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Measurement issues 55. No specific measurement issues apply to the variable Main Language Other Than English Spoken at Home beyond the normal constraints affecting statistical collections, such as problems with confidentiality or standard errors which may not permit the collection or output of data for some of the categories at the lower levels of the classification. 56. The Australian Standard Classification of Languages (ASCL), First Edition (ABS cat. no. 1267.0) was used to code language data in the 1996 and 2001 Censuses. The ASCL, Second Edition will be used to code language data in the 2006 Census. Correspondence tables have been prepared to compare the two versions of the ASCL, and also the ASCL (First Edition) with the 1991 Census. These correspondence tables can be obtained from the ABS web site (www.abs.gov.au) via this link:
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