What language(s) do you speak at home? PLEASE FILL IN At home, I speak... Second response
Language spoken at home, second response · Asked in 2 waves, 1996–2004 · 247 responses · weighted estimates computed from individual responses
Shares of people who gave an answer. Each column is one wave, evenly spaced rather than to scale in time; hover for exact shares.
Shares of people who gave an answer. Groups with an effective sample under 50 in a wave are left out of that wave.
| Poll | Field dates | Mode | Respondents | Responses |
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| General Social Survey 2004 | 2004-08-18 to 2005-01-04 | face to face | 2,812 | 164 |
| General Social Survey 1996 | 1996-02-01 to 1996-05-25 | face to face | 2,904 | 83 |
| Group | English | Spanish | Polish | French | Hebrew | Russian | Tagalog | Chinese | Italian | Romanian | German | Hungarian | Navajo | Malayam | Arabic | Farsi-persian | Serbian | Lithuanian | Gujarati | Slovak | Japanese | Portuguese | Vietnamese | Norwegian | Latin | Hindu | Swedish | Vesaya | American sign language | Oriya | Hnong | Pangasian | Macednian | Hawaiian | Fulani | Greek | Cajun | n | MoE | |
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| All respondents | 25% | 42% | 0% | 2% | 1% | 0% | 6% | 3% | 1% | 0% | 2% | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0% | 1% | – | 2% | 0% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 3% | 1% | 0% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 2% | 0% | 164 | ±9 | |
| Democrats † | 30% | 24% | 1% | 2% | 2% | – | 15% | 3% | 1% | 1% | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2% | – | 4% | – | 3% | – | 2% | 4% | |||||||||||
| Independents (incl. leaners) | 23% | 63% | – | 3% | – | – | – | 4% | – | – | 1% | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1% | – | 1% | – | – | – | 1% | – | 1% | – | – | 3% | – | 72 | ±13 | |
| Republicans † | 20% | 29% | – | 2% | – | 3% | – | 3% | 3% | – | 8% | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 3% | – | – | – | – | – | 3% | – | 10% | 6% | – | 8% | – | – | – | – | 2% | 33 | ±19 |
General Social Survey 2004 · US adults 18+ living in households (English, and Spanish since 2006). Shares of people who gave an answer. n is unweighted; ± is the 95% margin of error at 50% from the weighted effective sample. Groups with an effective sample under 50 are grayed; under 20, hidden.
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