1264.0 - Language Variables, 1997  
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Contents >> Proficiency in Spoken English >> Classification and coding

The classification criteria

15. Not applicable.


The standard classification

16. The standard classification is a flat or single-level classification consisting of four categories:

      • Very well
      • Well
      • Not well
      • Not at all


The code structure

17. The code structure is simply:

      1 Very well
      2 Well
      3 Not well
      4 Not at all

Residual categories and codes

18. Not applicable.

Supplementary codes

19. Two supplementary codes are reserved for the following conditions:

      0 Not stated/Inadequately described
      9 Not applicable - (where respondents did not speak a language other than English for their first language spoken and do not speak a language other then English at home.)


Scope of the variable

20. The variable Proficiency in Spoken English applies to all persons who did not speak English as their first language or who speak another language at home.


Application of the classification to other variables

21. The Proficiency in Spoken English classification is not applicable to any other variable.


Coding procedures

22. Proficiency in Spoken English is self-coded to the classification.



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