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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Metropolitan Police Public Attitudes Surveys, 2000-2017

Variable Details

Variableold_UQ147
LabelUQ147: What language do you consider to be your first language?
Responses
1 English 9708
2 Akan (Ashanti) 27
3 Arabic 105
4 Bengali & Sylheti 329
5 Cantonese 24
6 English - based Creoles 33
7 French 83
8 German 28
9 Greek 44
10 Gujarati 127
11 Hindi/Urdu 449
12 Punjabi 146
13 Polish 143
14 Portuguese 55
15 Somali 79
16 Spanish 69
17 Turkish 76
18 Yoruba (Nigeria) 144
19 Bulgarian 6
20 Cuthy 1
21 Iranian 1
22 Tagalog 17
23 Japanese 11
24 Lingala 2
25 Croatian 11
26 Slovak 3
27 Tamil 59
28 Farsi 9
29 Lithuanian 10
30 Malayalam 11
31 Hungarian 6
32 Phabi 1
33 Italian 41
34 Igbo 7
35 Kachi 2
36 Nepalese 5
37 Chinese 13
38 Citrate 2
39 Kosovo 3
40 Mandarin 4
41 Shona 6
42 Maltese 2
43 Edo 3
44 Kriyo 5
45 Sikh 1
46 Burmese 4
47 Albanian 15
48 Pharsee 5
49 Lebanese 3
50 Singhalese 3
51 Lzech 1
52 Syrian 1
53 Russian 11
54 Egypt 3
55 4
56 Agalo 1
57 Vietnamese 6
58 Iraqi 1
59 Macedonian 1
60 Inyala 1
61 Parsi 1
62 Thai 2
63 Bosnian 1
64 Tikranian 2
65 Venezuela 1
66 Mende 1
67 Tigrinya 2
68 Swedish 3
69 Dari 2
70 Krobo 1
71 Lozi 1
72 Pashto 1
73 Swahili 7
74 Serbian 3
76 Sri Lanken 2
77 Canada 1
78 Erythrea 1
80 Gan (tu) 1
81 Twi 4
82 Hausa 1
83 Moroccan 2
84 Bengali 17
85 Shashi 1
86 Hebrew 1
88 Kashmeeri 1
89 Afghani 3
90 Mahrathi 1
91 Dutch 5
92 Czech 3
93 African 2
94 Ndebele 1
95 Korean 3
96 Ghanaian 1
97 Indonesian 0
99 Refused 86
100 Persian 1
101 Philippine 4
102 Ahmaric 2
103 Welsh 2
104 Itshekiri 1
105 Ebira 1
106 Romanian 2
107 Kurdish 2
108 Armenian 2
109 Zimbabwe 1
110 Kalabari 1
111 Ukranian 1
112 Tigrigna 2
113 Shanti 0
114 Cypriot 1
115 Sindhi 1
Sysmiss 85125
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationMetropolitan Police Public Attitudes Surveys, 2000-2017
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