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Population aged 2 and over. By knowldedge of Catalan and five-year age group

Knowledge of Catalan. By age groups and level of knowledge Catalonia. 2011
Understand Speak Read Write Don't understand Population aged 2 years and over
From 2 to 4 years 236,575 114,864 19,164 11,716 24,304 260,879
From 5 to 9 years 396,841 350,631 339,917 274,122 4,174 401,015
From 10 to 14 years 351,744 339,726 344,419 330,435 2,319 354,063
From 15 to 19 years 331,922 317,190 322,790 308,699 6,404 338,326
From 20 to 24 years 363,530 326,968 340,604 311,695 15,040 378,570
From 25 to 29 years 462,184 379,853 414,074 354,362 27,435 489,619
From 30 to 34 years 615,600 498,389 549,791 456,596 30,884 646,484
From 35 to 39 years 656,933 528,852 585,967 479,080 30,364 687,298
From 40 to 44 years 586,189 455,557 517,254 386,931 30,242 616,430
From 45 to 49 years 535,840 404,984 467,563 304,888 24,644 560,484
From 50 to 54 years 477,116 349,236 407,270 223,640 20,871 497,987
From 55 to 59 years 413,405 291,657 340,871 169,640 18,282 431,687
From 60 to 64 years 379,518 254,338 295,591 135,493 18,362 397,880
From 65 to 69 years 323,201 203,871 236,595 97,800 19,699 342,900
From 70 to 74 years 244,375 148,231 168,512 63,903 19,592 263,967
From 75 años and more 574,370 381,136 399,964 160,219 64,112 638,482
Total 6,949,344 5,345,484 5,750,348 4,069,219 356,728 7,306,072
Units: Persons.
Source: Idescat. Population census 2011.

Last update: February 20, 2014.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Knowledge of Catalan
The data in these statistics correspond to the population of two years or more by knowledge of catalan. It is considered: A person «understands» Catalan if they are able to understand a conversation in Catalan on an everyday subject. A person «can read» Catalan if they are able to read everyday texts, such as announcements, newspapers, etc. A person «can speak» Catalan if they are able to maintain a conversation in Catalan on an everyday subject. A person «can write» Catalan if they are able to write notes, postcards, etc. sufficiently correctly, even if not totally correctly.

Methodological aspects

The Statistics on Main Characteristics of the Population and Housing is a sample survey that complements the results of the Population and Housing Census. The main objective of the survey is to obtain information on variables for which there is no information from administrative registers and thus give continuity to the existing census series.

In the Statistics on Main Characteristics of the Population and Housing 2021, the question on knowledge of Catalan has changed with respect to that of the Population Census. Thus, instead of the answer options 'yes' and 'no' in the Statistics there are three options: 'well', 'with difficulty' and 'not at all'.

Idescat publishes information on the knowledge and uses of the 7 most popular languages in Catalonia: Catalan, Spanish, English, French, Arabic, Italian and German.

You can get more information about these statistics in the methodology.