CEN Language Spoken Group5

Identifies the fifth language spoken by an individual if there was one, and is otherwise null.

Language spoken provides information on which languages, and how many, a person can speak or use. This includes New Zealand Sign Language.

The Standard Classification of Language is used whenever statistics are collected on languages spoken by the New Zealand population.

Language is a hierarchical classification with three levels. Level 1 has 28 categories, level 2 has 47 categories while level 3 has 194 categories.

A person can list speaking more than one language.

Note: The group number for ethnicities, languages, and religions are not ranked, but are reported in ascending numerical order by code. This means the lowest code marked for a person is included in grp1. The survey question was presented as tickboxes. The use of tickboxes invalidates any reference to relative order.