Race, Ethnicity, and Language Data: Standardization for Health Care Quality Improvement

[D] Text Description

Screen shot from Census 2000 of Question 13 regarding language. It is structured as follows:

13.a. Does this person speak a language other than English at home?
___ Yes
___ No → SKIP to question 14

b. What is this language?

For example: Korean, Italian, Spanish, Vietnamese

c. How well does this person speak English?
___ Very well
___ Well
___ Not well
___ Not at all

Source: Shin and Bruno, 2003.

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