[lg policy] Language and 2010 US Census

[Dennis Baron]

The Census went to a short form exclusively, so no language question  
for 2010.

Other kinds of data, including language information, that used to be  
collected on the "long form," is now going to be collected using a  
different kind of sampling instrument, during non-Census years.

I don't know if they've decided how to tweak the language question. A  
colleague on one of the Census advisory committees asked me for a copy  
of a paper I wrote critiquing the language question on the 2000  
Census. Don't know whether that will have any impact on the data  
collection or not.


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Dennis Baron
Professor of English and Linguistics
Department of English
University of Illinois
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Urbana, IL 61801

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On Apr 2, 2010, at 3:30 PM, Francis Hult wrote:

> Does anyone know what happened to language on the 2010 US Census  
> (and why)?
>
> Francis
>
> --
> Francis M. Hult, Ph.D.
> Assistant Professor
> Department of Bicultural-Bilingual Studies
> University of Texas at San Antonio
>
> Web: http://faculty.coehd.utsa.edu/fhult/
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