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  title info:
    title: Measures of Language Proficiency in Censuses and Surveys
    sub title: A Comparative Analysis and Assessment
  name:
    name part: Ó Riagáin, Pádraig.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIV, 131 p. online resource.
  abstract: This book offers a systematic analysis of a wide range of questions used in censuses, national surveys and international surveys to measure language proficiency. It addresses the urgent need in language related survey research for a comprehensive examination of the large existing body of survey data in order to provide a fuller understanding of the extent to which survey results are shaped by the way language proficiency questions are shaped and worded. While census and survey language proficiency data are extensively used in a wide range of research areas, as well as in forming, implementing and monitoring government policies, there are as yet no universally accepted survey measures of language proficiency. This book will therefore provide a valuable resource for students and scholars working in sociological areas that use census or survey language data, such as sociology of language, sociology of education, politics, racial and ethnic studies, and cultural studies; as well as for policy analysts.
  table of contents: Chapter 1: Measurement issues relating to language questions in censuses and surveys -- Chapter 2: Language proficiency questions in censuses: The Republic of Ireland and the UK (Northern Ireland) -- Chapter 3: Measures of language proficiency in large-scale surveys in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland -- Chapter 4: Measures of language proficiency in an international survey programme: The Eurobarometer -- Chapter 5:Discussion and Conclusions.
  note: by Pádraig Ó Riagáin.
  subject:
    topic: Sociolinguistics
  subject:
    topic: Language policy
  subject:
    topic: Multilingualism
  subject:
    topic: Language and education
  subject:
    topic: Applied linguistics
  subject:
    topic: Sociolinguistics
  subject:
    topic: Language Policy and Planning
  subject:
    topic: Multilingualism
  subject:
    topic: Language Education
  subject:
    topic: Applied Linguistics
  classification: P40-40.5
  classification: 306.44
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783319729411
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72941-1
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    record creation date: 180206
    record change date: 20191028072446.0
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