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Language Spoken at Home--Cities of 100,000 or More: 2005 (Statistical Abstract 2008 Table 0054)

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The Statistical Abstract of the United States is the standard summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. It is also designed to serve as a guide to other statistical publications and sources. The latter function is served by the introductory text to each section, the source note appearing below each table, and Appendix I, which comprises the Guide to Sources of Statistics, the Guide to State Statistical Abstracts, and the Guide to Foreign Statistical Abstracts. This volume includes a selection of data from many statistical sources, both government and private. Publications cited as sources usually contain additional statistical detail and more comprehensive discussions of definitions and concepts. Data not available in publications issued by the contributing agency but obtained from the Internet or unpublished records are identified in the source notes. More information on the subjects covered in the tables so noted may generally be obtained from the source.

Although emphasis in the Statistical Abstract is primarily given to national data, many tables present data for regions and individual states and a smaller number for metropolitan areas and cities. Appendix II, Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas: Concepts, Components, and Population, presents explanatory text, a complete current listing and population data for metropolitan and micropolitan areas defined as of December 2005. Statistics for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and for island areas of the United States are included in many state tables and are supplemented by information in Section 29. Additional information for states, cities, counties, metropolitan areas, and other small units, as well as more historical data are available in various supplements to the Abstract.

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US Census Bureau source http://www.census.gov/statab/www

U.S. Census Bureau, Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2008 (127th Edition) Washington, DC, 2007; http://www.census.gov/statab/www/
Philip (flip) Kromer converted http://infochimp.org/flip
U.S. Census Bureau, http://factfinder.census.gov/

U.S. Census Bureau,

2005 American Community Survey;

B16005. Nativity by Language Spoken at Home by Ability to Speak English

for the Population 5 Years and Over;

using American FactFinder;

< http://factfinder.census.gov/ >;

(accessed: 4 January 2007).

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U.S. Census Bureau, http://www.census.gov/acs/www/

U.S. Census Bureau,

2005 American Community Survey;

B16005. Nativity by Language Spoken at Home by Ability to Speak English

for the Population 5 Years and Over;

using American FactFinder;

< http://factfinder.census.gov/ >;

(accessed: 4 January 2007).

For more information:

http://www…

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All US Census Bureau materials, regardless of the media, are entirely in the public domain. There are no user fees, site licenses, or any special agreements etc for the public or private use, and or reuse of any census title. As tax funded product, it’s all in the public record. Some of our products, however, are special cases. [...] The Statistical Abstract has some data covered by copyright law. Check the table’s footnotes to determine if the data are covered by copyright law.

File structure

The Statistical Abstract files are distributed by the census department as excel files. These files have data mixed with notes and references, multiple tables per sheet, and worst of all the table headers aren’t easily matched to their rows and columns. The excel files in this collection are unmolested copies of the census originals, with the following exceptions:

  1. A few files had extraneous characters in the title. These were corrected to be consistent. A few files have a sheet of crufty gibberish in the first slot. The sheet order was shuffled but no data were changed.

    The tables that were changed:

    0166 0257 0362 0429 0445 0446 0459 0461 0462 0464 0465 0466 0467 0469 0479 0480 0481 0482 0483 0484 0485 0486 0487 0559 0628 0629 1144 1227 1231

  1. The first four files have been restructured to allow full comprehension of the table. If you’d like to help clean up the data follow along with what’s there.

The CSV files, and the payload portions of the yaml files, have not been processed beyond extracting an array (excel sheets) of 2-D arrays (each sheet’s cells).

Some metadata (title, footnotes, symbols, and sources) has been copied (without molesting the imported stream) into the appropriate slot in this schema. This metadata identification was purposefully done to be strict and simple, and the original files are somewhat irregular, so it’s possible that some metadata fields were missed

These files have been tagged by hand and received cursory inspection, but you’re advised to check against the originals before you go lauching any Mars rovers.

Headnotes

[The American Community Survey universe is limited to the household population and excludes the population living in institutions, college dormitories, and other group quarters. Based on a sample and subject to sampling variability; see text, this section and Appendix III]

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State and Place FIPS code Population 5 years and over Percent of population 5 years and over Speak English less than “very well” Speak English less than “very well” Speak English less than “very well” Speak English less than “very well” Speak English less than “very well”
City English only
Number Number Number Number Number
Abilene city, Texas 4801000 95744 80532 15212 15.8882018717 4790 12177 3680 1363 453 1672 657 0 0
Akron city, Ohio 3901000 186287 176005 10282 5.51944043331 3146 2088 420 3697 1318 3511 1356 986 52
Albuquerque city, New Mexico 3502000 453096 318262 134834 29.7583735014 45353 111438 38134 7292 1574 7766 4885 8338 760
Alexandria city, Virginia 5101000 121315 82246 39069 32.2045913531 15868 15705 7323 8858 3352 4095 2036 10411 3157
Allentown city, Pennsylvania 4202000 97016 65663 31353 32.3173497155 15205 25174 12352 2126 544 1475 705 2578 1604
Amarillo city, Texas 4803000 160866 128360 32506 20.2068802606 12247 28920 10410 1534 599 1953 1238 99 0
Anaheim city, California 0602000 297467 122057 175410 58.9678855134 92291 132715 74673 9249 2941 29233 13605 4213 1072
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(accessed: 4 January 2007).

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0054

Year

2008

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