Marathi 2
161 Afrikaans 5
162 Tiv 2
163 Arabic 3
164 Ibo 10
165 Austrian 3
166 Sekiri / Isekiri / itsekiri 2
167 Nigerian 7
168 Twa 1
169 Guarati 0
170 South African 3
171 Uzbek 0
172 Mandingo 3
173 Icelandic 0
174 Mauritian 10
175 Fijian 3
177 Ateso 2
178 Zulu 7
179 Akan 2
180 Luo 2
181 Sinhala / Sinhalese 24
182 Georgian 8
183 Oromo 2
184 Tongan 3
185 Ta Sara / Sara Kaba 1
186 Maleng 1
187 Manta 1
188 Bangolan 1
189 Uzbek 1
190 Kinyarwanda / Rwanda 1
191 Malay 8
192 Sanskrit 5
193 Kanada 2
194 Teanu 1
195 GA / Accra / Acra / Gain 1
196 Xhosa / Xosa / Isixhosa / Koosa / Cauzuh 0
197 French based Creoles 2
198 Altaic language 1
199 Fula / Fullah 2
200 Azerbaijani 0
995 Other 0
998 Refused 0
Sysmiss 25605
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationMetropolitan Police Public Attitudes Surveys, 2000-2017
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