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Language Statistics 2013
2013 American Community Survey - Table Packages: Detailed Language Spoken in the U.S.
- Example Call: Shows the number of Spanish speakers in 2013 in California:
api.census.gov/data/2013/language?get=EST,LANLABEL,NAME&for=state:06&LAN=625
- 2013 ACS Language Variables [ html | xml | json ]
- Examples and Supported Geography
Additional language codes in API
| LAN7 | LANLABEL |
|---|---|
| 1 | Population 5 years and over |
| 2 | Speak only English |
| 3 | Speak a language other than English at home |
| 4 | SPANISH AND SPANISH CREOLE |
| 5 | OTHER INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES |
| 6 | ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLAND LANGUAGES |
| 7 | ALL OTHER LANGUAGES |
| LAN39 | LANLABEL |
|---|---|
| 1 | SPANISH AND SPANISH CREOLE |
| 2 | French (incl. Patois, Cajun) |
| 3 | French Creole |
| 4 | Italian |
| 5 | Portuguese (incl. Portuguese Creole) |
| 6 | German (incl. Luxembourgian) |
| 7 | Yiddish |
| 8 | Other West Germanic languages |
| 9 | Scandinavian languages |
| 10 | Greek |
| 11 | Russian |
| 12 | Polish |
| 13 | Serbo-Croatian languages |
| 14 | Other Slavic languages |
| 15 | Armenian |
| 16 | Persian |
| 17 | Hindi |
| 18 | Gujarati |
| 19 | Urdu |
| 20 | Other Indic languages |
| 21 | Other Indo-European languages |
| 22 | Chinese (incl. Cantonese, Mandarin, other Chinese languages) |
| 23 | Japanese |
| 24 | Korean |
| 25 | Mon-Khmer, Cambodian |
| 26 | Hmong |
| 27 | Thai |
| 28 | Laotian |
| 29 | Vietnamese |
| 30 | Other Asian languages |
| 31 | Tagalog |
| 32 | Other Pacific Island languages |
| 33 | Navajo |
| 34 | Other Native North American languages |
| 35 | Hungarian |
| 36 | Arabic |
| 37 | Hebrew |
| 38 | African languages |
| 39 | Other and unspecified languages |
| Flag | Description |
|---|---|
| (D) | Data withheld to avoid disclosure |
| (B) | Either no sample observations or too few sample observations were available to compute an estimate. |
| (X) | Question does not apply. |
| -- | Either no sample observations or too few sample observations were available to compute a standard error and thus the margin of error. A statistical test is not appropriate. |
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