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Data Provider: Welsh Government Annual Population Survey - Frequency of speaking Welsh by local authority and year
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[Collapse]Wales14.25.66.41.6
WalesIsle of Anglesey48.35.07.6*The data item is disclosive or not sufficiently robust for publication
Gwynedd65.35.36.6*The data item is disclosive or not sufficiently robust for publication
Conwy18.45.210.4*The data item is disclosive or not sufficiently robust for publication
Denbighshire17.87.010.1*The data item is disclosive or not sufficiently robust for publication
Flintshire7.8*The data item is disclosive or not sufficiently robust for publication*The data item is disclosive or not sufficiently robust for publication*The data item is disclosive or not sufficiently robust for publication
Wrexham9.8*The data item is disclosive or not sufficiently robust for publication6.7*The data item is disclosive or not sufficiently robust for publication
Powys12.18.76.3*The data item is disclosive or not sufficiently robust for publication
Ceredigion34.18.58.8*The data item is disclosive or not sufficiently robust for publication
Pembrokeshire15.83.88.9*The data item is disclosive or not sufficiently robust for publication
Carmarthenshire33.27.69.9*The data item is disclosive or not sufficiently robust for publication
Swansea7.45.44.3*The data item is disclosive or not sufficiently robust for publication
Neath Port Talbot15.75.15.7*The data item is disclosive or not sufficiently robust for publication
Bridgend*The data item is disclosive or not sufficiently robust for publication*The data item is disclosive or not sufficiently robust for publication7.0*The data item is disclosive or not sufficiently robust for publication
Vale of Glamorgan14.16.45.3*The data item is disclosive or not sufficiently robust for publication
Cardiff6.96.86.9*The data item is disclosive or not sufficiently robust for publication
Rhondda Cynon Taf6.0*The data item is disclosive or not sufficiently robust for publication5.0*The data item is disclosive or not sufficiently robust for publication
Merthyr Tydfil8.36.7*The data item is disclosive or not sufficiently robust for publication*The data item is disclosive or not sufficiently robust for publication
Caerphilly5.96.04.3*The data item is disclosive or not sufficiently robust for publication
Blaenau Gwent*The data item is disclosive or not sufficiently robust for publication*The data item is disclosive or not sufficiently robust for publication*The data item is disclosive or not sufficiently robust for publication*The data item is disclosive or not sufficiently robust for publication
Torfaen*The data item is disclosive or not sufficiently robust for publication*The data item is disclosive or not sufficiently robust for publication6.2*The data item is disclosive or not sufficiently robust for publication
Monmouthshire7.47.05.3*The data item is disclosive or not sufficiently robust for publication
Newport*The data item is disclosive or not sufficiently robust for publication6.95.4*The data item is disclosive or not sufficiently robust for publication

Metadata

Title

Frequency of speaking Welsh, by Welsh local authority

Last update

9 October 2024 9 October 2024

Next update

To be confirmed

Publishing organisation

Welsh Government

Source 1

Annual Population Survey, Office for National Statistics

Contact email

welshlanguagedata@gov.wales

Lowest level of geographical disaggregation

Local authorities

Geographical coverage

Wales

Languages covered

English and Welsh

Data licensing

You may use and re-use this data free of charge in any format or medium, under the terms of the Open Government License - see http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence

General description

This dataset provides information on how often people aged 3 or older say that they speak Welsh, by local authority. These percentages sum to the total percentage who report being able to speak Welsh.

Frequency of publication

Quarterly

Data reference periods

2007 to 2024

Rounding applied

Figures are rounded to the nearest 100 and so there may be some apparent slight discrepancies between the sum of constituent items and the totals as shown.

Statistical quality

These estimates were previously classed as accredited official statistics. The Annual Population Survey (APS) has seen a fall in sample sizes over recent years. Given this, and the fact that the survey has not been reweighted to latest population estimates, the Office for Statistics Regulation has agreed that this accreditation should be temporarily suspended and that the estimates should be re-designated as official statistics.

It is still appropriate to use these statistics, however, please note the increased uncertainty around estimates derived from the APS. Estimates for smaller geographies or population sub-groups, however, are less reliable.

Users should consider trends presented in this release alongside other data on Welsh speakers, such as from the National Survey for Wales. The Welsh Government considers the census of population to be the key source of information to measure the number of Welsh speakers in Wales.

As the data come from a survey, the results are sample-based estimates and therefore subject to differing degrees of sampling variability, i.e. the true value for any measure lies in a differing range about the estimated value. This range or sampling variability increases as the detail in the data increases, for example local authority data are subject to higher variability than regional data.

Keywords

Welsh speakers, language, frequency