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Language Uses of the Population. By most frequent languages and areas of use

Linguistic usage. Population aged 15 years or more. By areas of use Catalonia. 2008
Only Catalan More Catalan than Spanish Both More Spanish than Catalan Only Spanish Other situations Total
Members of the home (1) 31.6 3.6 8.3 6.0 42.6 8.0 100.0
Friends 22.5 10.8 16.8 9.0 33.9 7.0 100.0
Neighbours 22.7 9.5 16.5 8.6 40.2 2.5 100.0
Classmates (2) 33.4 15.3 19.1 7.7 19.0 5.5 100.0
Workmates (3) 23.0 10.5 19.3 9.7 32.1 5.3 100.0
Small business 28.7 11.0 14.9 7.5 36.0 1.9 100.0
Large business 23.9 9.9 15.5 9.5 39.4 1.9 100.0
Financial entities 37.6 7.3 10.8 5.4 37.2 1.7 100.0
Medical staff 34.4 7.2 11.6 5.1 40.9 0.8 100.0
Writing personal notes 25.2 3.3 6.9 4.0 52.9 7.7 100.0
Units: Per cent.
Source: Idescat. Departament de la Vicepresidència. Secretaria de Política Lingüística.
(1) Population living in homes with two or more people.
(2) Population taking studies.
(3) Employed population.

Last update: November 2, 2009.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Areas of use
Set of occasions when language is used. This set is defined according to basic issues of sociolinguistic relations, such as: who is speaking to whom, about what, in what type of situation, by which means and with what intention.
Linguistic usages
That which an individual actively communicates by speaking or writing in a language and that which the individual passively receives when hearing or reading a language.

Methodological aspects

The Survey on Language Uses of the Population (EULP) is a set of official statistics of which there have already been three previous editions, those of 2003, 2008 and 2013. These are periodical statistics, the bodies responsible for which are the Ministry of Culture, by means of the General Direction of Linguistic Policy, and Idescat. The main objective of the EULP is to obtain an estimate of language uses in interpersonal relations in Catalonia, and in different areas of use.

The survey will be administered to people aged 15 and over who were included in Catalonia's Municipal Population Register as of 1st January 2013.

Unavailable information is represented using the symbol ":". When the value is lower than that of the minimum unit to be able to estimate the statistical operation or if it effects statistical confidentiality, the symbol used is "..".