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Tutorial #1

Tutorial #1 Generating Tables from the American Community Survey/U.S. Census Bureau on Language and Origin Susie Bauckus National Heritage Language Resource Center June 25, 2014.

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Tutorial #1

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  1. Tutorial #1 Generating Tables from the American Community Survey/U.S. Census Bureau on Language and Origin Susie Bauckus National Heritage Language Resource Center June 25, 2014

  2. Note: use this tutorial to find any table (see our Demographics web page to find a list of relevant tables) except for Table 1 (detailed languages) or “Quick Facts”

  3. Let’s say we want to know about LOTEs spoken in Los Angeles County, Alhambra, and Glendale, California

  4. To start: go to the American Community Survey’s portal: • http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/searchresults.xhtml?refresh=t

  5. Type in B16001 (Languages Spoken at Home) or B5006 for (Place of Birth for the Foreign Born). Type in as many geographies as you want; press enter or “GO” after each one

  6. You can see your search terms here

  7. Check the appropriate box(s) for the estimate(s) you want to see Important: if your geographies have fewer than 300,000 people, only the 5-year estimates will give results. If your target geographies have higher populations, try any estimate.

  8. Check table/s you want and Click “view” or on table title Important: if your geographies have fewer than 300,000 people, only the 5-year estimates will give results. if your geographies are larger, you can try any estimate.

  9. Table B16001 includes figures on how speakers rate their English abilities

  10. 39 Languages/groups Included in Table B16001: Polish Portuguese or Portuguese Creole Russian Scandinavian languages Serbo-Croatian Spanish or Spanish Creole Speak only English Tagalog Thai Urdu Vietnamese Yiddish Other Asian languages Other Indic languages Other Indo-European languages Other Native North American languages Other Pacific Island languages African languages Arabic Armenian Chinese French (incl. Patois, Cajun) French Creole German Greek Gujarati Hebrew Hindi Hmong Hungarian Italian Japanese Korean Laotian Mon-Khmer, Cambodian Navajo Persian

  11. Other language/origin-related tables: • DP02 (Selected Social Characteristics) • B05006 (Place of Birth for the Foreign Born) • B04001, B04002, B04003 (First, Second, and Any Ancestry Reported, respectively)

  12. Feedback and questions are welcome: contact sbauckus@international.ucla.edu

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