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Title: How many languages are spoken at LaGuardia? There is no simple answer.

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Publication Year: 2020

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Abstract: How many languages are spoken at LaGuardia? 100? 150? You may have heard figures like these thrown around, but this question is not so easy to answer. LaGuardia Community College’s Institutional Profile 2019 (Lerer, 2019) shows that our students spoke 106 different languages as of 2014 and 98 different languages in 2018. The American Community Survey, a sampled version of the U.S. Census administered every year, asks questions about language in their surveys and their latest data in 2019 indicate that there are over 80 languages and language groups (such as Niger-Congo languages) in the borough of Queens1 . Both data sets include largely the same set of major languages in Queens such as Spanish (495,560 or 22.3% according to ACS) , Chinese (142,416 / 6.1%), Korean (39,821 / 2.1%), Bengali (74,462 / 2.7%), Filipino and Tagalog (38,826 / 1.4%), and Russian (34,413 / 1.5%). Just to illustrate this point, I have shown the top 30 languages in Queens (with the ACS data through IPUMS (Ruggles et al., 2018)) and LaGuardia Community College (with the Institutional Research data) in Tables 1 and 2.

Url: http://www.adastraletter.com/static/issues/2020/3/llanguages/AdAstraNewsletter2020ManuscriptRev2.pdf

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Authors: Nagano, Tomonori

Publisher: LaGuardia Community College

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

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