Mnemonic: welsh_skills_speak
Applicability: Person
Type: Derived variable
Definition
This classifies a person as being able to "Speak Welsh". They may have also ticked one or more of the following:
- understand spoken Welsh
- read Welsh
- write Welsh
In results that classify people by Welsh language skills, a person may appear in more than one category depending on which combination of skills they have.
Classification
Total number of categories: 3
| Code | Name |
|---|---|
| 1 | Can speak Welsh |
| 0 | Cannot speak Welsh |
| -8 | Does not apply* |
*Students and schoolchildren living away during term-time, people who do not live in Wales, and children aged 2 years and under.
Background
Read about how we developed and tested the questions for Census 2021.
Comparability with the 2011 Census
Highly comparable
What does highly comparable mean?
A variable that is highly comparable means that it can be directly compared with the variable from the 2011 Census. The questions and options that people could choose from may be slightly different, for example the order of the options may be swapped around, but the data collected is the same.
England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland comparisons
Country specific
What does country specific mean?
This variable has only been produced for Census 2021 in England and Wales.
Find out more about variables produced for Census 2021 in Northern Ireland and Census 2022 in Scotland.
Census 2021 data that uses this variable
We use variables from Census 2021 data to show findings in different ways.
You can:
- get the Welsh speaking ability dataset
- view Welsh speaking ability data on a map
- read about how an area has changed in 10 years
Alternatively, you can also create a custom dataset.
Other datasets that use this variable
- Welsh language skills (speaking) by single year of age
- Ability to speak Welsh by industry
- Ability to speak Welsh by national identity by age
- Ability to speak Welsh by NS-SEC
- Ability to speak Welsh by occupation
- Ability to speak Welsh by tenure - Household Reference Persons
- Ability to speak Welsh by has ever worked
- General health by ability to speak Welsh by age
- Disability by ability to speak Welsh by age
- Family type by parents' ability to speak Welsh by age and ability to speak Welsh of dependent child
- Welsh speaking ability (parishes)
- Out of term-time population by Welsh language skills (speaking)
- Workday population by Welsh language skills (speaking)
- Workplace population by Welsh language skills (speaking)