tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-232777626311457607.post6981905937865783121..comments2023-12-31T20:00:27.629-05:00Comments on Val Systems: Language Census DataJoFrhwldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07758410674075401468noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-232777626311457607.post-20616989397494551352011-08-07T11:08:03.744-04:002011-08-07T11:08:03.744-04:00Given that it's not possible to subdivide &quo...Given that it's not possible to subdivide "Chinese" into Mandarin and Cantonese, maybe it makes more sense to add the figures for Mandarin and Cantonese into the "Chinese" total data?AJDhttp://ling.upenn.edu/~dinkinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-232777626311457607.post-78038307962974815342011-01-20T17:25:17.467-05:002011-01-20T17:25:17.467-05:00Given that it's not possible to subdivide &quo...Given that it's not possible to subdivide "Chinese" into Mandarin and Cantonese, maybe it makes more sense to add the figures for Mandarin and Cantonese into the "Chinese" total data?AJDhttp://ling.upenn.edu/~dinkinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-232777626311457607.post-658998803765068352011-01-20T14:42:51.773-05:002011-01-20T14:42:51.773-05:00Among the Pennsylvania German-speaking “plain peop...Among the Pennsylvania German-speaking “plain people”, a higher degree of religious devoutness (which seems to correlate with higher use of Pennsylvania German in everyday life) correlates with a higher degree of fluent production of English. (That simplifies it a bit, but that’s the core of it.)<br /><br />There was an effort to count the plain people in last year’s census, but i don’t know if they’re sampled for the American Community Survey, and if they’re not we’re missing a large enough chunk of non-English-as-home-language speakers to possibly skew your results a bit (though probably not hugely).David Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12881388186547426677noreply@blogger.com