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| Re: Language of interview and mother tongue [message #30395 is a reply to message #30377] |
Thu, 21 November 2024 09:35  |
Janet-DHS
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Following is a response from DHS staff member, Tom Pullum:
Interesting question. Looking at the 2013-14 DRC survey, the only relevant variables I see are the language of the questionnaire (sqlang), the language of the interview (slangint), and ethnicity (s114). Below I will paste two tables showing how sqlang and slangint are elated, and how s114 and slangint are related. In both tables you see that about half of the cells are virtually empty, which means that there are indeed correspondences.
The vast majority of the questionnaire were the French version, probably indicating that it was the version that the interviewers (not necessarily the respondents) were most comfortable with, but the French was the LEAST common interview language. The second table may be helpful. Ethnicity is not the same as mother tongue but is close.
. tab sqlang slangint
questionna |
ire | interview language
language | french kikongo lingala swahili tshiluba others | Total
-----------+------------------------------------------------ ------------------+----------
french | 1,069 1,519 6,023 4,524 2,165 2,071 | 17,371
kikongo | 6 171 40 1 0 26 | 244
lingala | 15 3 375 1 0 8 | 402
swahili | 14 0 32 585 1 12 | 644
tshiluba | 6 1 13 0 138 8 | 166
-----------+------------------------------------------------ ------------------+----------
Total | 1,110 1,694 6,483 5,111 2,304 2,125 | 18,827
. tab s114 slangint
| interview language
ethnicity | french kikongo lingala swahili tshiluba others | Total
----------------------+------------------------------------- -----------------------------+----------
bakongo nord & sud | 167 598 617 13 0 203 | 1,598
bas-kasai et kwilu-kw | 166 1,063 1,064 25 173 499 | 2,990
cuvette central | 37 3 1,375 10 22 352 | 1,799
ubangi et itimbiri | 65 6 1,977 23 1 127 | 2,199
uele lac albert | 242 1 1,003 337 0 48 | 1,631
basele-k , man. et ki | 88 3 97 2,869 3 121 | 3,181
kasai, katanga, tanga | 325 10 264 1,685 2,078 711 | 5,073
lunda | 10 0 8 100 23 53 | 194
pygm�e | 0 0 32 22 0 1 | 55
other | 0 0 0 0 1 0 | 1
----------------------+------------------------------------- -----------------------------+----------
Total | 1,100 1,684 6,437 5,084 2,301 2,115 | 18,721
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